Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts(born October 28,1967)is an American actress.She is known for starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman, which grossed $463 million worldwide.After receiving Academy Award nominations for steel Magnolias in 1990 and Pretty Woman in 1991, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Erin Brockovich. Her films, which also include romantic comdied such as My Best Friend's Wedding, Mystic Pizza, Notting Hill, Runaway Bride, Valentine's Day and crime films such as The Pelican Brief and Ocean's Eleven and Twelve have collectively brought box office receipts of over $2 billion, making her the most successful actress in terms of box office receipts.

Roberts had become one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, topping the Hollywood Reporter's annual "power list" of top-earning female stars from 2002 to 2006. Her fee for 1990's pretty Woman was $300,000; in 2003, she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile. As of 2007, Roberts net worth was estimated to be $140 million.

Roberts was the first actress to appear on the cover of Vogue. GQ once erroneously claimed she was the first woman to appear on their cover, but later retracted the statement(Carol Channing appeared on a GQ cover in 1964). She has been named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful people in the world " eleven times, tied with Halle Berry. In 2001 Ladies Home Journal ranked her as the 11th most powerful woman in America, beating out then national security advisor Candoleezza Rice and first lady Laura Bush. Roberts has a production company called Red Om Films, formerly Shoelace Production("Moder"spelled backwards, after her husband's last name)