Julia Roberts

Non-Public Biography Node
Birthday: October 28, 1967
Age: 44
Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Smyrna, Georgia
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Big Break: Steel Magnolias
Biography

Academy Award winning actress Julia Roberts was born on October 28, 1967 in Smyrna, Georgia. Julia made her screen debut in the film Blood Red starring her brother Eric. Her first notable role came in Mystic Pizza in 1988. The following year, Julia earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Steel Magnolias.

Roberts starred opposite Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. Throughout the nineties, Julia appeared in several hit films, including The Pelican Brief, Conspiracy Theory and My Best Friend's Wedding. In 2000, Roberts captured the Academy Award for Best Actress for Erin Brockovich.

In recent years, Julia has starred in films like Ocean's Eleven, Mona Lisa Smile and Closer. In 2007, Roberts received a Golden Globe nomination for Charlie Wilson's War.

At one time, Julia was engaged to actor Kiefer Sutherland but the two never married. Julia had a brief two-year marriage to singer Lyle Lovett that came to an end in 1995. In 2002, Roberts married cameraman Daniel Moder and the couple has three children.

Did you know…
  • Her father died of cancer when she was ten
  • She makes $20 million per film
  • She played the clarinet in her school band
  • Julia is left-handed
  • She loves animals, she wanted to be a veterinarian
  • Actress Emma Roberts is her niece
  • She turned down the lead role in Shakespeare in Love
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George Clooney and Julia Roberts team up for a lawsuit! Ahhh, I was hoping it would say, “Clooney and Roberts teaming up for a movie about George Clooney dumping Stacy Keibler and falling in love with meee!” Kidding! Here’s the story!

Anyways, Clooney and Roberts are suing two audio-visual companies for using their names and pictures to boost sales, against Clooney and Roberts wishes.
Somehow, Julia Roberts made it as a Hollywood legend with relatively zero drama. Well, there was that one time she didn’t shave her armpits. But other than that, she’s been pretty drama-free.

Roberts, who plays the evil queen in the upcoming Snow White movie, Mirror Mirror, appears on the April cover of Vanity Fair magazine, and in it, she talks about everything from Hollywood to motherhood.
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Because one film adaption of the Snow White story isn’t enough for some people, there’s another movie based on the Snow White story and it’s called “Mirror Mirror” and stars Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen and Lily Collins as Snow White. The trailer just debuted today.

Last week we saw the mega-popular trailer for a very dark interpretation of the Snow White tale that stars Kristen Stewart as Snow White and Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen. That movie was called “Snow White and the Huntsman.”

So, to be clear, there are two trailers out for two DIFFERENT movies about Snow White that will be premiering next year. If it gets too confusing, just refer to one of them as “The Kristen Stewart Snow White movie” and the other one as the “Julia Roberts Snow White Movie.”
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To make your way from the Hollywood D-list to it's esteemed A-list, you have to be selective in your career choices. Some celebs are good at it, others aren't so good, and yet others just get lucky. Some don't really need another career boost, but might be kicking themselves, anyway, after passing on something epic.

So why do celebs pass on these epic roles? Sometimes it's scheduling conflicts. Sometimes they're just too busy. And sometimes, a story about a ghost stalking his ex-girlfriend just sounds silly. Either way, there are plenty of stars who missed out on legendary gigs because they didn't make it work. Here are ten celebrities that passed up big movie roles. Check out our comparisons below...




Molly Ringwald: Molly Ringwald could've made it past the eighties if she would've said yes to the lead role in Pretty Woman or Ghost. What was she waiting for? You don’t get any more interesting than movies about hookers and ghosts. She was also offered a part in Scream but turned it down because she was in her late twenties and didn’t want a teenage role. Can you imagine her replacing Julia Roberts?
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Forbes has revealed Hollywood’s highest paid actresses, and no, quantity doesn’t necessarily match quality.

Angelina Jolie and Sarah Jessica Parker top the list, each bringing in $30 million between May 2010 and May 2011. Apparently, producers believed people were actually going to sit through Salt.

Alright, alright. Because these two donate so much to charity, I can’t give them too hard of a time. Besides, I think opening weekend of Sex and the City 2 speaks for itself.

Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon come in third, and at this point, I think it’s safe to take your hand off your mouse, stand up...
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If she was born this way, she needs to get something checked out. Lady Gaga showed up to Toronto’s Much Music Awards sporting turquoise blue armpit hair to match her long, blue mermaid wig. And if that wasn’t enough, she wore a matching merkin over her crotch.

