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Julia Fiona Roberts first saw daylight on the 28th of october, 1967. She grew up in the small town Smyrna, Georgia, USA, along with her mother Betty-Lou, an actress and a church secretary, her father Walter who worked as a vacuum cleaner salesman, writer and an actor. She has two siblings, the older brother Eric, and the older sister Lisa. Little Julia had a tragic childhood. When she was only four years old, her parents got divorced because of financial difficulties. Betty-Lou stayed in Smyrna with her two daughters, while Walter moved to Atlanta and took thesixteen year old Eric with him. When Julia was ten years old, March 1978, her father died of cancer. In school, the children teased her because of her thick glasses and her big mouth. At first she took it pretty hard but then she decided to take advantage of her looks. She accepted her big mouth and instead made it her trademark. She showed her beautiful, hazel eyes by using contact lenses instead of hiding them behind thick glasses. She had never tried to hide the fact that she was tall, her height only made her more grand.

Early-on, Julia had planned on becoming a veterinarian and had little interest in acting. After graduating from Campbell High School in Smyrna, Julia joined her sister Lisa and brother Eric in New York to go to theater school. Before she got into acting she worked at Baskin-Robbins and as a shoe-saleswoman. Later on, she signed with the modeling agency "Click" and she stayed with them until her brother Eric who was already into acting, landed her her first film role in the movie "Blood Red". The movie didn't go well at all but people started talking about her in Hollywood. In 1988 she played a pizza waitress in "Mystic Pizza" and then she co-starred with Liam Neeson in "Satisfaction". Things started to get hot behind the camera as well between Julia and Liam. One year later she starred in "Steel Magnolias" opposite her fiancé at that time, Dylan McDermott. Just before "Steel Magnolias" Julia got sick and she was still recovering from her illness when the shooting started. This didn't stop the director Herbert Ross from saying bad things about her acting, mostly in front of people, but he got quiet when Julia was Oscar-nominated for her part.

The year after, Julia became star over a night when she became the whole world's "Pretty Woman" . Suddenly, everybody wanted her. The papers wrote about her every day and the whole world talked about her. She couldn't leave the house without reporters and photographers throwing themselves at her. This was very hard on her, she got thinner and the rumors spread that she was doing drugs and had anorexia.

The rescue came when she met Kiefer Sutherland, her co-star in "Flatliners"from 1990. He left his wife and children and moved in with Julia. The scandal was a fact and the relationship of the year started. In August 1990, Julia and Kiefer announced their engagement and in October he gave Julia a tattoo on her birthday, a chinese symbol for "eternal love" on her left shoulder. Julia and Kiefers wedding was set to June 14th 1991. The dream was torn apart when Julia found out that Kiefer had had an affair with the stripper Amanda Rice. When Kiefer said that he did it because sex with Julia was like sleeping with a corps, Julia had a nervous breakdown and had to be submitted to hospital. Not long before the wedding, Julia cancelled it. She ran away from all the excitement to Ireland with Kiefers' best friend Jason Patric and rumours circled that they were going to get married in Ireland. Meanwhile, "Sleeping with the enemy" had opened in the movie-theatres in USA with great success. After a while, Julia threw Jason out because of his non-stopping beer drinking. After that, the boyfriends just passed by, at least that's what the rumours said and the rumours about drogue addiction rose again.

After successes like "Sleeping with the enemy" and "Hook", Julia decided to take a break. During her time off, she spent a lot of time with Daniel Day-Lewis. For two long years she totally disappeared from the big screen with a small exception and "The Player" (1992), and everybody were asking, where did Pretty Woman go? In 1993, she came back, this time in the thriller "The Pelican Brief" which is based on the book by the same name, written by John Grisham. The rumour says that John wrote the book with Julia in mind as the main character Darby Shaw. The movie was a comeback for Julia and it went well in the cinemas. In June 1993, Julia took the big step into marriage. The happy guy was the ten year older country singer, Lyle Lovett. After only have known each other for a few weeks they went to the preacher and said "I do". Julia was barefoot and without makeup.

The marriage went up and down, more than once we heard rumours about divorce, children who would save the marriage and that both parties was seeking comfort with others. Media made a big fuzz over that Julia had been out dancing with the actor Ethan Hawke. In March 1995, the couple announced that they were separating. After 21 months of marriage they were getting a divorce but they were still very good friends. Then the rumours about new men were up and around again. Names like Jason Patrick, Ethan Hawke and Richard Gere were mentioned. Julia continued working, movies like "Something to talk about", "Mary Reilly" and "Michael Collins" were shown on the big screen and the men in Julia's life were many. The last few years, a number of men had been side by Julia's side.

She has amongst others dated Matthew Perry from the sitcom "Friends". Rumours started circulating that Julia's career was over, her movies wasn't doing as good as before and more and more she disappeared from the spotlight. There was talk about a "new Julia Roberts" and amongst the candidates were Sandra Bullock, Julia Ormond and Julianne Moore. But Julia came back, like she always does, this time with movies like "Conspiracy Theory" and the box office hit "My Best Friend's Wedding".

The last few years she has been working hard. On Christmas Day '98 "Stepmom" was released and in the summer of '99 she had two big blockbusters out in the theaters, "Notting Hill" and "Runaway Bride" which re-united Richard Gere and Julia for the first time since "Pretty Woman". This year she has done it again, the true story of "Erin Brokovich" became a huge hit and people are talking about Julia getting an oscar next year.

Julia might hide away sometimes to get away from the spotlight but she always comes back, stronger and better than ever. She has for a long time been on top of the elite in Hollywood and even though she's not on the throne anymore, she is still a lady to count on. With her beautiful smile she continues to charm the world. We have not seen the last of Julia Roberts yet. [The End]