Meg Ryan Parents: Meet Susan Jordan Duggan, Harry Hyra

She is the daughter of Susan Jordan Duggan and Harry Hyra.

Her mother is a former actress and English teacher. Her father is a maths teacher. Her father is of Polish heritage.

Meg Ryan was raised Catholic and attended Fairfield’s St. Pius X Elementary School. She has two sisters, Dana and Annie, as well as a brother, Andrew Hyra, who is a member of the band Billy Pilgrim.

Her parents divorced when she was 15 years old, in 1976. Ryan attended Bethel High School and graduated in 1979. As an undergraduate, she studied journalism at the University of Connecticut and then at New York University.

To supplement her income during college, she appeared in television commercials and the soap opera As the World Turns.

Her success as an actress caused her to drop out of college a semester before she was supposed to graduate. She used the surname “Ryan” when she joined the Screen Actors Guild, which was her grandmother’s maiden name.

Meg Ryan established herself, both nationally and internationally as one of the most successful actresses in the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly in romantic comedy films such as Sleepless in Seattle (1993), French Kiss (1995), You’ve Got Mail (1998), Hanging Up (2000) and Kate & Leopold (2001).