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Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is a
two-time Academy Award-winning American actress who has worked in
theatre, television, and film. She is the most nominated actor in
Academy Award history with 14 nominations. She is widely considered one
of the most respected and talented actresses of her generation. Streep
made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy Of Seville and
her screen debut came in 1977's made-for-television movie The Deadliest
Season. She is also one of the selected actors that has won all three
major motion picture acting awards (Oscars, Golden Globes, SAG Awards).
Streep made her film debut in 1977's Julia
opposite Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. Both critical and commercial
success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter with Robert DeNiro
and Kramer vs. Kramer with Dustin Hoffman, the former giving Streep her
first Oscar nomination and the latter her first win.
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Birth name Mary Louise Streep
Born June 22, 1949 (age 57)
Summit, New Jersey, USA
Spouse(s) Don Gummer
Academy Awards
Best Actress
1982 Sophie's Choice
Best Supporting Actress
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer
Emmy Awards
Best Actress in a Mini-series
1978 Holocaust
2004 Angels in America
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1982 The French Lieutenant's Woman
1983 Sophie's Choice
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1980 Kramer vs. Kramer
2003 Adaptation.
Best Actress – Mini-series
2004 Angels in America
Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or
Comedy
2007 The Devil Wears Prada
BAFTA Awards
Best Actress in a Leading Role
1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Early life
Streep was born Mary Louise Streep in
Summit, New Jersey. Her father, Harry William Streep, Jr.,[1] was a
pharmaceutical executive and her mother, Mary, was a commercial artist.
Streep's mother had Swiss, Irish and English ancestry and her father's
family was of Dutch descent with distant Sephardic Jewish roots.[2][3]
Streep was raised in Bernardsville, New Jersey. She received her B.A. in
Drama at Vassar College and earned a M.F.A. from the Yale School of
Drama at Yale University.
Early career
In her first feature film, Julia (1977),
she had a small but pivotal role during a flashback scene. The Deer
Hunter (1978) was her second feature film and it earned Streep her first
Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress. The following
year, she won an Academy Award for her role opposite Dustin Hoffman in
Kramer vs. Kramer (Best Supporting Actress, 1979). In 1982, she would
win again for Sophie's Choice (Best Actress, 1982).
In 1978, she won her first Emmy Award, for
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for the
miniseries Holocaust. A year later she appeared in her only Woody Allen
film, Manhattan.
Streep was engaged to The Deer Hunter
co-star John Cazale ("Fredo" in The Godfather) until his death from bone
cancer on March 12th, 1978. In September 1978, she married sculptor Don
Gummer. They have four children: Henry W. (Hank) (born in 1979), Mary
Willa (Mamie)(born in 1983), Grace Jane (born in 1986), and Louisa
Jacobson (born in 1991). Mamie Gummer has chosen acting as a career, and
made her off-Broadway debut as Lucy in a 2005 production of Mr.
Marmalade at the Laura Pels Theatre.
Later career and recent credits
In the 1980s, Streep appeared in the
acclaimed films The French Lieutenant's Woman, Silkwood (1982) with Kurt
Russell and Cher, Out of Africa with Robert Redford, and Ironweed, with
Jack Nicholson. In A Cry in the Dark Streep portrayed Lindy Chamberlain,
the infamous Australian mother who was accused of being responsible for
the death of her infant after claiming that a dingo took her baby. 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 strung-out B-film actress in a screen adaptation
of Carrie Fisher's novel Postcards from the Edge with Dennis Quaid and
Shirley MacLaine, and a farcical role in Death Becomes Her with Goldie
Hawn and Bruce Willis. Streep also appeared in the movie version of
Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, Clint Eastwood's screen
adaptation of The Bridges of Madison County, The River Wild, She-Devil,
Marvin's Room (with Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio), One True Thing
and Music of the Heart, in a role that required her to learn to play the
violin.
She was a voice actress for the animated
series The Simpsons playing Reverend Timothy Lovejoys daughter, and King
of the Hill. She also voiced the Blue Mecha character in the Steven
Spielberg film, A.I..
In 2002, she co-starred with Nicolas Cage
in Spike Jonze's quirky Adaptation, as real-life author Susan Orlean;
and with Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in The Hours. She also
appeared with Al Pacino 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 for Angels in America, which reunited her with
director Mike Nichols, who directed her in Silkwood, Heartburn and
Postcards from the Edge.
In addition, she appeared in Jonathan
Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate co-starring Denzel
Washington, in which Streep played a role made famous by Angela
Lansbury. She also starred with Jim Carrey in Lemony Snicket's A Series
of Unfortunate Events."
