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A winsome beauty with a large, incandescent smile and a mane of auburn hair, Julia Roberts was one of the few bankable female stars of the early 1990s.
She first gained notice playing a fiery Portuguese waitress in Donald Petrie's Mystic Pizza (1988) and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as the doomed diabetic heroine of Herbert Ross' Steel Magnolias (1989). Julia Roberts became one of Hollywood's most popular and bankable stars after her performance in Garry Marshall's saccharine but immensely successful rags-to-riches saga, Pretty Woman (1990). Her contribution made the routine thrillers Flatliners (1990) and Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) popular successes. |