: Julia Roberts is an American actress and producer born on October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia. She is one of the most celebrated and commercially successful actresses in Hollywood history. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Erin Brockovich (2000) and received additional nominations for Steel Magnolias and Pretty Woman. Her extensive filmography includes My Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill, Ocean's Eleven and Twelve, Closer, Charlie Wilson's War, Eat Pray Love, and Ticket to Paradise. She has been the world's highest-paid actress multiple times.