Sutherland and Roberts played love interests in the medical student thriller “Flatliners.” The film was poorly received, but the relationship between the two heated up and Sutherland reportedly left his wife and children to move in with her. Roberts and Sutherland became engaged in August 1990 and set a June 14, 1991, wedding date. However, days before the wedding, Roberts left Sutherland and escaped to Ireland with Sutherland’s friend Jason Patric. (Chris Pizzello / AP; Dan Steinberg / AP)
On the day of her planned nuptials to Kiefer Sutherland and only a few days after breaking off their engagement altogether, Roberts fled to Ireland with Sutherland’s friend Jason Patric. The trip kicked off a year-long relationship between the two, which lasted only through 1992. (Chris Pizzello / AP; Richard Hartog / Los Angeles Times)
Best known for his roles in “Dead Poets Society” and the recent “Reality Bites,” Ethan Hawke became a tabloid hot topic when he was seen dancing closely with Julia Roberts even though she was still married to Lyle Lovett. Roberts and Lovett announced their plans to divorce soon after and her “relationship” with Hawke was brief at best. (Lawrence Lucier / Getty Images)
Aside from their similar day jobs, Roberts and Daniel Day-Lewis still seem worlds apart. Compared to Roberts’ celebrity status, Day-Lewis has always been known to take very select yet powerful film roles, in movies such as “My Left Foot” and “There Will Be Blood.” The two quietly dated in 1994 and 1995. (Warner Bros.; Cori Wells Braun / For The Times)
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Roberts joined Brooke Shields and Jean-Claude Van Damme as a guest star on a special post-Super Bowl episode of the TV hit “Friends.” Roberts played a woman bent on getting revenge on Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) after he teased her in grade school. In real life, the two briefly dated right around the time the episode aired in early 1996. (Joe Tabacca / AP; Andrew Eccles / NBC)
Roberts portrayed the “plain Jane” assistant to Catherine Zeta-Jones’ movie star Gwen Harrison in “America’s Sweethearts.” Roberts’ Kiki has had long-standing feelings for Gwen’s movie star (and now estranged) husband, Eddie Thomas, played by John Cusack. One of the more memorable moments of the film involved the fat suit Roberts wore to portray a younger, “bigger” version of her character. (Melinda Sue Gordon / Revolution Studios)
Roberts met then-married camerman Daniel Moder on the set of “The Mexican” in 2000. A year later, he was divorced and they were dating, and a year after that, on July 4, 2002, the two were married on her ranch in New Mexico. In November 2004, Roberts gave birth to twins Hazel and Phinnaeus and then had son Henry in July 2007. (Pawan Sharma / AP)