Julia Roberts
Roberts in 2011, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Julia Fiona Roberts
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 28, 1967
Ethnicity: English, German, Swedish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, remote French
Julia Roberts is an American actress and producer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Erin Brockovich (2000). Perhaps the biggest female movie star of the 1990s, she has also starred in the films Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman, Flatliners (1990), Sleeping with the Enemy, Hook, The Pelican Brief, Everyone Says I Love You, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Stepmom, Notting Hill, Runaway Bride, The Mexican, America’s Sweethearts, Ocean’s Eleven, and its sequel Ocean’s Twelve; Mona Lisa Smile, Charlie Wilson’s War, Valentine’s Day (2010), Eat Pray Love, August: Osage County, Secret in Their Eyes (2015), Money Monster, Wonder (2017), Ben Is Back, and Ticket to Paradise, and on television’s The Normal Heart, Homecoming (2018), and Gaslit. She runs production company Red Om Films. She has been a global ambassador for Lancôme since 2009.
Julia is the daughter of Betty Lou and Walter Grady Roberts, who were actors and playwrights. She was raised in Smyrna, Georgia. She is the sister of actors Eric Roberts (Eric Anthony Roberts) and Lisa Roberts Gillan, and the aunt of actress Emma Roberts, who is Eric’s daughter. Julia is married to cinematographer Daniel Moder, with whom she has three children.
Julia’s father’s family has lived in the Southern United States for many generations; her ancestry includes English, German, Swedish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and remote French.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2023) stated that Julia’s genetic ancestry consists of:
*32% England & North Western Europe
*32% Scotland
*26% Norway
*7% Sweden & Denmark
*2% Wales
*1% Ireland
Genetically, she was found to have a common ancestor with actor Edward Norton.
Julia’s paternal grandfather was Walter Thomas “Tom” Roberts (the son of John Pendleton Roberts and Jimmie Glen Corbitt). Walter was born in Georgia. John was the son of Henry McDonald Mitchell, Jr., whose mother likely was born in Ireland, and of Rhoda/Rodie Suttle/Suttles. John was born and raised under the name of his mother’s late husband, Willis R. Roberts, who had died over a decade before his birth. John’s biological father was married to another woman when he was born. Jimmie was the daughter of Thomas C. Corbitt and Josephine “Josie”/Jodie Gherkey/Garker.
Julia’s paternal grandmother was Beatrice M. Beal (the daughter of William Edward Beal and Pearl F. Dooley). Beatrice was born in Georgia. William was the son of John Frank Beal and Martha Ann Redd. Pearl was the daughter of Washington “Lewis” Dooley and Mahalia/Mahala Ann “Haley” Hitt.
Julia’s maternal grandfather was Wendell John Bredemus (the son of John Math/Mathias/Matheus/Mathews Bredemus and Elin Maria “Eleanor” Johansdotter/Johnson). Wendell was born in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. Julia’s great-grandfather John was the son of Mathias/Mathew Bredemus, who was German, and of Elizabeth Steffens/Stevens, who was of German descent. Elin was Swedish, born in Sundstorp, By, Värmland, Sweden, the daughter of Johan/John Jansson/Johnson and Emma Kristina/Christina Carlsdotter/Karlsdotter/Carlson.
Julia’s maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Ellen Billingsley (the daughter of James Henry Billingsley and Nellie Hutchings). Elizabeth was born in Indiana. James was the son of John James Warren Billingsley and Elizabeth P./A. Hymer/Hyner/Pickelhymer. Nellie was the daughter of Dolphin/Dalphin/Dalphon Hutchings and Ellen Greenlee/Matkin/Matkins.
Sources: Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak’s article about Julia’s ancestry, at The Huffington Post – http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Genealogies of Julia Roberts – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://www.geni.com
https://www.wikitree.com
Genealogies of Julia’s parents – https://www.findagrave.com
Genealogy of Julia’s paternal great-grandfather, John Pendleton Roberts – http://www.findagrave.com
Marriage record of Julia’s maternal great-grandparents, James Henry Billingsley and Nellie Hutchings – https://familysearch.org
JJ that was a truly stupid statement. My hair ks black, not dark brown but black.
has brown hair
check out these pre-pretty woman pics
http://www.blog-city.info/en/img3/3653_young%20julia%20roberts.jpg
http://users.belgacom.net/juliaroberts/images/young%20julia5.jpg
dye job or not she’s far from a dark brunette
John Cusack and Paul McCartney are dark brown examples
If we’re talking Paul circa ’64 then yes, I can’t stomach that weird auburn dye job he sports nowadays! Cusak’s hair is virtually black Dylan Moran’s hair might be dark brown
yeah John Cusack hair look black, but with some more attention you will see they’re dark brown, the same for Paul in the 60s.
There may be some confusion deciphering light & dark brown hair and dark brown & virtually black hair. Well the truth is no one (not even negroids or mongoloids) has pure black hair, it is always a dark brown however if we use the natural hair colour number scales you’ll see it gets to a point where the brown is so dark that it does look black and would need an immense amount of lighting to show brown tones. So one could make the argument dark brown and virtually black are the same thing but well theres a difference between hair that looks brown but is a dark shade of such which may look black at certain times, and hair that is an extremely dark brown and looks black most of the time.
http://smartgirltips.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Hair-Dye-Colors-3.gif
If you’ll look on that chart, a number 1 black is impossible to achieve naturally on a human (even though some peoples may appear to be that colour) a number 2 which is an extremely dark brown would be reserved to non-Caucasian peoples who do not have any blue eyed and blonde haired ancestry whatsoever making it the darkest natural colour hair could possibly be, a number 3 would be as dark as a Caucasians hair can possibly get which is common amongst middle easterns and to a lesser extent southern Europeans, and finally a number 4 is the generic dark brown which is common amongst many white people of European descent whom have dark hair (particularly southern Europeans). So personally I consider a person with a natural 2 or 3 hair colour as a virtually black noirette and someone with a number 4 and in some cases even a number 5 (depending on pictures and dyes they have in their hair as contrast) as a dark brown brunette, But that is why i use the term ‘virtually black’ as I’m acknowledging the fact that the persons hair is not ‘truly black’ and is just an extremely dark brown. But this a subjective matter as some would class all 2,3 and 4 hair colours as simply dark brown and some would only class non-Caucasian number 2 colour as virtually black, it is a matter of opinion and POV in the end really.
She still looks Italian/Med. Brown hair isn’t just a German/English feature.
correction; her eyes are hazel (light brown) and her hair is dark brown (brunette) I think it should be listed
I remember her with curly reddish hair in her first movies
you love saying correction! dark brown brunnette hair and hazel brown eyes how on earth do you know just because someone gets a colour tint or natural highlights doesn’t mean his/her hair is dark I am a hairdresser I know what I am talking about
i look at photos of the celebrity on google images and considering most women dye their hair i look at their roots and/or past photos where they didn’t dye it, i don’t just make things up and I’m actually going to the trouble of trying to correct celebrity hair and eye colours, i don’t appreciate being belittled.