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,
Julia Phillips Julia Phillips Julia Phillips (April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband, Michael (and others), three prominent films of the 1970s — "The Sting", "Taxi Driver", and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" — and was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, for "The Sting". In 1991, Phillips published an infamous tell-all memoir of her years as a Hollywood producer, entitled "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again", which became a bestseller. Born Julia Miller to a Polish Jewish family in New