Biography
Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961) is an American actress, producer and director. She began her acting career in 1981 when she made her acting debut in the drama film Rich and Famous. She later joined the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 1982. She began to appear in supporting roles in films during the mid-1980s like box office hit Top Gun, achieving recognition in independent films such as Promised Land (1987) before her performance in the Rob Reiner-directed romantic comedy Whe...
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Complete Filmography

What Happens Later
2023
as Willa
Two ex-lovers get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themse...

What Happens Later
2023
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Two ex-lovers get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themse...

Parkinson at 50
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourit...

There's Something About Romcoms
2016
as Self
The inside story of the best modern romcoms with Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Dermot Mulrooney, Rupert Everett, Jason Alexander, Stephen Merc...

Fan Girl
2015
as Mary Farrow
A 15-year-old girl decides to bring her two passions together for her final film project: making movies and her favorite band.

Ithaca
2015
as Mrs. Macauley
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger an...

Ithaca
2015
Director
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger an...

Everything Is Copy
2015
as Self
A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
2012
as Self
PBS series documentary based on a book of the same name that argues the oppression of women worldwide is the "paramount moral challenge" of our time.

Serious Moonlight
2009
as Louise
A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet ... right before their home is invaded by burglars.

The Deal
2008
as Deidre Hearn
Charlie Berns is a veteran Hollywood movie producer who has given up on his career and life. That is until his idealistic screenwriter nephew comes be...

My Best Friend's Girl
2008
Thanks
Lovestruck Dustin is dating Alexis, his ideal girlfriend, but when she dumps him for coming on too strong, Dustin takes drastic measures to win her ba...

The Women
2008
as Mary Haines
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-we...

My Mom's New Boyfriend
2008
as Marty Durand
After several years away, FBI agent Henry Durand returns to find his mother, Marty, a much different person: Having long mourned for Henry's father, s...

In the Land of Women
2007
as Sarah Hardwicke
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he g...
Biography: Val Kilmer
2004
as Self (archive footage)
A&E's Biography of Val Kilmer.

Against the Ropes
2004
as Jackie Kallen
A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominat...

In the Cut
2003
as Frannie Avery
Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, an English teacher living in New York City — as if to test the limits of her own s...

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
2003
From Disturbing Discoveries to Astonishing Arressts, and Tragic Endings. In this tv-special, E! countdowns the greatest moments in the entertainment i...

Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

Desert Saints
2002
Producer
Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills the...

Kate & Leopold
2001
as Kate McKay
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a sk...

The Concert for New York City
2001
as Self
The Concert for New York City took place on October 20, 2001 at Madison Square Garden. It was a celebration of the strength of New York and a thank-yo...

The Wedding Planner
2001
Executive Producer
San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he ...

How Harry Met Sally…
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about "When Harry Met Sally" featuring director Rob Reiner, screenwriter Nora Ephron, stars Billy Crystal and Carrie Fisher and composer M...

Proof of Life
2000
as Alice Bowman
When American engineer Peter Bowman is kidnapped while working in South America, his wife Alice enlists special agent Terry Thorne to help free him. H...

Lost Souls
2000
Producer
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...

Hanging Up
2000
as Eve Mozell Marks
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly ...

Hurlyburly
1998
as Bonnie
A group of actors and their casting agents try to find a direction in their lives whilst coming to terms with their personal problems and relationship...

You've Got Mail
1998
as Kathleen Kelly
Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware...

Northern Lights
1998
Executive Producer
A stranger's call informs Roberta that her estranged brother Frank has died in a small town under bizarre circumstances. Ben, his best friend from col...

City of Angels
1998
as Maggie Rice
When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders tradi...

Anastasia
1997
as Anastasia (voice)
Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting...

Addicted to Love
1997
as Maggie
Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee...

Courage Under Fire
1996
as Captain Karen Emma Walden
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female cho...

Restoration
1995
as Katharine
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel j...

French Kiss
1995
as Kate
After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris ...

French Kiss
1995
Producer
After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris ...

I.Q.
1994
as Catherine Boyd
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

When a Man Loves a Woman
1994
as Alice Green
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety....

Flesh and Bone
1993
as Kay Davies
Haunted by memories of his father murdering a family, Arlis Sweeney prefers to keep to himself, focusing his energy on his work. One day, the traumati...

Sleepless in Seattle
1993
as Annie Reed
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness s...

Prelude to a Kiss
1992
as Rita Boyle
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happen...

The Doors
1991
as Pamela Courson
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

Rabbit Ears - Little Red Riding Hood/Goldilocks
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Little Red Riding Hood: When a young girl with a red cape encounters a wolf in the woods, she learns the hard way that nothing good comes out of talki...

Joe Versus the Volcano
1990
as DeDe / Angelica / Patricia Graynamore
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is th...

When Harry Met Sally...
1989
as Sally Albright
During their travel from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally debate whether or not sex ruins a friendship between a man and a woman. Eleven years lat...

The Presidio
1988
as Donna Caldwell
Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagr...

D.O.A.
1988
as Sydney Fuller
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the ...

Promised Land
1988
as Bev Sykes
Three recent high school grads - star athlete Hancock, his cheerleader girlfriend, Mary, and the awkward Senator - aim to leave their small town behin...

Innerspace
1987
as Lydia Maxwell
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, J...

Armed and Dangerous
1986
as Maggie Cavanaugh
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defen...

Top Gun
1986
as Carole
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pi...

Amityville 3-D
1983
as Lisa
To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place...

Amy and the Angel
1982
as Denise
Amy, a depressed seventeen year old high school girl, is visited by her guardian angel Oliver after wishing she had never been born. Oliver shows Amy ...

Rich and Famous
1981
as Debby Blake, 18 Years
Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
Good Sex
N/A
After spending a decade in a failed relationship, successful couples’ therapist Ally is turning 40 and is pushed, kicking and screaming, by her best f...