DID YOU KNOW?

Currently starring as Heidi Bergman in Homecoming on Amazon, Julia, 51, is one of modern cinema’s most famous faces. Here are a few things you might not know about her…

Julia was born in Georgia in 1967, the third child of actress and acting coach Betty Lou Bredemus and playwright Walter Grady Roberts – the couple founded and ran the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop.

Despite her background, the young

Julia had no ambitions to act: ‘I wanted to be a vet; I love animals. But then, I discovered how hard science can be.’

After her scene-stealing performance in Deep South melodrama Mystic

Pizza (1988), Julia was cast in Pretty

Woman (1990) – the film grossed $464 million worldwide, and made her a star.

She was the first actress to be paid

$20 million for a single film. As an added bonus, her performance in acclaimed fact-based drama Erin Brockovich (2000) saw her winning an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Despite her success, she doesn’t rate her job too highly: ‘It’s like grown-up pretend. My daughter does it all day, I just get paid for it.’ Her brother is the actor Eric Roberts, 62, who recently took part in Celebrity Island

With Bear Grylls. Eric’s daughter – Julia’s niece – is the actress Emma Roberts, 27. Julia was engaged to actor Kiefer Sutherland, but broke it off two days before the wedding, in 1991. After a brief marriage to country musician Lyle Lovett, she married cameraman Daniel Moder in 2002, with whom she has three children. She is a practising Hindu.