32 Facts About Nancy Meyers

Nancy Jane Meyers was born on December 8,1949 and is an American filmmaker.

Nancy Meyers has written, produced, and directed many critically and commercially successful films including Private Benjamin, Irreconcilable Differences, Baby Boom, Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride Part II, The Parent Trap, What Women Want, Something's Gotta Give, The Holiday, It's Complicated, and The Intern.

For Baby Boom, Nancy Meyers was nominated for a 1988 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.

Nancy Meyers was married to filmmaker Charles Shyer, with whom she had two children, including filmmaker Hallie Nancy Meyers-Shyer.

Nancy Meyers's father, Irving Meyers, was an executive at a voting machines manufacturer.

Nancy Meyers's mother, Patricia Meyers, was an interior designer who worked as a volunteer with the Head Start Program and the Home for the Blind.

The younger of two daughters, Nancy Meyers was raised in a Jewish household in the Drexel Hill area.

Nancy Meyers attended Lower Merion High School in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania.

In 1970, Nancy Meyers graduated from American University with a degree in journalism.

When she was 22 years old, Nancy Meyers moved to Los Angeles, living with her sister, Sally, in the Coldwater Canyon area.

Nancy Meyers quickly got a job as a production assistant on the CBS game show The Price Is Right.

Nancy Meyers eventually got work as a story editor where she read scripts, wrote coverage, and worked with screenwriters on projects that the producers were developing.

Nancy Meyers worked her way up from there to writing her own scripts.

Two years after coming to Los Angeles, Nancy Meyers was able to quit her job to focus on a career in screenwriting and took film-making classes where she connected with directors such as Martin Scorsese.

Nancy Meyers was eventually hired as a story editor by film producer Ray Stark, who later fired her after Nancy Meyers objected to having two writers working on the same script without the other knowing.

Nancy Meyers eventually returned to producing with Baby Boom, a film about a New York City female executive, who out of the blue becomes the guardian of her distant cousin's 14-month-old daughter.

Also in 1991, Nancy Meyers contributed to the script for the ensemble comedy Once Upon a Crime, directed by Eugene Levy, and became one out of several script doctors consulted to work on the Whoopi Goldberg comedy Sister Act.

In 1998, following the success of The Parent Trap and her separation from Shyer, Disney's Touchstone Pictures chairman Joe Roth asked Nancy Meyers to reconstruct an original script named Head Games about a man who gains the power to hear everything women are thinking, an idea originally conceived by The King of Queens producers Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith.

Subsequently, Nancy Meyers penned two drafts of the script before agreeing to direct, but as Roth left the studio in January 2000, Disney dismissed the film and the project eventually went to Paramount.

In 2012, it was announced that Nancy Meyers was planning to direct The Chelsea, an ensemble dramedy set in the Chelsea Apartments in New York.

In September 2015, Nancy Meyers announced that her next self-directed project would see her reteaming with Steve Martin.

Nancy Meyers served as a producer on Home Again, the directorial debut of her daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer, starring Reese Witherspoon.

In September 2020, Nancy Meyers announced a follow-up to the first two Father of the Bride films was coming.

Nancy Meyers' films are known to redirect the male gaze and instead take a critical view of male leads through the female gaze.

Nancy Meyers generally spends a year writing, followed by six months of filming and another six months of editing.

Nancy Meyers has final cut privilege on her films, which is uncommon for directors working with major American studios.

Nancy Meyers is known as a detail-oriented director, who shoots many takes of scenes and is meticulously involved in designing her films' aesthetic details.

Nancy Meyers considers her film set to function as a character in her films.

Nancy Meyers' protagonists are often affluent and live in luxurious homes, which she says is meant to emphasize that they are successful women who can afford to create beautiful, comfortable spaces for themselves.

Nancy Meyers has had a significant impact on the filmmaking industry as a female filmmaker, gaining her the reputation as one of the most influential women filmmakers in the romantic-comedy genre and in the Hollywood industry.

Nancy Meyers is one of only 36 female filmmakers to be on Disney+ out of their catalogue of over 500 films going back to the 1930s.

On February 28,2020, Nancy Meyers published her post-divorce story as part of the New York Times column called "Modern Love".