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name: "Nancy Meyers"
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tmdb_id: 17698
wikidata_id: "Q235555"
roles: ["Director","Writer"]
born: "8 December 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
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updated: "2026-10-01T20:47:00.155063+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Nancy Meyers

## Identity

Nancy Meyers

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nancy-meyers
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nancy-meyers
- **IMDb ID:** nm0583600
- **TMDB ID:** 17698
- **Wikidata ID:** Q235555
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Meyers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235555, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583600/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17698

Director and writer. Born 8 December 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer
- **Born:** 8 December 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Active:** 1998–2009
- **Also known as:** Patricia Irving, Nancy Jane Meyers
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Meyers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235555, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583600/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17698

## Coming up

- *Paris Paramount* (2027-12-23), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*It's Complicated*](https://film.one/film/its-complicated.md) (63)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Nancy Meyers is an American screenwriter, director and producer. Born on 8 December 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she studied journalism before moving to Los Angeles. She began her career as a story editor and co-wrote the screenplay for *Private Benjamin* (1980) with Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.

Meyers collaborated frequently with Shyer, whom she later married, on films including *Baby Boom* (1987), *Father of the Bride* (1991) and *Father of the Bride Part II* (1995). She made her directorial debut with *The Parent Trap* (1998), which she also wrote. Subsequent credits as writer and director include *What Women Want* (2000), *Something's Gotta Give* (2003), *The Holiday* (2006), *It's Complicated* (2009) and *The Intern* (2015). She has also produced many of her projects.

*Sources: britannica.com, wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *It's Complicated* (2009), Fi1m 63, Screenplay, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/its-complicated.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Paris Paramount* (2027), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Intern* (2026), Original Film Writer
- *Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)* (2020), Writer, Director
- *Home Again* (2017), Producer
- *The Intern* (2015), Director, Writer, Producer
- *It's Complicated* (2009), Director, Screenplay, Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/its-complicated.md)
- *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009), Thanks — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-mr-fox.md)
- *The Holiday* (2006), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Something's Gotta Give* (2003), Screenplay, Director, Producer
- *What Women Want* (2000), Director, Producer
- *The Parent Trap* (1998), Screenplay, Director
- *Father of the Bride Part II* (1995), Screenplay, Producer
- *I Love Trouble* (1994), Producer, Screenplay
- *Once Upon a Crime* (1992), Screenplay
- *Father of the Bride* (1991), Screenplay, Producer
- *Baby Boom* (1988), series, Creator
- *Baby Boom* (1987), Screenplay, Producer
- *Jumpin' Jack Flash* (1986), Screenplay
- *Protocol* (1984), Story
- *Irreconcilable Differences* (1984), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Private Benjamin* (1980), Producer, Writer
- *Baby Boom*, Original Film Writer

## Gallery

- ![Nancy Meyers](https://film.one/media/person/3658125/gallery-aa7ff8ab5f34.jpg) Nancy Meyers — Peggy Sirota, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Nancy_Meyers_headshot.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Nancy Meyers](https://film.one/media/person/3658125/gallery-451b8bf0c83c.jpg) Nancy Meyers — Image via TMDB
- ![Nancy Meyers](https://film.one/media/person/3658125/gallery-73eb32922f21.jpg) Nancy Meyers — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1981: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Private Benjamin*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Dorothy Arzner Directors Award 2007: Dorothy Arzner Directors Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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