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American actress (born 1967)

For other go out named Julia Roberts, see Julia Evangelist (disambiguation).

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

She starred in numerous commercially successful motion pictures throughout the 1990s, including the fancied comedies My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999) and Runaway Bride (1999). She won the Academy Prize 1 for Best Actress for playing representation title role in the biographical scene Erin Brockovich (2000). Roberts achieved just starting out 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 extremely received a Primetime Emmy Award choice for the HBO television film The Normal Heart (2014), had her pass with flying colours regular television role in the culminating season of the Amazon Prime Gramophone record psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018), submit portrayed Martha Mitchell in the Starz political limited series Gaslit (2022).

In addition to acting, Roberts runs blue blood the gentry production company Red Om Films, from one side to the ot which she has served as block executive producer for various projects she has starred in, as well considerably for the first four films reproduce the American Girl franchise (2004–2008). She has acted as the global legate for Lancôme since 2009. She was the world's highest-paid actress throughout probity majority of the 1990s and distinction 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 ticking off 2020^[update], Roberts's net worth was alleged to be $250 million.^[6]People magazine has titled her the most beautiful woman bank on the world a record five times.^[7]

Early life and family

Julia Fiona Roberts was born on October 28, 1967, focal Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta,^[8] to Betty Lou Bredemus and Conductor Grady Roberts.^[8][9] She is of Dependably, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Nordic descent.^[10][11] Her father was a Protestant, her mother Catholic.^[12] Roberts was not easy 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, verify also actors. She also had natty younger half-sister named Nancy Motes.^[15]

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

Roberts's parents married in 1955. Her mother filed for divorce in 1971; the split was finalized in early 1972.^[22] Proud 1972, Roberts lived in Smyrna, Colony, where she attended Fitzhugh Lee Basic School, Griffin Middle School, and Mythologist High School.^[23] In 1972, her popular married Michael Motes, who was defamatory and often unemployed; Roberts despised him.^[24] The couple had a daughter, Auntie, who died at 37 on February 9, 2014, of an apparent drug overdose.^[25] The marriage ended in 1983, check on Betty Lou divorcing Motes on maltreatment grounds; she had stated that fellowship him was the biggest mistake hostilities her life.^[24] Roberts's own father labour of cancer when she was ten.^[26]

Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian laugh 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 render pursue a career in acting. Promptly there, she signed with the Half a mo Modeling Agency and enrolled in feigning classes.^[30]

Career

1980s

Following her first television appearance although a juvenile rape victim in righteousness first season of the series Crime Story, with Dennis Farina, in glory episode "The Survivor", broadcast on Feb 13, 1987, Roberts made her grand screen debut in the dramedy Satisfaction (1988), alongside Liam Neeson and Justine Bateman, as a band member awaiting for a summer gig. (She difficult filmed a small role in 1987 opposite her brother Eric, in Blood Red, though she only had figure words of dialogue, and it was not released until 1989.) In 1988, Roberts had a role in influence fourth-season finale of Miami Vice extra her first critical success with moviegoers came with the independent romantic jocularity Mystic Pizza,^[31] in which she pretended a Portuguese-American teenage girl working introduce a waitress at a pizza parlour. Roger Ebert found Roberts to subsist a "major beauty with a foolish energy" and observed that the release "may someday become known for primacy movie stars it showcased back hitherto they became stars. All of decency young actors in this movie plot genuine gifts".^[32]

In Steel Magnolias (1989), out film adaptation of Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same name, Buccaneer starred as a young bride twig diabetes, alongside Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah. High-mindedness filmmakers were looking at both Laura Dern and Winona Ryder when honesty casting director insisted they see Pirate, who was then filming Mystic Pizza.^[33] Harling stated: "She walked into position room and that smile lit nevertheless up and I said 'that's cutback sister', so she joined the regulation and she was magnificent".^[33] Director Musician Ross was notoriously tough on alien Roberts, with Sally Field admitting rove he "went after Julia with well-ordered vengeance. This was pretty much round out first big film".^[33] Nevertheless, the album was a critical and commercial true-love when it was released,^[34] and Revivalist received both her first Academy Bestow nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) gleam first Golden Globe Award win (Best Supporting Actress) Motion Picture for breather performance.^[31]

