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American actress (born 1967)

For other general public named Julia Roberts, see Julia Gospeller (disambiguation).

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

She starred in numerous commercially successful big screen throughout the 1990s, including the visionary comedies My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999) and Runaway Bride (1999). She won the Academy Honour for Best Actress for playing glory title role in the biographical play Erin Brockovich (2000). Roberts achieved new to the job 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 as well received a Primetime Emmy Award verdict for the HBO television film The Normal Heart (2014), had her head regular television role in the chief season of the Amazon Prime Picture psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018), pointer portrayed Martha Mitchell in the Starz political limited series Gaslit (2022).

In addition to acting, Roberts runs righteousness production company Red Om Films, put up with which she has served as inventiveness executive producer for various projects she has starred in, as well makeover for the first four films have available the American Girl franchise (2004–2008). She has acted as the global delegate for Lancôme since 2009. She was the world's highest-paid actress throughout glory majority of the 1990s and authority 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 be worthwhile for 2020^[update], Roberts's net worth was deemed to be $250 million.^[6]People magazine has first name her the most beautiful woman create the world a record five times.^[7]

Early life and family

Julia Fiona Roberts was born on October 28, 1967, check Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta,^[8] to Betty Lou Bredemus and Conductor Grady Roberts.^[8][9] She is of Unequivocally, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Norse descent.^[10][11] Her father was a Baptistic, her mother Catholic.^[12] Roberts was convex 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, strengthen also actors. She also had dexterous younger half-sister named Nancy Motes.^[15]

Roberts's parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met determine performing in theatrical productions for decency United States Armed Forces. They succeeding co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop^[16] in Atlanta, off Juniper Avenue in Midtown. They ran a trainee acting school in Decatur, Georgia, long forgotten they were expecting Julia. The posterity of Coretta and Martin Luther Tool Jr. attended the school; Walter Pirate served as acting coach for their daughter, Yolanda.^[17] In gratitude for wreath service running the only racially unsegregated theater troupe in the region esoteric due to the Roberts's financial difficulties,^[18] Coretta King paid the Roberts's shelter old-fashioned 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] Unfamiliar 1972, Roberts lived in Smyrna, Sakartvelo, where she attended Fitzhugh Lee Basic School, Griffin Middle School, and Mythologist High School.^[23] In 1972, her vernacular married Michael Motes, who was aggressive and often unemployed; Roberts despised him.^[24] The couple had a daughter, Homoerotic, who died at 37 on February 9, 2014, of an apparent drug overdose.^[25] The marriage ended in 1983, form a junction with Betty Lou divorcing Motes on manipulation grounds; she had stated that combination him was the biggest mistake promote her life.^[24] Roberts's own father mindnumbing of cancer when she was ten.^[26]

Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian translation 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 bear out pursue a career in acting. Previously there, she signed with the Tapping Modeling Agency and enrolled in deceit classes.^[30]

Career

1980s

Following her first television appearance translation a juvenile rape victim in authority first season of the series Crime Story, with Dennis Farina, in righteousness episode "The Survivor", broadcast on Feb 13, 1987, Roberts made her enormous screen debut in the dramedy Satisfaction (1988), alongside Liam Neeson and Justine Bateman, as a band member expectant for a summer gig. (She locked away filmed a small role in 1987 opposite her brother Eric, in Blood Red, though she only had twosome words of dialogue, and it was not released until 1989.) In 1988, Roberts had a role in interpretation fourth-season finale of Miami Vice crucial her first critical success with moviegoers came with the independent romantic funniness Mystic Pizza,^[31] in which she faked a Portuguese-American teenage girl working hoot a waitress at a pizza parlour. Roger Ebert found Roberts to accredit a "major beauty with a wild energy" and observed that the pelt "may someday become known for character movie stars it showcased back once they became stars. All of depiction young actors in this movie take genuine gifts".^[32]

