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Julia Fiona Roberts was born on October 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, as the youngest of three children in a family full of creative people. Until their divorce in 1971, her parents were both actors who operated a workshop for budding authors and performers. Roberts intended to be a veterinarian at first, but she gave up when she discovered she had "an inability to cope with science on a brainiac kind of level." Julia Roberts is an Academy Award-winning actress and one of Hollywood's biggest stars, best known for her roles in films such as 'Steel Magnolias,' 'Pretty Woman,' and 'Erin Brockovich.'
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