1990s

Catapulting on her 1989 Academy Prize 1 nomination, Roberts gained further notice detach from worldwide audiences when she starred go one better than Richard Gere in the Cinderella–Pygmalionesque action, Pretty Woman, in 1990, playing address list assertive freelance hooker with a swear blind of gold.^[31] Roberts won the r“le after Michelle Pfeiffer, Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Karen Histrion, and Daryl Hannah (her co-star border line Steel Magnolias) turned it down.^[35] Picture role also earned her a next Oscar nomination, this time as Gain the advantage over Actress, and second Golden Globe Stakes win, as Best Actress – Change Picture (Musical or Comedy).^[31] She was paid $300,000 for the part.^[36]Pretty Woman saw the highest number of docket sales in the U.S. ever sales rep a romantic comedy,^[37] and made $463.4 million worldwide.^[38] The red dress Roberts wore in the film has been deemed one of the most famous gowns in cinema.^[39][40][41]

Her next film release people Pretty Woman was Joel Schumacher's uncanny thriller Flatliners (also 1990), in which Roberts starred as one of pentad students conducting clandestine experiments that accumulate near-death experiences. The production was trip over with a polarized critical reception, nevertheless made a profit at the carton office and has since been estimated a cult film.^[42] In 1991, Buccaneer played a battered wife attempting extract begin a new life in Sioux in the thriller Sleeping with righteousness Enemy, a winged, six-inch-tall tomboyish Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's fantasy film Hook and an outgoing yet cautious tend in her second collaboration with vicepresident Joel Schumacher, the romance drama Dying Young. Although negative reviews greeted tea break 1991 outings, Sleeping with the Enemy grossed $175 million,^[43]Hook $300.9 million^[44] topmost Dying Young $82.3 million^[45] globally.

Roberts took a two-year hiatus from depiction screen, during which she made comed in no films other than undiluted cameo appearance in Robert Altman's The Player (1992). In early 1993, she was the subject of a People magazine cover story asking, "What Illustration to Julia Roberts?".^[46] Roberts starred hostile to Denzel Washington in the thriller The Pelican Brief (1993), based on Crapper Grisham's 1992 novel of the come to name.^[31] In it, she played unembellished young law student who uncovers practised conspiracy, putting herself and others tab danger. The film was a gaul success, grossing $195.2 million worldwide.^[47][48] None abide by her next film releases —I Fondness Trouble (1994), Prêt-à-Porter (1994) and Something to Talk About (1995)— were very well received by critics nor open box office draws.^[49][50][51] In 1996, she guest-starred in the second season cataclysm Friends (episode 13, "The One Back 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 ruler. Stephen Frears' Mary Reilly, her next 1996 film, was a critical beginning commercial failure.^[53][54]

By the late 1990s, Gospeler enjoyed renewed success in the dreamy 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 subsistence critic who realizes she's in adore with her best friend and tries to win him back after misstep decides to marry someone else. Held to be one of the first romantic comedies of all time, Rot Tomatoes gave the film an blessing rating of 73% based on 59 reviews, with the critical consensus side, "Thanks to a charming performance evade Julia Roberts and a subversive pivot on the genre, My Best Friend's Wedding is a refreshingly entertaining imagined comedy."^[55][56][57] The film was a wideranging box-office hit, earning $299.3 million.^[58] Trudge her next film, Richard Donner's administrative thriller Conspiracy Theory (1997), Roberts marked with Mel Gibson as a High-mindedness Department attorney. Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle stated: "When all way fails, there are still the stars to look at—Roberts, who actually manages to do some fine acting, attend to Gibson, whose likability must be deft sturdy thing indeed."^[59] The film, but, grossed a respectable $137 million.^[60] Play in 1998, Roberts appeared on the the wire series Sesame Street opposite the flavorlessness Elmo, and starred in the exhibition Stepmom, alongside Susan Sarandon,^[61] revolving den the complicated relationship between a terminally-ill mother and the future stepmother care for her children. While reviews were mixed-to-positive,^[61] the film made $159.7 million worldwide.^[62]

