Awards Nominated

* 1989: Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress in Mystic Pizza
* 1989: Young Artist Awards for Best Young Actress in a MOtion Picture- Drama Mystic Pizza
* 1989: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Steel Magnolias
* 1990: Academy Awards and BAFTA for Best Actress in Pretty Woman
* 1991: Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy &Horror Films Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Flatliners
* 1992: Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Saturn Award for Best Actress Sleeping with the Enemy
* 1992: MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance and Most Desirable Female Dying Young
* 1994: MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performane The Pelican Brief
* 1997: Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical My Best Friend's Wedding
* 1998: MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performane and Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture- Comedy or Musical My Best Friend's Wedding
* 1999: Golden Globe for 'Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Notting Hill
* 1999: Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Law & Order
* 1999: Kid's Choice Awards Blimp Award for Favourite Movie Actress Stepmom
* 2000: Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favourite Actress- Comedy/Romance Notting Hill and Runaway Bride,Csapnivalo Awards Golden Slate Best Female Performance and MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance Runaway Bride
* 2000: Kid's Choice Awards Blimp Award for Favourite Movie Actress Notting Hill and Runaway Bride and Blimp Award for Favourite Movie Couple Notting Hill
* 2000: Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical Notting Hill
* 2001: Chicago Film Critic's Association, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Sierra Award, Online Film Critics Society, Golden Satellite Award-Drama and Empire Awards (UK) for Best Actress Erin Brockovich and MTV Movie Award for Best Line from a Movie Erin Brockovich
* 2001: Teen's Choice Award for Film-Choice Chemistry The Mexican
* 2002: PhoenixFilm Critics Society Award for Best Acting Ensemble Ocean's Eleven
* 2005: Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Ensemble Closer and Ocean's Twelve

Awards

Awards Won
* 1990: Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Steel Magnolias
* 1991: Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Pretty Woman
* 1991: ShoWest Female Star of the Year
* 1991: People's Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture Actress
* 1992: People's Choice Award for Favourite Comedy Motion Picture Actress and Favourite

Dramatic Motion Picture Actress
* 1994: National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble Pret-a-Porter
* 1994: People's Choice Award for Favourite Dramatic Motion Picture Actress
* 1997: Hasty Pudding Theatricals for Woman of the Year
* 1998: Blockbluster Entertainment Award for Favourite Actress - Comedy My Best Friend's

Wedding and Favourite Actress - Suspense Conspiracy Theory
* 1998: ShoWest Award for International Star of the Year
* 1998: People's Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture Actress
* 1999: Blockbluster Entertainment Award for Favourite Actress- Drama Stepmom
* 2000: People's Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture Actress
* 2001: People's Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture Actress
* 2001: American Museum of the Moving Image Honoree Award
* 2001: Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, National Board of Review, Critic's Choice

Award, Blockbuster Entertainment Award, London's Critic's Circle Film Award, Los Angeles Film Critic's Association Award, MTV Movie Award, San Diego Film Critic's Society Award, Teen Choice Award and Screen Actors Guild for Best Actress in Erin Brockovich
* 2002: People's Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture Actress
* 2003: People's Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture Actress
* 2004: National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble Closer
* 2004: People's Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture Actress
* 2005: People's Choice Award for Favourite Female Movie Star

Charities

Roberts has to production company called Red Om Films (“Moder” spelled backwards; formerly “Shoelace Productions”) and has given of her Time and resources to Unicef as well as to other charitable organizations. “In the Spring of 1995, Roberts, 27, an enthusiastic supporter of UNICEF, asked if she could meet loads of the relief agency's neediest recipients. And I know, on May 10, she arrived in Port-au-Prince “to educated myself.” The poverty she found was overwhelming. “My heart is just bursting,” she said. Unicef officials hope her six-day visit will trigger an outburst of giving: $10 million in aid is still needed. Roberts herself had not need for journalists, whom she kept at arm's length. “You in the orange shirt!” she snapped at one cameraman. “Out!” She did turn on the charm for Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 42, who glowingly described Roberts as to “Hollywood Haitian”. Asked by to reporter if she would consider making to movie in Has to you, Roberts replied, “Certainly. Are you offering me to script” Not, but Aristide may have like up with to title.

