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  1. By the time Julia Roberts was 23, she had won two academy award nominations, she had also become the world’s most popular female actress.
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  2. Since then, Roberts has appeared in fourteen films. Most recently, “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “The Conspiracy Theory.”
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  3. She didn’t plan to become an actress. She wanted to be six feet tall. She wanted to be a veterinarian. She wanted to be happy and make others happy.
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  4. Although Julia Roberts has had much professional success. Her personal life has been troubled with several failed relationships.
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  5. Julia Roberts lives in Manhattan, not far from the apartment she once shared with her sister in Greenwich Village.
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  6. She came to New York when she was seventeen. Because her older sister lived there and she was influenced by her sister.
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  7. Roberts was raised in Georgia. Her parents ran a theater school there. Her sister and brother are also actors. The family was always short of money.
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  8. When Julia was four years old, her parents divorced. After eighteen years of marriage.
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  9. Julia and her sister lived with their mother. Their brother stayed with their father. Who died of cancer five years later.
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  10. In high school, Julia found classwork boring, she didn’t know how to be a good student.
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  11. After she graduated from high school, Julia worked in a shoe store while auditioning for acting jobs. Though didn’t get hired for a year.
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  12. In 1990, “Pretty Woman” became a smash hit her natural gift for this type of comedy brought her a nomination for Best Actress.
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  13. Julia Roberts was engaged to Keifer Sutherland in 1991. Three days before the wedding, she changed her mind and canceled everything.
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  14. The singer-actor Lyle Lovett is ten years older than Julia she married him in 1993 but split up after less than two years.
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  15. “Stepmom” is Julia Robert’s new movie. It is a family drama. It co-stars Susan Sarandon. Ed Harris is also a co-star.
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  16. Currently, Julia is dating Benjamin Bratt. Who plays a detective on the TV series, “Law and Order.”
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  17. Roberts says that she enjoys getting older and is content with her life experiences.
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