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Meryl Streep Fan this is your ultimate resource for the talented Meryl Streep. Here you'll find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.


In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career, Personal life, Stage work, TV and Filmography right away: List of awards and nominations received by Meryl Streep, Julia (1977 film), The Deer Hunter, Manhattan (film), The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Kramer vs. Kramer, The French Lieutenant's Woman (film), Still of the Night (film), Sophie's Choice (film), Silkwood, Falling in Love (film), Plenty (film), Out of Africa (film), Heartburn (film), Ironweed (film), A Cry in the Dark, She-Devil (film), Postcards from the Edge (film), Defending Your Life, Death Becomes Her, The House of the Spirits (film), The River Wild, The Bridges of Madison County (film), Before and After (film), Marvin's Room (film), Dancing at Lughnasa (film), One True Thing, Music of the Heart, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Adaptation (film), The Hours (film), Stuck on You (film), The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Prime (film), A Prairie Home Companion (film), The Devil Wears Prada (film), The Ant Bully (film), Dark Matter (film), Evening (film), Rendition (film), Lions for Lambs, Mamma Mia! (film), Doubt (2008 film), Julie & Julia, Fantastic Mr. Fox (film), It's Complicated (film), Bart's Girlfriend, List of King of the Hill episodes, ...First Do No Harm, Angels in America (miniseries), One act plays by Tennessee Williams, A Memory of Two Mondays, The Cherry Orchard, The Taming of the Shrew, The Seagull, Mother Courage and Her Children


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Contents Articles Meryl StreepList of awards and nominations received by Meryl StreepJulia (1977 film)The Deer HunterManhattan (film)The Seduction of Joe TynanKramer vs. KramerThe French Lieutenant's Woman (film)Still of the Night (film)Sophie's Choice (film)SilkwoodFalling in Love (film)Plenty (film)Out of Africa (film)Heartburn (film)Ironweed (film)A Cry in the DarkShe-Devil (film)Postcards from the Edge (film)Defending Your LifeDeath Becomes HerThe House of the Spirits (film)The River WildThe Bridges of Madison County (film)Before and After (film)Marvin's Room (film)Dancing at Lughnasa (film)One True ThingMusic of the HeartA.I. Artificial IntelligenceAdaptation (film)The Hours (film)Stuck on You (film)The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film)
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate EventsPrime (film)A Prairie Home Companion (film)The Devil Wears Prada (film)The Ant Bully (film)Dark Matter (film)Evening (film)Rendition (film)Lions for LambsMamma Mia! (film)Doubt (2008 film)Julie & JuliaFantastic Mr. Fox (film)It's Complicated (film)Bart's GirlfriendList of King of the Hill episodes…First Do No HarmAngels in America (miniseries)One act plays by Tennessee WilliamsA Memory of Two MondaysThe Cherry OrchardThe Taming of the ShrewThe SeagullMother Courage and Her ChildrenReferences Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors Article Licenses License
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Meryl Streep MerylStreep
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Meryl Streep at the 56th San Sebastian International Film Festival, 2008BornMary Louise Streep June 22, 1949 Summit, New Jersey, United StatesOccupationActressYearsactive1971presentSpouse(s)Don Gummer (1978present)
Mary Louise"Meryl"June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, televisionStreep (born and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected movie actors both of her generation and of [1] [2] [3] the present time.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971'sThe Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movieThe Deadliest Seasonin 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut withJulia. Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles inThe Deer Hunter(1978) andKramer vs. Kramer(1979), the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first win. She later won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance inSophie's Choice(1982). Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations, winning two, and 25 Golden Globe nominations, winning seven, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, four New York Film Critics Circle Awards, five Grammy Award nominations, a BAFTA award, an Australian Film Institute Award and a Tony Award nomination, amongst others. She was awarded the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
Early life andbackgroundStreep was born Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary Wolf (née Wilkinson), a [4] [5] [6] commercial artist and former art editor, and Harry William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive. She has [7] [8] [9] two brothers, Dana and Harry. Streep is of German, Swiss and English ancestry. Her heritage can be traced back ten generations to Loffenau, from where her second great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, emigrated to the United States, and where one of her ancestors served as mayor. Another line of the Streep family was from Giswil, a small town in Switzerland. Her maternal ancestry can be traced to Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Her eighth great-grandfather, Lawrence Wilkinson, was one of the first Europeans to settle Rhode Island. Streep is also a distant relative of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and records show her family were among the first purchasers [8] [10] of land in Pennsylvania.
