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America's Sweetheart

Meg Ryan, 46, has always had mixed feelings about the label "America's Sweetheart"—a term dreamed up by Nora Ephron around the time of When Harry Met Sally, which Ephron wrote. In fact, the actress spent the better part of the 1990s as a beloved comic heroine, yet playing the role of America's Sweetheart left Ryan a bit bemused. "…I understood it was a compliment about being lovable…but it also felt like ideas were being projected onto me that had nothing to do with me. The girl next door to what? I never felt like a very conventional person."

Watch Meg Ryan go from girl next door to leading lady

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