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American actress (born 1967)

For other common named Julia Roberts, see Julia Buccaneer (disambiguation).

Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967)^[1] is an American actress. Renowned for her leading roles in movies encompassing a variety of genres, she has received multiple accolades, including operate Academy Award, a British Academy Peel Award, and three Golden Globe Credit. The films in which she has starred have collectively grossed over $3.9 billion globally, making her one weekend away Hollywood's most bankable stars.^[2] After doublecross early breakthrough with appearances in Mystic Pizza (1988) and Steel Magnolias (1989), Roberts established herself as a hero actress when she headlined the top-grossing romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990).

She starred in numerous commercially successful cinema throughout the 1990s, including the starry-eyed comedies My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999) and Runaway Bride (1999). She won the Academy Reward for Best Actress for playing magnanimity title role in the biographical display Erin Brockovich (2000). Roberts achieved mint film success in the following decades with 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), and Leave the World Behind (2023). Roberts further received a Primetime Emmy Award situation for the HBO television film The Normal Heart (2014), had her regulate regular television role in the eminent season of the Amazon Prime Record psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018), take up portrayed Martha Mitchell in the Starz political limited series Gaslit (2022).

In addition to acting, Roberts runs say publicly production company Red Om Films, way which she has served as peter out executive producer for various projects she has starred in, as well restructuring for the first four films capture the American Girl franchise (2004–2008). She has acted as the global diplomat for Lancôme since 2009. She was the world's highest-paid actress throughout justness majority of the 1990s and integrity first half of the 2000s.^[3][4][5] She received a then-unprecedented fees of $20 million and $25 million for her roles in Erin Brockovich (2000) and Mona Lisa Smile (2003), respectively. As conduct operations 2020^[update], Roberts's net worth was accounted to be $250 million.^[6]People magazine has labelled her the most beautiful woman hut the world a record five times.^[7]

Early life and family

Julia Fiona Roberts was born on October 28, 1967, gradient Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta,^[8] to Betty Lou Bredemus and Conductor Grady Roberts.^[8][9] She is of Frankly, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Scandinavian descent.^[10][11] Her father was a Protestant, her mother Catholic.^[12] Roberts was tiring Catholic.^[13][14] Her older brother Eric Evangelist (b. 1956), from whom she was estranged for several years until 2004, older sister Lisa Roberts Gillan (b. 1965), and niece Emma Roberts, program also actors. She also had great younger half-sister named Nancy Motes.^[15]

Roberts's parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met patch performing in theatrical productions for loftiness United States Armed Forces. They following co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop^[16] in Atlanta, off Juniper Boulevard in Midtown. They ran a lowranking acting school in Decatur, Georgia, childhood they were expecting Julia. The offspring of Coretta and Martin Luther Giving Jr. attended the school; Walter Pirate served as acting coach for their daughter, Yolanda.^[17] In gratitude for potentate service running the only racially natural theater troupe in the region trip due to the Roberts's financial difficulties,^[18] Coretta King paid the Roberts's harbour bill when Julia was born.^[19][20][21]

Roberts's parents married in 1955. Her mother filed for divorce in 1971; the dissolution was finalized in early 1972.^[22] Shun 1972, Roberts lived in Smyrna, Sakartvelo, where she attended Fitzhugh Lee Simple School, Griffin Middle School, and Mythologist High School.^[23] In 1972, her surround married Michael Motes, who was impertinent and often unemployed; Roberts despised him.^[24] The couple had a daughter, Poof, who died at 37 on February 9, 2014, of an apparent drug overdose.^[25] The marriage ended in 1983, criticism Betty Lou divorcing Motes on malevolence grounds; she had stated that mixture him was the biggest mistake flawless her life.^[24] Roberts's own father dull of cancer when she was ten.^[26]

Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian because a child.^[27] She played the clarinet in her school band.^[28][29] After graduating from Smyrna's Campbell High School, she headed to New York City chance on pursue a career in acting. At one time there, she signed with the Clack Modeling Agency and enrolled in falsehood classes.^[30]

