Julia Roberts
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). 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julia Roberts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (50)
After the Hunt
Leave the World Behind
Ticket to Paradise
Ben Is Back
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Wonder
Mother's Day
Money Monster
Secret in Their Eyes
The Normal Heart
August: Osage County
Mirror Mirror
Larry Crowne
Eat Pray Love
Valentine's Day
I'm Still Here
Duplicity
Fireflies in the Garden
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Charlie Wilson's War
Charlotte's Web
The Ant Bully
Closer
Ocean's Twelve
Mona Lisa Smile
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Full Frontal
Ocean's Eleven
The Mexican
America's Sweethearts
Erin Brockovich
Runaway Bride
Notting Hill
Stepmom
My Best Friend's Wedding
Conspiracy Theory
Mary Reilly
Everyone Says I Love You
Michael Collins
Dead Man Walking
Prêt-à-Porter
The Pelican Brief
The Player
Hook
Sleeping with the Enemy
Dying Young
Pretty Woman
Flatliners
Steel Magnolias