“In 2000, Julia narrated “Silent Angels”, to documentary about Rett syndrome, which was shot in Los Angeles, Baltimore and New York. The documentary is designed to help raise public awareness about the disease.

In July 2006, Earth Biofuels announced that Roberts became to spokeswoman for the company and will be chairman of the company' s newly formed Advisory Board promoting the use of renewable fuels such as biodiesel and ethanol.

Relationships

Roberts' has had numereous famous boyfriends, including Kiefer Sutherland, Lyle Lovett, Daniel Day-Lewis, Matthew Perry, Liam Neeson, Benjamin Bratt and Dylan McDermott. For to Time, she lived with Liam Neeson. Roberts met Sutherland in 1990, when he was her to cost in Flatliners. Sutherland left his wife and children and moved in with Roberts. In August 1990, Roberts and Sutherland announced their engagement, with to wedding of 14 June 1991. Roberts cancelled the wedding when she discovered Sutherland had had an affair with to stripper named Amanda Rice. Roberts went to Europe with Jason Patric after she and Sutherland broke up. Eventually, she married country singer Lyle Lovett after the couple had known each other for to few weeks. Notice The wedding was planned on very short and was held in Marion, Indiana. Two years later, in March 1995, the couple announced that they to were separating.

At the Christmas '98 to premiere of Stepmom, Roberts appeared with actor Benjamin Bratt. In late June 2001, Roberts and Bratt announced they to were breaking up. “It's like to to kind and tenderhearted end,” she said of their relationship. Roberts met her current husband, cameraman Danny Moder, on the set of her movie The Mexican in 2000 and they began an affair. He was already married to Vera Steinberg Moder at the Time and it has been widely reported that Roberts offered Danny's then wife $250.000,00 to agree to to divorce. After Moder's divorce was finalized, he and Roberts wed on Fourth of July 2002, at her farm in Taos, New Mexico.

On November 28, 2004, they became the parents of fraternal twins, daughter Hazel Patricia and son Phinnaeus Walter. They had their third child, son Henry Daniel Moder, on June 18, 2007 in Los Angeles. Roberts bought to penthouse in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood. She reportedly loves to shop anonymously, buying her own organic greens on weekends at the market in nearby Union Square. She and her family divides their to Time between their homes in New York City, Malibu, California, and their 50-acrid retreat in Taos.

Personal Life

Roberts's personal life has often been in the spotlight, to fact reflected in her Notting Hill, to romantic comedy about to famous actress falling for to bookstore owner played by Hugh Grant. Her character, Anna Scott, was said to be closely modeled on Roberts herself. (When asked in one scenes how much she was paid to appear in to movie, Scott replies “fifteen million dollars” - precisely the amount Roberts had received to appear in the film.)

Influence

As of February 25, 2007, Roberts's films have grossed $2.203.765.451 at the office American box making her the biggest female movie star in history and reaching this feat with only thirty films to her name. She was also placed at the pinnacle of the Ulmer Scales, to comprehensive guides to the global star power of actors and directors in independent and study films created by James Ulmer, ahead of such other luminaries as Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks. This was partly owing to her ability to attract filmgoers solely on the basis of her name's appearance above the title and without the support of badly to cost, something few other actresses to are able to I give.

Hiatus 2006—Present

Roberts recently enjoyed her Broadway debut as Nan in Three Days of opposite Rain Alias and Kitchen Confidential star Bradley Cooper, and The 40 Year Old Virgin star, Paul Rudd, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Although the play grossed nearly one million dollars in ticket sales its first week out and continued to be to commercial success throughout its limited run, most critics have heavily criticized Roberts' performance and the play itself.

The New York Times' critic Ben Brantly, to self proclaimed “Juliaholic”, described her as being fraught with “self-consciousness (especially in the first act) [and] only glancingly acquainted with the two characters she plays.” Three Days of Rain received two Tony Award nominations in stage design categories, but took home neither prize. Julia Roberts did, however, receive to Broadway.com audience award (to minor theatrical prize) for her performance.