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Trivia
Birth name: Julie Fiona Roberts
Date of birth: 28 October 1967
Place of birth: Smyrna, Georgia, USA
Nickname: Jules
Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Spouse: Daniel Moder (4 July 2002 - present) 2 children,
Lyle Lovett (25 June 1993 - 22 March 1995) (divorced).
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]
Changed her name from Julie to Julia when
she applied for a SAG card and there was another SAG member actress
named Julie Roberts.
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".
Highest paid actress in film history.
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 home in New Mexico in a midnight ceremony. [4 July 2002]
She never acted in a sequel until Ocean's
Twelve (2004).
She has Irish ancestry.
Ranked #16 in Premiere's 2003 annual
Hollywood Power List. Had ranked #18 in 2002.
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.
Bruce
Willis was the only celebrity that attended her wedding to Daniel
Moder.
In the film America's Sweethearts (2001),
her charcter is nicknamed "Kiki". This is the nickname of her
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) co-star Kirsten Dunst.
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.
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).
She was voted the 7th Greatest Movie Star of
all time by Premiere Magazine.
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.
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