Meg Ryan
Meg Ryan is a blonde-haired blue-eyed
woman with an exuberant personality. She was born Margaret Mary Emily Hyra to
Susan (Duggan) she was who was an English teacher, and once an actor. Harry
Hyra was a math teacher. Ruthenian as well as Polish, Irish, German and German
descendents. "Hyra" is her maternal grandmother's maiden name, comes
from Ruthenian. Meg graduated in June 1979 from Bethel high school in Bethel.
She relocated to New York and majored as a journalist at New York University. Meg
Ryan is her name change, started acting to make extra money while she completed
her education. Her first screen appearance came in 1981, making a brief
appearance as Candice Bergen’s daughter in George Cukor's last film Rich and
Famous (1981). She was cast in the role as Betsy in the television soap as the
World Turns (1956) after she was able to audition. She was in the show's cast
from 1982 until 1984. Meg also played a role in the show One of the Boys (1982)
which, however, was later cancelled. In 1984, Meg moved to Hollywood and was
offered a position with the western-themed television series Wildside (1985).
Meg was a part-time actress in Top Gun (1986), and then was included in Steven
Spielberg's Innerspace (1987), in which she appeared alongside Dennis Quaid. For
the remake of D.O.A., she starred in a second time with Quaid. (1988) and
married in Saint Valentine's Day 1991. Meg appeared in 1989's When Harry Met
Sally... (1989), and the scene in the restaurant became famous. Meg was
nominated both for the Golden Globe as well as the 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 again nominated for the
Golden Globe. Meg decided to take on a different role than her peers in 1994,
by playing the part of Meg as an alcoholic wife/mother in When a Man Loves a
Woman (1994). She returned to being "cute" following that film with
I.Q. (1994) as well as French Kiss (1995). People Magazine voted Meg as one of
the top 50 beautiful women on the planet 1994.
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