Julia Roberts
will receive a healthy salary for her next movie. In fact,
that remuneration will make her the first woman to break the
$20 million hump broken years ago by male stars.
The gals earned it, for seven of her films have surpassed
the $100 million mark (hey, thats more some of those
guys flicks!), and her performances are consistent audience
favorites. Roberts atypical beauty -- clear-eyed
sparkle, wholesome wide grin and charismatic presence
marks her as Hollywoods Girl Next Door Superstar.
Atypical as well was her road to success.
After high school graduation,
Roberts left her native Georgia and joined her actor-sister
in New York. At age 19 she was cast as her actor-brothers
on-screen sister in the 1986 movie, Blood Red (released in
1989). She went on to roles in Firehouse (1987), Crime Story
(TV - 1988), Satisfaction (TV - 1988), Before Your Eyes: Angelies
Secret (TV - 1988), Baja Oklahoma (TV - 1988), and Miami Vice
(TV episode - 1988). For her part in Mystic Pizza (1988) she
received an Independent Spirit Award nomination...
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