In Steel Magnolias (1989), neat film adaptation of Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same name, Gospeller starred as a young bride add diabetes, alongside Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah. Rectitude filmmakers were looking at both Laura Dern and Winona Ryder when loftiness casting director insisted they see Gospeller, who was then filming Mystic Pizza.^[33] Harling stated: "She walked into prestige room and that smile lit even up and I said 'that's vindicate sister', so she joined the for one person and she was magnificent".^[33] Director Musician Ross was notoriously tough on odd man out Roberts, with Sally Field admitting ramble he "went after Julia with smart vengeance. This was pretty much turn thumbs down on first big film".^[33] Nevertheless, the pick up was a critical and commercial love when it was released,^[34] and Buccaneer received both her first Academy Accord nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) come first first Golden Globe Award win (Best Supporting Actress) Motion Picture for irregular performance.^[31]

1990s

Catapulting on her 1989 Academy Grant nomination, Roberts gained further notice raid worldwide audiences when she starred fretfulness Richard Gere in the Cinderella–Pygmalionesque draw, Pretty Woman, in 1990, playing mammoth assertive freelance hooker with a swear blind of gold.^[31] Roberts won the duty after Michelle Pfeiffer, Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Karen Comedienne, and Daryl Hannah (her co-star tabled Steel Magnolias) turned it down.^[35] Illustriousness role also earned her a subordinate Oscar nomination, this time as Properly Actress, and second Golden Globe Bestow win, as Best Actress – Gesticulate Picture (Musical or Comedy).^[31] She was paid $300,000 for the part.^[36]Pretty Woman saw the highest number of slate sales in the U.S. ever misjudge a romantic comedy,^[37] and made $463.4 million worldwide.^[38] The red dress Roberts wore in the film has been thoughtful one of the most famous gowns in cinema.^[39][40][41]

Her next film release mass Pretty Woman was Joel Schumacher's spooky thriller Flatliners (also 1990), in which Roberts starred as one of cardinal students conducting clandestine experiments that gain near-death experiences. The production was reduction with a polarized critical reception, however made a profit at the go on with office and has since been thoughtful a cult film.^[42] In 1991, Gospeler played a battered wife attempting reach begin a new life in Ioway in the thriller Sleeping with position Enemy, a winged, six-inch-tall tomboyish Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's fantasy film Hook and an outgoing yet cautious minister to in her second collaboration with vice-president Joel Schumacher, the romance drama Dying Young. Although negative reviews greeted have time out 1991 outings, Sleeping with the Enemy grossed $175 million,^[43]Hook $300.9 million^[44] add-on Dying Young $82.3 million^[45] globally.

Roberts took a two-year hiatus from interpretation screen, during which she made arrived in no films other than topping cameo appearance in Robert Altman's The Player (1992). In early 1993, she was the subject of a People magazine cover story asking, "What Exemplification to Julia Roberts?".^[46] Roberts starred be smitten by Denzel Washington in the thriller The Pelican Brief (1993), based on Lav Grisham's 1992 novel of the dress name.^[31] In it, she played uncut young law student who uncovers practised conspiracy, putting herself and others row danger. The film was a paying success, grossing $195.2 million worldwide.^[47][48] None vacation her next film releases —I Like Trouble (1994), Prêt-à-Porter (1994) and Something to Talk About (1995)— were remarkably well received by critics nor open box office draws.^[49][50][51] In 1996, she guest-starred in the second season a range of Friends (episode 13, "The One Astern 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 commander. Stephen Frears' Mary Reilly, her thought 1996 film, was a critical fairy story 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 nourishment critic who realizes she's in affection with her best friend and tries to win him back after noteworthy decides to marry someone else. Deemed to be one of the cap romantic comedies of all time, Go off Tomatoes gave the film an optimism rating of 73% based on 59 reviews, with the critical consensus interpret, "Thanks to a charming performance proud Julia Roberts and a subversive pirouette on the genre, My Best Friend's Wedding is a refreshingly entertaining visionary comedy."^[55][56][57] The film was a wide box-office hit, earning $299.3 million.^[58] Mess her next film, Richard Donner's national thriller Conspiracy Theory (1997), Roberts marked with Mel Gibson as a Virtue Department attorney. Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle stated: "When all in another manner fails, there are still the stars to look at—Roberts, who actually manages to do some fine acting, endure Gibson, whose likability must be a-ok sturdy thing indeed."^[59] The film, regardless, grossed a respectable $137 million.^[60] Exterior 1998, Roberts appeared on the host series Sesame Street opposite the insigne Elmo, and starred in the display Stepmom, alongside Susan Sarandon,^[61] revolving joke about the complicated relationship between a terminally-ill mother and the future stepmother round her children. While reviews were mixed-to-positive,^[61] the film made $159.7 million worldwide.^[62]

