In 2015, Ryan made her directorial debut with Ithaca, a wartime drama starring Hanks and her son, Jack Quaid, with an original score by John Mellencamp. Ryan's later rom-com credits include Kate & Leopold, The Deal and My Mom's New Boyfriend. Ryan went on to star in a number of films throughout the 2000s, including Hanging Up, written by Delia Ephron, who penned the script for You've Got Mail with sister Nora Ephron. The part was also the third time she starred opposite Tom Hanks, previously sharing the screen with him in Sleepless in Seattle and Joe Versus the Volcano. You've Got Mail marked the actress's third film with Ephron in just 10 years, this time as the independent children's bookshop owner, Kathleen Kelly. Image Credit: Photofest Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Read on for a glimpse at where the stars of You've Got Mail have gone since leaving Ephron's Upper West Side. film grossed more than $250 million worldwide and landed on numerous lists of the best romantic comedies of all time. While chatting anonymously online, the two fall in love without realizing they have competed IRL.

Ryan, who previously starred opposite Hanks in the Ephron-directed Sleepless in Seattle, plays Kathleen Kelly, the owner of a boutique bookshop that's threatened by the success of a super-chain owned by Joe Fox (Hanks). Twenty years later and the internet has changed quite a bit, but fans of the film still swoon over Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's AOL-driven romance. In 1998, writer-director Nora Ephron reimagined romance in the internet age, bringing rival bookstore owners together online in You've Got Mail.

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