MARITAL STATUS
Professions Screenwriter , Producer , Director more
Birth name Nancy Jane Meyers
American nationality
Birth December 8, 1949 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Before moving behind the camera, Nancy Meyers made a name for herself as co-writer and co-producer alongside Charles Shyer , her longtime companion and collaborator.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the couple began writing with La Bidasse , the story of an ingénue enlisted in the army. The film, led by Goldie Hawn , was a real success across the Atlantic, where it was nominated for the Oscars and the Golden Globes. The two screenwriters continue their collaboration with the actress by offering her almost the same role in Protocol four years later – this time she is responsible for the hottest issues at the United Nations and therefore for world peace.

It was with Baby Boom , directed by Shyer, that success arrived. Diane Keaton plays an overwhelmed working woman who is entrusted with the care of a child. Gently funny, family and light, the film defines the style of its authors and also marks the first collaboration between the tandem and the actress, before the remake of Father of the Bride and its sequel ( Father of the Bride 2 ) alongside by Steve Martin .

After a few failures, including the on-screen association of the talents of Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte in Les Complices , Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer created their own production company. In 1996, the screenwriter adapted the children’s literature classic Deux en un by Erich Kästner for Disney and directed A nous quatre with the young Lindsay Lohan .

She then renewed the experience with refined romantic comedies depicting the incomprehension between men and women like her second film, What Women Want , with Mel Gibson in the lead role. This feature film grossed just over $374 million worldwide and remained for several years the most commercially successful film directed by a woman.

Nancy Meyers continued on the road to triumph with The Holiday (2006) and Not So Simple (2009), two romantic comedies supported by a four-star cast and which each grossed more than $200 million worldwide. We then have to wait until 2015 to see his new film. In The New Intern , she directs the legend Robert De Niro and the graceful Anne Hathawayin this comedy centered on a 70-year-old widower who accepts an intern position on a fashion website.