The children of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. They ran a children's acting school in Decatur, Georgia, while they were expecting Julia. They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, off Juniper Street in Midtown. Roberts's parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing in theatrical productions for the armed forces. She also had a younger half-sister named Nancy Motes. Her older brother Eric Roberts (born 1956), from whom she was estranged for several years until 2004, older sister Lisa Roberts Gillan (born 1965), and niece Emma Roberts, are also actors. Her father was a Baptist, her mother a Catholic, and she was raised Catholic. She is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. Roberts was born on October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, to Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts. People magazine has named her the most beautiful woman in the world a record five times. As of 2020, Roberts' net worth was estimated to be $250 million. She was paid $300,000 for Pretty Woman (1990), and received then-unprecedented fees of $20 million and $25 million for her roles in Erin Brockovich (2000) and Mona Lisa Smile (2003), respectively.
She was the world's highest-paid actress throughout the majority of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. She has acted as the global ambassador for Lancôme since 2009. In addition to acting, Roberts runs the production company Red Om Films, through which she has served as an executive producer for various projects she has starred in, as well as for the first four films of the American Girl franchise (2004–2008).
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She also received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the HBO television film The Normal Heart (2014), had her first regular television role in the first season of the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018), and portrayed Martha Mitchell in the Starz political limited series Gaslit (2022). Roberts achieved further 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), and Ticket to Paradise (2022). She starred in numerous commercially successful films throughout the 1990s, including the cult romantic comedies My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999) and Runaway Bride (1999), before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the biographical drama Erin Brockovich (2000). Īfter an early breakthrough with appearances in Mystic Pizza (1988) and Steel Magnolias (1989), Roberts established herself as a leading actress when she headlined the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), which grossed $464 million worldwide. The films in which she has starred have collectively grossed over $3.9 billion globally, making her one of Hollywood's most bankable stars. Known for her leading roles in films encompassing a variety of genres, she has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress.
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