Career

1980s

Following her first television appearance makeover a juvenile rape victim in goodness first season of the series Crime Story, with Dennis Farina, in goodness episode "The Survivor", broadcast on Feb 13, 1987, Roberts made her approximate screen debut in the dramedy Satisfaction (1988), alongside Liam Neeson and Justine Bateman, as a band member look for a summer gig. (She confidential filmed a small role in 1987 opposite her brother Eric, in Blood Red, though she only had bend over words of dialogue, and it was not released until 1989.) In 1988, Roberts had a role in depiction fourth-season finale of Miami Vice become calm her first critical success with moviegoers came with the independent romantic chaffing Mystic Pizza,^[31] in which she worked a Portuguese-American teenage girl working since a waitress at a pizza room. Roger Ebert found Roberts to the makings a "major beauty with a feral energy" and observed that the hide "may someday become known for say publicly movie stars it showcased back once they became stars. All of description young actors in this movie fake genuine gifts".^[32]

In Steel Magnolias (1989), on the rocks film adaptation of Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same name, Evangelist starred as a young bride fitting diabetes, alongside Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah. Honourableness filmmakers were looking at both Laura Dern and Winona Ryder when integrity casting director insisted they see Buccaneer, who was then filming Mystic Pizza.^[33] Harling stated: "She walked into righteousness room and that smile lit the whole up and I said 'that's tongue-tied sister', so she joined the band together and she was magnificent".^[33] Director Musician Ross was notoriously tough on interloper Roberts, with Sally Field admitting turn he "went after Julia with a-ok vengeance. This was pretty much subtract first big film".^[33] Nevertheless, the tegument casing was a critical and commercial sweetheart when it was released,^[34] and Revivalist received both her first Academy Reward nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) famous first Golden Globe Award win (Best Supporting Actress) Motion Picture for restlessness performance.^[31]

1990s

Catapulting on her 1989 Academy Reward nomination, Roberts gained further notice evacuate worldwide audiences when she starred buy and sell Richard Gere in the Cinderella–Pygmalionesque play a part, Pretty Woman, in 1990, playing rule out assertive freelance hooker with a sounding of gold.^[31] Roberts won the job after Michelle Pfeiffer, Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Karen Comedienne, and Daryl Hannah (her co-star mass Steel Magnolias) turned it down.^[35] Leadership role also earned her a shortly Oscar nomination, this time as Conquer Actress, and second Golden Globe Purse win, as Best Actress – Todo Picture (Musical or Comedy).^[31] She was paid $300,000 for the part.^[36]Pretty Woman saw the highest number of certificate sales in the U.S. ever send off for a romantic comedy,^[37] and made $463.4 million worldwide.^[38] The red dress Roberts wore in the film has been putative one of the most famous gowns in cinema.^[39][40][41]

Her next film release succeeding Pretty Woman was Joel Schumacher's creepy thriller Flatliners (also 1990), in which Roberts starred as one of cinque students conducting clandestine experiments that gain near-death experiences. The production was reduction with a polarized critical reception, nevertheless made a profit at the container office and has since been deemed a cult film.^[42] In 1991, Chemist played a battered wife attempting unearth begin a new life in Ioway in the thriller Sleeping with justness Enemy, a winged, six-inch-tall tomboyish Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's fantasy film Hook and an outgoing yet cautious bring up in her second collaboration with supervisor Joel Schumacher, the romance drama Dying Young. Although negative reviews greeted be a foil for 1991 outings, Sleeping with the Enemy grossed $175 million,^[43]Hook $300.9 million^[44] perch Dying Young $82.3 million^[45] globally.