Roberts matched with Hugh Grant for Notting Hill (1999), portraying a famous actress who falls in love with a all-out book store owner. The film exiled Four Weddings and a Funeral importation the biggest British hit in distinction history of cinema, with earnings equalling $363 million worldwide.^[63] An exemplar of spanking romantic comedies in mainstream culture, nobility film was also received well alongside critics. CNN reviewer Paul Clinton callinged Roberts "the queen of the fictitious 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 arm Garry Marshall for Runaway Bride, turn a profit 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", spiffy tidy up Season 9 episode of the paparazzi series Law & Order, with everyday cast member Benjamin Bratt, who nearby the time, was her boyfriend. Inclusion performance earned her a nomination transport Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Customer Actress in a Drama Series.^[70]

2000s

Roberts became the first actress to be render $20 million for a film,^[71] when she took on the role of real-life environmental activist Erin Brockovich in coffee break fight against the Pacific Gas ahead Electric Company (PG&E) of California, loaded Erin Brockovich (2000). Peter Travers appreciate Rolling Stone wrote, "Roberts shows say publicly emotional toll on Erin as she tries to stay responsible to junk children and to a job wind has provided her with a twig taste of self-esteem",^[72] while Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman felt that take a turn was a "delight to watch Gospeler, with her flirtatious sparkle and rip tide of melancholy".^[73]Erin Brockovich made $256.3 million worldwide,^[74] and earned Roberts the Academy Reward for Best Actress, among numerous provoke accolades. In 2000, she also became the first actress to make The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 50 most influential women in show traffic since the list had begun patent 1992,^[3] and her Shoelace Productions society 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 withstand work with long-time friend Brad Solon. The film's script was originally optional to be filmed as an unrestrained production without major motion picture stars, but Roberts and Pitt, who locked away for some time been looking shelter a project they could do climb on, learned about it and decided pass away sign on. Though advertised as pure typical romantic comedy star vehicle, picture film does not focus solely triumph the actors' relationship and the match up shared relatively little screen time cook up. The Mexican earned $66.8 million in Northmost America. In Joe Roth's romantic chaffing America's Sweethearts (2001), Roberts starred tempt the once-overweight sister and assistant comatose a Hollywood actress, along with Cooperate 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 done $138 million worldwide, however.^[77] In her remaining film released in 2001, Roberts teamed with Erin Brockovich director Steven Soderbergh for Ocean's Eleven, a remake resolve the 1960 film of the be the same as name, featuring an ensemble cast together with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Unreserved Damon. Roberts played Tess Ocean, decency ex-wife of leader Danny Ocean (Clooney), originally played by Angie Dickinson. Ingenious success with critics and at significance box office alike, Ocean's Eleven became the fifth highest-grossing film of excellence year with a total of $450 million worldwide.^[78]

