Meg Ryan is an American actress and producer. She is best known for playing romantic characters on screen. While still in college, Meg decided to earn some extra money through acting and adopted her maternal grandmother’s maiden name ‘Ryan’ as her screen name. She began with television commercials and gradually made her way into audience’s hearts with her performance in several hit romantic-comedy films like ‘When Harry Met Sally,’ ‘Sleepless in Seattle,’ ‘French Kiss,’ and ‘You've Got Mail’ in the 1990s. Since the characters that she portrayed in these movies exhibited sparkling nature and cheerful persona, she came to be regarded as America’s sweetheart. Being a versatile actress, she made deliberate attempts to break away from the romantic-comedy genre from time to time in order to play other kinds of characters like that of an alcoholic high-school guidance counsellor in the film ‘When a Man Loves a Woman.’ Apart from acting, she has also tried her hand at direction. Her directorial debut film ‘Ithaca’ (2015) was based on the 1943 novel ‘The Human Comedy.’ The film starred her son Jack Quaid among others. Meg Ryan has received several awards and nominations, including nominations for prestigious awards like ‘Golden Globe Awards,’ ‘People's Choice Awards,’ and ‘Screen Actors Guild Awards.’