PROFILE
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BIRTH NAME:Julie Fiona Roberts
BIRTHDATE:October 28, 1967
ZODIAC SIGN:Scorpio (Sun)
BIRTHPLACE:Atlanta, Georgia
(GREW UP IN SMYRNA)
EDUCATION:High School (Campbell HS)
OCCUPATIONS:Actor, Model, Producer
QUOTE:
"I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad."
FAMILY:
Father: Walter Roberts (Rob Roberts), vacuum-cleaner salesman, actor, writer
Mother: Betty Lou Roberts (née Motes), real-estate agent, church secretary, actress
Brother: Eric Roberts, actor - born April 18, 1956
Sister: Lisa Roberts (Lisa Roberts Gillan), actress - born 1965
Half-sister: Nancy Motes - born 1976
BIOGRAPHY
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Father...............................Walter (Vacuum salesman)
Mother............................. Betty (Secretary)
Siblings.............................Eric (Actor), Lisa (Actress)
Born..................................Julie Fiona Roberts
10/28/67 in Smyrna, Georgia
Hair/Eyes..........................Chatain clair/Brown
Marital Status....................Married to Lyle Lovett 6/25/93 - Divorced 3/22/95
Statistics...........................5'9''
Background.......................Julia's parents had a Actors and Writers Workshop in their Atlanta home
First Major role................. 'Maria Collogero' in Blood Red (1988)
Awards.............................Blockbuster Entertainment Award 1998 Favorite Actress - Comedy
for My Best Friends Wedding
Blockbuster Entertainment Award 1998 Favorite Actress - Suspense
for Conspiracy Theory
People's Choice Award 1998 Favorite Motion Picture Actress
Sho West Special Award 1998 International Star of the Year
People's Choice Award 1994 Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture Actress
People's Choice Award 1992 Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture Actress
People's Choice Award 1992 Favorite Comedy Motion Picture Actress
Golden Globe 1991 Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture -
Comedy/Musical for Pretty Woman
People's Choice Award 1991 Favorite Motion Picture Actress
Sho West Award 1991 Female Star of the Year
Golden Globe 1990 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting
Role in a Motion Picture for Steel Magnolias
Fan Mail...........................C/O International Creative Management
8942 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
BIOGRAPHY
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A born Southerner, Roberts grew up hanging around the theater people who attended her parents' Actors and Writers Workshop in their Atlanta home. Both she and her brother Eric Roberts were interested in acting and it was he who made it to movies first. Roberts moved to New York after high school, but did not catch a break right away even though she did manage to score an agent.
She made her film debut playing a supporting role opposite her brother in Blood Red, which though completed in 1986 was not released until 1989. She appeared in a couple of made-for-TV movies and one low-budget feature, Firehouse (1987) before getting her first real break in the made-for-cable drama Satisfaction (1988). This led to a large supporting role in Mystic Pizza (1989). Her portrayal of a strong-headed pizza parlor co-owner who seduces a wealthy preppie earned Roberts acclaim and led to her playing the doomed Shelby opposite Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine and Dolly Parton in the melodramatic comedy Steel Magnolias (1989). Her portrayal earned Roberts an Oscar nomination and made her a star.
For her next film, Roberts attempted to branch off into more serious waters playing a medical student who starts tinkering with life-after-death experiences with four other medical students in the uneven Flatliners (1990). During production, Roberts became involved with co-star Kiefer Sutherland. Later in 1990, she had her greatest success to date starring opposite Richard Gere in Garry Marshall's sentimental romantic- comedy Pretty Woman (1990). The film was a runaway international hit and Roberts became a household name. But despite her sudden rise to superstardom, her career faltered as her subsequent films, particularly Dying Young (1991), have been of uneven quality. Matters weren't helped when her break-up with Sutherland went public. After shooting her scenes as Tinker Bell in Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991), Roberts took some time off to repair her personal life, though she did appear briefly in Robert Altman's The Player (1992).
In 1993, she married off-beat country singer Lyle Lovett (they amicably divorced two years later) and then made a successful come back in The Pelican Brief (1993). Her career picked up the following year with I Love Trouble and Pret-a-Porter, neither of which did much to further her career. The much-heralded Mary Reilly (1996) was a box-office fizzle, but Roberts career began picking up again with Michael Collins and Conspiracy Theory (both 1996). In 1997, Roberts made a triumphant return to romantic comedy in the darkly funny My Best Friend's Wedding and continued with the romantics in Notting Hill and Runaway Bride. Look forward to her rising to the top with her new movies in 2000.
