Julia Roberts is one of the most renowned actresses in Hollywood. She started her career at the age of 21 with Satisfaction, which was released in 1988. The movie had her portraying a singer in a high school band who wants to land a job at a nightclub with her team.In the same year,another one of her movies Mystic Pizza was released which portrayed her as one of the three girls working in a Pizza parlor.
Pretty Woman(1990)
But the movie that catapulted her to a movie star was Pretty Woman, which had her playing a prostitute opposite Richard Gere. Julia, at the age of 23, brought an undeniable charm to the role of the hooker Vivian Ward. This movie set a record for the largest ticket sales ever made by a romantic comedy movie in the US till it was broken by My Big Fat Greek Wedding in 2002.
My Best Friend’s Wedding(1997)
Next on this list is the amazing performance of Julia Roberts in the movie My Best Friend’s Wedding(1997) as food critic Julianne “Jules” Potter.
This movie showed Julia Roberts playing a gray character, who is unable to accept the wedding of her best male friend, Michael O’Neal(Dermot Mulroney). It’s because when both their characters were young, they had agreed that they would tie the matrimonial knot in case they remained unmarried until 28 years of age. But when she is 27, Julia Roberts receives a phone call from Michael, who tells her that he is marrying a college student, Kimmy Wallace (Cameron Diaz). When Julia’s character arrives in Chicago to attend Michael’s wedding, Kimmy has no idea what her true intentions are. Kimmy makes Julianne her maid of honor.
Julia’s attempts to break up the wedding are truly vicious as she tries to cause a rift between Michael and Kimmy. But in the end, she accepts her defeat and attends the wedding.
This movie has Julia Roberts portray an amazing personality as the food critic Julianne Potter when she tries to get in the good books of Michael’s family.
Runaway Bride(1999)
The next movie of Julia Roberts created box office records. It was Runaway Bride(1999), which featured Julia Roberts as a woman, Maggie Carpenter, feeling last-minute jitters and running away from three weddings. Soon, a newspaper column writer, Ike Graham(Richard Gere), arrives in Maggie’s town, Maryland, to write about Maggie. He meets her and falls in love with her. But Maggie does the same thing and runs away from her wedding to Ike, too. Later, Maggie reaches New York to apologize to Ike, and proposes to him, after which both of them get married in a small private function. This movie, made on a budget of $70 million, earned $309 million at the box office.
Erin Brokovich(2000)
Julia Roberts movies have always been rom-coms, but when she did Erin Borkovich, she opted for something serious. This movie was based on a real-life court case in which the victims of Hinkley had earned a large sum($333 million) due to falling ill because of the water pollution involving hexavalent chromium caused by the company Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The entire scam had been discovered by Erin Brokovich, a single mother who was unemployed and hired by the lawyer Ed Masry, who had lost one of her cases. This movie won Julia Roberts an Academy Award in 2000.
Eat, Pray, Love(2010)
The last movie of Julia Roberts is Eat, Pray, Love(2010), which was based on a novel of the same name by the author, Elizabeth Gilbert, about her own life. This is about a woman who has everything in life but still feels incomplete. She divorces her husband of eight years and, in a search for self-discovery, goes to different countries like Italy and Bali. In Bali, she meets her true soulmate, Felipe(Javier Bardem), who has lived on the island for a long time. This movie was also a blockbuster and grossed a huge amount of $204 million at the box office, made on a modest amount of $60 million. With so many successful movies, Julia Roberts is an accomplished Hollywood star and America’s sweetheart.