Streep's most recent film releases are
Prime (2005), the Robert Altman film A Prairie Home Companion with
Lindsay Lohan and Lily Tomlin and the box-office success The Devil Wears
Prada with Anne Hathaway which grossed nearly $125 million dollars and
earned Streep the 2007 Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Musical
or Comedy. On January 23, 2007, Streep earned her 14th Academy Award
nomination (her 11th for Best Actress) for The Devil Wears Prada.
Streep's newest film Dark Matter debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film
Festival.
She has also been confirmed for the role of
Donna in the film version of the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!.
Theatre
In New York City, she appeared in the 1976
Broadway double-bill of Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and
Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays, for which she received a Tony
Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Her other early
Broadway credits include Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and the
Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical Happy End. 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's The 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 of Mother Courage and Her
Children at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. [1] The show
performed to crowds that lined up for hours, sometimes in the pouring
rain, to get highly coveted seats. It was originally written by Bertolt
Brecht in 1939 and first performed in 1941. The Public Theater
production was a new translation by famed playwright Tony Kushner
(Angels in America) with songs in the Weill/Brecht style written by
composer Jeanine 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
several songs and was in nearly every scene.
Miscellaneous
Since 2002, Meryl Streep has hosted the
annual event Poetry & the Creative Mind, a benefit in support of
National Poetry Month, a program of the Academy of American Poets.
Streep has received a number of awards,
including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Streep co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace
Prize Concert with Liam Neeson in Oslo, Norway in 2001. The winner of
the prize was United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan.
She is a supporter of the US Democratic
Party.
Streep was caricatured by the TV show
Sesame Street, which featured a puppet named Meryl Sheep.
Awards
Academy Awards
Streep holds the record for the most
Academy Award nominations of any actor, having been nominated fourteen
times since her first nomination in 1979 for The Deer Hunter (11 for
Best Actress and 3 for Best Supporting Actress).
Golden Globes
Meryl Streep holds the record for actress
with the most Golden Globe Awards for films with 6 wins. She is also the
second-most nominated performer for a Golden Globe Award (she has
twenty-one nominations to Jack Lemmon's twenty-two). Streep is also tied
with Jack Nicholson for most Golden Globes overall by an actor or
actress (6 wins).
List of wins and nominations
Year Group Award Won? Film/Play
1976 Tony Featured Actress in a Play No 27
Wagons Full of Cotton
1975-76 Theatre World Award Debut
performance, Broadway / Off-Broadway Yes
1978 Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a
Limited Series Yes Holocaust
1979 National Society of Film Critics Best
Supporting Actress Yes The Deer Hunter
Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress No
Academy Award Best Supporting Actress No
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award
Best Supporting Actress Yes Kramer vs. Kramer
National Board of Review Best Supporting
Actress Yes
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best
Supporting Actress Yes
1980 Golden Globe Best Motion Picture
Actress in a Supporting Role Yes
Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Yes
National Society of Film Critics Best
Supporting Actress Yes
National Society of Film Critics Best
Supporting Actress Yes The Seduction of Joe Tynan
BAFTA Best Actress No The Deer Hunter
BAFTA Best Supporting Actress No Manhattan
Hasty Pudding Theatricals Hasty Pudding
Theatricals for Woman of the Year Yes
1981 BAFTA Best Actress No Kramer vs.
Kramer
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award
Best Actress Yes The French Lieutenant's Woman
1982 BAFTA Best Actress Yes
Academy Award Best Actress No
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama Yes
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award
Best Actress Yes Sophie's Choice
National Board of Review Best Actress Yes
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best
Actress Yes
1983 Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama Yes
National Society of Film Critics Best
Actress Yes
Academy Award Best Actress Yes
1984 BAFTA Best Actress No
People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion
Picture Actress Yes
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
Silkwood
Academy Award Best Actress No
1985 BAFTA Best Actress No
People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion
Picture Actress Yes
Grammy Awards Best Recording for Children
(Velveteen Rabbit: Narrator) No
David di Donatello Award Best Foreign
Actress Yes Falling in Love
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award
Best Actress Yes Out of Africa
1986 People's Choice Awards Favourite
Motion Picture Actress Yes
David di Donatello Award Best Foreign
Actress Yes Out of Africa
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
Academy Award Best Actress No
1987 BAFTA Best Actress No
People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion
Picture Actress Yes
1988 Academy Award Best Actress No Ironweed
Grammy Awards Best Recording for Children
(Tale of Peter Rabbit: Narrator) No
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best
Actress Yes A Cry in the Dark
1989 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Yes
Australian Film Institute Best Actress Yes
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
Academy Award Best Actress No
People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion
Picture Actress Yes
1990 Golden Globe Best Actress in a
Comedy/Musical No She-Devil
People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion
Picture Actress Yes
World - Favourite Motion Picture Actress
Yes
1991 Golden Globe Best Actress in a
Comedy/Musical No Postcards from the Edge
Academy Award Best Actress No
American Comedy Awards Funniest Actress Yes
1993 Golden Globe Best Actress in a
Comedy/Musical No Death Becomes Her
1995 Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
The River Wild
Screen Actors Guild Best Actress No
1996 Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
The Bridges of Madison County
Academy Award Best Actress No
Screen Actors Guild Best Actress No
1997 Screen Actors Guild Best Cast No
Marvin's Room
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
1998 Emmy Best Actress in a Mini-series No
...First Do No Harm
Golden Globe Best Actress in a Mini-series
No
1999 Gotham Awards Lifetime Achievement
Award Yes
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No One
True Thing
Screen Actors Guild Best Actress No
Academy Award Best Actress No
2000 Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
Music of the Heart
Screen Actors Guild Best Actress No
Academy Award Best Actress No
2003 Berlin International Film Festival's
Silver Berlin Bear Best Actress (shared with Nicole Kidman and Julianne
Moore) Yes The Hours
Prestige Award Best Actress No
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
Screen Actors Guild Best Cast No
BAFTA Best Actress No
Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress Yes
Adaptation.
