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Meg Ryan
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Meg Ryan Biography
Two years into her degree, Ryan had the boon to earn an auspicious feature-film debut in the supporting role of Candice Bergen's daughter in George Cukor's Rich and Famous (1981). Encouraged by the experience, the then-twenty-year-old dropped out of school and turned to the realm of television for acting jobs, first appearing in an ABC after-school special titled Amy and the Angel, and then in the recurring role of Betsy Montgomery on the
daytime drama As the World Turns. Departing the world of soapy intrigue after the 1984 season, Ryan relocated to Los Angeles to film the short-lived series Wildside. Undismayed by the failure of the small-screen effort, Ryan decided to stay on and make a bid for movie stardom. An appearance in Amityville III: The Demon (1983) did little to recommend her to the movie-going public at large, but she gained good notice for her next assignment, a solid supporting turn in the Tom Cruise action movie Top Gun (1986), in which she was cast as the wife of Cruise's naval fighter co-pilot, played by Anthony Edwards. Ryan and Edwards' ultimately tragedy-tinged fictional romance translated into a short-term real-life relationship.
