Julia Roberts: Pretty Woman On Magazine Covers

Julia Roberts was born in 1967 as Julia Ruberto in Atlanta, GA. After graduating from high school Roberts moved to New York City to live with her sister Lisa and began pursuing her acting career. At this time she changed her name to Julia Roberts.

The actress made her film debut alongside her brother Eric Roberts in 1987’s Blood Red, and the flop Satisfaction. The following year she garnered attention from moviegoers and critics, including a nod by People magazine, which names her one of the most-promising newcomers of 1988, with her role as a head-strong waitress in the indie film Mystic Pizza; she also landed parts on popular TV shows like Miami Vice and Sesame Street.

In 1989 at age 22 Roberts gave one of the best performances of her career in the hit drama Steel Magnolias, in which she played a young wife struggling with diabetes and motherhood. The fantastic performance earned Roberts a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Roberts followed up her Steel Magnolias success with an even bigger box office success—Pretty Woman. The romantic comedy’s modern-day Cinderella plot with a twist won audiences over and it quickly became a mega-hit, earning $463 million at the box office. With Pretty Woman, Roberts was a bona fide movie star on the Hollywood A-list. Again she earned an Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress.

Amidst this early major career success, Roberts made many celebrity magazine headlines for her turbulent personal life, in which she dated a string of actors including Liam Neeson, Dylan McDermott, Keifer Sutherland, whom she was engaged. Roberts made every celebrity magazine when she backed out of her nuptials to Sutherland and instead flew to Dublin with actor Jason Patric, whom she dated briefly.

Roberts following movies included modest successes like Flatliners, Dying Young, Sleeping with the Enemy and Hook. At this time Roberts took a two-year hiatus from movies prompting People magazine to ask on one of its 1993 covers, “Where is Julia Roberts?”

A few months later Roberts surprised everyone by marrying country singer Lyle Lovett three weeks after meeting each other. Less than two years later, in 1995, the couple separated, and subsequently divorced.

By 1996 Roberts was back on top at the box office with the hit My Best Friend’s Wedding, which she followed up with another string of modest hits including Stepmom, Notting Hill and The Mexican. During this time Roberts was happily dating actor Benjamin Bratt.

Finally in 2001, Roberts received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the title character in Erin Brockovich. After the win, Roberts became the first woman to break into the $20-million-per-film club, which she received for her role in Mona Lisa Smile; with this paycheck Roberts became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood at that time.

In 2002 Roberts married Danny Moder, a cameraman she met while filming The Mexican. The pair wed secretly at Roberts’ New Mexico ranch but wedding pictures later appeared in People magazine. The couple became parents to twins Finn and Hazel in 2004 and Henry in 2007. Upon starting a family Roberts scaled back her roles; since 2007 she has appeared in one movie a year including Charlie Wilson’s War, Fireflies in the Garden, Duplicity and the upcoming Friday Night Knitting Club.

Since her breakthrough success Roberts has been a favorite subject among top-selling magazines. She was the first actress to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine and the first woman to appear on the cover of GQ. People magazine has named her one of its “50 Most Beautiful People” eleven times and has appeared on the celebrity magazine’s cover a total of 29 times. In 2001 Ladies Home Journal magazine ranked her as the 11th most powerful woman in America. She has also appeared on the covers of Allure, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Redbook and Good Housekeeping to name a few.

By: Jessica Vandelay

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