Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan

1961-11-19 Fairfield, Connecticut, USA 57 Credits

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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What Happens Later

What Happens Later

2023

as Willa

4.9
Acting

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

What Happens Later

2023

Director, Writer, Executive Producer

4.9
Directing Writing Producing

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

Parkinson at 50

2021

as Self (archive footage)

10.0
Acting

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

There's Something About Romcoms

2016

as Self

6.0
Acting

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

Fan Girl

2015

as Mary Farrow

5.3
Acting

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

Ithaca

Ithaca

2015

as Mrs. Macauley

5.3
Acting

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

Ithaca

2015

Director

5.3
Directing

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

Everything Is Copy

2015

as Self

7.4
Acting

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

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

2012

as Self

7.4
Acting

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

Serious Moonlight

2009

as Louise

5.0
Acting

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

The Deal

The Deal

2008

as Deidre Hearn

5.4
Acting

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

My Best Friend's Girl

2008

Thanks

5.6

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

The Women

2008

as Mary Haines

5.1
Acting

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

My Mom's New Boyfriend

2008

as Marty Durand

5.4
Acting

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

In the Land of Women

2007

as Sarah Hardwicke

5.9
Acting

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)

Acting

A&E's Biography of Val Kilmer.

Against the Ropes

Against the Ropes

2004

as Jackie Kallen

5.0
Acting

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

In the Cut

2003

as Frannie Avery

5.1
Acting

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

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment

2003

Acting

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

Searching for Debra Winger

2002

as Self

6.3
Acting

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

Desert Saints

Desert Saints

2002

Producer

5.7
Producing

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

Kate & Leopold

2001

as Kate McKay

6.3
Acting

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

The Concert for New York City

2001

as Self

4.8
Acting

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

The Wedding Planner

2001

Executive Producer

5.9
Producing

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…

How Harry Met Sally…

2001

as Self (archive footage)

6.3
Acting

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

Proof of Life

2000

as Alice Bowman

6.1
Acting

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

Lost Souls

2000

Producer

5.0
Producing

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

Hanging Up

2000

as Eve Mozell Marks

5.2
Acting

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

Hurlyburly

1998

as Bonnie

5.5
Acting

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

You've Got Mail

1998

as Kathleen Kelly

6.7
Acting

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

Northern Lights

1998

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

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

City of Angels

1998

as Maggie Rice

6.8
Acting

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

Anastasia

1997

as Anastasia (voice)

7.6
Acting

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

Addicted to Love

1997

as Maggie

6.1
Acting

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

Courage Under Fire

1996

as Captain Karen Emma Walden

6.5
Acting

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

Restoration

1995

as Katharine

6.0
Acting

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

French Kiss

1995

as Kate

6.5
Acting

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

French Kiss

1995

Producer

6.5
Producing

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.

I.Q.

1994

as Catherine Boyd

6.0
Acting

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

When a Man Loves a Woman

1994

as Alice Green

6.6
Acting

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

Flesh and Bone

1993

as Kay Davies

6.1
Acting

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

Sleepless in Seattle

1993

as Annie Reed

6.7
Acting

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

Prelude to a Kiss

1992

as Rita Boyle

5.6
Acting

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

The Doors

1991

as Pamela Courson

7.1
Acting

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

Rabbit Ears - Little Red Riding Hood/Goldilocks

1990

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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

Joe Versus the Volcano

1990

as DeDe / Angelica / Patricia Graynamore

5.8
Acting

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...

When Harry Met Sally...

1989

as Sally Albright

7.4
Acting

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

The Presidio

1988

as Donna Caldwell

5.9
Acting

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.

D.O.A.

1988

as Sydney Fuller

6.3
Acting

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

Promised Land

1988

as Bev Sykes

4.9
Acting

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

Innerspace

Innerspace

1987

as Lydia Maxwell

6.8
Acting

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

Armed and Dangerous

Armed and Dangerous

1986

as Maggie Cavanaugh

5.6
Acting

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

Top Gun

1986

as Carole

7.1
Acting

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

Amityville 3-D

1983

as Lisa

4.6
Acting

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

Amy and the Angel

1982

as Denise

5.5
Acting

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

Rich and Famous

1981

as Debby Blake, 18 Years

5.4
Acting

Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.

Good Sex

N/A

Acting

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...