Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts | |
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Roberts at the 2025 Venice Film Festival | |
| Born | Julia Fiona Roberts October 28, 1967 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Works | Filmography |
| Spouses | Lyle Lovett
(m. 1993; div. 1995)Daniel Moder (m. 2002) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives |
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| Awards | Full list |
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967)[1] is an American actress. Known for her leading roles across various genres, she has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. She became known for portraying charming and relatable characters in romantic comedies and blockbusters, before expanding into dramas, thrillers, and independent films. The films in which she has starred have collectively grossed over $3.9 billion worldwide, making her one of Hollywood's most bankable stars,[2] while the media nicknamed her "America's Sweetheart" in recognition of her widespread popularity and on- and off-screen charisma.
After early breakthroughs in Mystic Pizza (1988) and Steel Magnolias (1989), Roberts solidified her status as a leading lady with the romantic comedies Pretty Woman (1990), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999), and Runaway Bride (1999). Roberts won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the title role in the biographical drama Erin Brockovich (2000). She then starred in films such as Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Valentine's Day (2010), Eat Pray Love (2010), August: Osage County (2013), Wonder (2017), Ticket to Paradise (2022), Leave the World Behind (2023), and After the Hunt (2025). On television, she starred as a physician during the AIDs crisis in the HBO film The Normal Heart (2014) for which she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, a social worker in the first season of the streaming series Homecoming (2018), and portrayed Martha Mitchell in the Starz political limited series Gaslit (2022).
Roberts runs the production company Red Om Films, through which she has served as an executive producer for various projects she has starred in, as well as for the first four films of the American Girl franchise (2004–2008). She has acted as the global ambassador for Lancôme since 2009. She was the world's highest-paid actress throughout the majority of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s.[3][4][5] She received then-unprecedented fees of $20 million and $25 million for her roles in Erin Brockovich (2000) and Mona Lisa Smile (2003), respectively. As of 2020, Roberts's net worth was estimated to be $250 million.[6] People magazine has named her the most beautiful woman in the world a record five times.[7]
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- ^ One exception is 1995, when Demi Moore was paid a record $12.5 million to appear in Striptease.
- ^ "Nicole Kidman Tops the Hollywood Reporter's Annual Actress Salary List". The Hollywood Reporter. November 30, 2006. Archived from the original on September 15, 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
- ^ Jeffrey, Joyann (June 26, 2020). "Julia Roberts' Net Worth Is So Amazing She Can 'Eat Pray Love' Every Single Year". closerweekly.com. Archived from the original on December 15, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
- ^ Finn, Natalie (January 4, 2019). "Julia Roberts Has Been a Movie Star for 30 Years—but Don't Let That Bother You". E! Online. Archived from the original on October 28, 2018. Retrieved July 5, 2025.