I’m at a loss for words when it comes to Lady Gaga’s fashion statements, but this is a story, and I guess I have to say something. So I’ll just remind you of a few female celebs who have sported hairy pits over the years....
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They shared the screen in Charlie Wilson’s War and Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts recently worked together on another film, Larry Crowne.

The movie is a romantic comedy, and one in which Hanks says is the coolest role he’s ever played.

Hanks has been married to actress Rita Wilson for twenty-three years and has a simple secret to maintaining a happy marriage.

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Julia Roberts is all over a new man. Literally.

Chilean newspaper salesman, Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic, has a whopping 82 tattoos of Roberts’ face all over his body. When I look at that picture, all I can hear is the music from Cape Fear.

Bukovic said, “The woman is great, she’s beautiful.”

After the first tattoo, I’m sure his family thought, “Ok. That's weird, but I guess it’s original.” The second one was teetering on obsessive, but yeah…after the third, his family really should’ve had an intervention.

I mean, this is the kind of guy, who, when you realize the extent of his insanity, you just put your hands up, slowly back away from, and say you don’t want any trouble. Not that it would be less creepy if he was good looking, but…actually, yeah, I think that might help.

"Once I was talking to him about 'Pretty Woman,'" said Bukovic’s tattoo artist. "And no, he doesn't like me to talk about Julia Roberts [in that film] because she's a prostitute there.

This is why I don't leave the country.

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the evilest of them all?

Both Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts are in talks to take on the role of the Evil Queen in the much anticipated Snow White movie--or should I say movies?

According to Deadline, Charlize is in talks to play the evil queen in Snow White and the Huntsman over at Universal, while Julia is thinking of playing the Evil Queen in The Brothers Grimm: Snow White for Relativity Media.

Apparently Natalie Portman is interested in staring in the same version Julia is in talks for, while Riley Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley and Felicity Jones are interested in the Charlize version.

They should just join forces and make one kick @ss version of the movie. Which version sounds more exciting to you? Charlize's or Julia's?
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For decades, American celebrities have turned to overseas endorsement deals as an easy way to make big money--without damaging their reputations here in the states.

Brad Pitt is willing to be an assistant to a sumo wrestler, George Clooney pretends he drives a Honda and Cameron Diaz can act like she needs a refresher course in English--and they did all for the Benjamin's!

Check out these five overseas commercials that feature George, Brad, Julia, Cameron and Madonna...now we know how they buy those private planes and French chateaus!

George Clooney's Honda Commercial
George Clooney is used to private jets and chauffeured cars, but when Honda came knocking on his door with a big paycheck, he was totally willing to pretend he drives one. Clooney made millions off this Japanese Honda Odyssey commercial that was actually shot in Milan. Score! He had fun playing around with the cameras and flirting with the ladies on set, so it was clearly a win-win situation for everyone. Check out his commercial below...



Brad Pitt's SoftBank Commercial
Brad got big bucks from Japanese mobile phone company giant SoftBank to film this commercial, which also featured former Yokozuna sumo wrestler Musashimaru Koyo, and was directed by Spike Jonze. SoftBank loved Brad so much, they shot a second commercial with him. The first commercial features Brad Pitt as a personal assistant for Musashimaru. The Japanese at the end says, “If you use a cell phone, use a light one.” The second one features Brad Pitt as Musashimaru personal assistant again, this time at a restaurant. Cameron Diaz also did work for SoftBank and got paid $3 million for just 6 hours worth of work, so it's safe to assume Brad was offered at least double.



Julia Roberts's Lavazza coffee
Italians love Julia Roberts so much, they offered her $1.5 million dollars for a 45 second commercial in which she has NO lines. All she had to do was stand around and flash her gorgeous smile. She poses among the clouds as goddess Venus as an actor playing Renaissance painter Botticelli struggles to make her smile. At the end Lavazza coffee finally puts a smile on her face...that and the paycheck.



Cameron Diaz's Aeon Ad
Cameron Diaz speaks perfect English but for a few million she'll totally pretend she needs help in the English department. Cam got paid big money for this Aeon commercial, which is an English College in Japan. Celine Dion replaced Mariah Carey as the celebrity endorser for the school and Cameron Diaz replaced Dion. They all made a killing from the commercial.



Madonna's BMW M5 Commercial
Thanks to the power of the internet most of us saw this BMW commercial featuring Madonna and Clive Owen that was directed by Madge's then hubby Guy Ritchie. But the commercial was actually intended for Sweden. Madonna fans helped spread the video on the internet and within hours it was on just about every website. In case you missed this video from 2008, check it out below...

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