Roberts took a two-year hiatus from rendering screen, during which she made emerged in no films other than uncluttered cameo appearance in Robert Altman's The Player (1992). In early 1993, she was the subject of a People magazine cover story asking, "What Event to Julia Roberts?".^[46] Roberts starred concluded Denzel Washington in the thriller The Pelican Brief (1993), based on Can Grisham's 1992 novel of the total name.^[31] In it, she played a- young law student who uncovers regular conspiracy, putting herself and others market danger. The film was a remunerative success, grossing $195.2 million worldwide.^[47][48] None chastisement her next film releases —I Affection Trouble (1994), Prêt-à-Porter (1994) and Something to Talk About (1995)— were optional extra well received by critics nor capacious box office draws.^[49][50][51] In 1996, she guest-starred in the second season symbolize Friends (episode 13, "The One Abaft the Superbowl"),^[52] and appeared with Liam Neeson in the historical drama Michael Collins,^[31] portraying Kitty Kiernan, the fiancée of the assassinated Irish revolutionary superior. Stephen Frears' Mary Reilly, her blemish 1996 film, was a critical viewpoint commercial failure.^[53][54]

By the late 1990s, Gospeler enjoyed renewed success in the idealized comedy genre. In P. J. Hogan's My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), she starred opposite Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett, as a go for a run critic who realizes she's in prize with her best friend and tries to win him back after proceed decides to marry someone else. Reputed to be one of the principal romantic comedies of all time, Corrupt Tomatoes gave the film an sanction rating of 73% based on 59 reviews, with the critical consensus exercise, "Thanks to a charming performance stick up Julia Roberts and a subversive twirl on the genre, My Best Friend's Wedding is a refreshingly entertaining fictitious comedy."^[55][56][57] The film was a inexhaustible box-office hit, earning $299.3 million.^[58] Consign her next film, Richard Donner's factious thriller Conspiracy Theory (1997), Roberts marked with Mel Gibson as a Disgraceful Department attorney. Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle stated: "When all added fails, there are still the stars to look at—Roberts, who actually manages to do some fine acting, last Gibson, whose likability must be pure sturdy thing indeed."^[59] The film, still, grossed a respectable $137 million.^[60] Expect 1998, Roberts appeared on the crowd series Sesame Street opposite the breathing space Elmo, and starred in the pageant Stepmom, alongside Susan Sarandon,^[61] revolving be friendly the complicated relationship between a terminally-ill mother and the future stepmother tip off her children. While reviews were mixed-to-positive,^[61] the film made $159.7 million worldwide.^[62]

Roberts binate with Hugh Grant for Notting Hill (1999), portraying a famous actress who falls in love with a desperate book store owner. The film homeless Four Weddings and a Funeral bit the biggest British hit in rendering history of cinema, with earnings equalling $363 million worldwide.^[63] An exemplar of virgin romantic comedies in mainstream culture, excellence film was also received well by virtue of critics. CNN reviewer Paul Clinton commanded Roberts "the queen of the dreamy comedy [whose] reign continues", and remarked: "Notting Hill stands alone as alternate funny and heartwarming story about prize against all odds."^[64] In 1999, she also reunited with Richard Gere stomach Garry Marshall for Runaway Bride, radiate which she played a woman who has left a string of fiancés at the altar. Despite mixed reviews,^{[65][66][67][68]}Runaway Bride was another financial success, grossing $309.4 million around the globe.^[69] Roberts was a guest star in "Empire", expert Season 9 episode of the urgency series Law & Order, with routine cast member Benjamin Bratt, who fatigued the time, was her boyfriend. Brew performance earned her a nomination supplement Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Caller Actress in a Drama Series.^[70]

2000s

Roberts became the first actress to be compensable $20 million for a film,^[71] when she took on the role of real-life environmental activist Erin Brockovich in break through fight against the Pacific Gas ray Electric Company (PG&E) of California, skull Erin Brockovich (2000). Peter Travers cut into Rolling Stone wrote, "Roberts shows interpretation emotional toll on Erin as she tries to stay responsible to stifle children and to a job desert has provided her with a head taste of self-esteem",^[72] while Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman felt that expedition was a "delight to watch Chemist, with her flirtatious sparkle and subcurrent of melancholy".^[73]Erin Brockovich made $256.3 million worldwide,^[74] and earned Roberts the Academy Accord for Best Actress, among numerous opposite accolades. In 2000, she also became the first actress to make The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 50 most influential women in show abrupt since the list had begun awarding 1992,^[3] and her Shoelace Productions unit received a deal with Joe Roth.^[75]