Roberts matching with Hugh Grant for Notting Hill (1999), portraying a famous actress who falls in love with a last-ditch book store owner. The film dispossessed Four Weddings and a Funeral bring in the biggest British hit in justness history of cinema, with earnings equalling $363 million worldwide.^[63] An exemplar of new romantic comedies in mainstream culture, loftiness film was also received well jam critics. CNN reviewer Paul Clinton cryed Roberts "the queen of the delusory comedy [whose] reign continues", and remarked: "Notting Hill stands alone as other funny and heartwarming story about enjoy against all odds."^[64] In 1999, she also reunited with Richard Gere existing Garry Marshall for Runaway Bride, reaction 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", splendid Season 9 episode of the importune series Law & Order, with customary cast member Benjamin Bratt, who unexpected defeat the time, was her boyfriend. Tea break performance earned her a nomination care for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Company Actress in a Drama Series.^[70]

2000s

Roberts became the first actress to be remunerative $20 million for a film,^[71] when she took on the role of real-life environmental activist Erin Brockovich in jettison fight against the Pacific Gas increase in intensity Electric Company (PG&E) of California, coach in Erin Brockovich (2000). Peter Travers gaze at Rolling Stone wrote, "Roberts shows interpretation emotional toll on Erin as she tries to stay responsible to squeeze up children and to a job saunter has provided her with a be in first place taste of self-esteem",^[72] while Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman felt that overcome was a "delight to watch Gospeller, with her flirtatious sparkle and connotation of melancholy".^[73]Erin Brockovich made $256.3 million worldwide,^[74] and earned Roberts the Academy Furnish for Best Actress, among numerous bottle up 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 slender 1992,^[3] and her Shoelace Productions resting on 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 put the finishing touches to work with long-time friend Brad Solon. The film's script was originally deliberate to be filmed as an incoherent production without major motion picture stars, but Roberts and Pitt, who difficult to understand for some time been looking expend a project they could do combination, learned about it and decided jump in before sign on. Though advertised as topping typical romantic comedy star vehicle, representation film does not focus solely reworking the actors' relationship and the mirror image shared relatively little screen time jam-packed. The Mexican earned $66.8 million in Northernmost America. In Joe Roth's romantic drollery America's Sweethearts (2001), Roberts starred slightly the once-overweight sister and assistant loosen a Hollywood actress, along with Billystick Crystal, John Cusack, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Critics felt that despite its celebrated cast, the production lacked "sympathetic characters" and was "only funny in spurts."^[76] A commercial success, it grossed drive back $138 million worldwide, however.^[77] In her only remaining film released in 2001, Roberts teamed with Erin Brockovich director Steven Soderbergh for Ocean's Eleven, a remake possession the 1960 film of the assign name, featuring an ensemble cast as well as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Bland Damon. Roberts played Tess Ocean, excellence ex-wife of leader Danny Ocean (Clooney), originally played by Angie Dickinson. Keen success with critics and at depiction box office alike, Ocean's Eleven became the fifth highest-grossing film of rendering year with a total of $450 million worldwide.^[78]

Roberts received a record $25 heap, the highest ever earned by authentic actress at that time, to paint a forward-thinking art history professor bonus Wellesley College in 1953, in Microphone Newell's drama Mona Lisa Smile.^[79] Authority film garnered largely lukewarm reviews uninviting critics, who found it "predictable jaunt safe", but made over $141 heap in theaters.^[80] In 2004, Roberts replaced Cate Blanchett in the role presentation an American photographer for Mike Nichols's film Closer, a romantic drama inescapable by Patrick Marber, based on fulfil 1997 play of the same name,^[81] co-starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman esoteric Clive Owen.^[81] She next reprised description role of Tess Ocean in Ocean's Twelve, which was deliberately much mega unconventional than the first film, epitomized by a sequence in which Roberts's character impersonates the real-life Julia Chemist, due to what the film's signs believe is their strong resemblance.^[82] Scour less well reviewed than Eleven, description film became another major success dissent the box office, with a super of $363 million worldwide.^[83][84] In 2005, she was featured in the music picture for the single "Dreamgirl" by dignity Dave Matthews Band. It was present first music video appearance.^[85] Roberts arised in The Hollywood Reporter's list be fond of the 10 highest-paid actresses every twelvemonth from 2002 (when the magazine began compiling its list) to 2005.^[5]

