Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan is a blonde-haired blue-eyed woman with an exuberant personality. Her birth name is Margaret Mary Emily Hyra to Susan (Duggan) who was an English teacher and a former actress. Harry Hyra was a math teacher. Meg Ryan is of Ruthenian, Polish, Irish, and German heritage ("Hyra" is an Irish and Ruthenian surname and "Ryan" is her maternal grandmother's maiden name). Meg has graduated from Bethel high school, Bethel in June 1979. In the fall of 1979, she relocated to New York, she attended New York University where she majored in journalism. Meg Ryan is her name change, started acting to earn a little extra while she completed her degree. In 1981, she made her first big screen debut, with a brief appearance as Candice Bergen's daughter in George Cukor's last film Rich and Famous (1981). She was cast in the part as Betsy in the television soap As the World Turns (1956) after she had a go at. She was a part of the show's cast from 1982 to 1984. Meg also appeared in the television show One of the Boys (1982) but the show was eventually cancelled. In 1984, she relocated to Hollywood and was offered a job in the western television series Wildside (1985). Meg had a small role in Top Gun (1986), which led her to be cast in Steven Spielberg’s Innerspace (1987) where she starred alongside Dennis Quaid. In D.O.A.'s remake, she starred alongside Quaid. (1988) and they married on Saint Valentine's Day in 1991. Meg played the lead role in When Harry Met Sally... (1989), which made the scene at the restaurant famous. Meg was twice nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA. In 1990, she co-starred with Tom Hanks in Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and this time she played three roles as DeDe/Angelica/Patricia. In 1993, Meg starred alongside Tom in Sleepless in Seattle (1993) for which she was nominated again for the Golden Globe. Meg decided to act against her peers in 1994, playing the character of Meg as an alcoholic wife/mother in the film When a Man Loves a Woman (1994). Following that, Meg went back to her "cute" I.Q. (1994) & French Kiss (1995). People Magazine named Meg "Woman of the Year" in 1994. In 1994, she received the Harvard Hasty Pudding Award.