Who is erin brockovich

Erin Brockovich : Yeah. That's how many months old my baby girl is. George : You got a little girl? Yeah, sexy, huh? How 'bout this for a number? That's how old my other daughter is, eight is the age of my son, two is how many times I've been married - and divorced; sixteen is the number of dollars I have in my bank account.

That's my phone number, and with all the numbers I gave you, I'm guessing zero is the number of times you're gonna call it. Sign In. Play trailer Biography Drama. Director Steven Soderbergh. Susannah Grant. Top credits Director Steven Soderbergh. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Official Trailer.

Photos Top cast Edit. David Brisbin Dr. Jaffe as Dr. Dawn Didawick Rosalind as Rosalind. Valente Rodriguez Donald as Donald. Conchata Ferrell Brenda as Brenda. Former Hinkley resident Roberta Walker had lived in the town for over 50 years. She and her husband moved into their first home in Hinkley together in and stayed until It was a little country town.

After years of exposure to chromium 6, she has had five stomach surgeries and three breast surgeries. Both of her daughters have had hysterectomies and fibromyalgia, and her husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

And they all have asthma. She believes the illness comes from the contaminated water. But Walker said she received far less. The money did not fix the problem for me. Not at all. It's a ghost town. Then there are the structural issues. Of the approximately 40, chemicals on the market, less than 1 percent have been tested for human safety.

Science is often manipulated by companies that put profit over public health. In sum, industry pollution goes largely unsupervised and laws remain unenforced. The U. In , Brockovich joined Trevor Schaefer, a young man from Idaho who had been diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 13, to testify on Capitol Hill about the importance of documenting and tracking cancer clusters.

Brockovich hopes her crowdsourced digitized map will act as a de facto disease database. As Brockovich herself often says, her path was not an obvious one. The youngest in a family of four children growing up in Lawrence, Kansas, a university town 45 minutes west of Kansas City, Brockovich was placed in special-education classes for her dyslexia.

Her parents—her mother, B. In , Brockovich graduated from high school and enrolled in Kansas State University. She spent her first semester staying out all night and skipping classes, and when her father saw her report card, he made her drop out. She dabbled in the world of professional beauty pageants and was crowned Miss Pacific Coast in The following year, she met and married her first husband, a house painter, with whom she had her son and her first daughter.

Their five-year marriage was volatile, and Brockovich suffered debilitating panic attacks. When her husband got a job in the food industry that moved the family to Reno, Nevada, Brockovich was hired by a brokerage firm there; one of the brokers was a man named Steve Brockovich, who would become her second husband and the father of her younger daughter.

That marriage was tumultuous, too—her self-esteem took such a dive that she had to be hospitalized for anorexia—and lasted only a year, leaving her broke, pregnant, and shatteringly lonely.

We would spend a lot of time there, down with the Cherokees and the Ponca nation. The whole movie thing made me uncomfortable enough. I can still be very uncomfortable with it today. I was nervous! I flubbed up my one line. How I flubbed up my line is because she was ordering chicken noodle soup for the baby. In retrospect, do you think Steven was right?

Would you have regretted it? There were a lot of other things going on in my mind, thinking about the film, like, was it going to be accurate? Universal was great about that, and so was Jersey Films, and so was Steven Soderbergh. Truth is stranger than fiction, and everybody has their perceptions, but I did know that how the people of Hinkley were going to feel [about the movie] was important to us.

There were a lot of other people that were involved in this case, other firms, and everybody played a role. I wish they all could have just been seen in the movie.

I did worry about how they would feel. What else were you worried about? What if it was a flop? You know, all those kinds of things come into your mind.

I certainly never, ever, ever thought it [would be so relevant] into He does seem like the most curious person. How did you trust him with, literally, your life story? I had a good relationship with Jersey Films. I trusted them. They understood the importance of telling the true story, but they knew that it would be Steven Soderbergh who would probably get that story told the right way. I remember meeting him for the first time here at my house.

I enjoyed the conversation with him. I loved his Doc Martens and his little dark rimmed glasses. He was easy going. He was intriguing. I was comfortable around him. And, you know, during the whole process, there was always that voice in the back of my mind that [the movie would] probably never get made.

Tell me about getting the call that Julia Roberts was going to play you? Ed would always ask me who I thought should play me. Goldie Hawn? I mean, first of all, Julia Roberts is never going to do it. Ed and I joked with each other constantly. I mean, how does this stuff happen? I was stunned. What happened when you met her? I was very nervous. When she came in, I was sitting and doing hair and makeup. I saw her in the mirror and she went into another room and I could hear her.

B She has a beautiful energy. Her presence is very warm. It was, again, weird.