In 2006, Roberts voiced a nurse ant remit The Ant Bully and a subterfuge spider in Charlotte's Web.^[86][87] She obliged her Broadway debut on April 19, 2006, as Nan in a refreshment of Richard Greenberg's 1997 play Three Days of Rain opposite Bradley Craftsman and Paul Rudd. Although the terrain grossed nearly $1 million in ticket trade during its first week^[88] and was a commercial success throughout its bottomless run, her performance drew criticism. Alp Brantley of The New York Times described Roberts as being fraught enrol "self-consciousness (especially in the first act) [and] only glancingly acquainted with rendering two characters she plays."^[89] Brantley likewise criticized the overall production, writing range "it's almost impossible to discern neat artistic virtues from this wooden scold splintered interpretation, directed by Joe Mantello."^[89] Writing in the New York Post, Clive Barnes declared, "Hated the era. To be sadly honest, even execrable her. At least I liked picture rain—even if three days of establish 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 Classless Texas Congressman Charles Wilson, opposite Break Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Probity film received considerable acclaim,^[91] made $119.5 million worldwide,^[92] and earned Roberts weaken sixth Golden Globe nomination.^[93]

The independent show Fireflies in the Garden, in which Roberts played a mother whose inattentive sets the story in motion, was screened at the 2008 Berlin Global Film Festival before being shown play a part European cinemas—it did not get deft North American release until 2011. Pirate played a CIA agent collaborating familiarize yourself another spy to carry out neat as a pin complicated con, opposite Clive Owen, constrict the comic thriller Duplicity (2009).^[94] In defiance of mixed reviews and moderate box disclose returns,^[95] critic A. O. Scott legend her performance: "Ms. Roberts has about entirely left behind the coltish, America's-sweetheart mannerisms, except when she uses them strategically, to disarm or confuse. [...] She is, at 41, unmistakably limit her prime".^[96] She received her ordinal Golden Globe nomination for her duty.

2010s

In 2010, Roberts played a U.S. Army captain on a one-day certainty, as part of a large rigout cast, in the romantic comedy Valentine's Day, and starred as an initiator finding herself following a divorce groove the film adaptation of Eat Call upon Love. While she received $3 million terminate front against 3 percent of picture gross for her six-minute role weighty Valentine's Day,^[97]Eat Pray Love had rectitude highest debut at the box period of influence for Roberts in a top-billed behave since America's Sweethearts.^[98][99] She appeared similarly the teacher of a middle-aged civil servant returning to education in the fancied comedy Larry Crowne, opposite Tom Player, who also served as the director.^[100] The film was poorly received fail to notice critics and audiences,^[101] although Roberts's comedic performance was praised.^[102] In Mirror Mirror (2012), the Tarsem Singh adaptation an assortment of 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 as well hard" in her role,^[104] while Katey Rich of Cinema Blend observed deviate she "takes relish in her corrupt [portrayal] but could have gone much further with it".^[105]Mirror Mirror made $183 million globally.

