Lent her
celebrity name to help raise money for research to develop a cure for Rett Syndrome (a disease which is potentially fatal
and randomly strikes girls between the ages of 2 to 6 years).
On People
(USA) magazine's '50 Most Beautiful' list. [2000]
Has a half-sister,
Nancy Motes (b. 1976).
Dated Benjamin Bratt. [1998 - June 2001]
Turned down the
female lead in Shakespeare in
Love (1998).
Ranked
#66 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Was engaged to
Kiefer Sutherland for a short period.
Dated Matthew Perry.
Sister of Lisa Roberts Gillan and Eric Roberts.
Played
clarinet in the band. She attended Griffin Middle School and then Campbell High School.
Chosen
by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. [1990 & 91]
Has "movie within
a movie" scenes in The Player (1992), Notting Hill (1999), America's Sweethearts (2001) and Full Frontal (2002).
Was considered
for the role of Poison Ivy in Batman & Robin (1997).
She once tried
out for a part on "All My Children" (1970), but was turned down.
Lived with Liam Neeson.
Dated Daniel Day-Lewis.
Father
died of cancer when Julia was 10.
Ranked
#1 (in Hollywood Power) and #12 (in $$) on Forbes magazine 'Power 100'.
Tops the
list of the 200 "hottest" actors and actresses in the business in "James Ulmer's
Hollywood Hot List: The Complete Guide to Star Power - 2000" book which
is published in October 2000. [June 2000]
Turned down the
Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992).
Was engaged to
her Steel Magnolias (1989) co-star, Dylan McDermott.
Beat out Sandra Bullock for the role of Maggie Carpenter in Runaway Bride (1999).
Lies on
her back to have her make-up applied before going onto a film set -- she insists it gives her a relaxed look.
Frequently works
with Steven Soderbergh
Sister-in-law
of Tony Gillan
Sister-in-law
of Eliza Roberts
Aunt of Emma Roberts
After George Clooney and Brad Pitt found out that she was going to be joining them in Ocean's Eleven (2001), they sent her a card that read "We heard that you get 20 per film" and
in it was a $20 bill; the joke was that she reportedly gets $20 million per film.
Named one
of People Magazine's '25 Most Intriguing People of 2001'.
Named one
of E!'s "top 20 entertainers of 2001".
At the 2002 Peoples
Choice Awards she admitted to being a huge fan of "Days of Our Lives" (1965) and asked to be seated near the cast.
Splits
her down time between her ranch in Taos, New Mexico and a
home in New York City
Was named
one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
Was ranked
6th of the 100 Sexiest Women by FHM Taiwan (2001).
Married boyfriend,
cameraman Daniel Moder, at their ranch home in Taos, New Mexico in a midnight ceremony. Bruce Willis was the only celebrity that attended her wedding to Daniel Moder. Julia wore a simple pink cotton halter dress by pal Judith Beylerian. [4 July
2002]
She never acted
in a sequel until Ocean's Twelve (2004).
She has
Irish ancestry.
Moved from
rank # 18 in 2002 to rank #16 in 2003 on Premiere's Annual Hollywood Power List. Also in 2003 Julia ranked #10 in Star TV's
Top 10 Box Office Stars of the 1990s. In 2005, Premiere Magazine Stars in Our Constellation feature ranked Julia as the
#7 Greatest
Movie Star of All Time. in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
Ranked
#10 in Star TV's Top 10 Box Office Stars of the 1990s (2003)
Measurements:
34B-23-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
She is a huge
fan of actress Aishwarya Rai, whom she once commented on being "The most beautiful woman in the world, more
beautiful than any Hollywood actress."
Pakistani
film director Rauf Khalid wanted her to work in his film, and even invited her to Pakistan to discuss the project. But she refused because of prior commitments.
Observed art
history classes at New York University
in order to prepare for her role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003).
Her Oscar-winning
performance as Erin Brockovich-Ellis was ranked #31 on the American Film Institute's Heroes list of the 100 years of
The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
Announced that
she and husband Daniel Moder are expecting twins. Twins run in her family. She is due in early 2005. [June 2004].
Canadian singer-songwriter
Chantal Kreviazuk wrote the song "Julia" about her after seeing her at a Los Angeles restaurant.
Shares a birthday
with actor Joaquin Phoenix.
A 9000
year old female skeleton excavated in Bulgaria
in November 2004, was called by the archaeologists "Julia Roberts" because of the perfect teeth it had. They said that woman
would have had a perfect smile - just like the actress.
28 November
2004: Gave birth to twins in Los Angeles, a son named Phinnaeus
Walter and a daughter named Hazel Patricia. Twins run in Julia's family.
Has worked with
both Hector Elizondo and Richard Gere in two different movies, first in Pretty Woman (1990), and then again in Runaway Bride (1999).
Because Erin Brockovich-Ellis is right handed and Roberts is not, she had to learn to use her right hand for Erin Brockovich (2000).
Premiere
Magazine ranked her as the #7 Greatest Movie Star of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
Has played an
art historian twice, once in Everyone Says I
Love You (1996) and also in Mona Lisa Smile (2003).
First actress
to reach 20 million dollar mark salary (for Erin Brockovich (2000)
She and her Ocean's Eleven (2001) / Ocean's Twelve (2004) co-stars, George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Elliott Gould, all have guest-starred on the TV show "Friends" (1994), though not in the same episodes
Was named
one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2005 and appeared on the cover of the May 9, 2005 issue.
The Alchemist
is one of her favorite books.
Roberts'
production company "Red Om" films is her husband Danny's second name reversed
As a gesture
of thanks for giving her children music lessons, Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bills when the pregnant Mrs. Roberts' delivered her next child.
That child ended up being Julia.
Early in her
career, she auditioned unsuccessfully for two soap opera roles. She lost the part of "Linda Warner" to Melissa Leo on "All My Children" (1970); and the part of "Hayley Benson" to Stacy Edwards on "Santa Barbara" (1984).
Her performance
as Erin Brockovich-Ellis in Erin Brockovich (2000) is ranked #31 on the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains.
Was named
of the 100 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2006.
Her great-grandmother
Elin (Eleanor) was Swedish, born 1884 in Värmland, Sweden. She died in Minneapolis
1960, seven years before Julia was born.
Chosen "Sexiest
Bespectacled Star" by the readers of "In Touch" magazine ahead of Felicity Huffman and Alicia Keys (November 2006).
Her Broadway
debut in the play "Three Days of Rain" received terrible reviews for her performance and ran only 70 performances.
Longtime good
friends with actor Denzel Washington and actress Susan Sarandon.
Daughter-in-law
of Mike Moder.
Julia and her
husband, Daniel Moder, are expecting their third child, due in Summer, 2007 [December 29, 2006].
Cited as
America's Favorite Movie Star in a Harris
Poll conducted in 2001.
Ranked
#8 in Forbes the 20 Richest Women In Entertainment.
Drives
a Toyota Prius (April 2004).
She won an Oscar
for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), making her one of eleven actors to win the Award for playing a real person who
was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2007). The other ten actors and their respective performances
are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Benjamin Bradlee in All the President's
Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001/I) and most recently Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006).
An accomplished
equestrienne, Julia did her own riding in Runaway Bride (1999).
Turned down leading
role in Sleepless in Seattle (1993) which went to Meg Ryan.
Gave birth
to a son, Henry Daniel Moder, on June 18, 2007 in Los Angeles.
Henry weighed in at 8 1/2 lbs.
Daughter
Hazel Patricia, born 28 November 2004.
Son Phinnaeus
Walter (Finn), born 28 November 2004.
