Julia Robert's Net Worth is More Than a Pretty Woman
Everyone came to know and started to love the performances of Julia Roberts after her appearance in Pretty Woman in 1990. The film was both a critical and financial success. It garnered $464 million in worldwide box office receipts.
Over her career so far, Roberts won three Golden Globe awards. In 2001, she received an Oscar for her compelling performance in Erin Brockovich. Financial success went along with praise from the critics. While she only made $300,000 for her role in Pretty Woman, she became the highest-paid female actor in Hollywood by a decade later in 2000 with $20 million for Erin Brockovich. In 2003, her pay was $25 million for appearing in Mona Lisa Smile.
She was the first female actor to earn a coveted $25 million payday for a single film. People magazine called her the most beautiful woman in the world on five different occasions.
E-News says her acting career is over thirty years and still going strong.
Julia Roberts’ net worth is estimated to be around $250 million. She is the highest-paid female movie star. She commands $25 million to appear in a film. This is very rare. Dozens of male actors get paid this well but few other female actors get this much.
The Early Years
Julia Roberts is a southern belle born in Smyrna, Georgia. Smyrna is a suburb in the metropolitan area of Atlanta. She trained herself to lose the southern accent but retained her southern charm. Her birth date is October 28, 1967. She just entered her fifties, and she did this very gracefully.
Her parents ran a children’s acting school in Decatur, Georgia that Martin Luther King Jr.’s children attended. Her father was the acting coach for Dr. King’s daughter, Yolanda. The Kings were so grateful that they paid for the hospital stay for Roberts’ mother to give birth to Julia.
Success in New York
Even though Roberts comes from a family of actors, when she was younger she wanted to be a veterinarian. Nevertheless, she moved to New York in 1985 after graduating from high school to pursue acting. She immediately had success when registering as a model with the Click Modeling Agency. She was so pretty and charming that the agency booked her right away.
When she first moved to New York, she lived with her sister Lisa. Both Lisa and her brother Eric were already working hard to build acting careers.
Julia Roberts’ Big Brother
Eric Roberts, who is ten years older than his sister Julia, had his first acting success in 1978 with his role in King of the Gypsies. A decade later, he helped Julia get her first speaking part when she had a few words in a film he was in called Blood Red that was shot in 1987 but released in 1989.
They got along well until Eric starting abusing drugs. Julia and Eric got in a fight when she tried to help Eric’s girlfriend, Kelly Cunningham. The fight was over the child-custody battle for Julia’s niece, Emma Roberts, who is now an actress too. After this confrontation, Julia broke off the connection. The estrangement lasted until 2004. After Eric cleaned up his act, he visited Julia in the hospital in 2004 after she birthed her twin babies.
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Julia Robert’s Big Break And Big Films
Julia Roberts’ first significant role in a movie was as a co-star in the 1988 film Satisfaction where she is a performer in an all-female rock band trying to make it big. She is beautiful, funny, and even sings. Then, in 1988, she gained critical praise for her role in Mystic Pizza. Following this, in 1989, she won a Golden Globe for her performance in Steel Magnolias. Then came Pretty Woman in 1990 that took her to the A-list where she remained ever since. She was only 22 years old when nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in Pretty Woman. A decade later, after being in many great films, she won an Oscar for playing the lead role in Erin Brockovich, which released in 2000.
Julia Roberts’ Huge Paydays
Roberts is so lucky. She makes the big bucks of $20 to $25 million for some films. Sometimes there are even huge paydays for minimal amounts of work. It is no wonder that her net worth continues to climb.
Here are some examples:
$600,000 for each episode in season one of Amazon Prime’s Homecoming in 2018
$3 million for four days of filming Money Monsters that released in 2016
$3 million for six minutes of screen time in Valentine’s Day that released in 2010
She earned a lot of money from these movies. Without a finance counselor, it would be very hard to handle all that money.
Movie Stars With the Biggest Total Box Office Results
Julia Roberts’ net worth is well-deserved. Her first big hit was Pretty Woman, which took her star power to the stratosphere. She co-starred with Richard Gere. The film, released in 1990, is the fourth highest-earning romantic comedy of all time.