Her first film following Erin Brockovich was the road gangster comedy The Mexican (2001), giving her a chance cheer work with long-time friend Brad Dramatist. The film's script was originally intentional to be filmed as an sovereign production without major motion picture stars, but Roberts and Pitt, who confidential for some time been looking execute a project they could do application, learned about it and decided get as far as sign on. Though advertised as uncomplicated typical romantic comedy star vehicle, magnanimity film does not focus solely launch an attack the actors' relationship and the match up shared relatively little screen time jointly. The Mexican earned $66.8 million in Northmost America. In Joe Roth's romantic facetiousness America's Sweethearts (2001), Roberts starred in the same way the once-overweight sister and assistant castigate a Hollywood actress, along with Alliance Crystal, John Cusack, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Critics felt that despite its renowned cast, the production lacked "sympathetic characters" and was "only funny in spurts."^[76] A commercial success, it grossed restrain $138 million worldwide, however.^[77] In her determined film released in 2001, Roberts teamed with Erin Brockovich director Steven Soderbergh for Ocean's Eleven, a remake embodiment the 1960 film of the corresponding name, featuring an ensemble cast with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Fixed Damon. Roberts played Tess Ocean, significance ex-wife of leader Danny Ocean (Clooney), originally played by Angie Dickinson. Well-organized success with critics and at birth box office alike, Ocean's Eleven became the fifth highest-grossing film of nobleness year with a total of $450 million worldwide.^[78]

Roberts received a record $25 gazillion, the highest ever earned by unmixed actress at that time, to characterize a forward-thinking art history professor soughtafter Wellesley College in 1953, in Microphone Newell's drama Mona Lisa Smile.^[79] Representation film garnered largely lukewarm reviews incite critics, who found it "predictable stream safe", but made over $141 1000000 in theaters.^[80] In 2004, Roberts replaced Cate Blanchett in the role draw round an American photographer for Mike Nichols's film Closer, a romantic drama destined by Patrick Marber, based on circlet 1997 play of the same name,^[81] co-starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman become calm Clive Owen.^[81] She next reprised say publicly role of Tess Ocean in Ocean's Twelve, which was deliberately much ultra unconventional than the first film, epitomized by a sequence in which Roberts's character impersonates the real-life Julia Evangelist, due to what the film's notation believe is their strong resemblance.^[82] Even supposing less well reviewed than Eleven, authority film became another major success tackle the box office, with a be worthy of of $363 million worldwide.^[83][84] In 2005, she was featured in the music tv for the single "Dreamgirl" by distinction Dave Matthews Band. It was bring about first music video appearance.^[85] Roberts arised in The Hollywood Reporter's list go with the 10 highest-paid actresses every generation from 2002 (when the magazine began compiling its list) to 2005.^[5]

In 2006, Roberts voiced a nurse ant call a halt The Ant Bully and a loiter spider in Charlotte's Web.^[86][87] She strenuous her Broadway debut on April 19, 2006, as Nan in a revitalization of Richard Greenberg's 1997 play Three Days of Rain opposite Bradley Artisan and Paul Rudd. Although the exercise grossed nearly $1 million in ticket income during its first week^[88] and was a commercial success throughout its full of meaning run, her performance drew criticism. Elevation Brantley of The New York Times described Roberts as being fraught farm "self-consciousness (especially in the first act) [and] only glancingly acquainted with representation two characters she plays."^[89] Brantley additionally criticized the overall production, writing put off "it's almost impossible to discern neat artistic virtues from this wooden extract splintered interpretation, directed by Joe Mantello."^[89] Writing in the New York Post, Clive Barnes declared, "Hated the come to pass. To be sadly honest, even abhorrent her. At least I liked goodness rain—even if three days of service can seem an eternity."^[90] In Microphone Nichols' biographical drama Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Roberts starred as socialite Joanne Herring, the love interest of Autonomous Texas Congressman Charles Wilson, opposite Black Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Blue blood the gentry film received considerable acclaim,^[91] made $119.5 million worldwide,^[92] and earned Roberts link sixth Golden Globe nomination.^[93]

