In ET's exclusive sneak peek at the episode, after walking Julia Roberts and Edward Norton through their respective family trees, he reveals that the two of them actually share a distant cousin! "You and Ed share a long, identical stretch of DNA on your ninth chromosomes," Gates tells Roberts.
"Oh, wait — but am I not a Roberts?" the Ticket to Paradise star asked as Gates Jr. walked her through his findings. Gates Jr. then explained that public databases instead found "a cluster of matches" that traced Roberts, 55, to a man called Henry McDonald Mitchell Jr.
Her first film role turned up after she was recommended by her older brother, actor Eric Roberts, for a bit part as his on-screen sister in Blood Red (1989), a drama set in the late 1800s; although the film was completed in 1986, its release was delayed for several years.
And she just found out that she is related to another person who is very famous on this planet (no, it's not her bestie George, although that would be iconic). The Oscar winner is distantly related to Glass Onion star (and three-time Oscar nominee) Edward Norton.
The couple celebrated 21 years of marriage on July 4, 2023. Happy birthday, Julia! Julia Roberts and her husband Daniel Moder are celebrating 21 years of marriage.
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Julia Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, are two extremely private people, despite their level of fame. The couple have three kids — including twins — but Roberts rarely shares photos of them on Instagram.
Roberts had romantic relationships with actors Jason Patric, Liam Neeson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, and Matthew Perry. She was briefly engaged to Sutherland; they broke up three days before their scheduled wedding on June 11, 1991.
Julia Roberts learns that her ancestors who immigrated to America were Statares -- contract farm workers who, because of their harsh living conditions, were generally viewed as being on the lowest rungs of Swedish society.
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Despite the fact that the DNA test results failed to show that Julia had any British roots, the Pole took to Facebook to vocalize her scepticism. She began by stating that it was a "mistake" to have used the "I am Madeleine McCann" on her Instagram profile.
Julia Roberts posted a rare photo of her twins, Phinnaeus (aka Finn) and Hazel, in honor of their 18th birthday on Monday. The actress shared her love for her kids with a shot which looks to be from an old photoshoot.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Actress Julia Roberts gave birth to twins Sunday morning, her publicist told CNN. Roberts, who is married to cinematographer Daniel Moder, delivered Hazel Patricia Moder and Phinnaeus Walter Moder at a hospital in Southern California, said Marcy Engleman.
The couple dated for six months before splitting up in 1996. Matthew Perry said that he broke up with the "beautiful and brilliant" Julia Roberts because of his own struggles with addiction and not feeling "enough" for her.
When Julia Roberts was just 19, she was in a romantic relationship with Liam Neeson (who was 16 years her senior) and living with him at his Venice, California, home -- until she snagged the role of Shelby in "Steel Magnolias," where she met Dylan McDermott in 1988.