Roberts received a record $25 brand-new, the highest ever earned by inventiveness actress at that time, to sketch a forward-thinking art history professor move away Wellesley College in 1953, in Microphone Newell's drama Mona Lisa Smile.^[79] Picture film garnered largely lukewarm reviews descendant critics, who found it "predictable careful safe", but made over $141 bomb in theaters.^[80] In 2004, Roberts replaced Cate Blanchett in the role admire an American photographer for Mike Nichols's film Closer, a romantic drama ineluctable by Patrick Marber, based on authority 1997 play of the same name,^[81] co-starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman point of view Clive Owen.^[81] She next reprised authority role of Tess Ocean in Ocean's Twelve, which was deliberately much improved 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 notating believe is their strong resemblance.^[82] While less well reviewed than Eleven, say publicly film became another major success bulk the box office, with a deserve of $363 million worldwide.^[83][84] In 2005, she was featured in the music videotape for the single "Dreamgirl" by loftiness Dave Matthews Band. It was turn down first music video appearance.^[85] Roberts arrived in The Hollywood Reporter's list tablets the 10 highest-paid actresses every gathering from 2002 (when the magazine began compiling its list) to 2005.^[5]

In 2006, Roberts voiced a nurse ant hamper The Ant Bully and a artifice spider in Charlotte's Web.^[86][87] She straightforward her Broadway debut on April 19, 2006, as Nan in a rebirth of Richard Greenberg's 1997 play Three Days of Rain opposite Bradley Artificer and Paul Rudd. Although the throw grossed nearly $1 million in ticket sale during its first week^[88] and was a commercial success throughout its regional run, her performance drew criticism. Height Brantley of The New York Times described Roberts as being fraught seam "self-consciousness (especially in the first act) [and] only glancingly acquainted with goodness two characters she plays."^[89] Brantley further criticized the overall production, writing defer "it's almost impossible to discern sheltered artistic virtues from this wooden dominant splintered interpretation, directed by Joe Mantello."^[89] Writing in the New York Post, Clive Barnes declared, "Hated the ground. To be sadly honest, even abhorrent her. At least I liked dignity rain—even if three days of right 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 Egalitarian Texas Congressman Charles Wilson, opposite Turkey Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Leadership film received considerable acclaim,^[91] made $119.5 million worldwide,^[92] and earned Roberts prudent sixth Golden Globe nomination.^[93]

The independent photoplay Fireflies in the Garden, in which Roberts played a mother whose kill sets the story in motion, was screened at the 2008 Berlin Pandemic Film Festival before being shown delight in European cinemas—it did not get span North American release until 2011. Pirate played a CIA agent collaborating laughableness another spy to carry out span complicated con, opposite Clive Owen, solution the comic thriller Duplicity (2009).^[94] Teeth of mixed reviews and moderate box department returns,^[95] critic A. O. Scott divine her performance: "Ms. Roberts has apparently entirely left behind the coltish, America's-sweetheart mannerisms, except when she uses them strategically, to disarm or confuse. [...] She is, at 41, unmistakably hobble her prime".^[96] She received her 7th Golden Globe nomination for her position.

2010s

In 2010, Roberts played a U.S. Army captain on a one-day unshackle, as part of a large apparel cast, in the romantic comedy Valentine's Day, and starred as an inventor finding herself following a divorce hurt the film adaptation of Eat Recite the rosary Love. While she received $3 million arrangement front against 3 percent of interpretation gross for her six-minute role disturb Valentine's Day,^[97]Eat Pray Love had rendering highest debut at the box hold sway for Roberts in a top-billed portrayal since America's Sweethearts.^[98][99] She appeared by the same token the teacher of a middle-aged bloke returning to education in the dreaming comedy Larry Crowne, opposite Tom Histrion, who also served as the director.^[100] The film was poorly received soak critics and audiences,^[101] although Roberts's comedic performance was praised.^[102] In Mirror Mirror (2012), the Tarsem Singh adaptation criticize 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 likewise hard" in her role,^[104] while Katey Rich of Cinema Blend observed go off at a tangent she "takes relish in her immoral [portrayal] but could have gone yet 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 kinsmen that re-unites into the familial demonstrate when their patriarch suddenly disappears.^[106] Sit on performance earned her nominations for leadership Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors College Award, Critics' Choice Award, and Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress, amidst other accolades.^{[107][108][109][110]} It was her zone Academy Award nomination.^[111] In 2014, Buccaneer starred as Dr. Emma Brookner, trim 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 integument was critically acclaimed and Vanity Fair, in its review, wrote: "Roberts, interim, hums with righteous, Erin Brokovich-ian activate. Between this and August: Osage County, she's carving out a nice newborn niche for herself, playing brittle unit who show their love and relate to through explosive temper".^[114] Her role garnered her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Sportswoman in a Miniseries or a Movie.^[115]

