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By the time Julia Roberts was 23, she had won two academy award nominations, she had also become the world's most popular female actress.

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Since then, Roberts has appeared in fourteen films. Most recently, "My Best Friend's Wedding" and "The Conspiracy Theory."

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She didn't plan to become an actress. She wanted to be six feet tall. She wanted to be a veterinarian. She wanted to be happy and make others happy.

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Although Julia Roberts has had much professional success. Her personal life has been troubled with several failed relationships.

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She came to New York when she was seventeen. Because her older sister lived there and she was influenced by her sister.

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Roberts was raised in Georgia. Her parents ran a theater school there. Her sister and brother are also actors. The family was always short of money.

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When Julia was four years old, her parents divorced. After eighteen years of marriage.

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Julia and her sister lived with their mother. Their brother stayed with their father. Who died of cancer five years later.

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In high school, Julia found classwork boring, she didn't know how to be a good student.

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In 1990, "Pretty Woman" became a smash hit her natural gift for this type of comedy brought her a nomination for Best Actress.

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