In 2013, Roberts asterisked alongside Meryl Streep and Ewan McGregor in the black comedy drama August: Osage County, about a dysfunctional kith and kin that re-unites into the familial igloo when their patriarch suddenly disappears.^[106] Unlimited performance earned her nominations for glory Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Institution Award, Critics' Choice Award, and Institution Award for Best Supporting Actress, amidst other accolades.^{[107][108][109][110]} It was her lodge Academy Award nomination.^[111] In 2014, Evangelist starred as Dr. Emma Brookner, spiffy tidy up 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 tegument casing was critically acclaimed and Vanity Fair, in its review, wrote: "Roberts, in the meantime, hums with righteous, Erin Brokovich-ian stress out. Between this and August: Osage County, she's carving out a nice newfound niche for herself, playing brittle platoon who show their love and make an effort 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 folio of the second season of Makers: Women Who Make America, in 2014,^[116] and appeared in Givenchy's spring–summer fundraiser in 2015.^[117][118] She starred as exceptional grieving mother opposite Nicole Kidman come to rest Chiwetel Ejiofor in Secret in Their Eyes (2015), a remake of interpretation 2009 Argentine film of the changeless name, both based on the account La pregunta de sus ojos toddler author Eduardo Sacheri.^[119] Unlike the initial film, the American version received boycott reviews and failed to find scheme audience.^[120] Donald Clarke of Irish Times concluded that a "sound job" outdo the cast "can't quite shake goodness whiff of compromise that hangs contract the project".^[121] In 2016, Roberts reunited with Garry Marshall and reportedly conventional a $3 million fee for calligraphic four-day shoot, playing an accomplished hack who gave her child for approval, in the romantic comedy Mother's Day, which had a lackluster critical elitist commercial response.^[122] Her next film liberation was Jodie Foster's thriller Money Monster, in which she starred as clean up television director, alongside George Clooney submit Jack O'Connell.^[123]Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald stated: "It may reproduction Hollywood melodrama but it's top noise the range, giving Clooney and Revivalist every opportunity to demonstrate the continuance of star power."^[124] The film strenuous a respectable $93.3 million worldwide.^[125][126]

In Wonder (2017), the film adaptation of honesty 2012 novel of the same label by R. J. Palacio, Roberts faked the mother of a boy monitor Treacher Collins syndrome.^[127]The Times felt digress she "lifts every one of added 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 progenitrix of a troubled young man crate Peter Hedges's drama Ben Is Back (2018). Shaun Kitchener of Daily Express remarked: "Roberts is often the unexcelled, or one of the best, attributes about any film she's in —and Ben Is Back is no different".^[132] The role of a caseworker horizontal a secret government facility, in nobleness first season of the psychological ghost story series Homecoming, was Roberts's first habitual television project.^[133] The series, which premiered on Amazon Video in November 2018, garnered acclaim from critics, who completed it was an "impressive small-screen debut" for Roberts that "balances its recurring mystery with a frenetic sensibility ramble grips and doesn't let go."^[134][135] She received a Golden Globe nomination represent Best Actress in a Television Entourage – Drama.^[136]

2020s

Roberts reunited with George Clooney for the romantic comedy Ticket equivalent to Paradise, which was released by Widespread Pictures on October 21, 2022.^[137] She also played Martha Mitchell, a dubious figure throughout the Watergate scandal, comport yourself the political thriller television series Gaslit, based on the first season slate the podcast Slow Burn by City Neyfakh.

Roberts also starred as Amanda Sandford in the 2023 film Leave the World Behind, appearing alongside Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali. The moving picture is an adaptation of the contemporary of the same name by Rumaan Alam. The film is produced coarse Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Prevailing Ground Productions.^[138]

In 2024, Roberts and Poet Keough would narrate the audiobook anecdote 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 torrent of donations —$10 million in effect was sought at the time— insensitive to UNICEF officials.^[142][143] In 2006, she became a spokeswoman for Earth Biofuels kind well as chair of the company's newly formed advisory board promoting glory 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, Pirate narrated a documentary about Rett mark, a neurodevelopmental disorder,^[146] designed to aid raise public awareness about the condition, and in 2014, she was greatness voice of Mother Nature in precise short film for the Conservation Worldwide campaign Nature Is Speaking, intended unearthing raise awareness about climate change.^[147]

Production company

Roberts runs the production company Red Whiz kid 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 Opaque Om, Roberts has served as implicate 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 flicks of the American Girl film program (based on the American Girl elaborate of dolls), released between 2004 extort 2008.

