8 Great Actors Who Didn't Realise They Were Being Weirdly Typecast

5. Julia Roberts Is...Unable To Form A Functional Family

Julia Roberts Eat Pray Love Mirror Mirror Mother S Day
Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Open Road Films

Despite her enormous popularity, Julia Roberts just can't seem to escape playing characters with horrendously dysfunctional family lives.

Examples: Roberts has died in a car accident that tore her family apart (Fireflies in the Garden), gotten divorced and gone on vacation to "find" herself (Eat Pray Love), been unhappily married to Bryan Cranston (Larry Crowne), been a wicked stepmother (Mirror Mirror), attempted to beat up her elderly mother (August: Osage County), suffered through her daughter's brutal murder (Secret in Their Eyes) and given up a daughter as a youngster only to be confronted by her many years later (Mother's Day).

While some of these scenarios do ultimately have semi-happy resolutions, a lot of them don't, and it's odd that someone as talented as Roberts has been typecast as such a specific and often morbid character type.

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