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Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts

Birthday: 1967-10-28 | Place of Birth: Smyrna, Georgia, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
4'33

as    (Archive footage)

2025
After the Hunt

as    Alma Imhoff

2025
Sin querer... queriendo

as    Mujer en pantalla

2025
Leonard and Hungry Paul

as    Narrator (voice)

2023
Leave the World Behind

as    Amanda Sandford

2023
Tom Hanks: The Nomad

as    Self (archive footage)

2022
Ticket to Paradise

as    Georgia Cotton

2022
Gaslit

as    Martha Mitchell

2020
Citizen Penn

as    Herself

2018
Ben Is Back

as    Holly Burns

2018
Let's Dance

as    Segment: "The Commuter"

2017
Wonder

as    Isabel

2017
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

as    Self (archive footage, uncredited)

2017
Smurfs: The Lost Village

as    Smurfwillow (voice)

2016
Mother's Day

as    Miranda Collins

2016
Money Monster

as    Patty Fenn

2015
Secret in Their Eyes

as    Jess

2014
The Normal Heart

as    Dr. Emma Brookner

2013
August: Osage County

as    Barbara Weston

2012
Mirror Mirror

as    Evil Queen

2011
Larry Crowne

as    Mercedes Tainot

2010
Valentine's Day

as    Captain Kate Hazeltine

2010
Eat Pray Love

as    Elizabeth 'Liz' Gilbert

2009
Duplicity

as    Claire Stenwick

2008
Fireflies in the Garden

as    Lisa Waechter

2007
Charlie Wilson's War

as    Joanne Herring