Eric Roberts is an iconoclast, both in performance and in his personal life. As the older brother of Academy Award winner Julia Roberts, he watched his sister surpass the prominence of his own acting career and has often been vocal about how her rise would not have come without him having laid a path for her to follow.

Eric Roberts is baring it all in his new memoir, "Runaway Train: Or, The Story of My Life So Far." Learn all about the actor and his famous family.

Eric Roberts, the older brother of Julia Roberts and father to Emma Roberts, has issued a public apology to his sister for claiming responsibility for her Oscar-winning career.