JULIA ROBERTS: Excited for a NEW CHAPTER

WITH HER OLDEST CHILDREN HEADED TO COLLEGE, THE OSCAR WINNER HAS MORE TIME TO CHASE HER OWN DREAMS

- Rick Egusquiza

It's been a long time since Julia Roberts had so many starring roles on the horizon, but she would prefer if you didn't use the word "comeback" to describe where her life and career are headed. "It wasn't by design," she insists of her long absence from important roles on the big screen. "If I'd thought something was good enough, I would have done it. But I also had three kids in the last 18 years."

Family life with her cameraman husband Danny Moder, 53, and children Hazel and Finn, both 17, and Henry, 14, has been Julia's priority. However, now that the kids are older - the twins are set to graduate high school and start college in the fall Julia, 54, has been more eager to work. She's starring in the Watergate drama Gaslit, which just premiered on Starz, and has two big upcoming films, Ticket to Paradise, a comedy with George Clooney, and Leave the World Behind, a thriller now in production.