Julia Roberts Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Height, Net Worth, Fast Facts

Julia Roberts Wiki, Biography and family

Roberts was born on October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, to Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts. She is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent.^[11][12] Her father was a Baptist, her mother a Catholic,^[13] and she was raised Catholic.^[14][15] Her older brother Eric Roberts (born 1956), from whom she was estranged for several years until 2004, older sister Lisa Roberts Gillan (born 1965), and niece Emma Roberts, are also actors. She also had a younger half-sister named Nancy Motes.

Roberts’s parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing in theatrical productions for the armed forces. They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, off Juniper Street in Midtown. They ran a children’s acting school in Decatur, Georgia, while they were expecting Julia. The children of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. attended the school; Walter Roberts served as acting coach for their daughter, Yolanda.^[16] As a thank-you for his service, Mrs. King paid Mrs. Roberts’s hospital bill when Julia was born.^[17]

Her parents married in 1955. Her mother filed for divorce in 1971; the divorce was finalized in early 1972.^[18] From 1972, Roberts lived in Smyrna, Georgia, where she attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin Middle School, and Campbell High School.^[19] In 1972, her mother married Michael Motes, who was abusive and often unemployed; Roberts despised him.^[20] The couple had a daughter, Nancy, who died at 37 on February 9, 2014, of an apparent drug overdose.^[21] The marriage ended in 1983, with Betty Lou divorcing Motes on cruelty grounds; she had stated that marrying him was the biggest mistake of her life.^[20] Roberts’s own father died of cancer when she was ten.^[22]

Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian as a child.^[23] She also played the clarinet in her school band. After graduating from Smyrna’s Campbell High School, she attended Georgia State University but did not graduate. She later headed to New York City to pursue a career in acting. Once there, she signed with the Click Modeling Agency and enrolled in acting classes.

Personal life

Relationships and family

Roberts had romantic relationships with actors Jason Patric, Liam Neeson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, and Matthew Perry.^[150][151] She was briefly engaged to Sutherland; they broke up three days before their scheduled wedding on June 11, 1991.^[152] On June 25, 1993, she married country singer Lyle Lovett; the wedding took place at St. James Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana.^[153] They separated in March 1995 and subsequently divorced.^[154] From 1998 to 2001, Roberts dated actor Benjamin Bratt.^[155]

Roberts and her husband, cameraman Daniel Moder, met on the set of her film The Mexican in 2000 while she was still dating Bratt. At the time, Moder was married to Vera Steimberg. He filed for divorce a little over a year later, and after it was finalized, he and Roberts wed on July 4, 2002,^[156] at her ranch in Taos, New Mexico.^[157] Together, they have three children: twins, a daughter and a son, born in November 2004,^[158] and another son born in June 2007.

Religion

In 2010, Roberts said she was Hindu, having converted for “spiritual satisfaction”.^[160][161] Roberts is a devotee of the guru Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji), a picture of whom drew Roberts to Hinduism.^[162]

In September 2009, Swami Daram Dev of Ashram Hari Mandir in Pataudi, where Roberts was shooting Eat Pray Love, gave her children new names after Hindu gods: Laxmi for Hazel, Ganesh for Phinnaeus and Krishna Balram for Henry.^[163]

Daily Habits

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Net Worth

The Estimated Net worth is $80K – USD $85k.