Prestige Award Best Supporting Actress Yes
Screen Actors Guild Best Cast No
BAFTA Best Supporting Actress No
Academy Award Best Supporting Actress No
2004 Golden Globe Best Performance by an
Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television Yes
Angels in America
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance
by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Yes
Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a
Miniseries or a Movie Yes
American Film Institute American Film
Institute Life Achievement Award Yes
2005 Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress
No The Manchurian Candidate
BAFTA Best Supporting Actress No
Prestige Award Best Supporting Actress No
2006 Satellite Awards Actress in a Motion
Picture, Comedy or Musical Yes The Devil Wears Prada
Women Film Critics Circle Best Comedic
Performance Yes
Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress
in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Yes
Broadcast Film Critics Association Best
Actress No
Online Film Critics Society Best Actress No
Academy Award Best Actress No
London Film Critics Circle Actress of the
Year Yes
BAFTA Best Actress No
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance
by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (Theatrical Movie) No
National Society of Film Critics Best
Supporting Actress Yes
National Society of Film Critics Best
Supporting Actress Yes A Prairie Home Companion
Broadcast Film Critics Association Best
Acting Ensemble No
Notes:
1997 SAG Nomination for Marvin's Room
shared with Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, Dan Hedaya, Diane Keaton,
Hal Scardino, Gwen Verdon and Hume Cronyn.
2003 SAG Nomination for Adaptation. shared
with Nicolas Cage, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Cara Seymour and Tilda
Swinton.
2003 SAG Nomination for The Hours shared
with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Miranda Richardson, Jeff Daniels, Ed
Harris, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Stephen Dillane, John C. Reilly and
Allison Janney.
Filmography
v • d • e Main Filmography
Julia (1977) | The Deer Hunter (1978) |
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) | Manhattan (1979) | The French Lieutenant's
Woman (1981) | Sophie's Choice (1982) | Silkwood (1983) | Falling in
Love (1984) | Out of Africa (1985) | Plenty (1985) | Heartburn (1986) |
Ironweed (1987) | A Cry in the Dark (1988) | She-Devil (1989) |
Postcards from the Edge (1990) | Death Becomes Her (1992) | The House of
Spirits (1993) | The River Wild (1994) | The Bridges of Madison County
(1995) | One True Thing (1998) | Music of the Heart (1999) | The Hours
(2002) | Adaptation. (2002) | The Manchurian Candidate (2004) | Lemony
Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Prime (2005) | The Devil
Wears Prada (2006) | Mamma Mia (2008) |
Television credits
Holocaust (1978)
Angels in America (2003) (miniseries)
Stage credits
Stage Credits Year Play Role Director
1975 Trelawny of the "Wells" Miss Imogen
Parrott A. J. Antoon
1976 27 Wagons Full of Cotton Flora Meighan
Arvin Brown
1976 A Memory of Two Mondays Patricia Arvin
Brown
1976 Secret Service Edith Varney Daniel
Freudenberger
1976 Henry V Katherine Joseph Papp
1976 Measure for Measure Isabella John
Pasquin
1977 Happy End Lieutenant Lillian Holiday
Robert Kalfin and Patricia Birch
1977 The Cherry Orchard Dunyasha Andrei
Şerban
1978 Alice in Concert Alice Elizabeth
Swados
1978 The Taming of the Shrew Kate Wilford
Leach
1979 Taken in Marriage Andrea Robert Allan
Ackerman
1980-81 Alice in Concert Alice Joseph Papp
2001 The Seagull Irina Nikolayevna Mike
Nichols
2006 Mother Courage and Her Children Mother
Courage George C. Wolfe
Footnotes
1. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/streep.htm
2. http://www.mtsu.edu/~socwork/frost/crazy/streep.htm
3. http://www.meryl-streep.de/press/press1992movieline.htm
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