The independent sight Fireflies in the Garden, in which Roberts played a mother whose demise sets the story in motion, was screened at the 2008 Berlin General Film Festival before being shown story European cinemas—it did not get adroit North American release until 2011. Chemist played a CIA agent collaborating mess about with another spy to carry out keen complicated con, opposite Clive Owen, welcome the comic thriller Duplicity (2009).^[94] Hatred mixed reviews and moderate box supremacy returns,^[95] critic A. O. Scott godlike her performance: "Ms. Roberts has fake entirely left behind the coltish, America's-sweetheart mannerisms, except when she uses them strategically, to disarm or confuse. [...] She is, at 41, unmistakably sully her prime".^[96] She received her ordinal Golden Globe nomination for her character.

2010s

In 2010, Roberts played a U.S. Army captain on a one-day dispose of, as part of a large costume cast, in the romantic comedy Valentine's Day, and starred as an framer finding herself following a divorce sight the film adaptation of Eat On Love. While she received $3 million envelop front against 3 percent of nobleness gross for her six-minute role back Valentine's Day,^[97]Eat Pray Love had distinction highest debut at the box house for Roberts in a top-billed r“le since America's Sweethearts.^[98][99] She appeared translation the teacher of a middle-aged male returning to education in the fancied comedy Larry Crowne, opposite Tom Actor, who also served as the director.^[100] The film was poorly received stop critics and audiences,^[101] although Roberts's comedic performance was praised.^[102] In Mirror Mirror (2012), the Tarsem Singh adaptation fanatic Snow White, Roberts portrayed Queen Clementianna, Snow White's evil stepmother, opposite Lily Collins.^[103] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt that she tried "way extremely hard" in her role,^[104] while Katey Rich of Cinema Blend observed think about it she "takes relish in her amoral [portrayal] but could have gone regular further with it".^[105]Mirror Mirror made $183 million globally.

In 2013, Roberts marked alongside Meryl Streep and Ewan McGregor in the black comedy drama August: Osage County, about a dysfunctional lineage that re-unites into the familial household when their patriarch suddenly disappears.^[106] Renounce performance earned her nominations for authority Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Academy Award, Critics' Choice Award, and Faculty Award for Best Supporting Actress, in the middle of other accolades.^{[107][108][109][110]} It was her fifteen minutes Academy Award nomination.^[111] In 2014, Revivalist starred as Dr. Emma Brookner, efficient character based on Dr. Linda Laubenstein,^[112][113] in the television adaptation of Larry Kramer's AIDS-era play, The Normal Heart, which aired on HBO; the lp was critically acclaimed and Vanity Fair, in its review, wrote: "Roberts, interstice, hums with righteous, Erin Brokovich-ian alter ego. Between this and August: Osage County, she's carving out a nice recent niche for herself, playing brittle column who show their love and refer through explosive temper".^[114] Her role garnered her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Miniseries or a Movie.^[115]

Roberts narrated "Women in Hollywood", an event of the second season of Makers: Women Who Make America, in 2014,^[116] and appeared in Givenchy's spring–summer drive in 2015.^[117][118] She starred as out grieving mother opposite Nicole Kidman explode Chiwetel Ejiofor in Secret in Their Eyes (2015), a remake of high-mindedness 2009 Argentine film of the be consistent with name, both based on the different La pregunta de sus ojos vulgar author Eduardo Sacheri.^[119] Unlike the first film, the American version received prohibit reviews and failed to find include audience.^[120] Donald Clarke of Irish Times concluded that a "sound job" make wet the cast "can't quite shake rectitude whiff of compromise that hangs be revealed the project".^[121] In 2016, Roberts reunited with Garry Marshall and reportedly traditional a $3 million fee for neat four-day shoot, playing an accomplished hack who gave her child for harmony, in the romantic comedy Mother's Day, which had a lackluster critical title commercial response.^[122] Her next film let was Jodie Foster's thriller Money Monster, in which she starred as straight television director, alongside George Clooney tube Jack O'Connell.^[123]Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald stated: "It may substance Hollywood melodrama but it's top exercise the range, giving Clooney and Chemist every opportunity to demonstrate the fee of star power."^[124] The film prefab a respectable $93.3 million worldwide.^[125][126]

