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celebrities - Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan (née Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra, November 19, 1961 in Fairfield, Connecticut) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies, but has worked in other film genres as well.

Ryan studied journalism at New York University. She went into acting to earn extra money while in school. After her first role in a feature film, Ryan (now using her screen name) played Betsy on the daytime drama As the World Turns from 1982 to 1984. Directors for this show especially liked working with her because she could cry on cue.

After several TV film and smaller movie roles, her first full blown hit in a leading role was the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally. The movie was favorably received and typecast Ryan as a bubbly, charming, feisty but incurable romantic. She made several attempts to break away from this stereotype, and garnered some critical acclaim for her work in When a Man Loves a Woman (where she played an alcoholic) and Courage Under Fire (where she played a military officer killed in combat). Many of her films of the 1990s were hits not only in North America, but also abroad. She had a very popular onscreen pairing with Tom Hanks; some compared their chemistry to Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. They costarred in three films together, and their last (1998's You've Got Mail) was Ryan's last major box office success for some years to come.

Ryan married actor Dennis Quaid on Valentine's Day in 1991 after co-starring in two films with him. Quaid and Ryan had one child together, Jack Henry, born April 24, 1992; Meg has been estranged from her own mother, Susan Jordan, for many years. The couple divorced on July 16, 2001 after she had an indiscreet affair with actor Russell Crowe, with whom she was working on a movie. When the film (Proof of Life) failed, director Taylor Hackford blamed Crowe and Ryan's affair and the ensuing negative publicity it garnered. Some believed this affair, along with Ryan ageing beyond the "cute" persona of her onscreen characters, hurt her popularity with the American public. She has not had a major box office success since knowledge of the affair became public.

In 2003, she broke away from her usual roles, and starred in In the Cut, an erotic crime/thriller/mystery which was popular with neither critics nor the public.

Asteroid 8353 Megryan was named in her honor.

 

Filmography

Rich and Famous (1981)


Amityville 3-D (1983)




Top Gun (1986)


Armed and Dangerous (1986)


Promised Land (1987)


Innerspace (1987)


D.O.A. (1988)


The Presidio (1988)




When Harry Met Sally... (1989)


Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)


The Doors (1991)


Prelude to a Kiss (1992)


Sleepless in Seattle (1993)


Flesh and Bone (1993)




A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)


When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)


I.Q. (1994)


French Kiss (1995) (also producer)


Restoration (1995)


Courage Under Fire (1996)




Addicted to Love (1997)


Anastasia (1997) (voice)


City of Angels (1998)


Hurlyburly (1998)


You've Got Mail (1998)


Hanging Up (2000)




Proof of Life (2000)


Kate & Leopold (2001)


Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)


In the Cut (2003)


Against the Ropes (2004)




In the Land of Women (2006) (in post-production)


The Women (2006) (in pre-production)


The Tortilla Curtain (2006) (in pre-production)

celebrities - Melissa Hart

Melissa Hart

Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress who is best known for playing the title roles in two successful television series, Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.

 

Personal history and family

Hart was born in Smithtown, New York, on Long Island, and grew up in Sayville, New York. Her full name is Melissa Joan Catherine Hart, Catherine being the name she chose for her confirmation in eighth grade.

Her immediate Irish-American family includes father William Hart and mother Paula Hart. Her stepfather is television executive Leslie Gilliams. She has eight sisters, three of whom are stepsisters, and one brother. Most of her siblings have acted, among them Elizabeth Hart, Brian Hart, Emily Hart, and Alexandra Hart-Gilliams. Sister Trisha Hart has worked as a producer.

In 2003, Hart married musician Mark Wilkerson, a member of the band Course of Nature. The preparations for the ceremony, which took place in Florence, Italy, were documented in a TV miniseries entitled Tying the Knot, produced by Hart's production company, Hartbreak Films.

In June 2005, Hart announced that she and her husband are expecting their first child in January 2006.

 

Career

Hart's career began early on. When she was still a baby, she made her first TV commercial for a bathtub toy called Splashy. From then on, she appeared regularly in commercials, making 25 of them before the age of five. Other early TV work included a small role in the miniseries Kane & Abel in 1985, a guest-starring role in an episode of The Equalizer in 1986, and a starring role alongside Katherine Helmond in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Christmas Snow, also in 1986.

In 1989, she auditioned for a Broadway production of The Crucible starring Martin Sheen, becoming an understudy to three of the young girls in the play. This paved the way for her to land the title role in the TV show Clarissa Explains It All. The Nickelodeon series, a comedy about a teen girl in everyday situations, became a big hit and aired for five seasons. The show brought her four consecutive Young Artist Award nominations, of which she won three, and made her a household name among American teenagers.