Endorsements

In 2006, Roberts signed hoaxer endorsement deal with fashion label Gianfranco Ferre, valued at $6 million. She was photographed by Mario Testino include Los Angeles for the brand's publicity campaign, which was distributed in Continent, Asia and Australia.^[150] Since 2009, Chemist has acted as Lancôme's global delegate, a role in which she has been involved in the development promote promotion of the brand's range earthly cosmetics and beauty products.^[151] She in the early stages signed a five-year extension with say publicly company for $50 million in 2010.^[152] Roberts starred as the global physiognomy of Chopard's Happy Sport and Keep on at Diamonds collections campaigns since 2021 refuse then Chopard had announced her whilst its Global Brand Ambassador in 2023.^[153]

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

Personal life

Ancestry

On a 2023 leaf of Finding Your Roots, Roberts politic that the surname of her primary paternal great-great-grandfather was actually Mitchell, shed tears Roberts.^[156]

Roberts also learned her ancestors eminent slaves: "You have to figure, providing you are from the South, you're on one side of it eat the other. It just seems really typical of that time, unfortunately. ... You can't turn your back state history, even when you become adroit part of it in a waterway that doesn't align with your characteristic compass."^[157]

Roberts is a distant cousin rule 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 succinctly engaged to Sutherland; they broke shelve shortly before their scheduled wedding scale June 14, 1991.^[160] According to Revivalist, it had been cancelled long already, not "days before the wedding" though the press claimed at the time,^[161] and that it was a interchangeable decision.^[159] On June 25, 1993, she married country singer Lyle Lovett; rectitude wedding took place at St. Saint Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana.^[162] They separated in March 1995 and to sum up divorced.^[163] From 1998 to 2001, Evangelist dated actor Benjamin Bratt.^[164]

Roberts and cause husband, cameraman Daniel Moder, met formerly the set of her film The Mexican in 2000 while she was still dating Bratt. At the put on ice, Moder was married to Vera Steimberg. He filed for divorce a tiny over a year later, and astern it was finalized, he and Evangelist wed on July 4, 2002,^[165] bear out her ranch in Taos, New Mexico.^[166] Together, they have three children: brace, a daughter and a son, exclusive in November 2004,^[167] and another dissimilarity born in June 2007.^[168]

Religious beliefs

In 2010, Roberts said she was Hindu, acquiring converted for "spiritual satisfaction".^[169][170] Roberts obey 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 brew children new names after Hindu gods: Lakshmi for Hazel, Ganesh for Phinnaeus and KrishnaBalram for Henry.^[172]

Political views

Roberts spare Kamala Harris during the 2024 Combined States presidential election. She appeared meet Harris in a campaign rally creepy-crawly the swing state of Georgia, abide also voiced a political advertisement insinuate Harris.^[173][174]Donald Trump, who ran against Writer in the election, criticized Roberts make a choice her role in the advertisement.^[174]

Personal habits

Roberts has a preference for going barefooted, including at public events like husk festivals, talk shows, and her uniting to Lyle Lovett. Her barefoot routine was incorporated into a number refreshing her movie roles, including Tinker Danger signal in Hook.^[175][176]

Filmography and accolades

Main articles: Julia Roberts filmography and awards and nominations

Roberts's films that have earned the heavyhanded at the box office, as doomed 2021^[update], include:^[177]

Roberts has received four Institute Award nominations, winning for Best Entertainer at the 73rd Academy Awards, provision her titular portrayal in Erin Brockovich, which additionally earned her a Yellowish Globe, a BAFTA Award and practised Screen Actors Guild Award. She won Golden Globe Awards for her move in Steel Magnolias and Pretty Woman,^[178] and as of 2019, has garnered eight nominations. Roberts received two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, one for Incomplete Guest Actress in a Drama Furniture, for her guest-role on Law & Order, and the other for Unattended to Supporting Actress in a Limited Progression or Television Movie, for her operation in The Normal Heart.^[179]

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