A real Hollywood queen! Julia Roberts established herself as a number one actress in 1990’s Fairly Lady and has since continued to be considered one of Hollywood’s most outstanding stars.
The Marvel actress was born in a suburb outdoors of Atlanta, Georgia the place her mother and father ran a kids’s appearing college. Whereas Roberts initially attended Georgia State College following highschool, she in the end determined to drop out early to pursue an appearing profession in New York Metropolis.
Following her position in 1989’s Metal Magnolias, for which she obtained her first Oscar nomination for Greatest Supporting Actress, the Ben Is Again star scored her first starring position in 1990’s Fairly Lady reverse Richard Gere. The romantic comedy was an immediate hit, resulting in her turning into a world sensation.
“They are saying I can open motion pictures, and that’s good in that it places into folks’s minds that ladies can do it,” Roberts instructed The Guardian in a 2009 interview. “It’s not simply Kevin Costner, not simply Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not simply guys.”
After her rise to fame in Fairly Lady, Roberts continued her success all through the next many years starring in fan-favorite movies equivalent to 1999’s Notting Hill, 2000’s Erin Brockovich, 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven, 2013’s August: Osage County and lots of extra.
All through her profession, she has obtained quite a few accolades together with profitable Greatest Actress for her position in Erin Brockovich, three Golden Globe Awards for Erin Brockovich, Fairly Lady and Metal Magnolias and three Emmy nominations.
Though the Eat Pray Love star has had many spectacular accomplishments, Roberts has shared that being an actor is “not [her] solely dream come true.”
“The life I’ve constructed with my husband,” Roberts mentioned in an interview on CBS Sunday Morning in October 2022 when requested about about her different aspirations. “The life we’ve constructed with our youngsters. And that’s one of the best stuff … The purpose is to come back house on the finish of the day triumphantly to them.”
Roberts married cinematographer Danny Moder in 2002 and the twosome share three youngsters collectively – twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, born in 2004, and son Henry, born in 2007.
“Once I’m not working, [being a homemaker] is my full-time job,” the Ticket to Paradise star shared. “It isn’t rainbows and kittens day-after-day, however it does carry me a number of pleasure.”
Earlier than her marriage to Moder, Roberts was married to Lyle Lovett from 1993 to 1996. She has additionally been romantically linked to high-profile actors together with Kiefer Sutherland, Matthew Perry, Daniel Day-Lewis and Liam Neeson.
Nonetheless, the Mystic Pizza actress has implied that none of her previous romances shook her fairly like assembly Moder.
“I feel that first type of actual … ‘seismic shift’ was assembly Danny,” she mentioned in a 2018 interview on “Goop” podcast. “Getting married to Danny. That was the primary, like, my life won’t ever be the identical in essentially the most unbelievable, indescribable approach.”
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