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 Meryl Streep 2 [11] [12] [13] She was raised a Presbyterian, and grew up in Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards [14] High School. She received her B.A.,cum laudein Drama at Vassar College in 1971 (where she briefly received instruction from Jean Arthur), but also enrolled as an exchange student at Dartmouth College for a semester before it became coeducational. She subsequently earned an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. While at Yale, she played a [15] variety of roles onstage, from the glamorous Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream to an eighty-year old woman in a wheelchair in a comedy written by then-unknown playwrights Christopher Durang and Albert [16] [17] Innaurato. "It was immediately apparent," said then-dean Robert Brustein, "that she was destined for [18] greatness."EarlycareerStreep performed in several theater productions in New York after graduating from Yale School of Drama, including the New York Shakespeare Festival productions ofHenry V,The Taming of the Shrewwith Raúl Juliá, andMeasure for Measureopposite Sam Waterston and John Cazale, who became her fiancé. She starred on Broadway in the Brecht/Weill musicalHappy End, and won an Obie for her performance in the all-sung off-Broadway production of Alice at the Palace. Streep began auditioning for film roles, and later recalled an unsuccessful audition for Dino De Laurentiis for the leading role inKing Kong. De Laurentiis commented to his son in Italian, "She's ugly. Why did you bring me this [19] thing?" and was shocked when Streep replied in fluent Italian. Streep's first feature film wasJulia(1977), in which she played a small but pivotal role during a flashback scene. Streep was living in New York City with her fiancé, Cazale, who had been diagnosed with bone cancer. He was cast inThe Deer Hunter(1978), and Streep was delighted to secure a small role because it allowed her to remain with Cazale for the duration of filming. She was not [20] specifically interested in the part, commenting, "They needed a girl between the two guys and I was it."
She played a leading role in the television miniseriesHolocaust(1978) as an Aryan woman married to a Jewish artist [20] in Nazi era Germany. She later explained that she had considered the material to be "unrelentingly noble", and [21] had taken the role only because she had needed money. Streep travelled to Germany and Austria for filming while Cazale remained in New York. Upon her return, Streep found that Cazale's illness had progressed, and she nursed him until his death on March 12, 1978. She spoke of her grief and her hope that work would provide a diversion; she accepted a role inThe Seduction of Joe Tynan(1979) with Alan Alda, later commenting that she played it on [20] [22] "automatic pilot", and performed the role of Kate inThe Taming of the Shrewfor Shakespeare in the Park. With an estimated audience of 109 million,Holocaustbrought a degree of public recognition to Streep, who was [21] described in August 1978 as "on the verge of national visibility". She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actressor a Movie for her performance. Miniseries The Deer Hunter(1978) was released a month later, and Streep was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Streep played a supporting role inManhattan(1979) for Woody Allen, later stating that she had not seen a complete [23] script and was given only the six pages of her own scenes, and that she had not been permitted to improvise a [24] word of her dialogue. Asked to comment on the script forKramer vs. Kramer(1979), in a meeting with the producer Stan Jaffee, director Robert Benton and star Dustin Hoffman, Streep insisted that the female character was not representative of many real women who faced marriage breakdown and child custody battles, and was written as [20] [20] "too evil". Jaffee, Benton and Hoffman agreed with Streep, and the script was revised. In preparing for the [25] part, Streep spoke to her own mother about her life as a mother and housewife with a career, and frequented the [20] Upper East Side neighborhood in which the film was set. Benton allowed Streep to write her dialogue in two of [26] her key scenes, despite some objection from Hoffman. Jaffee and Hoffman later spoke of Streep's tirelessness, with Hoffman commenting, "She's extraordinarily hardworking, to the extent that she's obsessive. I think that she [27] thinks about nothing else but what she's doing."
