Trivia

Has surpassed Penny Marshall as the highest-grossing female director.

Annie and Hallie in The Parent Trap (1998) are named after Meyers daughters

Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Diane Keaton in Something's Gotta Give (2003).

She was originally a development executive. She met her ex-husband, Charles Shyer, when she was helping develop a script he had written. They eventually began writing and producing together.

Since the success of What Women Want (2000) and Something's Gotta Give (2003), she is very sought after as a writer and director. She is particularly in demand because she writes great parts in hit movies for adults.

She wrote for a TV show based on a Goldie Hawn film (Private Benjamin (1980)) and, a few years later, wrote a film starring Goldie Hawn (Protocol (1984)).

Ex-daughter-in-law of Melville Shyer.