Actor: Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts was the most bankable female star in the world through the 1990s, following Pretty Woman with a run of enormous hits, and became the first actress to be paid twenty million dollars for a film.

She won Best Actress for Erin Brockovich, playing a real legal clerk with a directness the industry rarely wrote for women at that budget level.

My Best Friend’s Wedding is the more interesting comedy, in which she plays the antagonist of her own romantic comedy. The Ocean’s films and August: Osage County show the range afterward.