Julia Fiona Roberts was born on 28 October 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, USA, of British, Irish, German, and Swedish descent. She is a highly-acclaimed film and TV actress, and a producer, the winner of three Golden Globe Awards, and an Oscar as Best Actress for her role in “Erin Brokovich”, and is now one of the highest-paid female stars in the film industry. People magazine has named her as ‘one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world’ several times.
So just how rich is Julia Roberts? As of 2017, authoritative sources estimate that Julia’s net worth is over $200 million, accumulated largely from her acting career which has now spanned almost 30 years. Her assets include several properties – a mansion in Malibu valued at $30 million, another in Westside, Los Angeles, Taos Ranch in north-central New Mexico, and a Manhattan apartment in New York City which she bought in 1993.
Julia Roberts Net Worth $200 Million
Julia’s parents – Betty Lou and Walter Grady Roberts – were also involved in acting, even co-founding the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop. Moreover, her older brother Eric Roberts is also one of the better-known actors in the United States. Her father died when Julia was 10, after divorce, but her mother’s re-marriage was unsuccessful, and she divorced again when Julia was 16. Julia was raised in Georgia and attended Fitzhugh Elementary School, Griffin Middle School and then Campbell High School. Julia decided to pursue an acting career after her brother Eric became successful in Hollywood, and realising that although she dreamt about becoming a veterinarian during her school years, she accepted that she “…would never be able to deal with science on a brainiac kind of level”. Julia enrolled at Georgia State University, but dropped out and moved to New York, signing with the Click Modeling Agency and taking acting lessons in an effort to break into film and TV acting.
Julia’s debut was a small part in an episode of the TV series “Crime Story” in 1987, and her first small role on the big screen was in 1988 in “Blood Red” with her brother, after which she appeared in “Satisfaction” (1988) starring Liam Neeson. Her first award win, a Golden Globe, was as Best Supporting Actress in “Steel Magnolias” in 1989, for which she was also nominated for an Oscar, and since then Roberts has over 50 roles on the big screen and 20 on TV to her credit, with countless award nominations, all of which have steadily built her net worth.
During the ’90s, Julia’s most notable roles included in “Pretty Woman” with Richard Gere and winning her a Golden Globe Award; as a battered spouse in “Sleeping with the Enemy”; as Tinker Bell in Steven Spielberg’s “Hook”; with Denzel Washington in the John Grisham-adapted novel “The Pelican Brief”; “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “Notting Hill” (opposite Hugh Grant) with Golden Globe nominations for both; and “Runaway Bride”, again co-starring with Richard Gere. All were box office hits, and subsequently helped contribute significantly to Julia’s net worth.
In 2000 she starred in her Oscar-winning title role as “Erin Brokovich”, ably supported by Oscar-nominated Albert Finney, followed during the next decade by further box office hits which included “Ocean’s Eleven” and its sequel “Ocean’s Twelve”, both with George Clooney and Brad Pitt. A stand-out for Julia was “Mona Lisa Smile” directed by Mike Newell, for which she received a $25,000,000 fee – her net worth was considerably boosted! She also demonstrated her valued versatility with voice-over parts in “The Ant Bully” and “Charlotte’s Web”.
More recently, Julia has appeared in the less-than-well-received “Larry Crowne” opposite Tom Hanks, but also in “August: Osage County” in 2014, which brought her several nominations including for an Oscar, indicating that her worth is still well regarded, as well as helping her net worth to continue to rise.
Roberts also co-founded and runs the Red Om Films production company with her sister, Lisa Roberts Gillan, and Marisa Yeres Gill, and was an executive producer of several films in the “American Girl” series in the early 2000s.
In her personal life, Julia Roberts has had several well-publicised relationships with actors such as Liam Neeson, Matthew Perry and Keifer Sutherland, to whom she was engaged in the early 1990s. She married singer Lyle Lovett in 1993, but they divorced in 1995, after which she dated Benjamin Bratt for three years. In 2002 she married Daniel Moder, a film cameraman, with whom she has twins – a girl and a boy – and another son.
Julia Roberts is known as an environmental activist, and that’s why she usually drives her gas-electric hybrid Toyota Prius. She is an actively direct supporter of UNICEF, and has spent considerable time and money in Haiti, particularly following natural disasters.
