Meg Ryan Crystal and earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Her portrayal of Sally Albright includes an oft-recounted scene in which her character, lunching with Crystal in Katz's Delicatessen in Manhattan, theatrically demonstrates for him how easy it is for a woman to fake an orgasm. Ryan next starred in "The Doors", which was moderately successful, and "Prelude to a Kiss", which flopped. The year 1993 saw the release of the hugely successful romantic comedy "Sleepless in Seattle", which paired Ryan for a second time with Tom Hanks. They had previously been paired as romantic leads in the film "Joe Versus the
Meg Ryan in the pilot of "How I Met Your Dad", a woman-centric variation of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother". CBS later passed on the project. Ryan's next feature film was the ABC Family film "Fan Girl", an independent comedy about a 15-year-old girl, played by Kiernan Shipka, with a passion for filmmaking sets out to make a movie about her favorite band, All Time Low. It premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2015. Also in 2015, Ryan made her directing debut with "Ithaca", a drama film based on the 1943 novel "The Human Comedy" by