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Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts - born 28 Oct 1967, in Smyrna Georgia - was originally going to be a vet, and then a journo, but had to settle for being the less-talented sister of Eric Roberts. Hang on, this isn’t a parallel universe, this is the one where Mystic Pizza did happen (after an episode of Miami Vice), and launched La Roberts on the path to superstardom.

Two years later came the double-whammy of psychological thriller Flatliners and modern-day fairy-tale Pretty Woman: the latter confirming her status opposite silver-fox, sex-symbol snorter Richard Gere; the former almost resulting in her being Mrs Kiefer Sutherland. Until 11th hour cold feet. And this was years before Runaway Bride.

Despite a few duds, Julia remains A-list queen because: a. she’s rom-com gold, b. she makes business decisions like turning down Basic Instinct and Shakespeare In Love, but accepting (and netting an Oscar for) Erin Brockovich, and c. that 10,000 kilowatt smile. In fact, when a bunch of Bulgarian archaeologists unearthed a 9,000 year old skeleton in 2004, they named her ‘Julia Roberts’ because she had such a perfect set of teeth.

Wise words: "I'm too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn't call myself a woman. I'd say I'm somewhere between a chick and a broad."


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Julia Roberts - news / articles


  • Julia Roberts to re-team with Clive Owen - 1 November 2007
    Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts is set to co-star once again with Clive Owen in a new project entitled Duplicity, Variety reported this week.-Previously, the pair featured as a married couple in Closer, a story of love and infidelity also starring Jude Law and Nata


  • Julia Roberts takes role of murdered conservationist - 21 May 2007
    Julia Roberts, last heard as the voice of the spider in the Dakota Fanning film Charlotte's Web, is set to play murdered British conservationist Joan Root in a film about her life.-To make the biopic, Roberts will again team up with Working Title Films, which produced


  • Julia Roberts makes a return - 13 December 2006
    Not much has been seen of Julia Roberts of late, after she semi-retired from acting to give birth to twins and star in a Broadway play.-But the actress, who was previously the highest-earning female in Hollywood, has announced she is to return, with a number of project

Julia Roberts - what members say


  • Conspiracy Theory
  • Conspiracy Theory review by livingdeadpingu from Berkshire
    Rated - 4 stars Gibson at his best 3 September 2004
    ...nd collected foil to gibson's twitching loon. The only downpoint I'd say is Julia Roberts, she, as always, doesn't seem to have more than one facial expression, which is...  
  • The Pelican Brief
  • The Pelican Brief review by Natalie from London
    Rated - 3 stars ok for a rainy day 15 September 2003
    ...rigue - however, this is not one of the better adaptations I?ve seen. Although Julia Roberts and Denzil Washington provide starpower and even a little surprising chemistry,...  
  • My Best Friend's Wedding
  • My Best Friend's Wedding review by A customer from Bracknell Berkshire
    Rated - 5 stars Film fan from Bracknell 27 January 2007
    ...Julia Roberts - what a star! She had my husband and I in hysterics. After watching the 'making of' section everything was explained, she is a very funny lady, even off set. ...  

