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Birth Name: Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra
Date of Birth: November 19, 1961
Place of Birth: Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5 ' 8 "
Family:
Father: Harry
Mother: Susan
Sisters: Dana and Annie
Brother: Andrew
Meg Ryan is a who wanted to be a journalist, but inherited the acting bug from her mother, who left a 15-year-old Meg and her siblings, to become an actress. Ater Meg graduated from Bethel High School, she went to study at the University of Connecticut. To pay her bills and tuition, Meg worked in several commercials. Her film debut was in Rich and Famous (1981), co-starring Candice Bergen. This film debut made Meg decided to leave her journalistic studies, to try luck in acting. Meg Ryan appeared on the comedy Charles in Charge and in the daytime soap, As the World Turns. The series Wildside was the last of her TV career.
In 1983, Meg Ryan played a role in Amityville III: The Demon, and after that she could be seen as Goose's wife in Top Gun. But her big brake came in 1989's, When Harry Met Sally, co-starring Billy Crystal. Meg Ryan's scene-stealing fake orgasm in the middle of a restaurant went down in movie history. In 1993, she starred opposit Tom Hanks in the romantiv comedy, Sleepless in Seattle. Meg Ryan can be seen in the film, The Doors, co-starring Val Kilmer in the role as The Doors singer Jim Morrison, and in the film Promised Land. She also appeared in, Restoration, Courage Under Fire, co-starring Denzel Washington and Matt Damon, and in City of Angels, opposite Nicolas Cage.
She is also founder of her own production company, Prufrock Pictures, formerly Fandango Films. Meg Ryan married actor Dennis Quaid on February 14, 1991. The couple met in 1987, when they were co-starring in Innerspace, and they started dating while filming D.O.A.. Meg and Dennis divorced on July 16, 2001. Together they have a son, Jack Henry Quaid, born on April 24, 1992. She starred in Against the Ropes (2004) co-starring Omar Epps and Timothy Daly. | 
