Julia Roberts filmography Julia Roberts filmography Julia Roberts is an American actress director who made her acting debut in the 1987 direct-to-video feature "Firehouse". She made her breakthrough the following year by starring in the coming-of-age film "Mystic Pizza" (1988). For her supporting role in the comedy-drama "Steel Magnolias" (1989), she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Roberts' next role was opposite Richard Gere in the highly successful romantic comedy "Pretty Woman" (1990), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy). In 1991, she appeared in the psychological thriller "Sleeping with the Enemy", and
Dolly Parton the comedy family film "Gnomeo & Juliet" (2011), a computer-animated film with garden gnomes about William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". "Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors", a made-for-TV film based on Parton's song of the same name, and featuring narration by Parton, aired on NBC in December 2015, with child actress Alyvia Alyn Lind portraying the young Parton. Parton also had a cameo in , which aired in November 2016. She co-starred with Queen Latifah in the musical film "Joyful Noise" (2012), which finished filming in April 2011. She played a choir director's widow who joins forces with Latifah's character,