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Birth Name
Eric Anthony Roberts
One of Hollywood's edgier, more intriguing characters running around and
about for decades, Eric Anthony Roberts started life in Biloxi, Mississippi,
but grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He began his acting career at age 5 in a
local theater company called the Actors and Writers Workshop founded by
his late father, Walter Roberts. After his schooling at Grady High, he
studied drama at age 17 in London for two years at the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Arts, then returned to the States and continued his studies at the
American Academy in New York. He made his NY stage debut in "Rebel
Women" in 1976 at age 20 and appeared in regional productions, once
playing the newspaper boy in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire"
starring Shirley Knight and Glenn Close.

After appearing in such daytime soaps as "Another World" and "How to
Survive a Marriage", his career began to shift fast forward when he
copped a leading role in a major film. In King of the Gypsies (1978), based
on Peter Maas' best seller about a fracturing dynasty of New York City
gypsies, he made his debut alongside an intimidating roster of stars
including Judd Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Shelley Winters and Sterling
Hayden. Young Eric held his own expertly (winning a Golden Globe nom)
while his burning intensity and brooding charm marked sure signs of star
potential. After this he won the lead opposite Milo O'Shea in the 1980
stage production of "Mass Appeal". He suffered serious injuries in a car
accident during his nascent film career but lost no fans by the time he
returned to co-star with Sissy Spacek as a small-town stranger in Raggedy
Man (1981). It was, however, his stark and frightening portrayal of two-bit
hustler Paul Snider, the cast-off boyfriend who slays
Playmate-turned-movie starlet Dorothy Stratten (played by Mariel
Hemingway) in Star 80 (1983) that really put him on the movie map and
earned him a second Golden Globe nomination.

A wide range of fascinating, whacked-out roles were immediately offered
to him on a silver plate. He played another dangerous streetwise hustler
type in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) opposite fellow rebel Mickey
Rourke; a cocky soda pop sales exec in the Australian comedy The
Coca-Cola Kid (1985); appeared with more charm and restraint opposite
Rosanna Arquette in the offbeat romantic comedy Nobody's Fool (1986)
and topped his prolific period off with an Academy Award nomination as a
young prison escapee hiding out with Jon Voight aboard an out-of-control
train in the ultra-violent, character-driven action adventure Runaway Train
(1985). Good things continued to happen when he was a replacement lead
in the original run of "Burn This" and won a Theatre World Award for his
1988 Broadway debut.

A risky, no-holds-barred actor, he was often guilty of overacting if given
half the chance. His film career began to slide in the late 1980s, appearing
in more quantity than quality pictures. A series of missteps led to
unheralded appearances in such bombs as the karate-themed Best of the
Best (1989); the NY urban thriller The Ambulance (1990); the action
western Blood Red (1989), which took three years to release and is now
solely remembered for being the only film Eric and superstar sister Julia
Roberts appeared in together; and Rude Awakening (1989) when he filled
in as a burned-out hippie opposite a Chong-less Cheech Marin. More
underappreciated "B" filming came with the 1990s (Freefall (1994),
Sensation (1994), The Nature of the Beast (1995), etc.), while also chewing
the scenery with a number of mobster types in TV-movies, including one
as Al Capone. He soon began appearing as flashy secondary villains and
creepies that showcased other stars instead, such as Final Analysis (1992)
starring Richard Gere, Heaven's Prisoners (1996) toplining Alec Baldwin,
and The Dark Knight (2008), part of the "Batman" series with Christian Bale
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