"julia roberts"

While Julia Roberts made films in the 1980s, it was in the 1990s that she became the most popular actress in America. She started the decade with a hit, Pretty Woman, a role that a slew of actresses had turned down. Over her next 17 films during the 1990s, which included such iconic hits as Sleeping with the Enemy, The Pelican Brief, My Best Friend's Wedding, and Notting Hill, she became the highest paid actress in Hollywood history. She also has been named People magazine’s “Most Beautiful Woman Alive” a record five times. She revealed she was a Hirschfeld fan in 1991 when she visited a gallery displaying his drawings while avoiding the press after leaving actor Kiefer Sutherland at the altar. Her talent agency, ICM, commissioned this drawing of their famous client several years later. Hirschfeld would do a color portrait of Roberts for the New Yorker in 2001, as well as drawing her in her Oscar-winning performance in Erin Brockovich in a composite of nominees he drew for the New York Times.