Meryl Streep 3 Streep drew critical acclaim for her performance in each of her three films released in 1979: the romantic comedy Manhattan, the political drama,The Seduction of Joe Tynanand the family drama,Kramer vs. Kramer. She was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in the three films. Among the awards won forKramer vs. Kramerwere the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. 1980s After prominent supporting roles in two of the 1970s most successful films, the consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture,The Deer Hunter andKramer vs. Kramer, and praise for her versatility in several supporting roles, Streep progressed to leading roles. Her first wasThe French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). A story within a story drama, the film paired Streep with Jeremy Irons as contemporary actors, telling their modern story as well as the Victorian era drama they were performing. ANew York Magazinearticle commented that while many female stars of the past had cultivated a singular identity in their [28] films, Streep was a "chameleon", willing to play any type of role. Streep was awarded a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work. Her next film, the psychological thriller,Still of the Night(1982) reunited her with Robert Benton, the director ofKramer vs. Kramer, and co-starred Roy Streep at the Academy Awards, 1988 Scheider and Jessica Tandy. Vincent Canby, writing for theNew York Timesnoted that the film was an homage to the works of Alfred Hitchcock, but that one of its main weaknesses was a lack of chemistry between Streep and Scheider, concluding that Streep "is stunning, but she's not on screen anywhere [29] near long enough".As the Polish holocaust survivor inSophie's Choice(1982), Streep's emotional dramatic performance and her apparent mastery of a Polish accent drew praise. William Styron wrote the novel with Ursula Andress in mind for the part of Sophie, but Streep was very determined to get the role. After she obtained a pirated copy of the script, she went to Alan J. Pakula and threw herself on the ground begging him to give her the part. Streep filmed the "choice" scene in one take and refused to do it again, as she found shooting the scene extremely painful and emotionally [30] draining. Among several notable acting awards, Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. She followed this success with a biographical film,Silkwood(1983), in which she played her first real-life character, the union activist Karen Silkwood. She discussed her preparation for the role in an interview with Roger Ebert and said that she had met with people close to Silkwood to learn more about her, and in doing so realized that each [31] person saw a different aspect of Silkwood. Streep concentrated on the events of Silkwood's life and concluded, "I didn't try to turn myself into Karen. I just tried to look at what she did. I put together every piece of information I could find about her... What I finally did was look at the events in her life, and try to understand her from the [31] inside."Her next films were a romantic comedy,Falling in Love(1984) opposite Robert De Niro, and a British drama,Plenty (1985). Roger Ebert said of Streep's performance inPlentythat she conveyed "great subtlety; it is hard to play an unbalanced, neurotic, self-destructive woman, and do it with such gentleness and charm... Streep creates a whole [32] character around a woman who could have simply been a catalogue of symptoms."Out of Africa(1985) starred Streep as the Danish writer Karen Blixen and co-starred Robert Redford. A significant [33] critical success, the film received a 63% "fresh" rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Streep co-starred with Jack Nicholson in her next two films, the dramasHeartburn(1986) andIronweed(1987), in which she sang onscreen for
