Julia Roberts

For more than thirty years, Julia Roberts has had one of the most famous smiles in the world, and one of the most private lives in Hollywood. She rarely gives interviews outside a film's promotion, and she held off on joining Instagram until 2018. The public knows the laugh. It does not know much else.

Her chart explains that split neatly. She was born at 12:16 a.m. on October 28, 1967, in the Atlanta area, according to her birth certificate, and grew up in Smyrna, Georgia. Her Sun is in Scorpio in the fourth house, with Mercury there too. Scorpio is the most private sign of the zodiac, protective of what matters and wary of exposure; the fourth house concerns home, family and private roots. A Scorpio Sun in the fourth describes someone whose real life is lived behind a closed door, guarded with real determination.

Cancer rises, which shapes the warmth people see first. Cancer is nurturing, emotional and approachable, and a Cancer Ascendant tends to read as open and kind, the face of the girl next door. That is the persona audiences fell for in Pretty Woman in 1990, and it has carried her through decades of romantic comedies, from My Best Friend's Wedding to Notting Hill.

She came from a performing family. Her parents ran a workshop for actors and writers in Atlanta, and her older brother Eric was already an actor when she followed him into the business. Mystic Pizza in 1988 got her noticed; Steel Magnolias the next year brought her first Oscar nomination. Pretty Woman made her the biggest female star of the decade. In 2000 she played the legal clerk and activist Erin Brockovich, took home the Oscar for Best Actress, and became the first actress to command a reported $20 million for a single film.

Her Moon is in Leo in the second house, with Jupiter in Virgo nearby in the same house. A Leo Moon needs to shine and to be valued; the second governs money and self-worth. Astrologers would read this as emotional security tied to being properly rewarded, and her pay became a landmark for actresses at a time when the gap with leading men was enormous.

Mars in Capricorn in the sixth house adds a disciplined, businesslike approach to work. Roberts has spent her later career choosing projects carefully, producing as well as acting, and moving between film and prestige television.

She married the cinematographer Danny Moder in 2002, after meeting him on the set of The Mexican, and they raised three children largely away from public view. The Cancer rising gave the world the smile; the Scorpio Sun in the fourth house kept the family to herself.