Meghan Markle is officially nominated for a Daytime Emmy.

The 2026 Daytime Emmy nominations were announced Tuesday, and Netflix’s “With Love, Meghan” was nominated in the Outstanding Lifestyle Program category.

The show focuses on Meghan, 44, sharing cooking and hosting tips alongside celebrity guests from Mindy Kaling to chef Samin Nosrat. He celebrated the nomination in an Instagram post on Wednesday.

“Huge congratulations to the incredible team, producers and crew who worked on ‘With Love, Meghan’ on @netflix,” he captioned the post.

It was a coming full circle moment for Meghan to return to television after leaving her position as a royal. She was best known as an actress for years and got her big break on “Suits.” She later became the Duchess of Sussex and a working royal, serving the crown alongside Prince Harry.

She now lives a post-royal life and becomes a lifestyle mogul with her brand As Ever.

However, Meghan worked for years before being cast in “Suits,” and not just as an actress.

The beginnings of Meghan Markle’s career

Meghan started working at age 13, working a part-time job at a frozen yogurt shop called Humphrey Yogart in 1995.

Paula Sheftel, Meghan’s boss at the store, told the Mirror in 2017 that he was “very popular with customers” during his tenure.

Meghan studied acting and international relations at Northwestern University. While still in school, he completed a six-week internship at the United States Embassy in Argentina.

According to her IMDb page, Meghan began pursuing a career in acting before graduating in 2003. Her first official role was as Nurse Jill on “General Hospital” in 2002, and she then landed a series of smaller roles on shows like “CSI,” “Knight Rider” and “90210” over the next eight years.

Meghan also worked as a briefcase girl on “Deal or No Deal” from 2006 to 2007 and appeared in a “Tostitos” commercial in 2009.

She landed a few small movie roles, including as a waitress in the 2010 film “Remember Me,” which her first husband, Trevor Engelson, produced, and as Jamie in “Horrible Bosses” in 2011.

Additionally, Meghan held odd jobs while developing her acting career, including working as a hostess at an unnamed restaurant, as she told Vanity Fair in 2017.

She also worked as a calligrapher part-time, a job she described as “super lucrative” in a 2018 interview with Esquire. She told the outlet that her calligraphy work included Dolce & Gabbana’s Christmas mailings and invitations to Paula Patton and Robin Thicke’s 2005 wedding.

Meghan’s outstanding acting role in ‘Suits’

Meghan landed her breakout acting role as Rachel Zane on “Suits” in 2011. Her character began as a paralegal on the legal drama and later became a lawyer, and had an on-again, off-again romantic relationship with Michael Ross.

Meghan filmed “Suits” from 2011 to 2017; her last episode aired in April 2018. She became a household name through the show. He also lived in Toronto while participating in the series, as it was filmed in Canada.

Meghan met Prince Harry when she was starring in “Suits.”

Although her acting career was peaking on “Suits,” Meghan also had a side job while on the show. She started her blog. the tig in 2014 and ran until 2017. The lifestyle blog featured travel content, recipes and interviews with Meghan’s famous friends.

She also channeled her time off-screen into service work, becoming a United Nations Women’s Advocate in 2015 and a World Vision ambassador in 2016.

Meghan left “Suits” after announcing her engagement to Harry in November 2017, preparing to become a royal. USA Network and Universal Cable Productions confirmed her departure in a statement at the time, saying they wanted to “send our heartfelt congratulations to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on their engagement.”

“Meghan has been a member of our family for seven years and it has been a pleasure to work with her,” the statement said. “We want to thank him for his undeniable passion and dedication to ‘Suits’ and wish him the best.”

Post-royal ventures with Prince Harry

Meghan became an active royal after she and Harry married in May 2018, attending royal engagements and taking on patronages on behalf of the crown. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as senior royals in January 2020 and concluded their royal duties in March of the same year.

Meghan and Harry launched their post-royal careers in the summer of 2020. In August 2020, they signed for $100 million. production agreement with Netflix to produce scripted and unscripted series for the streamer and a $20 million deal with Spotify to make podcasts in December of that year.

They also created Archewell Inc. in October 2020, which would serve as the umbrella organization for their production and charity ventures.

In 2021, Meghan became an author, publishing the children’s book “The Bench” in June and launching her Spotify podcast “Archetypes” in August. Both ventures were immediate successes: “The Bench” became a New York Times bestseller and “Archetypes” dethroned Joe Rogan’s podcast to reach number one on Spotify when it premiered. However, the popularity of “Archetypes” waned and Harry and Meghan’s relationship with Spotify ended in 2023.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s first Netflix series, “Harry & Meghan,” was a documentary series about their relationship and their step back as royals. It was a huge hit when it premiered in December 2022, although the pair didn’t build on that momentum until 2025.

Meghan’s lifestyle show

On March 4, 2025, Netflix released “With Love, Meghan,” drawing on Meghan’s lifestyle passions from her blogging days with 30-minute episodes. The show was initially set to premiere in January 2025, but Meghan delayed its release amid the Los Angeles wildfires.

The first season explored Meghan’s recipes, hosting tricks and gardening tips. A different celebrity guest-starred on each episode of the show, offering a mix of interactions with Meghan and her friends, as well as industry insiders like Roy Choi, with only a brief appearance from Prince Harry.

When it debuted, the show hit Netflix’s top 10, and the streamer announced days later that the second season had already finished filming and would air sometime in the fall.

The second season premiered on August 26, 2025, and featured more celebrity appearances. Stars like Chrissy Teigen and Tan France joined Meghan in the kitchen. Netflix also released a “With Love, Meghan” Christmas special in December 2025.

A representative for the couple told Variety in March 2025 that the series “will continue as seasonal specials” rather than full seasons. The statement came after Meghan said filming two seasons of the series in one year was “a lot of work” at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2025, according to People. He also said he was thinking about shorter-form lifestyle content in the same vein as “With Love, Meghan.”

“Part of what we’re testing now is that it’s awesome to sit down and watch a show for 30 minutes, but how can I give you a recipe in two minutes?” she said.

Meghan also launched a new podcast, “Confessions of a Founder,” in April 2025. In each of the 12 episodes that aired in 2025, Meghan spoke with different women running companies, including Cécred founder and Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles. He also shared reflections on his own journey releasing As Ever. The last episode of the show aired in June 2025.

In its era as always

In February 2025, Meghan shared that she would be launching a lifestyle brand, As Ever, alongside her show, and would unveil a new website and Instagram page on the same day.

The company was originally announced in March 2024 as American Riviera Orchard, a nod to its neighborhood’s common nickname, Santa Barbara. Meghan shared the company’s Instagram account and website and teased its first product, strawberry jam, by sending jars to her famous friends.

However, in August 2024, Meghan’s trademark application for the trademark was denied because the name was “primarily geographically descriptive.”

In February 2025, he announced in an Instagram video that he had changed the company’s name to As Ever and that Netflix had joined the company as its business partner. (Netflix and As Ever ended their partnership in March 2025, and the streamer told outlets like Deadline in a statement that it had always planned to be a short-term investor.) She debuted products from her upcoming collection on “With Love, Meghan,” generating buzz for her line.

The first As Ever products, including a raspberry cream, wildflower honey, flower sprinkles, crepe mix, shortbread mix and three types of tea, were launched on April 2, 2025. The collection sold out in less than an hour.

As Ever had several product launches throughout 2025 and 2026. Honeys and jams remain its star products, but it has also launched items such as candles and chocolate boxes.

The brand also began selling wine in 2025, launching rosé, sauvignon blanc and brut varieties.