Eric Roberts
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| Eric Roberts | |
 Eric Roberts in his home in Los Angeles |
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| Birth name | Eric Anthony Roberts |
| Born | April 18, 1956 (age 50) Biloxi, Mississippi, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Eliza Roberts (1992-present) |
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| Nominated for Best Supporting Actor: Runaway Train |
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Eric Anthony Roberts (born on April 18, 1956, in Biloxi, Mississippi) is an American film actor. He was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, attended Grady High School, and is the brother of actress Julia Roberts as well as the father of actress Emma Roberts and stepfather of singer/songwriter Keaton Simons.
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[edit] Awards
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his role as the escaped convict Buck in the film Runaway Train. In 1987 he won the Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut performance in Burn This.
[edit] Roles
His other starring roles include Star 80 (1983), The Raggedy Man, The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), Rude Awakening(1988), Best of the Best (1989), The Specialist (1994), The Immortals (1995), The Cable Guy (1996) and "La Cucaracha" (1998). In 1996 he appeared in the Doctor Who television movie in the role of the Master. He also appears in the 2000 film Race Against Time as a father who sells his organs to pay for hospital treatment for his son and the 2002 film Spun as "The Man" alongside Mickey Rourke and Jason Schwartzmann. He also performed the voice of Dark Danny in Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom.
Roberts recently starred in Royal Kill, a psychological thriller which also stars Pat Morita, Lalaine, Gail Kim, and is directed by Babar Ahmed.
Roberts appeared as a panelist on the television game show Hollywood Squares.
Most recently, Roberts has co-starred on the ABC sitcom Less Than Perfect. His daughter Emma has joined her father and aunt in the acting business. Recently, she gained a starring role on the Nickelodeon series Unfabulous and appeared in the films Aquamarine and Blow.
In 2006, he appeared in the film A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.
He appeared in DOA: Dead or Alive, which despite being out on DVD already in many parts of the world has not reached US cinemas yet(scheduled release June 22 2007).
He also appeared in The Killers' music video of the song Mr. Brightside as well as in the music videos for Mariah Carey's We Belong Together and It's Like That . In 2006, he appeared in the video for Akon's "Smack That", featuring Eminem.
He appeared in an episode of CSI: Miami as Ken Kramer, a murderer on death row suspected of murdering a young couple.
In early January 2007 Roberts starred in the two-part mini-series Pandemic as the mayor of Los Angeles.
He has recently joined the cast of Heroes as Thompson, an associate of Mr. "Horn-Rimmed Glasses" Bennet.[1]
[edit] Satire/spoofs
An episode of the satiric cartoon South Park featured Roberts as a star in a re-enactment of America's Most Wanted. He plays the genetically engineered half-man, half-monkey sidekick of the character Mephisto. During the re-enactment's taping, a snowstorm forces a group of characters to resort to cannibalism. Roberts is the first casualty because, as the Mayor of South Park puts it, "No one gives a shit about Eric Roberts."
He was also immortalized in an episode of Seinfeld; after giving away the ending of the film, Kramer tells George that Roberts' performance as the husband in the film The Other Side of Darkness was "unforgettable."
He was portrayed as a clay figure on MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch where he fought alongside his sister, Julia Roberts, against Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond.
Eric was parodied in the web cartoon series College University, participating in a martial arts competition for washed up action stars. He never got to compete, though, as the Transformer Optimus Prime knocked him out and stole his name tag. It should be noted that although in writing he was dubbed Eric Roberts, throughout the entire episode everybody referred to him as "Julia Roberts' Brother." The cartoon can be viewed at http://www.collegeuniv.com/html/module-Pagesetter-viewpub-tid-1-pid-13.html.
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[edit] References
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie. "Dale, Cohen, Roberts get casting calls", The Hollywood Reporter, January 23, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-26.
