In a career spanning over forty years, Roberts has amassed more than 500 credits, including Raggedy Man (1981), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), The Specialist (1994), Cecil B. Demented (2000), National Security (2003), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), The Expendables (2010) and Inherent Vice (2014). His equally varied television work includes three seasons with the sitcom Less than Perfect, as well as recurring roles on the NBC drama Heroes and the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, as well as Saved by the Light, the legal drama Suits, and Fox\'s The Finder.\n', '

His sisters Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, and daughter Emma Roberts, also have acting careers.\n', '

Roberts was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, to Betty Lou Bredemus (1934-2015) and Walter Grady Roberts (1933-1977), one-time actors and playwrights, who met while touring a production of George Washington Slept Here for the armed forces. In 1963, they co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, off Juniper Street in Midtown. They ran a children\'s acting school in Decatur, Georgia while they were expecting Julia. Roberts\' mother became a church secretary and real estate agent, and his father, a vacuum cleaner salesman. Roberts\' younger siblings, Julia Roberts (from whom he was estranged until 2004) and Lisa Roberts Gillan, are also actors.\n', '

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