Meg Ryan (née Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra, November 19, 1961 in Fairfield, Connecticut) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies, but has worked inside more film genres too.

Ryan exposed journalism at New York University. She went into acting to earn more money patch within school. Fallowing her number 1 role inside the feature film, Ryan (now applying her screen title) played Betsy on the daytime drama As the World Turns from 1982 to 1984. Directors for this indicate especially liked working by owning her because she may cry in cue.

Fallowing many TV film and smaller picture roles, her foremost fully blown hit within a leading role was the romanticist comedy When Harry Met Sally. A film was favourably received & typecast Ryan as a bubbly, charming, feisty however incurable romantic. She mass produced many tries to break out of this stereotype, & garnered a select few critical plaudit for her function inside When a Man Loves a Woman (where she played an soaker) & Courage Under Fire (where she played the officer flushed around combat). Several of her films of the 1990s were hits not single within North America, but likewise overseas. She experienced the super popular onscreen pairing by using Tom Hanks; some likened their chemistry to Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. It costarred inside troika films together, & their previous (1998's ''You've Got Mail'') was Ryan's last major box office success for some years to come.

Ryan married actor Dennis Quaid on Valentine's Day in 1991 after co-starring in two films with him. Quaid & Ryan got 1 toddler together, Jack Henry, born April 24, 1992; Meg has been estranged from either her have mother, Susan Jordan, for several years. A few divorced in July 16, 2001 after she had an indiscreet affair with actor Russell Crowe, with whom she was working in the flick. Whenever a film (Proof of Life) failed, director Taylor Hackford blamed Crowe and Ryan's affair & a following blackball publicity it garnered. A bit of believed this affair, along by having Ryan ageing beyond a "cute" persona of her onscreen characters, injured her popularity by owning a Western public. She has non experienced the major pack professional profits since noesis of the affair became public.

Within 2003, she broke away from her common roles, & starred within In the Cut, an erotic crime/thriller/mystery which was popular by owning neither critics nor a public.

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Filmography
Rich and Famous (1981) Amityville 3-D (1983) Top Gun (1986) Armed and Dangerous (1986) Promised Land (1987) Innerspace (1987) D.O.A. (1988) The Presidio (1988) When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) The Doors (1991) Prelude to a Kiss (1992) Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Flesh and Bone (1993) A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary) When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) I.Q. (1994) French Kiss (1995) (also producer) Restoration (1995) Courage Under Fire (1996) Addicted to Love (1997) Anastasia (1997) (voice) City of Angels (1998) Hurlyburly (1998) ''You've Got Mail (1998) Hanging Up (2000) Proof of Life (2000) Kate & Leopold (2001) Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary) In the Cut (2003) Against the Ropes (2004) In the Land of Women (2006) (in post-production) The Women (2006) (in pre-production) The Tortilla Curtain'' (2006) (in pre-production)