Julia Roberts is going for baby number three. Already mom to two-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus with her cinematographer husband Danny Moder, the actress’s spokeswoman confirmed on Friday that Roberts is expecting another child.
Her publicist, Marcy Engelman, told People magazine that the baby is due in the summer. Rumours of her pregnancy had been circulating thanks to an early report in the New York Post’s Page Six gossip column.
Roberts, 39, and Moder, 37, were married in July 2002. They welcomed twins to their family in November 2004.
She may have taken time off to have and raise her twin babies, but now Julia Roberts is a working mom.
“Charlotte’s Web,” her first feature film since the birth of her babies is out this Friday, and she is in the middle of filming “Charlie Wilson’s War,” and is set to appear in the upcoming film, “Eat, Pray, Love.” But that’s not enough work, apparently, for the “Pretty Woman” star.
E! Online reports that Roberts has signed on as the lead in “Happiness Sold Separately,” a film adaptation of the novel by Lolly Winston.
Roberts will star, and co-produce the upcoming film, which will be adapted to the screen and directed by Scott Coffey.
“I couldn’t get Julia out of my head when I was reading Lolly’s book. Elinor is such a strong, complicated woman, and bringing her to the screen required Julia’s integrity, empathy, humour and legs,” Coffey said about the decision to cast Roberts.
Knitting isn’t just for your grandmother – at least, not if Julia Roberts is doing it.
Roberts has been seen knitting between takes while on set filming her movies for quite a while. Now the superstar actress is going to make a movie about the activity that will, thanks to her, soon be what all the cool kids are doing.
Daily Variety reports that Roberts has signed on to star in the Friday Night Knitting Club a drama about a single mom who runs a knitting shop in Manhattan. It’s based on an upcoming novel by new author Kate Jacobs.
Roberts, who became a new mother to twins in November, 2004, hasn’t been seen on screen since Ocean’s Twelve two years ago.
Now, the Pretty Woman is diving back into acting head-on: she also has two other movies in the works. Roberts is currently shooting the political drama Charlie Wilson’s War with co-stars Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman and she is also set to star in the upcoming Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir to be adapted for the screen.
Julia Roberts’ newest role is spokesperson for Earth Biofuels, the Associated Press reports.
Roberts will be the alternative energy company’s spokesperson in promoting alternative fuel, and will chair the company’s advisory board.
“It’s very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the environment and for the air we breathe,” Roberts said in a statement.
The actress will work with the company to try to get 500,000 school buses nation wide to switch to biodiesel fuel.
Actor Morgan Freeman and singer Willie Nelson are also on the Dallas company’s board of directors.
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Julia Roberts Posted on November 29th, 2005 by
Eva Lam
Academy Award winner Julia Roberts will make her Broadway debut in ?Three Days of Rain? alongside two very familiar faces.
TV actors Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper will co-star with Roberts in the revival of Richard Greenberg’s play.
Directed by Joe Mantello, the play begins preview performance March 28 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York and opens April 19. Its 12-week engagement wraps up on June 18.
Rudd is known to TV audiences as Lisa Kudrow’s love interest on the last two seasons of “Friends,” but he has extensive theatre credits, including Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed Lincoln Center production of “Twelfth Night” and “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” by Alfred Uhry on Broadway.
He recently appeared on the big screen in ?The 40 Year Old Virgin? and ?Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.?
Cooper has had roles on such TV shows as “Alias,” “The Street” and “Jack and Bobby.” He currently stars in the Fox series “Kitchen Confidential.”
“Three Days of Rain,” which features three actors portraying multiple characters, was originally done by Manhattan Theatre Club in 1997. Two interlocking stories take place in different decades and focus on how parents can affect the lives of their children.