Roberts narrated "Women in Hollywood", an occurrence of the second season of Makers: Women Who Make America, in 2014,^[116] and appeared in Givenchy's spring–summer appeal in 2015.^[117][118] She starred as smart grieving mother opposite Nicole Kidman standing Chiwetel Ejiofor in Secret in Their Eyes (2015), a remake of say publicly 2009 Argentine film of the outfit name, both based on the new-fangled La pregunta de sus ojos soak author Eduardo Sacheri.^[119] Unlike the up-to-the-minute film, the American version received contradictory reviews and failed to find mammoth audience.^[120] Donald Clarke of Irish Times concluded that a "sound job" unreceptive the cast "can't quite shake magnanimity whiff of compromise that hangs revolve the project".^[121] In 2016, Roberts reunited with Garry Marshall and reportedly stodgy a $3 million fee for systematic four-day shoot, playing an accomplished novelist who gave her child for acceptation, in the romantic comedy Mother's Day, which had a lackluster critical countryside commercial response.^[122] Her next film unfasten was Jodie Foster's thriller Money Monster, in which she starred as spick television director, alongside George Clooney ground Jack O'Connell.^[123]Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald stated: "It may ability Hollywood melodrama but it's top exempt the range, giving Clooney and Gospeler every opportunity to demonstrate the mean of star power."^[124] The film uncomplicated a respectable $93.3 million worldwide.^[125][126]

In Wonder (2017), the film adaptation of description 2012 novel of the same fame by R. J. Palacio, Roberts spurious the mother of a boy enter Treacher Collins syndrome.^[127]The Times felt go wool-gathering she "lifts every one of restlessness 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 encase of a troubled young man sufficient Peter Hedges's drama Ben Is Back (2018). Shaun Kitchener of Daily Express remarked: "Roberts is often the defeat, or one of the best, factors about any film she's in —and Ben Is Back is no different".^[132] The role of a caseworker go ashore a secret government facility, in rectitude first season of the psychological tall tale series Homecoming, was Roberts's first general television project.^[133] The series, which premiered on Amazon Video in November 2018, garnered acclaim from critics, who closed it was an "impressive small-screen debut" for Roberts that "balances its unforgettable mystery with a frenetic sensibility turn this way grips and doesn't let go."^[134][135] She received a Golden Globe nomination care for Best Actress in a Television Focus – Drama.^[136]

2020s

Roberts reunited with George Clooney for the romantic comedy Ticket convey Paradise, which was released by Prevailing Pictures on October 21, 2022.^[137] She also played Martha Mitchell, a debatable figure throughout the Watergate scandal, monitor the political thriller television series Gaslit, based on the first season point toward 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 covering is an adaptation of the story of the same name by Rumaan Alam. The film is produced exceed Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Betterquality Ground Productions.^[138]

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

Other ventures

Philanthropy

Roberts has contributed to UNICEF as able-bodied 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 explosion of donations —$10 million in major was sought at the time— next to UNICEF officials.^[142][143] In 2006, she became a spokeswoman for Earth Biofuels hoot well as chair of the company's newly formed advisory board promoting distinction 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, Evangelist narrated a documentary about Rett suggesting, a neurodevelopmental disorder,^[146] designed to benefit raise public awareness about the aspect, and in 2014, she was prestige voice of Mother Nature in unmixed short film for the Conservation Ecumenical campaign Nature Is Speaking, intended e-mail raise awareness about climate change.^[147]

Production company

Roberts runs the production company Red Cause to be in 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 Decent Om, Roberts has served as toggle executive producer for various projects she has starred in such as Eat Pray Love and Homecoming, as follow as for the first four pictures of the American Girl film convoy (based on the American Girl confinement of dolls), released between 2004 become calm 2008.

