Julia Fiona Roberts\u00a0(born October 28, 1967)\u00a0is an American actress. Known for her leading roles across several genres, she has received\u00a0various accolades, including an\u00a0Academy Award, a\u00a0British Academy Film Award, and three\u00a0Golden Globe Awards. She became known for portraying charming, relatable characters in romantic comedies and\u00a0blockbusters before expanding into dramas, thrillers, and independent films.<\/p>\n
After early breakthroughs in\u00a0Mystic Pizza\u00a0(1988) and\u00a0Steel Magnolias\u00a0(1989), Roberts solidified her status as a\u00a0leading lady\u00a0with the romantic comedies\u00a0Pretty Woman\u00a0(1990),\u00a0My Best Friend’s Wedding\u00a0(1997),\u00a0Notting Hill\u00a0(1999), and\u00a0Runaway Bride\u00a0(1999). Roberts won the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Actress\u00a0for her portrayal of the\u00a0title role\u00a0in the biographical drama\u00a0Erin Brockovich\u00a0(2000). She then starred in films such as\u00a0Ocean’s Eleven (2001),\u00a0Ocean’s Twelve\u00a0(2004),\u00a0Charlie Wilson’s War\u00a0(2007),\u00a0Valentine’s Day\u00a0(2010),\u00a0Eat Pray Love (2010),\u00a0August: Osage County\u00a0(2013),\u00a0Wonder (2017),\u00a0Ticket to Paradise\u00a0(2022),\u00a0Leave the World Behind\u00a0(2023), and\u00a0After the Hunt\u00a0(2025). On television, she starred as a physician during the\u00a0AIDS crisis\u00a0in the\u00a0HBO\u00a0film\u00a0The Normal Heart (2014), for which she earned a\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award\u00a0nomination, a\u00a0social worker\u00a0in the first season of the\u00a0streaming\u00a0series\u00a0Homecoming (2018), and portrayed\u00a0Martha Mitchell\u00a0in the Starz political limited series\u00a0Gaslit\u00a0(2022).<\/p>\n
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\u00a0American Girl\u00a0franchise (2004\u20132008). She has served as the global ambassador for\u00a0Lanc\u00f4me since 2009. She was the world’s highest-paid actress for most of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. People\u00a0magazine has named her the most beautiful woman in the world a record five times.<\/p>\n
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Julia Fiona Roberts\u00a0(born October 28, 1967)\u00a0is an American actress. Known for her leading roles across several genres, she has received\u00a0various accolades, including an\u00a0Academy Award, a\u00a0British Academy Film Award, and three\u00a0Golden Globe Awards. She became known for portraying charming, relatable characters in romantic comedies and\u00a0blockbusters before expanding into dramas, thrillers, and independent films. After early breakthroughs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-25493","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n