Like most actors, she began in commercials, earning her a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card. She became an overnight success, or rather an over "decade" success. With hits like You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle and City of Angels, her star status is cemented.

Films that were more quirky like Addicted To Love, I.Q. and Flesh And Bone were not the commercial hits that her romantic comedies were.