Although Meg Ryan voluntarily stepped away from the spotlight in recent years, she is still a very wealthy woman. As Ryan told Gwyneth Paltrow in 2018 at the In Goop Health Summit (Goop being Paltrow's wellness brand, as per the company's website), she wasn't always prepared for fame.
"You know, I never wanted to be an actress," Ryan confessed. "The whole idea of being a famous person, the whole thing, I felt like a witness to. I didn't feel exactly in it. And I think that was a really good thing. Because I felt like a student of it in a way, that I was watching it (unfold) in an anthropological way," she said (via USA Today).
However, the 1990s were an entirely other story. The actress was paid $5 million for starring in "IQ" and earned another $8.5 million for "City of Angels." Then came the aforementioned "You've Got Mail" opposite Tom Hanks, where she commanded a salary of $10.5 million. Celebrity Net Worth reports that made her one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood at the time.
Between a bevy of films and real estate investments, as of this writing, Celebrity Net Worth puts Ryan's net worth at $85 million.
