Which actress played a lead role in the 1999 American comedy film "Runaway Bride"?

"Runaway Bride" is a 1999 American screwball romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. The screenplay, written by Sara Parriott and Josann McGibbon, is about a reporter (Gere) that is assigned to write a story about a woman (Roberts) who has left a string of fiancés at the altar.

It received generally negative reviews from critics but was a commercial success, grossing $309 million worldwide.

The film was in development for over a decade. The film used a number of callbacks to Roberts’s and Gere's prior work, "Pretty Woman". These references included the reframing of the store scene where she was blocked from buying the clothes. Writers Elaine May and Leslie Dixon did unused rewrites.

Much of the film production took place in and around historic Berlin, Maryland, which was made over to become the fictitious town of Hale, Maryland.

Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress. Roberts was the world's highest-paid actress throughout the majority of the 1990s as well as for much of the first half of the 2000s.

In 2000, Roberts narrated a documentary about Rett syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder, designed to help raise public awareness about the disease, and in 2014, she was the voice of Mother Nature in a short film for Conservation International intended to raise awareness about climate change.