- 2005
Julia's Dream Job
After appearing as a cheating wife in Mike Nichols' Closer with Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman, Roberts takes on her first acting gig since having twins: 12 days filming the Dave Matthews Band "Dreamgirl" music video. Why her? "I just needed the work," she jokes to PEOPLE. Adds Matthews, Roberts' longtime pal: "We thought we'd politely give her a hand up."
- 2006
Broadway Debut
New mom Roberts stars for three months in a Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain, making a reported $35,000 a week. "I'm just thrilled to my bones," she tells Playbill. However, critics aren't as excited. The New York Times finds Roberts "stiff with self-consciousness" but "so deeply, disturbingly beautiful that you don't want to let her out of your sight."
Julia Finds Her Voice & A Baby
Roberts makes a foray into the world of computer-animated children's films, with The Ant Bully and as the title character in Charlotte's Web. Two weeks after the film opens, her rep confirms that the actress is expecting. She gives birth to a boy named Henry Daniel Moder in June 2007.
- 2007
No More Babies for Julia
To promote her new film Charlie Wilson's War (with Tom Hanks and Amy Adams), Roberts appears on the cover of Vanity Fair, where she tells the magazine that she's not planning on having anymore kids. "You only have so much energy and you want to put so much energy into each child," she says. "I wouldn't know how to have five kids. And they're a really good trio, these three."
- 2009
She's 'baaaa-aaaack!'
Roberts fronts her first movie in years in Duplicity, an espionage thriller with Closer costar Clive Owen. "She's got a deftness and a lightness of touch and an ease," Owen says. "She was far and away the choice for us.'' While slated as her big screen comeback, the film underperforms at the box office. But a year later, Roberts returns to the top when she reunites with Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall for the star-studded hit, Valentine's Day.
- 2010
Eat Pray Love
Twenty years after shining in Pretty Woman, Roberts prepares to return to her box-office perch with Eat Pray Love – an adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 best-selling memoir about a divorcée's journey of self-discovery. "I think she has never looked more beautiful," director Ryan Murphy tells PEOPLE of the actress. "She is so happy and fulfilled in her personal life – and it shows."
- 2012
Good Girl Gone Bad
For her role as the menacing Queen Gertrude, Roberts sheds her sweetheart persona for a taste of the dark side in Mirror, Mirror, a campy and comedic adaptation of the fairy tale Snow White. "I think she's a lunatic," Roberts tells Access Hollywood of her character. "She's just crazy."
Photo Credits
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): MIKE WARING; Walter McBride/Retna; Courtesy of EW; Francois Duhamel/Columbia Pictures; Jan Thijs/Relativity Media
- Name
- Julia Roberts
- Date of Birth
- October 28, 1967
- Birth Place
- Atlanta, Ga.
- Relationships
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Danny Moder, husband (2002 to present)
Benjamin Bratt, ex-boyfriend (1997 to 2001)
Matthew Perry, ex-boyfriend (1996)
Lyle Lovett, ex-husband (1993 to 1995)
Jason Patric, ex-boyfriend (1991 to 1992)
Kiefer Sutherland, ex-boyfriend (1990 to 1991, engaged)
Dylan McDermott, ex-boyfriend (1988 to 1990, engaged)
Liam Neeson, ex-boyfriend (1987 to 1988)
- Children
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Hazel Patricia Moder, twin daughter (11/28/2004)
Phinnaeus Walter Moder, twin son (11/28/2004)
Henry Daniel Moder, son (6/18/2007)
