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.