American actress, Julia Fiona Roberts was born on October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia.
“I’m just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job”
Julia Roberts Biography
Her parents, Betty and Walter Roberts, who had a modest theater workshop and taught acting classes, actually made a living, he as a vacuum cleaner salesman and she as a secretary in the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta.
When they divorced, her fifteen-year-old brother Eric went to live with their father; while she, who was four, and her sister Lisa, nine, grew up in the care of their maternal grandmother, Beatrice, along with her mother, who remarried and gave them another sister, Nancy. At that time, in 1976, her father died of cancer, far from his daughters.
She attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin High School, and finally Campbell Institute, in whose band he played clarinet.
At the age of seventeen he went to live in New York with the intention of studying acting and following in the footsteps of his brother Eric, who was already a very active secondary actor.
However, once there she was forced to work (she babysat, she was a waitress at a pizzeria and a store clerk, among other jobs) and she didn’t attend many classes.
Julia Roberts Career
She entered the entertainment world thanks to the help of her brother, who got her brief roles in off-Broadway theatrical productions, television series (she appeared in Miami Vice , Friends and Murphy Brown ) and in some unimportant films. , like Firehouse , in 1986, and Blood Red , Baja Oklahoma and Satisfaction in 1988, so he learned the trade by doing.
The great activity of this last year was decisive in this sense, since it gave him the opportunity to work with greater dramatic depth such as Mystic pizza (1988), by Donald Petrie.
She was discovered in that film by director Herbert Ross, who offered her a co-starring role in Steel Magnolias (1989), a passport for the Golden Globe and her first Oscar nomination, something that would be repeated in 1990 with Pretty Woman , the film which gave him world fame.
From that moment on, she did not take a step in his life that was not duly referred to, exaggerated or distorted in the specialized press.
Thus, his romantic relationships with actors Liam Neeson, Kiefer Sutherland, Matthew Perry, Dylan McDermott or Jason Patric were the talk of the town and required reading in waiting rooms and beauty salons.
It was even commented with a certain slander, since all her boyfriends had been co-stars, that «Julia made her life her profession».
Later, when the wave of rumors seemed to subside after his marriage to Lyle Lovett, whom she was introduced to on the set of The Hollywood Game (1992), the short-lived marriage (1993-1995) unleashed a new barrage and was taken just as a mere “Hollywood game.”
Again, in mid-2001, after four years of a stable relationship with the actor of Peruvian origin Benjamin Bratt -whom she had met, of course, in an episode of the series Law and order , of which she was a guest star- the couple ended their idyll.
After the suc a way that chained Robert Altman , Stephen Frears, Neil Jordan and Woody Allen in one go, and shared the bill with established actors: she was working with Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman in Hook, the return of Captain Hook (1991); she with Denzel Washington in the thriller The Pelican Brief (1993), based on the novel by John Grisham; with Dennis Quaid in Something to Talk About (1995); with Susan Sarandon in Stay by my side (1998); and with Hugh Grant in Notting Hill (1999).
This turn in his career gave a touch of distinction to his filmography, but did not seem to sensitize the “popes” of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the United States at the time of the awards.
Above recognition and awards, however, one irrevocable fact prevailed: she had no ups and downs in her career. And whatever she did, she always stayed on top.
Turned into the great star of Hollywood, she was an adored actress with a huge commercial hook, since her name alone in the credit titles guaranteed the box office success of any film.
It could be argued that she inaugurated a new type of diva. A natural and independent diva who represented a tangible dream for many young women. The glamor was in her figure, in her eyes, her hair, her smile.
She needed no more artifice. Her charm consisted in showing herself as she was. Nor did the habits that she claimed to have – knitting as relaxation, practicing gymnastics to support herself, cooking for her friends and having Italian cheese and pasta as her favorite food – distanced her from the common taste of mortals.
She was not the queen of the People’s Choice Award for nothing, an award given to the star chosen by the public and that until 2001 she had won six times.
Erin Brockovich (2000), by Steven Soderbergh, gave him the opportunity to climb a new step in his brilliant career.
Based on a true story, the film tells the story of a woman overwhelmed by debts, twice divorced and mother of three children, without university studies, who manages to win an impossible lawsuit against a large company for having polluted the waters of an entire town and caused endless diseases. (The real Erin Brockovich, since her secretarial job at a modest law firm, has achieved the largest settlement ever paid in the United States.)
Bolstered by veteran British actor Albert Finney in the role of a lawyer, the film had all the ingredients to be a hit in the United States and the materials necessary for the actress to go from correctness and credibility demonstrated in different genres to dramatic vigor. And from there to glory.
Her remarkable performance in Erin Brockovich earned her the Oscar for best actress: it was the only thing she needed to legitimize her position as the top figure in show business.
Although she had three Golden Globes on her resume and as many Oscar nominations, she had spent years trying to show that, beyond her beauty and that radiant smile, which in her country is reproduced even in operating rooms, she was worth as an interpreter.
Julia Roberts Awards
Julia Roberts Net Worth
Currently, there are estimates that put her net worth at around $170 million. This is perhaps not surprising, since Roberts was the highest-paid actress for most of the 1990s, as well as a considerable part of the 2000s.
Something that can be explained by the fact that her films managed to gross more of $2.8 billion at the box office.
Steel Magnolias was followed by Pretty Woman in 1990, which was the film that cemented Roberts’ reputation as someone who could draw viewers in. After all, the film remains one of the most successful romantic comedies in history with more than $463 million at the box office.
As a result, it is much more fortuitous that Roberts managed to secure the part, as it was not offered to her until after six other actresses turned it down.
Naturally, Pretty Woman was followed by more roles in more movies. There have been failures situated throughout Roberts’ acting career, but for the most part, his career has been one of consistent success.
Even now, though she isn’t getting involved in new projects at the same rate as she was at the height of her career, she’s still managing to wow viewers. For example, while 2016 ‘s Mother’s Day might have been panned by critics, its $25 million production budget meant its $48.5 million at the box office still made it a moderate success. 
Likewise, 2017’s Wonderbased on the novel of the same name received widespread acclaim, which was matched by a huge surge in interest resulting in $305.9 million at the box office. In other words, said film managed to become one of Roberts’ most viewed films even though it has faded from prominence to a certain degree, so it speaks volumes about the star power that it still has to this day.
Based on this, it shouldn’t be hard to conclude that she has managed to amass most of his current net worth through his massive success as a movie star. However, she is similar to most movie stars in that her star power has also allowed her to become a successful celebrity endorser.
In fact, it’s amusing to note that while she seems to be standing the test of time with minimal issues, the same can’t be said for at least one of the famous brands she’s endorsed in the past. After all, there was a time when AOL was a household name, but today, it’s not much more than a whisper.
Julia Roberts Personal Life
She was in relationships with actors Liam Neeson , Jason Patric , Kiefer Sutherland , Dylan McDermott , and Matthew Perry .
She married singer Lyle Lovett on June 25, 1993 and divorced on March 22, 1995.
She married in July 2002 in New Mexico with Danny Moder, whom she met during the filming of The Mexican. They had three children: Phinnaeus Walter, Hazel Patricia, and Henry Daniel.
