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,
Jordan Roberts (writer) years old. His stepfather was television screenwriter William "Bill" Jacobson (1920–2011), whom his mother married on October 23, 1968. Roberts had one brother, who died in the 1980s of a heroin overdose, and one older stepsister, Jessie Jacobson.Roberts is married to Marianne Roberts in 1991. They have two children, sons Brandon and Cameron Roberts. In 1997, Roberts wrote the script for the comedy film "The Debtors", directed by Evi Quaid and starring Michael Caine. However, "The Debtors" remains unreleased due to legal troubles with the director and her husband, Randy Quaid, who co-starred in the film. Roberts is known for