Julia Fiona Roberts was born in Smyrna, Georgia, USA, on October 28, 1967 and is an Oscar earning actress. Her father died of cancer when her brother Eric Roberts and sister Lisa Roberts Gillan became an orphan when she was only ten years old. The girl subsequently moved on to Campbell High School, having finished her schooling at Griffin Middle School. At her youth, she decided to be a veterinarian because of her passion for animals, but later preferred to pursue journalism instead.
Roberts, envious of the popularity of her brother Eric Roberts in Hollywood, continued in attempting to act. Her first appearance in two youth-oriented movies “Mystic Pizza” and “Satisfaction” in 1988 had drawn the interest of moviegoers that in the following years she received her other supernumerary part in “Steel Magnolias” as a young bride fighting diabetes (1989). The role she played in this movie prompted her to earn her first Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. In 1990, she received more fame when she co-starred with Richard Gere in the “Pretty Woman” Cinderella story, an American romantic comedy motion picture in which she appeared as Viv Ward, a streetwalker in Los Angeles, with Gere playing Edward Lewis, a wealthy and ruthless businessman who makes a living as a specialist in corporate acquisition. Her success in this specific image, this time for the Best Actress, earned the beauty her second Oscar nod.
Since then, Roberts has been an actress who ensured a massive box office draw and received such critical praise along the way to eventually be crowned an Oscar Best Actress for her role of Erin Brockovich, a woman who led to a successful litigation in the 2001 film of the same name against the energy company Pacific Gas & Electric. She played in a romantic comedy movie, “Notting Hill” (1999), as a successful actress called Anna Scott, who falls in love with an average guy played by Hugh Grant, prior to the achievement. It was assumed that the role she portrayed in this movie was loosely modelled on her actual life, which was also in the spotlight.
In addition to her ample acting ability, Roberts has been noted for her beauty, and many men have been dated in her life, including Matthew Perry and Daniel Day-Lewis with whom she split up in June 2001. In addition, before later becoming happily married to singer Lyle Lovett on June 25, 1993, she was once engaged to Dylan McDermott, her “Steel Magnolias” co-star and Kiefer Sutherland. Unfortunately, on March 22, 1995, she ultimately met her soulmate Daniel Moder and married him on July 4, 2002, with whom she gave birth to her daughters, Hazel Patricia and Phinnaeus Walter, on November 28, 2004. The couple happily greeted the birth of their third boy, a son named Henry Daniel Moder, on June 18, 2007.
Roberts was once crowned the best paying actress in the history of film in her entire film career, rated #1 in Hollywood Power, and #12 in Forbes magazine ‘Power 100.’ In addition, she was also on the ’50 Most Attractive’ list of People USA magazine[2000], ranked #66 in the ‘The Best 100 Movie Stars of All Time’ chart of Empire UK magazine[October 1997], selected by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1990 & 1991, and was called one of the ’25 Most Intriguing People of 2001′ by People Magazine. In addition, she had once called one of E! 2001’s top 20