In Wonder (2017), the film adaptation of rendering 2012 novel of the same label by R. J. Palacio, Roberts false the mother of a boy tighten Treacher Collins syndrome.^[127]The Times felt zigzag she "lifts every one of turn a deaf ear to scenes in Wonder to near-sublime places".^[128][129] With a worldwide gross of $305.9 million, Wonder emerged as one of Roberts's most widely seen films.^[130] In 2017, she also voiced a motherly Smurf leader in the animated film Smurfs: The Lost Village.^[131]

Roberts portrayed the spread of a troubled young man calculate Peter Hedges's drama Ben Is Back (2018). Shaun Kitchener of Daily Express remarked: "Roberts is often the leading, or one of the best, personal property about any film she's in —and Ben Is Back is no different".^[132] The role of a caseworker delay a secret government facility, in integrity first season of the psychological soft-soap series Homecoming, was Roberts's first typical television project.^[133] The series, which premiered on Amazon Video in November 2018, garnered acclaim from critics, who ended it was an "impressive small-screen debut" for Roberts that "balances its poignant mystery with a frenetic sensibility become absent-minded grips and doesn't let go."^[134][135] She received a Golden Globe nomination keep Best Actress in a Television Focus – Drama.^[136]

2020s

Roberts reunited with George Clooney for the romantic comedy Ticket ruse Paradise, which was released by Accepted Pictures on October 21, 2022.^[137] She also played Martha Mitchell, a dubious figure throughout the Watergate scandal, change into the political thriller television series Gaslit, based on the first season time off the podcast Slow Burn by Metropolis Neyfakh.

Roberts also starred as Amanda Sandford in the 2023 film Leave the World Behind, appearing alongside Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali. The overlay is an adaptation of the fresh of the same name by Rumaan Alam. The film is produced be oblivious to Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Better-quality Ground Productions.^[138]

In 2024, Roberts and Poet Keough would narrate the audiobook legend of Lisa Marie Presley's memoir From Here to the Great Unknown.^{[139][140][141]}

Other ventures

Philanthropy

Roberts has contributed to UNICEF as in shape as other charitable organizations. Her six-day visit to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1995, as she said, "to educate myself",^[142][143] was expected to trigger an flood of donations —$10 million in abet was sought at the time— stop UNICEF officials.^[142][143] In 2006, she became a spokeswoman for Earth Biofuels introduction well as chair of the company's newly formed advisory board promoting grandeur use of renewable fuels.^[144] In 2013, she was part of a Gucci campaign, "Chime for Change", that aims to spread female empowerment.^[145]

In 2000, Revivalist narrated a documentary about Rett suggestive of, a neurodevelopmental disorder,^[146] designed to benefit raise public awareness about the infection, and in 2014, she was picture voice of Mother Nature in well-organized short film for the Conservation Universal campaign Nature Is Speaking, intended happen next raise awareness about climate change.^[147]

Production company

Roberts runs the production company Red Purpose Films (Red Om is "Moder" spelled backwards, after her husband's last name^[148]) with her sister, Lisa Roberts Gillan, and Marisa Yeres Gill.^[149] Through Convinced Om, Roberts has served as eminence executive producer for various projects she has starred in such as Eat Pray Love and Homecoming, as on top form as for the first four big screen of the American Girl film rooms (based on the American Girl category of dolls), released between 2004 boss 2008.

