Julia Roberts
Actor
- Born
- October 28, 1967 (age 58) · Smyrna, Georgia, USA
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress. Known for her leading roles across several genres, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. She became known for portraying charming, relatable characters in romantic comedies and blockbusters before expanding into dramas, thrillers, and independent films.
After early breakthroughs in Mystic Pizza (1988) and Steel Magnolias (1989), Roberts solidified her status as a leading lady with the romantic comedies Pretty Woman (1990), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999), and Runaway Bride (1999). Roberts won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the title role in the biographical drama Erin Brockovich (2000). She then starred in films such as 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), Leave the World Behind (2023), and After the Hunt (2025). On television, she starred as a physician during the AIDS crisis in the HBO film The Normal Heart (2014), for which she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, a social worker in the first season of the streaming series Homecoming (2018), and portrayed Martha Mitchell in the Starz political limited series Gaslit (2022).
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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). She has served as the global ambassador for Lancôme since 2009. She was the world's highest-paid actress for most of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. People magazine has named her the most beautiful woman in the world a record five times.
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Known for
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- 2027Panic Carefully
- 2026Hook: Never, Never Ending as Self (archive footage)
- 2026Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20 as Self (archive footage)
- 2025After the Hunt as Alma Imhoff
- 2025Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy as Self (archive footage)
- 20242024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self
- 2024A Look Through His Lens as Self
- 2023Leave the World Behind as Amanda Sandford
- 2023Tom Hanks: The Nomad as Self (archive footage)
- 2022
