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Julia Roberts will receive a healthy salary
for her next movie. In fact, that remuneration will make her the first
woman to break the “$20 million hump” broken years ago by
male stars. The gal’s earned it, for seven of her films have
surpassed the $100 million mark (hey, that’s more some of those
guys’ flicks!), and her performances are consistent audience
favorites. Robert’s “atypical beauty” -- clear-eyed
sparkle, wholesome wide grin and charismatic presence — marks
her as Hollywood’s “Girl Next Door Superstar.” Atypical
as well was her road to success.
After high school graduation, Roberts left her native Georgia and
joined her actor-sister in New York. At age 19 she was cast as her
actor-brother’s on-screen sister in the 1986 movie, Blood Red
(released in 1989). She went on to roles in Firehouse (1987), Crime
Story (TV - 1988), Satisfaction (TV - 1988), Before Your Eyes: Angelie’s
Secret (TV - 1988), Baja Oklahoma (TV - 1988), and Miami Vice (TV
episode - 1988). For her part in Mystic Pizza (1988) she received
an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Important and award-winning roles in blockbuster pictures followed
with Steel Magnolias (1989 - Golden Globe award and Oscar nomination),
Pretty Woman (1990 - Oscar nomination and British Academy award nomination),
Flatliners (1990), Sleeping With The Enemy (1991), and Dying Young
(1991 - MTV Movie award nomination).
Darkness descended. Roberts next role, in Hook (1991), was panned
by critics and nominated for a Razzie Worst Supporting Actress slam.
A breakup with fiancé Keifer Sutherland just days before the
planned wedding was among the gossip column-fodder personal problems
that led to a year of seclusion and naught but a cameo appearance
in one film, The Player (1992).
Light dawned. Roberts breathed new life into her career in 1993 with
The Pelican Brief (for which she received an MTV Movie award). She
married singer/songwriter/actor Lyle Lovett the same year, but the
media-dubbed “pretty woman - ugly duckling” couple lasted
only 21 months. She took on roles in Pret-a-Porter (1994), I Love
Trouble (1994), A Century of Cinema (TV - 1994), Something To Talk
About (1995), Michael Collins (1996), Everyone Says I Love You (1996),
and Mary Reilly (1996 - oops, another Razzie nomination). The next
three years were very good: Roberts was cast in My Best Friend’s
Wedding (1997 - netting her a Golden Globe nomination, Golden Satellite
award, People’s Choice award, Blockbuster Entertainment award
and MTV Movie award), Conspiracy Theory (1997 - Blockbuster Entertainment
award), Stepmom (1998 - Roberts not only acted her way to a Blockbuster
Entertainment award, but was the successful film’s executive
producer), Notting Hill (1999 - Golden Globe nomination and People’s
Choice award), and Runaway Bride (1999). As well, Roberts was nominated
for an Emmy for a guest appearance on the television series Law and
Order (1999), and has three times been on People Magazine’s Best-Dressed
list.
Upcoming for this popular and talented producer/actor are roles in
Erin Brockovich, The Moviegoer, The Women, and, tentatively, Beyond
Borders, Oceans II, The Mexican, To Catch A Thief, Martha and Arthur,
and From Alice to Ocean. Roberts is on top of the Hollywood heap,
and no matter how high the salaries go, the good-as-gold performer
is worth every penny.Julia
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