Julia Roberts

Although her parents was also actors but she is the exclusive. Famous actress producer. Julia Roberts was Born on October 28 1967 in Smyrna Georgia. The youngest of three children she grew up surrounded by creative individuals. Her parents were both actors who ran a workshop for aspiring writers and performers until their divorce in 1971. Initially Roberts wanted to become a veterinarian but she abandoned this dream when she realized that she had an inability to deal with science on a brainiac kind of level.After graduating high school in 1985 Roberts moved to New York City to live with her sister Lisa. Both Lisa and brother Eric were pursuing careers as actors.In New York Roberts also joined the family business landing a guest appearance on the television series Crime Story. She really caught the public s eye however as the wild but vulnerable Daisy in Mystic Pizza 1988. The next year she cemented her status as a rising star in Steel Magnolias 1989 appearing alongside such acting legends as Shirley MacLaine and Sally Field. Roberts earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her work on the film. She was also in the spotlight for her relationships with actors Liam Neeson and Dylan McDermott.

That was a hijack you can say. But soon after that Roberts  career really took off. She played a hooker who falls in love with a client played by Richard Gere in the box office hit Pretty Woman 1990. For her convincing performance Roberts received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She followed up the role with a few career missteps i. Dying Young 1991 received mixed reviews as did Hook 1991 which revisited the story of Peter Pan. Both films also proved to be disappointments at the box office. Around this time Roberts called off her wedding to actor Kiefer Sutherland her co star in 1990 s Flatliners just days before the ceremony was set to occur.

After taking a break from film Roberts landed another big hit with the thriller The Pelican Brief 1993 with Denzel Washington. She then surprised fans with a quickie marriage to country singer songwriter Lyle Lovett that same year. The union proved to be short lived however with the pair divorcing after only 21 months of marriage.

Mary Reilly 1996 starred Roberts in a decidedly unglamorous role playing a maid who works for Dr. Jekyll. Audiences were less than enthusiastic about the film. Returning to her image as America s sweetheart Roberts dominated the box office with such romantic comedies as My Best Friend s Wedding 1997 with Dermot Mulroney and Notting Hill 1999 with Hugh Grant. Her star appeal even helped draw audiences to the critically panned Runaway Bride in which Roberts again joined up with Pretty Woman co star Richard Gere.

In 2000 she made a dramatic breakthrough with her powerful performance in Erin Brockovich. In the film she played the title character a gutsy struggling single mom. Based on a true story Brockovich helped lead the fight against a California power company that allegedly poisoned a small town s water supply. Roberts won several awards for the project including her first Academy Award. Her $20 million salary for the film was also a Hollywood milestone making her first woman to receive such a hefty sum.

The following year Roberts starred in the independent film The Mexican with Brad Pitt and James Gandolfini. During the making of the movie she met cameraman Danny Moder. He was married at the time and Roberts was dating actor Benjamin Bratt. The two became good friends which later evolved into a relationship after they had split from their respective partners.

After Erin Brockovich Roberts took on some light hearted roles appearing with George Clooney in Ocean s Eleven 2001 and Ocean s Twelve 2004 along with Brad Pitt Matt Damon and Andy Garcia. She was the only woman in the cast in the first installment which she said had its ups and downs. Clooney is well known for his love of practical jokes on set and Roberts did not escape unscathed. She found herself once trapped in her hotel room after her co stars put shaving cream on her door and blocked it with two heavy potted plants.

On July 4 2002 Roberts married Moder at her ranch in Taos New Mexico. The couple welcomed twins Phinnaeus Walter and Hazel Patricia in November 2004. Their third child son Henry Daniel was born in June 2007.

Putting her family first Roberts became more selective about her work. She took on an emotionally challenging part in Closer 2004 with Clive Owen Natalie Portman and Jude Law. Directed by Mike Nichols the film explored the complexities surrounding two relationships marked by deceit and infidelity. Roberts then made her Broadway debut in Three Days of Rain in 2006 with Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd. While it received mixed reviews the drama became a huge success financially earning more than $12 million for a 12 week run.

Roberts then starred in the film Charlie Wilson s War 2007 with Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Roberts received a Globe Globe nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for her portrayal of an anticommunist Texas socialite. Her character encourages Congressman Charlie Wilson to support freedom fighters in Afghanistan in their conflict against the Soviet troops in their country.

Her next project 2008 s Fireflies in the Garden boasted an all star cast which included Willem Dafoe Emily Watson and Ryan Reynolds. The family drama gave Roberts a chance to work with her husband Danny who served as the director of photography on the film. Fireflies in the Garden was shown during the Berlin Film Festival and released abroad but it was not given a theatrical run in the United States.

Returning to American cinemas in 2009 with Duplicity Roberts reunited with Closer co star Clive Owen. She explained her two year absence from the American movie scene to People magazine saying I don t have the bug to work. I have the bug to make good movies and those don t come along very often. While the film was not a huge hit critics heralded her return. It is an undeniable thrill to see her again wrote Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly.

In addition to acting Roberts has worked behind the scenes. She served as an executive producer for the 2003 short lived television series Queens Supreme and for television adaptations of the American Girl stories. The most recent television movie was 2008 s Kit Kittredge An American Girl starring Abigail Breslin as the title character.

Roberts continues to find compelling roles to play. In 2010 she appeared in the ensemble comedy Valentine s Day. Roberts also stars in the upcoming drama Eat Pray Love a film adaptation of the best selling book by Elizabeth Gilbert.

With a number of other projects in development Roberts will continue to juggle her life as a self described domestic goddess with her career as one of the world s most popular actresses. Acting fulfills me in a creative way and it gives me something to talk about at dinner she told Allure magazine. Was right when was saying that, no matter what is it, just creativity can’t remain below the arms.