"Pretty Woman" still the highest paid actress
The Hollywood Reporter, an entertainment paper recently published its annual list of the top-earning actresses, putting Nicole Kidman just behind Roberts at No. 2.
Kidman commands an estimated US $16 million to US $17 million per movie, the Reporter said.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The No. 3 and No. 4 spots were held by Reese Witherspoon, currently starring in 'Oscar hopeful' Walk the Line, and Drew Barrymore, both of whom take in $15 million a movie.
Roberts, with her broad smile and infectious all-American style, earned an Oscar for playing feisty consumer advocate Erin Brockovich in the 2000 movie of the same name.
That role and her ability to lure audiences into theaters in movies like Ocean's Eleven put her in the ranks of $20 million-plus movie actors, a realm previously reserved for hugely popular actors like Tom Cruise.
Roberts, 38, put her career on hold in 2004 and 2005. She gave birth in November of last year to twins, Phinnaeus and Hazel, and is married to cameraman Danny Moder.