Elvira

She also sang "Monster Rap" and "Haunted House" on the Elvira's Monster Hits album. For years, Roberts has been estranged from her brother, actor Eric Roberts. Elvira has become a symbol of Halloween, and owns the trademark to her wig and costume. The couple were married July 4, 2002 in Taos, New Mexico, and welcomed twins - Hazel Patricia and Phinnaeus Walter - to the family on November 28, 2004. One of the first successful horror hostesses, Vampira (Maila Nurmi), later sued Peterson over character rights issues. Roberts met her husband, cameraman Danny Moder, on the set of her movie The Mexican in 2000. Shortly after her marriage to Mark Pierson (now her business manager) in 1981, she created the character Elvira after a successful audition to be a horror movie show host. She was the first such host to be nationally syndicated. She later eloped with country and western singer Lyle Lovett shortly after meeting him; they divorced in 1995.

Back in the US, she joined the Los Angeles-based improvisational troupe The Groundlings. Roberts was engaged to actor Kiefer Sutherland in 1991 but ended the relationship just days before the wedding. In Italy, she was the lead singer in a rock band and a chance encounter with Federico Fellini led to a small part in Roma (1972). precisely the amount Roberts had received to appear in the movie. She became a showgirl at The Dunes in Las Vegas at age 17. Her character, actress Anna Scott, was said to be closely so modelled on Roberts herself that when asked in one scene how much she was paid to appear in a movie, Scott replied "fifteen million dollars" . Born in Manhattan, Kansas, Peterson grew up in Colorado. Roberts' personal life has often been in the spotlight, a fact that served as the basis of her (1998) film Notting Hill - a romantic comedy about a famous actress falling for an "ordinary" guy played by Hugh Grant.

She gained fame wearing dark, gothic, and cleavage-enhancing clothing as host of Elvira's Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. She won critical acclaim and finally nabbed an Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of Erin Brockovich - a woman who had helped wage a successful lawsuit against energy giant Pacific Gas & Electric - in the 2001 movie of the same name. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark is the screen persona of Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1949). She broke her losing streak with the comedy My Best Friend's Wedding in (1997), and eventually earned a reputation as an actress who could guarantee a huge box office draw. For the next few years, she starred in a series of films that were critical and commercial failures, primarily because she was cast in roles that strayed too far from her persona. Later that year, she co-starred with Denzel Washington in the successful The Pelican Brief, based on the John Grisham novel.

In early 1993, she was the subject of a People magazine cover story asking, "What Happened to Julia Roberts?". She played Tinkerbelle in Steven Spielberg's Hook in 1991, which was followed by a two-year period in which she had no acting roles other than a cameo appearance in Robert Altman's The Player (1992). Her next box-office success was the thriller Sleeping With the Enemy, in which she portrayed a battered wife who escapes from her husband and starts a new life. She catapulted to worldwide fame co-starring with Richard Gere in the Cinderella-story Pretty Woman in 1990, which also earned her a second Oscar nod, this time as Best Actress.

The following year she was featured in Steel Magnolias as a young bride battling diabetes, garnering her first Oscar nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) for her performance. Roberts first caught the attention of moviegoers with her performance in the film Mystic Pizza in 1988. Julia Fiona Roberts (born on October 28, 1967 in Smyrna, Georgia, USA) is an Oscar-winning actress. Firehouse (1987).

Satisfaction (aka Girls of Summer) (1988). Mystic Pizza (1988). Blood Red (1988). Steel Magnolias (1989).

Pretty Woman (1990). Flatliners (1990). Sleeping with the Enemy (1991). Dying Young (1991).

Hook (1991). The Player (1992). The Pelican Brief (1993). I Love Trouble (1994).

Prêt-à-Porter (aka Ready to Wear) (1994). Something to Talk About (1995). Mary Reilly (1996). Michael Collins (1996).

Everyone Says I Love You (1996). My Best Friend's Wedding (1997). Conspiracy Theory (1997). Stepmom (1998).

Notting Hill (1999). Runaway Bride (1999). Erin Brockovich (2000). The Mexican (2001).

America's Sweethearts (2001). Ocean's Eleven (2001). Full Frontal (2002). Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002).

Mona Lisa Smile (2003). Closer (2004). Ocean's Twelve (2004).