Nora Ephron - a life in pictures

Nora Ephron, Lillian Hellman, Carl Bernstein, and Bob Woodward arrive for the benefit premiere of ABC
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Nora Ephron with Carl Bernstein in New York in 1978 Photograph: Richard Drew/AP

Nora Ephron with John Travolta at the premiere of Michael in 1996 Photograph: Richard Drew/AP

Ephron directing in 2000 Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection

Ephron and Tom Hanks arrive at the Barrymore Theatre in New York 2002, to attend the opening night of Ephron's Broadway play, Imaginary Friends Photograph: JOHN MARSHALL MANTEL/AP

Meryl Streep and Nora Ephron pose during a photocall for the film Julie and Julia at the 35rd Deauville American film festival in Deauville in 2009 Photograph: PASCAL ROSSIGNOL/REUTERS

Nora Ephron poses for a portrait in her home in New York in 2010 Photograph: LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, in Silkwood (1983), a drama about hazardous working conditions in a plutonium processing plant, which Ephron wrote with Alice Arlen. Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Features

Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in You've Got Mail (1998). Written and directed by Ephron, it reunited the two stars in a romantic comedy after their appearance in 1993's Sleepless in Seattle. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd. / Allstar

Meg Ryan in the climactic scene from When Harry Met Sally (1989). Ephron wrote the screenplay, which was taken on by This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features

Rick Moranis and Steve Martin in My Blue Heaven (1990), written by Ephron. Moranis played a nerdy FBI agent tasked with putting Martin's outspoken gangster through a witness protection programme. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd. / Allstar

Meryl Streep as Julia Child in Ephron's last film, Julie & Julia (2009). The film centred on food blogger Julie Powell's quest to recreate the recipes of veteran TV chef Julia Child. Photograph: PR