Hart also recorded an album as Clarissa entitled This is What 'Na Na' Means. It was mostly a novelty product and did not sell well, receive critical attention, or place in any charts.

After the series was canceled, she attended New York University. She did not complete her degree as she resumed her acting career in 1994 when she got the lead role for the TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which eventually led to her also starring as Sabrina in a television series which lasted seven seasons. In between, she also worked on the series Touched by an Angel and starred in several TV movies.

In 1998, Melissa landed a small part in a movie named Can't Hardly Wait, and then starred in Drive Me Crazy, a movie that includes "(You Drive Me) Crazy", a number-one hit by Britney Spears, on its soundtrack. Hart also appeared in the music video for this song. She has appeared in other movies since Drive Me Crazy, but none has brought her as much recognition.

 

Controversy

Hart appeared in lingerie in a series of photos featured in the October 1999 issue of the men's magazine Maxim, as well as in similarly revealing pictorials in Bikini and Movieline magazines around the same time. This caused problems for both Hart and ABC (the network broadcasting Sabrina the Teenage Witch) since the copyright holder of the series, Archie Comics, regarded the series as a show for children and pre-teens, and believed that the Maxim photos and the accompanying article hurt the show's wholesome image (Hart also discussed her sex life and Sabrina drinking games that could be played when watching the series at home). Michael Silberkleit, the chairman and co-publisher of Archie Comics, demanded that Hart either apologize or be fired from the series. She neither apologized nor was fired.

 

Filmography and TV work

Jesus, Mary and Joey (2003)




Rent Control (2002)


Hold On (2002)


Backflash (2001)


Not Another Teen Movie (2001)


The Voyage to Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) (TV)


The Specials (2000)




Sabrina, Down Under (1999)


Drive Me Crazy (1999)


Sabrina Goes to Rome (1998)


Can't Hardly Wait (1998)


Silencing Mary (1998) (TV)


Two Came Back (1997) (TV)




The Right Connections (1997) (TV)


Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996) (TV)


Sabrina, the Animated Series (1999) (TV)


Twisted Desire (1996) (TV)


Clarissa (1995) (TV)


Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare (1995) (TV)




Clarissa Explains It All (1991) (TV)

celebrities - Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and singer.

Born in Santa Ana, Orange County, California to Dick Pfeiffer and Donna Taverno, she has three siblings, an older brother and two younger sisters. She is of Dutch, German, Irish, Swedish and Swiss descent.

In 1981, she married actor Peter Horton, but they later divorced. In 1993, Pfeiffer adopted a girl, Claudia Rose Pfeiffer; later that year, she married producer David E. Kelley, the creator of the television series' Chicago Hope and Ally McBeal; a biological son was born in 1994 to Kelley and Pfeiffer.

Her first starring role was in the 1982 musical Grease 2, which could hardly presage her illustrious career with wonderful performances in movies such as Married to the Mob, Batman Returns, Dangerous Minds and What Lies Beneath, among others. Her most recent work includes roles in the movies Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, What Lies Beneath, White Oleander, and I Am Sam.

As a singer, she became most widely known with her role in The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Her younger sister Dedee Pfeiffer is also an actress, but mostly on TV.

 

Filmography

Falling in Love Again (1980)




The Hollywood Knights (1980)


Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)


Grease 2 (1982)


Scarface (1983)


Into the Night (1985)


Ladyhawke (1985)




Sweet Liberty (1986)


The Witches of Eastwick (1987)


Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)


Married to the Mob (1988)


Tequila Sunrise (1988)


Dangerous Liaisons (1988)




The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)


The Russia House (1990)


Frankie and Johnny (1991)


Batman Returns (1992)


Love Field (1992)


The Age of Innocence (1993)




Wolf (1994)


Dangerous Minds (1995)


Up Close & Personal (1996)


To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)


One Fine Day (1996) (also executive producer)




A Thousand Acres (1997) (also producer)


The Uttmost (1998) (documentary)


The Prince of Egypt (1998) (voice)


The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)


A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)


The Story of Us (1999)




What Lies Beneath (2000)


I Am Sam (2001)


White Oleander (2002)


Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice)


Chasing Montana (2005) (currently in pre-production)


I Could Never Be Your Woman (2006) (currently in pre-production)

TV work

The Solitary Man (1979)


Delta House (1979) (canceled after 15 episodes)


B.A.D. Cats (1980) (canceled after 6 episodes)


Callie & Son (1981)




Splendor in the Grass (1981)


The Children Nobody Wanted (1981)


One Too Many (1983)


Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson (1987)

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