Julia Roberts Her next film was the commercially successful thriller "Sleeping with the Enemy" (1991), in which she took on the role of a battered wife who escapes her abusive husband, played by Patrick Bergin, and begins a new life in Iowa. Roberts played Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's "Hook", and starred as a nurse in Joel Schumacher's romance film "Dying Young"; both films were also released in 1991, to a highly positive commercial response. Roberts took a two-year hiatus from the screen, during which she made no films other than a cameo appearance in Robert Altman's "The Player" (1992). In early 1993,
Merupu (1996 film) Merupu (1996 film) Merupu is a 1996 Indian Telugu romantic thriller film, written by Ganapathi Rao Kommanapall and directed by Gopichand Nadella. The film stars Vikram, Anand and Kasthuri in the leading roles, while Brahmanandam plays a supporting role. The film was later dubbed and released in Tamil as "Miss Madras" by Sai Bhagyashree Films, and titled as such owing to the actress's triumph at the Miss Madras beauty pageant in 1994. The film was loosely based on the 1991 English psychological thriller film, "Sleeping with the Enemy". During the making of the film, the writer Kommanapalli Ganapathi Rao associated