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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 with Dennis Quaid in Innerspace (1987) and D.O.A. (1988). Ryan later married Quaid in 1991.It was her portrayal - www.biography.com

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Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra -- known as Meg or Peggy to family and friends -- was born November 19, 1961, in Fairfield, Connecticut. The daughter of Harry, a teacher, and Susan, a teacher, former actress and casting director, Meg did not intend to become the Hollywood cutie she is known as today. With original intentions of pursuing a journalistic career, one would think that perhaps Meg inherited the acting bug from her mother, who left a 15-year-old Meg, her two sisters and her b... - www.moono.com

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Blond-haired, blue-eyed with an effervescent personality, Meg Ryan graduated from Bethel high school, Bethel in June 1979. Moving to New York, she attended New York University where she majored in journalism. To earn extra money while working on her degree, Meg went into acting using her new name Meg Ryan. In 1981, she had her big screen debut as Candice Bergen's daughter in George Cukor's last film Rich and Famous (1981). She tried out and was cast as Betsy in the day time television soap "As the Worl - www.imdb.com