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Julia Roberts, in full Julia Fiona Roberts, (born October 28, 1967, Smyrna, Georgia, U.S.), American actress whose deft performances in varied roles helped make her one of the highest-paid and most-influential actresses in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Although Roberts’s parents briefly ran an actors’ workshop when she was a child, she had no acting experience or formal training when she moved to New York City after high school to pursue a career in show business.

She signed with a modeling agency upon her arrival but failed to land any jobs.

Her first film role turned up after she was recommended by her older brother, actor Eric Roberts, for a bit part as his on-screen sister in Blood Red (1989), a drama set in the late 1800s; although the film was completed in 1986, its release was delayed for several years. She next made several television appearances before securing her first leading part, in Mystic Pizza (1988).

Roberts’s career took off after she was cast in Steel Magnolias (1989), which featured such veteran actresses as Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, and Sally Field.

Roberts received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress for her heartrending portrayal of Field’s diabetic daughter.

In 1990 she starred in Pretty Woman, an upbeat comedy about a romance between a prostitute and a business tycoon, played by Richard Gere.

A huge hit, it made Roberts a household name and earned her a second Academy Award nomination.

In 2006 Roberts supplied the voice for the spider Charlotte in the animated film adaptation of E.B. White’s beloved children’s book Charlotte’s Web.

That year she made her Broadway debut in Three Days of Rain, earning mixed reviews. Roberts next appeared with Tom Hanks in Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), a film based on true events surrounding the U.S. government’s involvement in the Afghan resistance to the Soviets in the 1980s.

Her subsequent movies included the family drama Fireflies in the Garden (2008); Duplicity (2009), in which she played a corporate spy; and the romantic comedy Valentine’s Day (2010).

Throughout her career, Roberts lent her support to numerous charitable organizations, including UNICEF and the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

In order to raise awareness for threatened species of wildlife, she narrated the documentary In the Wild:

Orangutans with Julia Roberts (1998), and for Wild Horses of Mongolia (2000) she lived with Mongolian nomads for several weeks; both programs appeared on American television.

In the feature film Secret in Their Eyes (2015), Roberts portrayed an FBI agent whose daughter is raped and murdered. She then joined the cast of the ensemble comedy Mother’s Day (2016) as a hard-driving businesswoman.

In Jodie Foster’s Wall Street thriller Money Monster (2016), her character is the producer of a financial advice show who is taken hostage along with the host (Clooney) and their crew.

In 2017 Roberts lent her voice to the animated film Smurfs: The Lost Village and played the mother of a child with a rare facial condition in Wonder.

She then starred as a therapist working at a facility to help veterans adjust to civilian life in Homecoming (2018– ), her first television series, and as a mother whose son skips his rehabilitation program to return home for Christmas in Ben Is Back (2018).

Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967)[1] is an American actress and producer. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), which grossed $464 million worldwide.

Julia Roberts made her breakthrough the following year by starring in the coming-of-age film Mystic Pizza

Roberts' next role was opposite Richard Gere in the highly successful romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990),[7][8] for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy).

In 1991, Julia Roberts appeared in the psychological thriller Sleeping with the Enemy, and played Tinker Bell in the Steven Spielberg-directed fantasy adventure Hook

Two years later, Roberts starred in the legal thriller The Pelican Brief, an adaptation of the John Grisham novel of the same name.

In 2000, Roberts became the first actress to earn $20 million for playing the eponymous environmental activist in the Steven Soderbergh-directed biographical film Erin Brockovich.