Meg Ryan stopped acting to focus on her children: This is her today

Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid fell in love immediately and tied the knot on February 14, 1991.

“It was like a thunderbolt,” Dennis said. “Both of us felt, ‘This is it. We’re going to be together.’”

The ceremony was held in the couple’s hotel room, on Valentine’s Day. Ryan’s mother was excluded from the wedding.

“I was laughing and crying at the same time,” she told the New York Post and continued: “And I realized I could’ve never gotten married in front of a whole group of people.”

Queen of rom-coms
Her rise to stardom catapulted when she got the lead role in the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally … Ryan portrayed Sally Albright played alongside Billy Cristal. The film wasn’t a hit among critics, but today it’s regarded as a cult rom-com classic.

The movie would also lay the foundation for Meg Ryan’s unthreatening place as the queen of rom-coms.

In 1993, Meg Ryan teamed up with Tom Hanks in another romantic comedy success – Sleepless in Seattle. Once again, the cutesy “girl-next-door” captivated the cinema audience and was praised for her performance.

“I think her ‘cuteness’ sometimes blinds people to how genuinely gifted she is as a comic actress,” the famous director of Nora Ephron told Vanity Fair in 1995.

Tom Hanks also revealed things about his co-star, claiming that Meg Ryan could be pretty far from her characters in Nora Ephron’s movies. Even though critics dubbed her “the current soul of the romantic comedy,” Meg had other sides as well.

“Meg is not perky, I always got the distinct impression that this woman is not to be messed around with,” the well-known actor said in 1995.