Joanna Pettet

By 1990, she had quietly retired from acting. For years, Roberts has been estranged from her brother, actor Eric Roberts. She also guest-starred four times on the classic Rod Serling anthology series "Night Gallery" and was a frequent visitor of "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island." After playing an LAPD homicide detective investigating the murder of singer Ciji Dunne (Lisa Hartman) on "Knots Landing" in 1983, Pettet's career slowed down in the mid-1980s. 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. Her feature film appearance became sporadic in the 1970s, but Pettet re-emerged as the star of over a dozen made-for-television movies during that decade, including "The Delphi Bureau" (1972), "The Weekend Nun" (1972), "Pioneer Woman" (1973), "A Cry in the Wilderness" (1974), "The Desperate Miles" (1975), "The Hancocks" (1976), "Sex and the Married Woman" (1977), and "The Return of Frank Cannon" (1980). Roberts met her husband, cameraman Danny Moder, on the set of her movie The Mexican in 2000. During that time, she married American actor Alex Cord and gave birth to a son in 1968. She later eloped with country and western singer Lyle Lovett shortly after meeting him; they divorced in 1995.

Pettet got her start on Broadway in such plays as "Take Her, She's Mine," "The Chinese Prime Minister" and "Poor Richard" with Alan Bates and Gene Hackman before she was discovered by director Sidney Lumet for his sumptuous 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel, "The Group." The success of that film launched a film career that included roles in "Night of the General" (1967), the James Bond spoof "Casino Royale" (1967), "Blue" (1968) with Terence Stamp, and the Victorian period comedy "The Best House in London" (1969). Roberts was engaged to actor Kiefer Sutherland in 1991 but ended the relationship just days before the wedding. Her mother remarried and settled in Canada, where she was adopted by her stepfather and assumed "Pettet" as her last name. precisely the amount Roberts had received to appear in the movie. Her father, Harold Nigel Edgerton Salmon, was a British RAF pilot killed in the war. 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" . Talented, blonde Joanna Pettet was born Joanna Jane Salmon on November 16, 1944 in London, England. 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.

For help, see How to Edit a Page and the style and How-to Directory . 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. After the article has been cleaned up, you may remove this message. 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. This article needs cleanup.
This article needs to be edited to conform to a higher standard of article quality. 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).