Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan is a blonde-haired blue-eyed lady with a vivacious personality. Her birth name is Margaret Mary Emily Hyra to Susan (Duggan) and was she was an English teacher, and one-time actress. Harry Hyra was a math teacher. Her family heritage includes Ruthenian, Polish and Irish in addition to German. ("Hyra") is her Ruthenian surname and "Ryan", is her maternal grandmother's maiden name. Meg graduated in June 1979 from Bethel highschool, Bethel. She moved to New York and majored as a journalist at New York University. To earn extra money while completing her studies, Meg went into acting with her new name Meg Ryan. 1981 was her big screen debut. She portrayed Candice Bergen's child in the film of George Cukor Rich and Famous (1981). She auditioned , and was selected to play Betsy in the daily television soap The World Turns the World turns (1956). From 1982 to 1984, she was a member of the team. Meg also had a part in the television series One of the Boys (1982) but the show was later cancelled. In 1984, she moved to Hollywood and was offered her first job with the western television series Wildside (1985). Meg was in a small part in Top Gun (1986), and then was cast in Steven Spielberg's Innerspace (1987), in which she appeared alongside Dennis Quaid. In the remake of D.O.A., she starred again alongside Dennis Quaid. (1988) and the couple tied the knot on Saint Valentine's Day in 1991. In 1989, Meg appeared in When Harry Met Sally... (1989) and the scene at the restaurant gained a lot of attention. 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. She was also a part of the highly successful Sleepless in Seattle (1993) in which she was nominated for the Golden Globe. Meg decided to be different from her peers in 1994, by playing the part of Meg as a mother and wife who is alcoholic in the film When a Man Loves a Woman (1994). Following that, she went back to "cute" with both I.Q. (1994) and French Kiss (1995). People Magazine voted Meg as one of the top 50 beautiful women on earth in 1994.