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Name: Julia Roberts
Birth Name: Julie Fiona Roberts
Height: 5'9
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Date: October 28 1967 at 12:16 am
Birth Place: Smyrna Georgia
Occupation: actress
Education: Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School
Griffin Middle School
Campbell High School
Husband/Wife: Lyle Lovett (singer; married on June 27 1993; divorced on March 22 1995)
Relationship: Benjamin Bratt (actor; dating since November 1997; broke up in June 2001) Matthew Perry (actor; dated in 1995) Daniel Day-Lewis (actor; together from 1994 to 1995) Kiefer Sutherland (actor; together from 1990 to 1991)
Father: Walter Roberts (a vacuum cleaner salesman; an actor)
Mother: Betty Motes (a church secretary; actress)
Sister: Lisa Roberts (actress; born 1965)
Brother: Eric Roberts (actor; born April 18 1956)
Half Sister: Nancy Motes (born 1976)
Step Father: Michael Motes
Claim to fame: as Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman (1990)
FAN MAIL:
C/O International Creative Management
8942 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills CA 90211
USA
Between the late '80s and early '90s, Julia Roberts was among Hollywood's top draws. Though not always taken seriously as a dramatic actress -- indeed she is at her best in romantic comedy or light drama -- Roberts has a special mischievous charm coupled with a wide-eyed vulnerability that translates into a screen charisma reminiscent of a young Audrey Hepburn. Like Hepburn, Roberts possesses an atypical beauty.
Pencil thin, long-legged and sporting a thick curly mane of auburn hair upon her head, she is more coltish than elegant. Her great hazel eyes and impossibly large mouth are capable of much expression, particularly joy when she cuts loose with a broad grin and a braying laugh. Unlike Hepburn, Roberts projects a gal-next-door wholesomeness rather than an air of cool sophistication. A born Southerner, Roberts grew up hanging around the theater people who attended her parents' Actors and Writers Workshop in their Atlanta home. Both she and her brother Eric Roberts were interested in acting and it was he who made it to movies first. Roberts moved to New York after high school, but did not catch a break right away even though she did manage to score an agent.
She made her film debut playing a supporting role opposite her brother in Blood Red, which though completed in 1986 was not released until 1989. She appeared in a couple of made-for-TV movies and one low-budget feature, Firehouse (1987) before getting her first real break in the made-for-cable drama Satisfaction (1988). This led to a large supporting role in Mystic Pizza (1989). Her portrayal of a strong-headed pizza parlor co-owner who seduces a wealthy preppie earned Roberts acclaim and led to her playing the doomed Shelby opposite Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine and Dolly Parton in the melodramatic comedy Steel Magnolias (1989). Her portrayal earned Roberts an Oscar nomination and made her a star.
For her next film, Roberts attempted to branch off into more serious waters playing a medical student who starts tinkering with life-after-death experiences with four other medical students in the uneven Flatliners (1990). During production, Roberts became involved with co-star Kiefer Sutherland. Later in 1990, she had her greatest success to date starring opposite Richard Gere in Garry Marshall's sentimental romantic- comedy Pretty Woman (1990). The film was a runaway international hit and Roberts became a household name. But despite her sudden rise to superstardom, her career faltered as her subsequent films, particularly Dying Young (1991), have been of uneven quality.
Matters weren't helped when her break-up with Sutherland went public. After shooting her scenes as Tinker Bell in Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991), Roberts took some time off to repair her personal life, though she did appear briefly in Robert Altman's The Player (1992). In 1993, she married off-beat country singer Lyle Lovett (they amicably divorced two years later) and then made a successful come back in The Pelican Brief (1993). Her career picked up the following year with I Love Trouble and Pret-a -Porter, neither of which did much to further her career. The much-heralded Mary Reilly (1996) was a box-office fizzle, but Roberts career began picking up again with Michael Collins and Conspiracy Theory (both 1996). In 1997, Roberts made a triumphant return to romantic comedy in the darkly funny My Best Friend's Wedding.
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