Nancy Meyers
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Meyers in 2013
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Nancy Jane Meyers December 8, 1949 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Residence | Brentwood, Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Film director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1980-present |
| Spouse(s) | Charles Shyer (1980–1999) |
| Children | 2 |
Nancy Jane Meyers (born December 8, 1949) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She is the writer, producer and director of several big-screen successes, including The Parent Trap (1998), Something's Gotta Give (2003), The Holiday (2006), It's Complicated (2009) and The Intern (2015). Her second film as director, What Women Want (2000), was at one point the most successful film ever directed by a woman, taking in $183 million in the United States.
Meyers was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to father, Irving Meyers, an executive at a voting machines manufacturer, and mother, Patricia Meyers (née Lemisch), an interior designer who also worked as a volunteer with the Head Start Program and the Home for the Blind. The younger of two daughters, she was raised in a Jewish household in the Drexel Hill area. After reading playwright Moss Hart's autobiography Act One at the age of twelve, Meyers became interested in theater and started to act in local stage productions. Her interest in screenwriting did not emerge until she saw Mike Nichols' film The Graduate in 1967.
Meyers attended Lower Merion High School in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. In 1972, Meyers graduated from American University in Washington, D.C. with a degree in journalism.
After graduating from college, Meyers spent a year working in public television in Philadelphia. When she was 22 years old, Meyers moved to Los Angeles, living with her sister, Sally, in the Coldwater Canyon area. She quickly got a job as a Production Assistant on the CBS game show The Price Is Right.
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