Birth name: Julie Fiona Roberts
Gender: Female
Spouse: Daniel Moder (4 July 2002 - present) Lyle Lovett (25 June 1993 - 22 March 1995) (divorced)
Profession: Actress
Nickname: Jules
Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Lent her celebrity name to help raise money for research to develop a cure for Rett Syndrome (a disease which is potentially fatal and randomly strikes girls between the ages of 2 to 6 years).
"I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory."
"I'm too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn't call myself a woman. I'd say I'm somewhere between a chick and a broad."
"My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair."
(From 1998 interview) "I've sort of grown into my cuteness."
"We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks, too."
- about President George W. Bush's daughters being caught with alcohol as minors"It doesn't bring out the Einstein moment that you hoped it would."
-- Julia Roberts, on forgetting to include the real-life Erin Brockovich in her Academy Award acceptance speech.You know I'm like a total geek, right? First of all, I sit on the set and knit. It's a very social hobby, as opposed to reading at work - I can chat with people and still be fully engaged."
He's embarrassing, he's not my president. He will never be my president" - talking about President George W. Bush"I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job."
"I get dressed up like a doll, a nice man puts lipstick on my lips and I say words - it's deeply satisfying" - on the essence of her jobOn why she will never do a nude scene: "I just don't feel that my algebra teacher should ever know what my butt looks like."
"You can be true to the character all you want, but you've go to go home with yourself."
Salary Mona Lisa Smile (2003) $25,000,000 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) $250,000 (scale) Ocean's Eleven (2001) $10,000,000 America's Sweethearts (2001) $15,000,000 Mexican, The (2001) $20,000,000 Erin Brockovich (2000) $20,000,000 Runaway Bride (1999) $17,000,000 Notting Hill (1999) $15,000,000 Conspiracy Theory (1997) $12,000,000 My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) $12,000,000 Mary Reilly (1996) $10,000,000 Pelican Brief, The (1993) $8,000,000 Hook (1991) $7,000,000 Dying Young (1991) $3,000,000 Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) $1,000,000 Flatliners (1990) $500,000 Pretty Woman (1990) $300,000 Steel Magnolias (1989) $90,000 Mystic Pizza (1988) $50,000
Where are they now (May 2002) Capital Hill, Washington, D.C., USA testifying for more federal funding for Rett Syndrome
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: It would seem unlikely that an actress could become "America's Sweetheart" by playing a hooker, but it was the role of an implausibly winsome, adorable prostitute in Pretty Woman (1990) that secured that title-and superstardom-for the charming, leggy Roberts. The younger sister of actor Eric Roberts, the brown-eyed, beaming, coltish Julia first demonstrated her appeal in the 1988 girls-coming-of-age comedy Mystic Pizza. (Her first film, Blood Red which starred brother Eric, was made in 1987 but not released until 1990, after she'd become a "name."
) She had a costarring role in Satisfaction (1988, later known as Girls of Summer), and then won a meaty part in the ensemble comedycum-tearjerker Steel Magnolias (1989), enchanting audiences (and earning an Oscar nomination) as Sally Field's fragile daughter. She then costarred in Flatliners (1990). But it was Pretty Woman that made Roberts, overnight, the hottest property in show business and an omnipresent magazine cover girl. (It also earned her another Oscar nomination.) The success of the mediocre Sleeping With the Enemy (1991) persuaded Hollywood that her name alone guaranteed box-office success-which the dismal showing for Dying Young (1991) dispelled. She made headline news by announcing, then canceling, her wedding to actor Kiefer Sutherland (she married musician Lyle Lovett in 1993), and wound up in Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991) playing Tinkerbell. After a self-imposed hiatus from work, and a retreat from tabloid headlines, during which she appeared in only one film (a cameo in Robert Altman's The Player in 1992), she made a return to majorleague stardom in The Pelican Brief (1993), followed by I Love Trouble, Pr?t-?-Porter (both 1994), and Mary Reilly (1995). She seems to have weathered her personal storms, and retained her star status (earning up to that time the most money ever paid to an actress-some eight million dollars per film) despite two years away from movies.
Related Links:
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Julia Roberts