Julia Roberts

Birth Name: Julia Fiona Roberts

Date of Birth: 28th. October, 1967

Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, US

Family: Her father was Walter Roberts and her mother, Betty Lou Bredemus. Her parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing theatrical productions for the armed forces and later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia off Juniper Street in Midtown. Betty filed for divorce in 1971, with the divorce being finalized in early in 1972. Her mother later married Michael Motes and had another daughter, Nancy Motes who was born in 1976. Roberts' father died of cancer when she was ten. Her older brother, Eric Roberts, and sister, Lisa Roberts Gillan, are also actors.

Schooling: She attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin Middle School and Campbell High School.

Start of Career:

After graduating from Smyrna's Campbell High School, she headed to New York to join her brother and sister Lisa Roberts Gillan and pursue a career in acting. Once there, she signed with the Click modeling agency and enrolled in acting classes. She reverted to her original name "Julia Roberts" when she discovered that a "Julie Roberts" was already registered with the Screen Actors Guild.

Roberts made her film debut playing a supporting role opposite her brother, Eric, in Blood Red (she has just two words of dialogue), which, although filmed in 1987 was not released until 1989.

Roberts became known to worldwide audiences when she co-starred with Richard Gere in the Cinderella/Pygmalionesque story Pretty Woman in 1990.

Roberts made her Broadway debut on April 19, 2006 as Nan in a revival of Richard Greenberg's 1997 play Three Days of Rain opposite Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd. Although the play grossed nearly US$1 million dollars in ticket sales during its first week and was a commercial success throughout its limited run, her performance drew criticism.

Roberts has brought to life some of the books from American Girl as films, serving as executive producer alongside with her sister Lisa.

Personal Life:

Roberts's personal life has often been in the spotlight. She has had widely reported romantic relationships with numerous famous men, including Liam Neeson, Dylan McDermott, Kiefer Sutherland, Lyle Lovett, Matthew Perry, and Benjamin Bratt. She was briefly engaged to McDermott, her Steel Magnolias co-star. She met Sutherland in 1990, when he was her co-star in Flatliners. In August 1990, Roberts and Sutherland announced their engagement, with an elaborate studio-planned wedding scheduled for June 14, 1991. Roberts broke the engagement three days before the wedding. Roberts subsequently went to Ireland with Jason Patric, a friend of Sutherland's. On June 27, 1993, she married country singer Lyle Lovett. The wedding took place at St. James Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana, near where Lovett was appearing on tour with his band. In March 1995, the couple separated, and subsequently divorced.

In 1998, Roberts began dating Law & Order star Benjamin Bratt, and he was her escort for the March 25, 2001 Academy Awards ceremony at which she won her Oscar. Three months later, in June 2001, Roberts and Bratt announced that they were no longer a couple. "It's come to a kind and tenderhearted end," she said of their relationship.

Roberts met her current husband, cameraman Daniel Moder, on the set of her movie The Mexican in 2000. At the time, Moder was married to Vera Steimberg Moder. He filed for divorce a little over a year later, and after it was finalized, he and Roberts wed on July 4, 2002, at her ranch in Taos, New Mexico. On November 28, 2004, they became the parents of fraternal twins, daughter Hazel Patricia and son Phinnaeus "Finn" Walter. Their third child, son Henry Daniel Moder, was born on June 18, 2007, in Los Angeles.

Films:

1987 Firehouse

Mystic Pizza

Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female

1989 Steel Magnolias

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture

Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

1990 Flatliners

Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress

Pretty Woman

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress

Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

1991 Sleeping with the Enemy

Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress

1994 Prêt-à-Porter

National Board of Review Award for Best Cast

1997 My Best Friend's Wedding

Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

1999 Notting Hill

Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

2000 Erin Brockovich

Academy Award for Best Actress

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Empire Award for Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

National Board of Review Award for Best Actress

San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Nominated — Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress

Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress

Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

2001 Ocean's Eleven

Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast

2004 Ocean's Twelve

Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast

Closer

National Board of Review Award for Best Cast

Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast

2007 Charlie Wilson's War

Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture

2008 Fireflies in the Garden

2009 Duplicity

2010 Valentine's Day (Filming)

Eat, Pray, Love (Filming)