Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the 1990's romantic pretty woman, which grossed $464 million worldwide. After receiving Academy Award nominations for in 1990 and Pretty Woman in 1991, she won the Academy award for female actress in 2001 for her performance in .
Her films, Oceans Eleven Twelve and have collectively brought box office receipts of over $2.4 billion, making her one of the most successful actors in terms of box office receipts.
Roberts had become one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, topping the Hollywood Reporters annual "power list" of top-earning female stars from 2005 to 2006. Her fee for 1990's Pretty Woman was $300,000; in 2003, she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa smile . As of 2010, Robert's net worth was estimated to be $140 million.
Roberts has been named one of people magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" eleven times, tied with Halle Berry. In 2001, Ladies Home journal ranked her as the 11th most powerful woman in America, ahead of then national security advisor and former first lady Laura Bush Roberts has a production company called Red Om Films, formerly Shoelace Productions, whose name is "Moder" (her husband's last name) spelled backwards, as well as a reference to the sacred om symbol in Hinduism, which Roberts practices. niece Emma Roberts, are also actors.