PROFILE: Julia Roberts

The new Netflix film Leave The World Behind shows us again what a brilliant actor Julia Roberts is and the wide range of parts she has taken on across her career. Roberts has starred in many commercially successful films, and became known to worldwide audiences in 1990 alongside Richard Gere in Pretty Woman, from this to many lead roles in Notting Hill, Sleeping with the Enemy, Eat Pray Love, and an Oscar win for her lead performance in Erin Brockovich, she remains one of our best loved and highest paid Hollywood box office movie actors. With her trademark huge smile and hair, Roberts is a truly beautiful woman and has been the global ambassador for Lancôme since 2009.  Early Life Julia Fiona Roberts was born on October 28th, 1967, in Atlanta, Georgia USA, her parents Walter and Betty Lou were actors and playwrights and ran a children’s acting school, but divorced in 1972. Roberts went to live with her mother in Smyrna Georgia where she went to school. Her mother remarried but later divorced and Roberts’s birth father passed away when she was only 10. After leaving University without graduating, Roberts went to New York to follow an acting career. Her brother […]