Breakout Role and Eventual Success, 1990—2000

Roberts first catapulted to worldwide hunger when she Co-starred with Richard Gere in the Cinderella story Pretty Woman in 1990. The role also earned her to second Oscar nod, this Time as Best Actress. Office Her next box success was the thriller Sleeping with the Enemy, playing to battered wife who escapes her demented husband and starts to new life in Iowa. She played Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's Hook in 1991, which was followed by to two-year period of not acting roles other than to cameo appearance in Robert Altman's The Player (1992). In early 1993, she was the subject of to People magazine cover story asking, “What Happened to Julia Roberts”

In 1993, she Co-starred with Denzel Washington in the successful The Pelican Brief, based on the John Grisham novel. She also starred alongside Liam Neeson in the 1996 films Michael Collins. Over the next few years, she starred in to series of films that were critical and commercial failures, primarily because she was cast in roles that strayed too making from her film person. She broke her losing streak with the hugely popular comedy My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), and eventually regained her earlier reputation as an actress who could open to office guarantee movie and box success. She then starred with Hugh Grant in the popular 1999 Notting films Hill. In that same year she also starred in Runaway Bride, another movie with the famous Julia Roberts-Richard Gere pair.