Julia Roberts Profile, Age, Height, Weight, Family, Husband, Affairs, Biography & More

Julia Roberts is an American actress and producer. She emerged as a leading actress in Hollywood after making the front page of the romantic film Pretty Woman (1990), which grossed $ 464 million worldwide. She has won three Golden Globe Awards, out of eight nominations, and four Oscars for her performance, winning the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Erin Brockovich (2000).

Roberts was born on October 28, 1967 in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts. She is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German and Swedish descent. Her older brother Eric Roberts, whom she had been separated for years until 2004, her older sister Lisa Roberts Gillan and her niece Emma Roberts, are also actors. She also had a younger half-sister named Nancy Motes.

Roberts lived in Smyrna, Georgia, where she attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary Schools, Griffin Middle School, and Campbell High. In 1972, his mother married Michael Motes, who was violent and often unemployed. Roberts scorned him. The couple had Nancy, who died on February 9, 2014 at the age of 37, of an apparent drug overdose. The marriage ended in 1983, when Betty Lou divorced Motes for cruelty; she had declared that marrying her was the biggest mistake of her life. Roberts’ own father died of cancer when she was ten years old.

Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian as a child. She also played clarinet in her school group. After graduating from Smyrna’s Campbell High School, she studied at Georgia State University but did not graduate.

Roberts had romantic relationships with Jason Patric, Liam Neeson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott and Matthew Perry. She was briefly engaged to Sutherland; they separated three days before their planned wedding on June 11, 1991. On June 25, 1993, she married country singer Lyle Lovett; the wedding took place at the St. James Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana. They separated in March 1995 and then divorced. From 1998 to 2001, Roberts dated actor Benjamin Bratt.

Roberts and her husband, cameraman Daniel Moder, met on the set for The Mexican in 2000 while she was still dating Bratt. At the time, Moder was married to Vera Steimberg. He filed for divorce a little over a year later and, after finalizing it, was married on July 4, 2002 to Roberts at his ranch in Taos, New Mexico. Together, they have three children: twins, a daughter and a son. , born in November 2004, and another son born in June 2007