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Julia Roberts

Also known as Julia Fiona Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts 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 and relatable characters in romantic comedies and blockbusters, before expanding into dramas, thrillers, and independent films.

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Julia Fiona Roberts is an American film actor, television actor, film producer, and model. Born in 1967, she began her work period in 1987. She is educated at Georgia State University and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Her siblings are Eric Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan. She is left-handed and speaks English.

Roberts has received the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Donostia Award, and Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. She has been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, as well as Golden Globe and Golden Raspberry Awards. She is recognized in the Academy Award Best Actress collection. Her spouses are Lyle Lovett and Daniel Moder. Her religious views include Hinduism, Buddhism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Catholicism.

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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…

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Panic Carefully2027
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20 — Self (archive footage)2026
Hook: Never, Never Ending — Self (archive footage)2026
After the Hunt — Alma Imhoff2025
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy — Self (archive footage)2025
Leonard and Hungry Paul — Narrator (voice)2025
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self2025
2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self2024
Tom Hanks: The Nomad — Self (archive footage)2023
Leave the World Behind — Amanda Sandford2023

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Instance of: human
Given name: Fiona
Family name: Roberts
Gender: female
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Smyrna
Spouse: Daniel Moder
Sibling: Lisa Roberts Gillan
Occupation: actor
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Religion: Catholicism
Award: Honorary César
Image: Julia Roberts 2025 (cropped).jpg
Height: 175

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Commons category: Julia Roberts
date of birth: 1967-10-28
nominated for: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
birth name: Julia Fiona Roberts
filmography: Julia Roberts filmography
unmarried partner: Kiefer Sutherland
Commons gallery: Julia Roberts
topic's main category: Category:Julia Roberts
handedness: left-handedness
name in native language: Julia Fiona Roberts
start of work period: 1987-00-00
hashtag: JuliaRoberts
writing language: English language
related category: Category:Films produced by Julia Roberts
medical condition: stuttering

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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 and 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).

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