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| 3 | Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra (born November 19, 1961 in Fairfield, Connecticut), better known as Meg Ryan, is an American actress and producer. |
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| 5 | She's best known for her starring roles in RomanticComedy films in TheNineties such as ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'', ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'', and ''Film/YouveGotMail''. |
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| 7 | For a time she was married to Creator/DennisQuaid, and this marriage produced one son who is also an actor, Creator/JackQuaid. She also has an adopted daughter, Daisy. |
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| 9 | !!Films she has appeared in with pages on TV Tropes: |
| 10 | * ''Film/Amityville3D'' (1983) |
| 11 | * ''Film/TopGun'' (1986) |
| 12 | * ''Film/{{Armed and Dangerous|1986}}'' (1986) |
| 13 | * ''Film/{{Innerspace}}'' (1987) |
| 14 | * ''Film/ThePresidio'' (1988) |
| 15 | * ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'' (1989) |
| 16 | * ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano'' (1990) |
| 17 | * ''Film/{{The Doors|1991}}'' (1991) |
| 18 | * ''Film/PreludeToAKiss'' (1992) |
| 19 | * ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'' (1993) |
| 20 | * ''Film/WhenAManLovesAWoman'' (1994) |
| 21 | * ''Film/{{IQ|1994}}'' (1994) |
| 22 | * ''Film/FrenchKiss'' (1995) |
| 23 | * ''Film/{{Restoration|1995}}'' (1995) |
| 24 | * ''Film/CourageUnderFire'' (1996) |
| 25 | * ''Film/AddictedToLove'' (1997) |
| 26 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' (1997) |
| 27 | * ''Film/CityOfAngels'' (1998) |
| 28 | * ''Film/YouveGotMail'' (1998) |
| 29 | * ''Film/ProofOfLife'' (2000) |
| 30 | * ''Film/KateAndLeopold'' (2001) |
| 31 | * ''Film/InTheCut'' (2003) |
| 32 | * ''Film/AgainstTheRopes'' (2004) |
| 33 | * ''Film/InTheLandOfWomen'' (2007) |
| 34 | * ''Film/{{The Deal|2008}}'' (2008) |
| 35 | * ''Film/TheWomen'' (2008) |
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| 37 | !!TV series she has appeared in with pages on TV Tropes: |
| 38 | * ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'' (1982–84) |
| 39 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'' (1990–91) |
| 40 | * ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' (2009) |
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| 42 | !!This actress' roles provide examples of: |
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| 44 | * ActorInspiredElement: Nora Ephron claims that it was Meg's idea to have the famous orgasm scene in ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'' set in the middle of a restaurant. The script just called for Sally to talk about faking one, but Meg suggested she actually do it. |
| 45 | * ActorLeavesCharacterDies:[[invoked]] She didn't return for ''Film/TopGunMaverick'', with the result that Carole is said to have died from cancer between the two films. |
| 46 | * BoyishShortHair: From the mid 90s to the early 2000s, her short hair was known as 'the Meg Ryan cut'. |
| 47 | * CelebrityVoiceActor: As the voice of the titular ''{{WesternAnimation/Anastasia}}''. |
| 48 | * CreatorChosenCasting:[[invoked]] The part of Annie in ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'' was written for her. Even though loads of other actresses were considered, she was always the first choice. |
| 49 | * MethodActing: Actually quite fond of this. |
| 50 | ** To play a surgeon in ''Film/CityOfAngels'', she sat in on operations and practiced stitching up a pig's heart. |
| 51 | ** For ''Film/YouveGotMail'', she worked at a New York bookstore for a week. |
| 52 | ** She took three weeks of lessons to portray a boxer for ''Film/AgainstTheRopes''. |
| 53 | * NonSingingVoice: Liz Callaway dubs her singing for ''Anastasia''. |
| 54 | * PlayingAgainstType:[[invoked]] At the height of her popularity in romantic comedies, playing down to earth good girls, she starred in ''Film/InTheCut'', a neo noir thriller where she appeared nude and played a repressed school teacher. And, even more outside of her type was her role as a badass medevac pilot in ''Film/CourageUnderFire'', right at the peak of her typecast as a rom-com lead. |
| 55 | * ProducedByCastMember:[[invoked]] She produced ''Film/FrenchKiss''. |
| 56 | * ProductionPosse: She's worked with Nora Ephron famously in ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'', ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'', ''Film/YouveGotMail'' |
| 57 | * StarDerailingRole: 2000's ''Hanging Up'' is often regarded as this, but the movie that really seems to have pushed Ryan's career off the rails is Jane Campion's 2003 film ''In the Cut'', a subversive thriller in which Ryan plays an English professor who gets involved with a NY cop played by Creator/MarkRuffalo, notable for its dark themes as well as explicit sex scenes. Critic [[https://newrepublic.com/article/101169/in-the-cut-meg-ryan-campion David Thomson]] noted that although the film isn't a masterpiece, it was a brave and imaginative one for Ryan to do, and her subsequent low profile can't be explained by the quality of her acting in it, but more likely by the movie industry punishing her for wanting to do something vastly different from romantic comedies.[[note]]Consider that after ''In the Cut'', Mark Ruffalo’s career continued to ascend. The negative reviews, however, did hurt the careers of Ryan and director Jane Campion, with the latter not directing another feature film until 2009’s ''Film/BrightStar''.[[/note]] |
| 58 | * ThoseTwoActors:[[invoked]] She stars alongside Tom Hanks in ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'', ''Film/YouveGotMail'' and ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano''. |
| 59 | * {{Typecasting}}: She was '''the''' romantic female lead of the [=90s=] and the first person to go to when making a [[RomanticComedy rom-com]], eventually becoming both a jab towards her and her personal point of resentment. Attempts to get out of the mould by the turn of the millennium eventually ended with an infamous fight with a few different producers, essentially ending her career overnight, as she was given a choice: continue with the type, or not get new parts. |
| 60 | -->[Common meme about Ryan's typecasting from early 00s] "Meg Ryan and X get together in the end." |
| 61 | * UnkemptBeauty: Ryan's characters typically sported her own artfully tussled, short, blond hair. |
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