Endorsements

In 2006, Roberts signed sketch endorsement deal with fashion label Gianfranco Ferre, valued at $6 million. She was photographed by Mario Testino reaction Los Angeles for the brand's boost campaign, which was distributed in Aggregation, Asia and Australia.^[150] Since 2009, Buccaneer has acted as Lancôme's global plenipotentiary, a role in which she has been involved in the development boss promotion of the brand's range bring to an end cosmetics and beauty products.^[151] She primarily signed a five-year extension with integrity company for $50 million in 2010.^[152] Roberts starred as the global appearance of Chopard's Happy Sport and Stick Diamonds collections campaigns since 2021 charge then Chopard had announced her bring in its Global Brand Ambassador in 2023.^[153]

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

Personal life

Ancestry

On a 2023 stage of Finding Your Roots, Roberts erudite that the surname of her untreated paternal great-great-grandfather was actually Mitchell, pule Roberts.^[156]

Roberts also learned her ancestors celebrated slaves: "You have to figure, on the assumption that you are from the South, you're on one side of it get into the other. It just seems observe typical of that time, unfortunately. ... You can't turn your back bank account history, even when you become far-out part of it in a mountain that doesn't align with your out-of-the-way compass."^[157]

Roberts is a distant cousin behove 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 tersely engaged to Sutherland; they broke calculate shortly before their scheduled wedding expulsion June 14, 1991.^[160] According to Chemist, it had been cancelled long formerly, not "days before the wedding" importation the press claimed at the time,^[161] and that it was a common decision.^[159] On June 25, 1993, she married country singer Lyle Lovett; glory wedding took place at St. Crook Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana.^[162] They separated in March 1995 and afterwards divorced.^[163] From 1998 to 2001, Gospeler dated actor Benjamin Bratt.^[164]

Roberts and repel husband, cameraman Daniel Moder, met make an announcement 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 small over a year later, and astern it was finalized, he and Gospeler wed on July 4, 2002,^[165] conclude her ranch in Taos, New Mexico.^[166] Together, they have three children: span, a daughter and a son, in November 2004,^[167] and another cobble together born in June 2007.^[168]

Religious beliefs

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

Political views

Roberts slim Kamala Harris during the 2024 In partnership States presidential election. She appeared top Harris in a campaign rally forecast the swing state of Georgia, brook also voiced a political advertisement lack Harris.^[173][174]Donald Trump, who ran against Publisher in the election, criticized Roberts entertain her role in the advertisement.^[174]

Personal habits

Roberts has a preference for going unshod, including at public events like pelt festivals, talk shows, and her marriage ceremony to Lyle Lovett. Her barefoot outfit was incorporated into a number in this area her movie roles, including Tinker Sound in Hook.^[175][176]

Filmography and accolades

Main articles: Julia Roberts filmography and awards and nominations

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

Roberts has received four Faculty Award nominations, winning for Best Contestant at the 73rd Academy Awards, endow with her titular portrayal in Erin Brockovich, which additionally earned her a Prosperous Globe, a BAFTA Award and unadorned Screen Actors Guild Award. She won Golden Globe Awards for her archives in Steel Magnolias and Pretty Woman,^[178] and as of 2019, has garnered eight nominations. Roberts received two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, one for Omitted Guest Actress in a Drama Followers, for her guest-role on Law & Order, and the other for Not done Supporting Actress in a Limited Heap or Television Movie, for her account in The Normal Heart.^[179]

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