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Julia Roberts
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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, 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 Bes…
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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, 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). Roberts runs the production company Red Om Films, through which she has served as an executive producer for various projects she has starred in, as well as for the first four films of the American Girl franchise (2004–2008). She has served as the global ambassador for Lancôme since 2009. She was the world's highest-paid actress for most of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. People magazine has named her the most beautiful woman in the world a record five times. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julia Roberts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Julia Roberts's Filmography
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Eddie and the Beanstalk
as (voice)
Panic Carefully
Hook: Never, Never Ending
as Self (archive footage)
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
as Self (archive footage)
After the Hunt
as Alma Imhoff
No Friends
as Susie Moss
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
as Self (archive footage)
2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
No Poster
A Look Through His Lens
as Self
Leave the World Behind
as Amanda Sandford
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
as Self (archive footage)
Ticket to Paradise
as Georgia Cotton
Citizen Penn
as Self
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Self
Let's Dance
as Segment: "The Commuter"
Ben Is Back
as Holly Burns
Wonder
as Isabel
Smurfs: The Lost Village
as Smurfwillow (voice)
Money Monster
as Patty Fenn
Mother's Day
as Miranda Collins
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
as Self - Special Guest
Secret in Their Eyes
as Jess
The Normal Heart
as Dr. Emma Brookner
August: Osage County
as Barbara Weston
Mirror Mirror
as Evil Queen
Larry Crowne
as Mercedes Tainot
Love, Wedding, Marriage
as Ava's Therapist (voice)
His Way
as Self
Eat Pray Love
as Elizabeth 'Liz' Gilbert
Valentine's Day
as Kate Hazeltine
Duplicity
as Claire Stenwick
Fireflies in the Garden
as Lisa Waechter
Charlie Wilson's War
as Joanne Herring
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
as Self
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
as Self
Charlotte's Web
as Charlotte the Spider (voice)
The Ant Bully
as Hova (voice)
Who Needs Sleep?
as Self
Beslan: Three Days in September
as Narrator (voice)
Ocean's Twelve
as Tess Ocean
Closer
as Anna
Tell Them Who You Are
as Self
Grand Champion
as Jolene
Mona Lisa Smile
as Katherine Ann Watson
Law & Order: Corruption Empire
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
as Patricia Watson
Full Frontal
as Francesca / Catherine
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'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con
as Self
Ocean's Eleven
as Tess Ocean
America: A Tribute to Heroes
as Self
America's Sweethearts
as Kiki Harrison
The Mexican
as Samantha
Wild Horses of Mongolia with Julia Roberts
as Self
Light Keeps Me Company
as Self
Erin Brockovich
as Erin Brockovich
Runaway Bride
as Maggie Carpenter
Notting Hill
as Anna Scott
Stepmom
as Isabel Kelly
Conspiracy Theory
as Alice Sutton
Sesame Street: Elmo Says BOO!
as Self
My Best Friend's Wedding
as Julianne Potter
Everyone Says I Love You
as Von Sidell
Michael Collins
as Kitty Kiernan
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self (archive footage)
Mary Reilly
as Mary Reilly
Something to Talk About
as Grace King Bichon
Prêt-à-Porter
as Anne Eisenhower
I Love Trouble
as Sabrina Peterson
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo
as Self
A Century of Cinema
as Self
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
The Pelican Brief
as Darby Shaw
The Player
as Julia Roberts
Dying Young
as Hilary O'Neil
Hook
as Tinkerbell
Sleeping with the Enemy
as Laura Burney / Sara Walters
Flatliners
as Rachel Mannus
Pretty Woman
as Vivian Ward
Steel Magnolias
as Shelby Eatenton Latcherie
Blood Red
as Maria Collogero
Mystic Pizza
as Daisy
Baja Oklahoma
as Candy Hutchins
Satisfaction
as Daryle
Firehouse
as Babs (uncredited)
Ocean's Fourteen
as Tess Ocean
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Small Great Things
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Home Economics
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Kill Your Darlings
as Wendy Graves
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Untitled My Best Friend's Wedding Sequel
as Julianne Potter