Julia Fiona Roberts, born October 28, 1967, is an acclaimed American actress celebrated for her charming and relatable characters across diverse genres. She rose to international fame with iconic romantic comedies like Pretty Woman (1990) and later earned an Academy Award for Best Actress for her powerful performance in Erin Brockovich (2000). Roberts was the world's highest-paid actress throughout much of the 1990s and early 2000s, and has been notably named People magazine's "Most Beautiful Woman" a record five times.
Beyond her prolific film career, which includes recent hits like Ticket to Paradise (2022) and Leave the World Behind (2023), she has also starred in critically acclaimed television series. An interesting detail from her early life reveals that the children of Martin Luther King Jr. attended her parents' acting school, with Coretta King even paying Julia's hospital bill at birth. Roberts also runs her own production company, Red Om Films, and has been a global ambassador for Lancôme since 2009.