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Julia Roberts
18 August, 2006
Actress. Born Julie Fiona Roberts, on October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty and Walter Roberts. Her parents divorced when she was four and her father died when she was nine. Just after high school, Roberts joined her sister in New York City and began modeling. Her brother, Eric, was already established as an actor, and Julia filmed a small role in Blood Red (1988), in which he starred.
Her first major film role came in 1988’s Satisfaction, starring Justine Bateman of Family Ties fame and Liam Neeson. That same year, she costarred as one of three restless small-town girls in Mystic Pizza. Her performance as a doomed young bride in 1989’s ensemble drama Steel Magnolias, costarring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah, Shirley MacLaine, and Dylan McDermott earned Roberts notice as a promising dramatic actress, including a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Just one year later, Roberts made the leap to superstardom with her breakthrough turn as a Hollywood Boulevard prostitute who falls in love with her business mogul client, played by Richard Gere, in the smash hit Pretty Woman (1990). She again garnered Golden Globe and Academy Award nods for the role, this time in the Best Actress category. The tremendous box office success of Pretty Woman made Roberts one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actresses. She released a number of less successful movies on its heels, including the standard-issue thrillers Flatliners (1990), costarring future fiancé Kiefer Sutherland, and Sleeping with the Enemy (1991); the star-studded Steven Spielberg bomb Hook (1991), with Dustin Hoffman; and the weepy Dying Young (1991). Roberts got the role of her career in 2000 when she portrayed the crusading legal secretary who spearheaded one of the largest class-action lawsuits in U.S. history in the drama Erin Brockovich. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film was an enormous critical and commercial success, earning five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Albert Finney), and Best Actress. Roberts’ emotional Oscar win capped an incredible string of international awards she received for the role, including Best Actress honors from the New York, Los Angeles, and London critics’ associations, a Golden Globe Award, and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award (the British equivalent of the Oscar). Her $20 million salary for the film also made Roberts the highest-paid actress of all time. Posted by admin at 04:12 PM | View: (782) 
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