Celebrity Biographies
Meg ryan
Making people laugh is as difficult as making people cry, comedy is an art that requires effort and natural talent. Meg Ryan (Fairfield, USA, 1961) is an actress who moves like a fish to water in this genre. It is not for nothing that she has starred in some of the essential titles of recent romantic comedy such as “When Harry Met Sally”, “Something to Remember” or “You have an e-mail”.
Meg Ryan made her film debut at the age of 20 with The Rich and Famous , a drama by George Cukor in which she played a teenager, the daughter of one of the protagonists. However, the first important appearance of her was in that movie of airplanes and pilots with incredible costumes that triumphed in the 80s: Top Gun. idols of the air From that moment on, Meg began landing bigger and bigger roles. Thus, in 1989 she managed to star in When Harry Met Sally : a film that would launch her to stardom. The verisimilitude of her acting and the chemistry of hers that she found with Billy Crystal-could they just be friends?- showed that she had an enormous talent for comedy, something that was recognized with her Golden Globe nomination for best actress in this genre. No one who has seen this play can forget the famous gag of the faked orgasm.
During the 90s Meg became the fetish actress for the romantic comedy. Thus, he starred in a large number of films, including Something to Remember and You Have an Email , both with Tom Hanks , for which he again obtained two Golden Globe nominations. In an effort not to be pigeonholed in this genre , he participated in dramas such as Restoration or City of Angels . In addition, she also had a major role in The Doors , the Jim Morrison biopic directed by Oliver Stone in which she was the famous musician’s girlfriend.
However, the following decade showed that both critics and the public saw her as a comedy actress. Despite her efforts to break away from the genre, acting in films like Raw or Proof of Life , most of the roles she landed for her were in industry-standardized romance films.
In addition to being an actress, she is also a film and television producer, which shows Meg that she knows the industrial side of film. In front of the cameras, she has stood out for her naturalness and her ability to turn uncomfortable situations into powerful comic gags. Despite not being a total actress, that she dominates all kinds of registers, she is still one of the best-known faces of romantic comedy, a genre in which she performs perfectly.
In recent times he has not worked on any noteworthy film: it seems that in Hollywood the years do not pass in vain. Now the actress wants to relaunch her career in the cinema through her own projects. Ithaca will be her behind-the-scenes debut, a film in which she herself will star alongside Tom Hanks, the actor with whom she achieved success. Will she be able to get back to the front line?