This 5'9" tall, Academy award winner, million dollar smile, highest-paid actress in Hollywood was born to Walter and Betty Roberts as Julie Fiona Roberts in Smyrna, Georgia (U.S.A) on October 28, 1967. Her father was a vacuum cleaner salesman, actor, and writer, and her mother was a church secretary and actress. Her parents divorced when she was five, and her mother remarried Michael Motes. Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian as a child, but soon after graduating from Campbell High School she headed to New York to join her sister and pursue a career in acting. Once there she signed with Click modeling agency and enrolled in acting classes.