Michael Thompson

Julia Roberts
The Gold Standard

WHY HER Because even when she's playing bugs (in last year's kiddie flicks Charlotte's Web and The Ant Bully), Julia Roberts is still...Julia Roberts. Raising those toddler twins and preparing for Henry Daniel, who was born on June 18, has meant cutting back on her filming schedule, yet Roberts remains, until further notice, the biggest female movie star on planet Earth.

NEXT This December she'll be costarring opposite Tom Hanks in Charlie Wilson's War, a Mike Nichols film based on the true story of a Texas congressman who launched an undercover misadventure to help the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. Finally, a role that doesn't involve cavorting with critters.