Meryl Streep
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| Meryl Streep | |
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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 | |
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| Best Actress 1982 Sophie's Choice Best Supporting Actress 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer |
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| Emmy Awards | |
| Best Actress in a Mini-series 1978 Holocaust 2004 Angels in America |
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| 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 |
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| BAFTA Awards | |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role 1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman |
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| AFI Awards | |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role 1989 A Cry in the Dark |
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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 select 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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[edit] 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.[2] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 Fairy 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!.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Awards
[edit] 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).
[edit] 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).
[edit] List of wins and nominations
| Year | Group | Award | Won? | Film/Play |
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| 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.
[edit] Selected filmography
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| 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) | Evening (2008) | Mamma Mia! (2008) | |
[edit] Television credits
- Holocaust (1978)
- "The Simpsons" (As Jessica Lovejoy) 1994
- Angels in America (2003) (miniseries)
[edit] Stage credits
| Year | Play | Role | Director |
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| 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 |
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] External links
- Meryl Streep at the Internet Movie Database
- Meryl Streep at the TCM Movie Database
- Meryl Streep at the Internet Broadway Database
- Meryl Streep at the Notable Names Database
- merylstreeponline.net- official website
- simplystreep.com
- The most nominated actor in Academy Awards history
- Meryl Streep Fanboard.
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| NAME | Streep, Meryl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Streep, Mary Louise |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Summit, New Jersey, USA |
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