Julia Roberts - filmography


  • Charlie Wilson's War - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Amy Adams,  Tom Hanks,  Julia Roberts
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    The first time the audience sees Texas congressman Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) in the early 1980s, he seems far from a model politician. Surrounded by strippers, a Playboy Playmate, and cocaine, the naked congressman lies in a hot tub at a party. Despite the distractions, the TV news catches Charlie'...
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  • Closer on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Jude Law,  Natalie Portman
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: 15
    Are humans meant to mate for life - What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them - Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time - How well does anyone really know the one that they love. Directed by Mike ...
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  • Mona Lisa Smile on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Kirsten Dunst,  Julia Stiles
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: 12
    Mike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. Julia Roberts leads an impressive cast of top young actresses including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. Roberts ...
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  • Grand Champion on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Bruce Willis,  Joey Lauren Adams
    Director: Barry Tubb
    Certificate: PG
    With the help of his family and friends, 12-year-old Buddy turns his beloved calf Hokey Pokey into a prize winning champion. After winning the GRAND CHAMPION title, Hokey is auctioned off for a hefty sum that will pay for family necessities. But when Buddy realizes that his former pet is going to ...
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  • The Mexican on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Julia Roberts,  James Gandolfini
    Director: Gore Verbinski
    Certificate: 15
    Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts have star power to burn in Gore Verbinski's offbeat THE MEXICAN, about the search for a cursed legendary gun. Pitt stars as Jerry Welbach, a small-time loser who is given no choice but to run an errand for a powerful boss (Bob Balaban) who will have him killed if he ...
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  • America's Sweethearts on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Catherine Zeta Jones,  Billy Crystal
    Director: Joe Roth
    Certificate: 12
    Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy. But a messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center and Gwen into the arms of her current ...
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  • Erin Brockovich on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Aaron Eckhart,  Albert Finney
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: 15
    Julia Roberts reaffirms her superstar status with ERIN BROCKOVICH, an inspirational drama that is based on a true story. Roberts plays Erin Brockovich, a twice-divorced mother of three who is struggling to remain afloat. After she is involved in a car accident, she loses what should have been a ...
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  • Runaway Bride on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Richard Gere,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: PG
    A down-and-out big-city reporter (Richard Gere), in a last-ditch effort to save his tarnished career, chases a scoop on a mercurial, small-town girl (Julia Roberts) known as the Runaway Bride, due to her habit of leaving her grooms-to-be on the alter. Director Marshall once again directs the stars ...
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  • Notting Hill on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Hugh Grant,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: 15
    Two features 'About A Boy' Will Freeman, a shallow thirty-something bachelor, lives a carefree life courtesy of his deceased father's fortune. Will is terrified of commitment and so decides that single mothers will make the easiest romantic targets... His world is turned around when he meets Marcus,...
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  • Stepmom on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Susan Sarandon,  Ed Harris
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: 12
    Jackie (Susan Sarandon) and Luke (Ed Harris) are divorcing after years of marriage and two children, Anna and Ben. Their new stepmother, Isabel (Julia Roberts), wants to be involved in the children's life, but is unwilling to sacrifice anything for her work. Jackie considers this to be selfish and ...
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  • My Best Friend's Wedding on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Dermot Mulroney,  Cameron Diaz
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: 12
    A 28-year-old woman, who years earlier made a pact with her closest male friend that if neither were married in ten years time they would marry one another, now faces the fact that the man is about to marry someone else. He asks her to be his best man and she agrees, planning to go to the ceremony ...
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  • Conspiracy Theory on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Mel Gibson,  Patrick Stewart
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: 15
    A crackpot Big Apple cabbie finds himself in a heap of trouble after his self-published conspiracy 'zine elicits the interest of some shady government heavies--and leads to the unexplained murders of all five subscribers. As the J. Edgars close in, he takes to the lam with the one person who may be ...
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  • Everyone Says I Love You on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Julia Roberts,  Goldie Hawn
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: 12
    A melange of sentimental musical vignettes about the various members of a madcap Manhattan family, who attempt by turns to find romance. Allen returns to his improvisational comic vein, reportedly springing the musical numbers on his nonmusical stars--only Barrymore was dubbed--shortly before ...
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  • Michael Collins on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Aidan Quinn,  Stephen Rea,  Alan Rickman
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: 15
    Starting with Ireland's bloody Easter Rebellion of 1916 and ending with his untimely death, this brilliantly photographed epic from director Neil Jordan tells the charged story of Michael "Mickey" Collins. An IRA founder whose innovative guerrilla tactics succeeded in bringing freedom from British ...
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  • Mary Reilly on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  John Malkovich,  George Cole
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: 15
    In this moody and melodramatic revision of the classic horror tale, based on the novel by Valerie Martin, the Jekyll and Hyde saga is told from the point of view of the doctor's long-time maid, Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts). Despite Mary's close collaboration with the staid Dr. Jekyll (John Malkovich)...
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  • Pret A Porter on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Tim Robbins,  Kim Basinger
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: 15
    Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder ...
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  • I Love Trouble on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Julia Roberts,  Robert Loggia
    Director: Charles Shyer
    Certificate: PG
    A romantic-comedy-thriller set amidst Chicago's newspaper trade, this star vehicle pits an established news writer against a beautiful cub reporter from a rival paper. When a story each is after turns dangerous, they put aside their differences to get to the bottom of a lethal miasma of corporate ...
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