Meryl Streep 4 the first time since the television movie,Secret Service, in 1977. InA Cry in the Dark(1988), she played the biographical role of Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman who had been convicted of the murder of her infant daughter in which Chamberlain claimed her baby had been taken by a dingo. Filmed in Australia, Streep won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for several other awards for her portrayal of Chamberlain. InShe-Devil(1989), Streep played her first comedic film role, opposite Roseanne Barr. Richard Corliss, writing for Time,commented that Streep was the "one reason" to see the film and observed that it marked a departure from the type of role for which she had been known, saying, "Surprise! Inside the Greer Garson roles Streep usually plays, a [34] vixenish Carole Lombard is screaming to be cut loose."1990s and 2000s From 1984 to 1990, Streep won six People's Choice Awards for Favorite Motion Picture Actress and, in 1990, was named World Favorite. In the 1990s, Streep took a greater variety of roles, including a drug addicted movie actress in a screen adaptation of Carrie Fisher's novelPostcards from the Edge, with Dennis Quaid and Shirley MacLaine. Streep and Goldie Hawn had established a friendship and were interested in making a film together. After considering various projects, they decided uponThelma and Louise, until Streep's pregnancy coincided with the filming schedule, and the producers [19] decided to proceed with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. They subsequently filmed the farcical black comedy, Death Becomes Her, with Bruce Willis as their co-star.Time's Richard Corliss wrote approvingly of Streep's [35] "wicked-witch routine" but dismissed the film as "She-Devilwith a make-over".Biographer Karen Hollinger describes this period as a downturn in the popularity of Streep's films, which reached its nadir with the failure ofDeath Becomes Her, attributing this partly to a critical perception that her comedies had been an attempt to convey a lighter image following several serious but commercially unsuccessful dramas, and [36] more significantly to the lack of options available to an actress in her forties. Streep commented that she had [36] limited her options by her preference to work in Los Angeles, close to her family, a situation that she had anticipated in a 1981 interview when she commented, "By the time an actress hits her mid-forties, no one's interested in her anymore. And if you want to fit a couple of babies into that schedule as well, you've got to pick your parts [28] with great care."Streep appeared with Glenn Close in the movie version of Isabel Allende'sThe House of the Spirits, the screen adaptation ofThe Bridges of Madison Countywith Clint Eastwood,The River Wild,Marvin's Room(with Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio),One True Thing, andMusic of the Heart, in a role that required her to learn to play the violin. Streep is adept with foreign accents and some of her best known roles have called for them. InThe Bridges of Madison County, she played a woman from Bari, Italy, inSophie's Choiceshe adopted a Polish accent, and inOut of Africashe spoke in a Danish accent. In 2001, Streep voiced the Blue Fairy in Steven Spielberg'sA.I. Artificial Intelligence. In 2002, Meryl Streep costarred with Nicolas Cage in Spike Jonze'sAdaptation.as real-life author Susan Orlean, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, and with Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore inThe Hours. She also appeared with Al Pacino and Emma Thompson in the HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner's six-hour play,Angels in America, in which she had four roles. She received her second Emmy Award forAngels in America, which reunited her with director Mike Nichols (who had previously directed her in Silkwood, Heartburn, and Postcards from the Edge). Meryl Streep also played Aunt Josephine inLemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Eventswith Jim Carrey.
Meryl Streep In addition, she appeared in Jonathan Demme's remake ofThe Manchurian Candidate, costarring Denzel Washington, in which she played a role first performed by Angela Lansbury. Since 2002, Streep has hosted the annual event Poetry & the Creative Mind, a benefit in support of National Poetry Month and a program of the Academy of American Poets. Streep co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert with Liam Neeson in Oslo, Norway, in 2001. In 2004, Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award by the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute, which honors an individual for a lifetime contribution to enriching American culture through motion pictures and television.
Streep's more recent film releases arePrime(2005); the Robert Altman filmA Prairie Home Companion, with Lindsay Lohan and Lily Tomlin; and the box office successThe Devil Wears Prada, with Anne Hathaway, which earned Streep the 2007 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy and an Academy Award nomination.
