Editing Julia Roberts (section)

==Early life and family==
Julia Fiona Roberts was born on October 28, 1967, in [[Smyrna, Georgia]], a suburb of [[Atlanta Metropolitan Area|Atlanta]],<ref name="WaPo">{{cite news |last1=Page |first1=Sydney |title=It's true, Martin Luther King Jr. paid the hospital bill when actress Julia Roberts was born |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/31/julia-roberts-mlk-birth-hospital/ |newspaper=Washington Post |publisher=Washington Post Inc. |access-date=1 November 2022 |archive-date=November 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101011659/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/31/julia-roberts-mlk-birth-hospital/ |url-status=live }}</ref> to Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts.<ref name="WaPo"/><ref name="ref1">{{cite news|last=Taylor|first=Clarke|title=Eric Roberts: His 'Star 80' Shines|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=November 24, 1983|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/671674182.html?dids=671674182:671674182&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+24%2C+1983&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=ERIC+ROBERTS%3A+HIS+'STAR+80'+SHINES&pqatl=google|access-date=December 16, 2009|archive-date=January 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106164710/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/671674182.html?dids=671674182%3A671674182&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AAI&type=historic&date=Nov+24%2C+1983&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=ERIC+ROBERTS%3A+HIS+%27STAR+80%27+SHINES&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref> She is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nättidningen RÖTTER – för dig som släktforskar! (Julia Roberts) |url=http://www.genealogi.se/julia.htm |website=genealogi.se |access-date=April 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970331004946/http://www.genealogi.se/julia.htm |archive-date=March 31, 1997 |language=sv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Smolenyak |first=Megan |title=Julia Roberts Isn't a Roberts |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/julia-roberts-isnt-a-robe_b_828778 |website=[[HuffPost]] |access-date=April 7, 2019 |date=February 27, 2011 |archive-date=April 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407145246/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/julia-roberts-isnt-a-robe_b_828778 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her father was a Baptist, her mother Catholic.<ref>{{cite news|last=Oh|first=Eunice|url=https://people.com/celebrity/why-julia-roberts-refuses-to-get-botox/|title=Why Julia Roberts Refuses to Get Botox|date=August 4, 2010|work=People|access-date=February 24, 2013|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220141603/http://people.com/celebrity/why-julia-roberts-refuses-to-get-botox/|url-status=live}}</ref>  Roberts was raised Catholic.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/18/eat-pray-love-star-julia-roberts-happy-as-is/|title='Eat Pray Love' star Julia Roberts happy as is|agency=Associated Press|work=The Washington Times|date=August 18, 2010|quote=Julia, who was raised a Catholic...|access-date=September 12, 2010|first=Eric|last=Talmadge|archive-date=August 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801175218/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/18/eat-pray-love-star-julia-roberts-happy-as-is/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/hindu-julia-roberts-im-do_n_685893.html|title=Hindu Julia Roberts: I'm Done Talking About Religion|work=Huffington Post|location=USA|date=August 18, 2010|access-date=September 16, 2010|first=Katherine|last=Thomson|archive-date=August 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825054236/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/hindu-julia-roberts-im-do_n_685893.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Her older brother [[Eric Roberts]] (b. 1956), from whom she was estranged for several years until 2004, older sister Lisa Roberts Gillan (b. 1965), and niece [[Emma Roberts]], are also actors. She also had a younger half-sister named Nancy Motes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-21 |title=Julia Roberts Breaks Silence on Half Sister Nancy Motes' Death |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/julia-roberts-breaks-silence-sister-697948/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401075007/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/julia-roberts-breaks-silence-sister-697948/ |archive-date=2023-04-01 |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>