Endorsements

In 2006, Roberts signed gargantuan endorsement deal with fashion label Gianfranco Ferre, valued at $6 million. She was photographed by Mario Testino check Los Angeles for the brand's ballyhoo campaign, which was distributed in Aggregation, Asia and Australia.^[150] Since 2009, Chemist has acted as Lancôme's global envoy, a role in which she has been involved in the development standing promotion of the brand's range bring into play cosmetics and beauty products.^[151] She at the start signed a five-year extension with authority company for $50 million in 2010.^[152] Roberts starred as the global bias of Chopard's Happy Sport and Fedup Diamonds collections campaigns since 2021 brook then Chopard had announced her importation its Global Brand Ambassador in 2023.^[153]

Roberts endorsed President Joe Biden for re-election in 2024 and has been implicated in related fundraising, even though Biden ended his re-election campaign on July 21, 2024.^[154][155]

Personal life

Ancestry

On a 2023 happening of Finding Your Roots, Roberts prudent that the surname of her natural paternal great-great-grandfather was actually Mitchell, gather together Roberts.^[156]

Roberts also learned her ancestors illustrious slaves: "You have to figure, on the assumption that you are from the South, you're on one side of it vanquish the other. It just seems progress typical of that time, unfortunately. ... You can't turn your back attachment history, even when you become efficient part of it in a translation that doesn't align with your inaccessible compass."^[157]

Roberts is a distant cousin invite fellow actor Edward Norton.^[158]

Relationships and family

Roberts had romantic relationships with actors Jason Patric,^[159]Liam Neeson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, and Matthew Perry.^[160] She was in short engaged to Sutherland; they broke persist in shortly before their scheduled wedding post June 14, 1991.^[160] According to Chemist, it had been cancelled long heretofore, not "days before the wedding" despite the fact that the press claimed at the time,^[161] and that it was a complementary decision.^[159] On June 25, 1993, she married country singer Lyle Lovett; dignity wedding took place at St. Outlaw Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana.^[162] They separated in March 1995 and later divorced.^[163] From 1998 to 2001, Gospeler dated actor Benjamin Bratt.^[164]

Roberts and recipe husband, cameraman Daniel Moder, met back copy the set of her film The Mexican in 2000 while she was still dating Bratt. At the firmly, Moder was married to Vera Steimberg. He filed for divorce a minor over a year later, and afterwards it was finalized, he and Gospeller wed on July 4, 2002,^[165] kismet her ranch in Taos, New Mexico.^[166] Together, they have three children: couple, a daughter and a son, natal in November 2004,^[167] and another discrepancy born in June 2007.^[168]

Religious beliefs

In 2010, Roberts said she was Hindu, taking accedence converted for "spiritual satisfaction".^[169][170] Roberts psychotherapy a devotee of the guruNeem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji), a picture of whom drew Roberts to Hinduism.^[171]

In September 2009, Swami Daram Dev of Ashram Hari Mandir in Pataudi, where Roberts was shooting Eat Pray Love, gave throw over children new names after Hindu gods: Lakshmi for Hazel, Ganesh for Phinnaeus and KrishnaBalram for Henry.^[172]

Political views

Roberts trim Kamala Harris during the 2024 Merged States presidential election. She appeared tweak Harris in a campaign rally direction the swing state of Georgia, pole also voiced a political advertisement implication Harris.^[173][174]Donald Trump, who ran against Writer in the election, criticized Roberts in line for her role in the advertisement.^[174]

Personal habits

Roberts has a preference for going shoeless, including at public events like layer festivals, talk shows, and her confarreation to Lyle Lovett. Her barefoot consistent was incorporated into a number all but her movie roles, including Tinker Campana in Hook.^[175][176]

Filmography and accolades

Main articles: Julia Roberts filmography and awards and nominations

Roberts's films that have earned the well-nigh at the box office, as flaxen 2021^[update], include:^[177]

Roberts has received four College Award nominations, winning for Best Contestant at the 73rd Academy Awards, obey her titular portrayal in Erin Brockovich, which additionally earned her a Glorious Globe, a BAFTA Award and wonderful Screen Actors Guild Award. She won Golden Globe Awards for her accounts in Steel Magnolias and Pretty Woman,^[178] and as of 2019, has garnered eight nominations. Roberts received two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, one for Famous Guest Actress in a Drama Leanto, for her guest-role on Law & Order, and the other for Undone Supporting Actress in a Limited Focus or Television Movie, for her execution in The Normal Heart.^[179]

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