Streep in 2004
In 2008, she appeared as Donna in the film version of the ABBA musicalMamma Mia!, For this role she won the award of Best Female Performance at the National Movie Awards (UK), and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical. She played Sister Aloysius in the 2008 film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley'sDoubt. She received both an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Drama for that film. She also shared the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress with Anne Hathaway for the role, and won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding [37] Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.In 2009, she starred inJulie & Julia, in which she played the late Julia Child. For this role she won the Golden Globe Award for Best ActressPicture Musical or Comedy and also shared the Broadcast Film Critics Association Motion Award for Best Actress with Sandra Bullock. Streep also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for this performance. She then starred in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedyIt's Complicated, with Alec [38] Baldwin and Steve Martin. She also received nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion [39] Picture Musical or Comedy for this film. Streep also lent her voice to Mrs. Felicity Fox in the stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox. In July 2010, it was announced that Streep will star in an upcoming comedy entitleMommy & Mealongside Tina [40] Fey who will play her daughter. The film is being directed by Stanley Tucci.
TheatreIn New York City, she appeared in the 1976 Broadway double bill of Tennessee Williams'27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Arthur Miller'sA Memory of Two Mondays. For the former, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Her other early Broadway credits include Anton Chekhov'sThe Cherry Orchardand the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musicalHappy Endin which she originally appeared off-Broadway at the Chelsea Theater Center. She received Drama Desk Award nominations for both productions. Once Streep's film career flourished, she took a long break from stage acting. In July 2001, Streep returned to the stage for the first time in more than twenty years, playing Arkadina in the Public Theater's revival of Anton Chekhov'sThe Seagull. The staging, directed by Mike Nichols, also featured Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Marcia Gay Harden, and John Goodman. In August and September 2006, she starred onstage at The Public Theater's production ofMother Courage and Her [41] Childrenat the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. The Public Theater production was a new translation by playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America), with songs in the Weill/Brecht style written by composer Jeanine
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Meryl Streep Tesori (Caroline, or Change); veteran director George C. Wolfe was at the helm. Streep starred alongside Kevin Kline and Austin Pendleton in this three-and-a-half-hour play in which she sang and appeared in almost every scene. MusicAfter appearing inMamma Mia!, Streep's rendition of the song "Mamma Mia" rose to popularity in the Portuguese music charts, [42] where it has so far peaked at #8.At the 35th People's Choice Awards, her version ofMamma Miawon [43] an award for "Favorite Song From A Soundtrack". In 2008, Streep Streep (fourth from left) at the premiere of was nominated for a Grammy Award (her fifth nomination) for her MammaMia!work on theMamma Mia!soundtrack. Personal life [44] Meryl Streep was in a relationship with actor John Cazale until his death in March of 1978. Streep then married [45] sculptor Don Gummer on September 30, 1978. They have four children: Louisa Jacobson Gummer (born June [5] 1991), Grace Jane, Henry Wolfe, and Mamie Gummer. Both Grace and Mamie are actresses.When asked if religion plays a part in her life in an interview in 2009, Meryl Streep replied, "I follow no doctrine. I [46] don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram."AwardsStreep holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor, having been nominated 16 times since her first nomination in 1979 forThe Deer Hunter(13 for Best Actress and 3 for Best Supporting Actress). Meryl Streep is the most nominated performer for a Golden Globe Award (she has 25 nominations as of 2009) and has won the most Golden Globes overall since her win forJulie & Juliain 2010. Streep received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998. In 2003, she was awarded an honorary César Award by the FrenchAcadémie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma.In 2004 at the Moscow International Film Festival, Meryl Streep was honored with the Stanislavsky Award for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting and devotion to the principles of Stanislavsky's school. Streep receiving her honorary degree In 2004, Streep received the AFI Life Achievement Award. from Harvard University on May 27, 2010 May 27, 2004 was proclaimed "Meryl Streep Day" by Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields. [47] In 2009, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Princeton University.[48] In 2010, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts [49] degree by Harvard University.
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