Meg Ryan

Actress. Born Margaret Hyra on November 19, 1961, in Fairfield, Connecticut. Ryan’s first substantial role was as Betsy Stewart Montgomery Andropoulos on the soap opera As the World Turns from 1982 to 1984. In the mid-1980s, her film career began to heat up with a part in the wildly successful 1986 military action drama Top Gun with Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards. She then went on to co-star