Julia Roberts

For years, Roberts has been estranged from her brother, actor Eric Roberts. See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. 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. Athole Shearer died in 1985 in Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Roberts met her husband, cameraman Danny Moder, on the set of her movie The Mexican in 2000. She spent many years in mental institutions until her illness was properly diagnosed. She later eloped with country and western singer Lyle Lovett shortly after meeting him; they divorced in 1995. Although she was the most attractive of the two Shearer sisters, her film career was limited to a few bit parts because of her personal difficulties.

Roberts was engaged to actor Kiefer Sutherland in 1991 but ended the relationship just days before the wedding. Athole Shearer suffered from bipolar disorder that went unrecognized for years resulting in her suffering numerous problems. precisely the amount Roberts had received to appear in the movie. They divorced twelve years later in 1940 at a turbulent time for Hawks who had been fired by studio owner Howard Hughes as the director of the film The Outlaw. 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" . In 1923, Athole Shearer married John Ward with whom she would have a son. Divorced, in 1928 she married again, this time to noted film director Howard Hawks (1896-1977). 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. As a teenager, her divorced mother moved the two girls to New York City and then to Hollywood and in 1920 she obtained her first minor film roll.

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. Shearer was born in Montreal, Quebec. 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. Athole Shearer (November 20, 1900 - March 17, 1985) was an actress most noted as the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and film sound engineer Douglas Shearer. 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. The Flapper (1920). Later that year, she co-starred with Denzel Washington in the successful The Pelican Brief, based on the John Grisham novel. Way Down East (1920).

In early 1993, she was the subject of a People magazine cover story asking, "What Happened to Julia Roberts?". The Restless Sex (1920). 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).