![How Meghan Markle Got Her Big Break on 'Suits'](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nup_179239_0077_copy_-_h_2017.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1)
Jeff Wachtel doesn’t know if he’s going to get an invitation to the royal wedding — but he should.
The current chief content officer of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment and president of Suits producer Universal Cable Productions helped give Meghan Markle — now engaged to Prince Harry — her first big break on the USA Network drama. The executive, who will move to London next year when he takes on a new role as president of NBCUniversal International Studios, cast Markle over another actress in her first series-regular role back in 2011 when he was co-president of USA Network. Markle, who before then was a case model for a season on NBC’s Deal or No Deal, is engaged to Prince Harry and will exit Suits, on which she has been a series regular on all seven seasons, in early 2018 when the legal drama wraps its current season. (Production on season seven has already wrapped.)
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