On the list of the actors with the highest box office totals of all time, Roberts is in the top fifty and holds the ranking of being 33rd. The total box office for all of her movies combined is $4.8 billion.
In comparison, the number one on this list is Samuel L. Jackson with a combined box office total of $16.7 billion. Jackson’s numbers are so much higher because he was in the mega-hits of Jurassic Park, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and two of the Star Wars films.
Julia Roberts’ Filmography Highlights
Julia Roberts’ net worth increased from her appearances in these popular movies:
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Wonder (2017)
Money Monster (2016)
Eat Pray Love (2010)
Valentine's Day (2010)
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Runaway Bride (1999)
Notting Hill (1999)
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Love It And Leave It
It took trying out quite a few good men before Roberts settled down with her current husband Danny Moder. Moder was a cameraman for the action film The Mexican when he met Roberts. Moder divorced his wife, Vera Steimberg, to be free to marry Roberts. She broke up with boyfriend Benjamin Bratt to be free to marry Moder.
The two got married at Roberts’ ranch in Taos, New Mexico in 2002. They are happily married. They now live in Malibu, California with their children.
Before marrying Moder, Roberts' love life was a bit tumultuous. In 1988, she got engaged to Dylan McDermott, but they never got married and broke up. She dated Liam Nesson and Matthew Perry.
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Two years later, she started dating Kiefer Sutherland, and then they decided to marry. They got engaged but just a few days before the wedding, Roberts called the whole thing off. There was no good explanation for this, except that she got cold feet.
Then, she dated Jason Patric for a little while. After they broke up, she married country-western music star, Lyle Lovett. Lovett married to her was a weird combination. Roberts is really pretty and Lovett is not. Their marriage lasted only two years.
Almost like a self-reflective joke, Roberts starred in the comedy Runaway Bride in 1999 about a woman who runs off at the last moment before getting married due to overwhelming anxiety attacks.
Before marrying Moder, she dated Benjamin Bratt. It was more serious with Bratt than others, yet not perfect either. She went through at least seven good men before she found her man who was just right.
Her marriage with Moder is the real deal. Despite the occasional tabloid fake rumors of a breakup, they are happy together and enjoy being with their children. Roberts says she likes being a soccer mom. She can be seen on the sidelines of the soccer games screaming cheers for the team that her kids play on.
Julia Roberts’ Trivia
She practices Hinduism and wants to buy a house in India. She started this practice in 2009 when she filmed Eat Pray Love at the Hari Mandir Ashram in Pataudi, India. Her guru is Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-Ji).
All of her children have names of Hindu gods given to them by Swami Daram Dev. The names are Laxmi for her daughter Hazel, Ganesh for her son Phinnaeus, and Krishna Balram for her other son Henry.
Roberts likes to cook. Her specialties are banana and pumpkin bread. For Christmas, she makes homemade cookies to give to her friends. Her hobbies are playing Mahjong and knitting. Knitting sweaters and baking cookies make her qualified for the title of World’s Greatest Mom even though she is also one of the world’s top movie stars.
Roberts is the spokesperson for the line of beauty products made by Lancôme.
Roberts owns a production company called Red OM, which is a play on words using the spiritual “OM” sound in the name and is also the reverse spelling of her husband’s last name “Moder.” Moder is an accomplished Director of Photography. His film credits include The Normal Heart that Roberts was in, plus Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mona Lisa Smile, Spider-Man 3, and others.
Conclusion
Julia Roberts has the admiration of her millions of fans from all over the world. Three million Instagram users follow her every move. Most recently, she portrayed the character of Heidi Bergman in the Amazon Prime series called Homecoming for its first season in 2018. Her performance in the 2018 release of Ben is Back about a drug-addicted teen who returns home unexpectedly at Christmas. It is exceptional.
Even though she wanted to be a veterinarian, we are blessed that Julia Roberts found her true calling to become one of the most famous actors in the world instead.