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Nancy Meyers
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Born:
December 8, 1949 in Philadelphia, PA
Biography:As the screenwriter/producer (along with frequent collaborator and then-spouse Charles Shyer) of some of the best-known comedies of the 1980s and '90s, Nancy Meyers could, at least in part, be credited with providing screen starlet Goldie Hawn with a couple of the bubbly actress's late-career signature roles. Later moving into directing with the popular Disney remake The Parent Trap (1998), Meyers entered into a successful new phase in her career that would yield such hit romantic comedies as What Women Want and Something's Gotta Give.

The Pennsylvania, PA native received her higher education at Washington, D.C.'s American University before relocating to Los Angeles as a story editor for Rastar Productions in 1972. Subsequent studies at UCLA eventually led Meyers to enter show business as an assistant director and production manager. Her keen observation of the human condition prompted Meyers to... Full Biography

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Director/writer/producer Nancy Meyers on the set of "The Holiday"
Kate Winslet and director/writer/producer Nancy Meyers on the set of "The Holiday"
Director/writer/producer Nancy Meyers on the set of "The Holiday"
Eli Wallach and director/writer/producer Nancy Meyers on the set of "The Holiday"
Nancy Meyers
Keanu Reeves and Nancy Meyers
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