Meg Ryan Picture Collection
by Lisa on Jan.28, 2011, under Actress, Entertainment, Films, Gallery, Movies, Producer, updates
Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961), is an American actress and producer. She began her acting career in 1981 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 1982. Subsequently, Meg began to appear in supporting roles in big screen films during the mid-1980s, achieving recognition in several independent films such as Promised Land (1987), before her performance in the Rob Reiner-directed cult comedy When Harry Met Sally… (1989) brought her widespread attention and her first Golden Globe nomination.
She starred in a string of popular romantic dramas and comedy films in 1990s, including Sleepless in Seattle (1993), French Kiss (1995), Addicted to Love (1997), City of Angels (1998), and You’ve Got Mail (1998), whose total gross was over $870 million worldwide. At that time, TIME critic Richard Corliss called her “the current soul of romantic comedy.” In addition to these romantic comedy roles, she garnered critical acclaim for her work in When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), in which she played an alcoholic, and in Courage Under Fire (1996), portraying a captain in the Gulf War.
Her first full-blown hit in a leading role was the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally… (1989), which paired her with comedic leading man Billy Crystal. Her portrayal of Sally Albright, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination, is memorable for her depiction of a theatrically faked orgasm in Katz’s Delicatessen in Manhattan. She then starred in The Doors and in Prelude to a Kiss. Both films were moderately successful.
Meg starred alongside Kristen Bell, and Justin Long in the independent comedy film Serious Moonlight in 2009. Directed by actress Cheryl Hines and based on a screenplay by late writer Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered a year prior to filming, in the film, she portrayed a high-powered female attorney who learns that her husband, played by Timothy Hutton, is about to leave their troubled marriage, and decides to hold him captive by duct-taping him to a toilet. Picked up by Magnolia Pictures, the production received a limited release throughout North America only, and grossed less than US$150,000 worldwide. Critical reaction to the project was generally mixed-to-negative, although Ryan was praised for her “terrific” performance.