Roberts's parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing in theatrical productions for the [[United States Armed Forces]]. They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop<ref>{{Cite news |last=Treisman |first=Rachel |date=2022-11-02 |title=Martin Luther King Jr. paid the bill for Julia Roberts' birth. Here's the backstory |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1133121228/julia-roberts-mlk-birth |access-date=2022-11-07 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107130026/https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1133121228/julia-roberts-mlk-birth |url-status=live }}</ref> in [[Atlanta]], off Juniper Street in Midtown. They ran a children's acting school in [[Decatur, Georgia]], while they were expecting Julia. The children of [[Coretta Scott King|Coretta]] and [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] attended the school; Walter Roberts served as acting coach for their daughter, [[Yolanda King|Yolanda]].<ref>{{cite book |editor=Smith, Jessie Carney |title=Notable Black American Women: Book 2 |publisher=VNR AG |year=1996 |isbn=9780810391772 |page=385 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/notableblackamer00jess }}</ref> In gratitude for his service running the only racially integrated theater troupe in the region and due to the Roberts's financial difficulties,<ref name="bond">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/01/julia-roberts-martin-luther-king-jr-connection|title=The unlikely bond between Julia Roberts and Martin Luther King Jr|last=Salam|first=Erum|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=2022-11-01|access-date=2022-11-01|archive-date=November 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102021417/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/01/julia-roberts-martin-luther-king-jr-connection|url-status=live}}</ref> Coretta King paid the Roberts's hospital bill when Julia was born.<ref name="ref3">{{cite news |title=Julia Roberts{{nbsp}}– Coretta Scott King was Julia Roberts's Fairy Godmother |publisher=Contact Music |date=February 10, 2006 |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/story/coretta-scott-king-was-julia-roberts-fairy-godmother_10_02_2006 |access-date=December 16, 2009 |archive-date=February 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225121115/http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/story/coretta-scott-king-was-julia-roberts-fairy-godmother_10_02_2006 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-01 |title=The unlikely bond between Julia Roberts and Martin Luther King Jr |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/01/julia-roberts-martin-luther-king-jr-connection |access-date=2022-11-02 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |archive-date=November 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102021417/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/01/julia-roberts-martin-luther-king-jr-connection |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://time.com/6555360/martin-luther-king-jr-surprising-facts/|author=Popli, Nik|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|title=10 Surprising Facts About Martin Luther King Jr.|url-status=live|date=January 14, 2024|access-date=January 16, 2024|archive-date=January 16, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240116161636/https://time.com/6555360/martin-luther-king-jr-surprising-facts/}}</ref>

Roberts's parents married in 1955. Her mother filed for divorce in 1971; the divorce was finalized in early 1972.<ref>''Julia: Her Life'', James Spada. St Martin's Press, New York, p. 32</ref> From 1972, Roberts lived in [[Smyrna, Georgia]], where she attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin Middle School, and [[Campbell High School (Smyrna, Georgia)|Campbell High School]].<ref>[http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1517 "Julia Roberts."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116234419/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1517 |date=January 16, 2013 }} ''The New Georgia Encyclopedia''</ref> In 1972, her mother married Michael Motes, who was abusive and often unemployed; Roberts despised him.<ref name="mirror.co.uk">{{cite news |last=Bucktin |first=Christopher |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/picture-exclusive-julia-roberts-smiles-2800516 |title=Picture exclusive: Julia Roberts smiles through the terror of abusive stepfather she 'feared and despised' |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |date=November 17, 2013 |access-date=January 2, 2014 |archive-date=March 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309194736/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/picture-exclusive-julia-roberts-smiles-2800516 |url-status=live }}</ref> The couple had a daughter, Nancy, who died at 37 on February&nbsp;9, 2014, of an apparent drug overdose.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/julia-roberts-half-sister-found-dead-apparent-overdose-weeks-angry-tweets-article-1.1609292 | title= Julia Roberts' half-sister Nancy Motes found dead from reported suicide: Family says cause was 'apparent drug overdose' | first= Nancy | last= Dillon |author2=Cristina Everett | work = [[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]] | location = New York City| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140804143551/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/julia-roberts-half-sister-found-dead-apparent-overdose-weeks-angry-tweets-article-1.1609292 | access-date= February 10, 2014| archive-date= August 4, 2014 }}</ref> The marriage ended in 1983, with Betty Lou divorcing Motes on cruelty grounds; she had stated that marrying him was the biggest mistake of her life.<ref name="mirror.co.uk"/> Roberts's own father died of cancer when she was ten.<ref name=India>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090704060240/http://www.info2india.com/hollywood/celebrity/julia-roberts.html Profile] Info 2 India</ref>

Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian as a child.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Julia Roberts|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/julia-roberts/biography.html|work=Yahoo movies|access-date=July 14, 2012|archive-date=March 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313083316/https://movies.yahoo.com/person/julia-roberts/biography.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She played the [[clarinet]] in her school band.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Julia Roberts|url=http://www.movieactors.com/superstars/julia_roberts.htm|work=www.movieactors.com|access-date=July 14, 2012|archive-date=January 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117004935/http://www.movieactors.com/superstars/julia_roberts.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Julia Roberts: I Wasn't Popular In High School, I Coasted By|url=https://www.accessonline.com/articles/julia-roberts-i-wasnt-popular-in-high-school-i-coasted-by-108116|work=Access Online|date=October 10, 2011|access-date=October 21, 2019|archive-date=October 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021061818/https://www.accessonline.com/articles/julia-roberts-i-wasnt-popular-in-high-school-i-coasted-by-108116|url-status=live}}</ref> After graduating from Smyrna's [[Campbell High School (Georgia)|Campbell High School]], she headed to New York City to pursue a career in acting. Once there, she signed with the Click Modeling Agency and enrolled in acting classes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Julia Roberts|url=http://www.filmmakers.com/artists/juliaroberts/links/|work=filmmakers.com|access-date=July 14, 2012|archive-date=January 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117004938/http://www.filmmakers.com/artists/juliaroberts/links/|url-status=live}}</ref>