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Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2004
Born	Mary Louise Streep June 22, 1949 (1949-06-22) (age 59) Summit, New Jersey, USA
Years active	1977–present
Spouse(s)	Don Gummer (1978–present)
Awards won Academy Awards Best Actress 1982 Sophie's Choice Best Supporting Actress 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer Australian Film Institute Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role 1989 A Cry in the Dark BAFTA Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role 1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman César Awards Honorary César – Lifetime Achievement 2003 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 2006 The Devil Wears Prada Other awards NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actress 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 The Seduction of Joe Tynan NYFCC Award for Best Actress 1982 Sophie's Choice 1988 A Cry in the Dark Best Actress Award — Cannes Film Festival 1989 A Cry in the Dark Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress 2003 The Hours AFI Life Achievement Award 2004 National Movie Awards (UK) - Best Female Performance 2008 Mamma Mia! The Movie

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era. She 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. Streep made her film debut in Julia (1977), starring opposite Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave.

Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter, with Robert De Niro, and Kramer vs. Kramer, with Dustin Hoffman, the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first win. Streep's work has earned her two Academy Awards, a Cannes award, six Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG), four Grammy Award nominations, two Emmy Awards, a BAFTA award, and a Tony Award nomination. She has received 14 Academy Award nominations, more than any other actor or actress in the history of the awards, and is tied with Jack Nicholson for most Golden Globe Award wins, with six each. She has been nominated 21 times for a Golden Globe, second only to Jack Lemmon, who had 22.¹² She is also one of the few actors to have won all four major screen acting awards (Oscars, Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA awards).

Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 1980–present 4 Theatre 5 Awards 5.1 Academy Awards 5.2 Emmy Awards 5.3 National Movie Awards (UK) 6 Work 6.1 Filmography 6.2 Television 6.3 Stage 7 References 8 External links

Early life

Streep was born Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary W. Streep, a commercial artist, and Harry William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive.³⁴ Streep's mother had Swiss, Irish, and English ancestry, and her father's family was of Dutch descent, with distant Sephardic Jewish ancestors from Spain (although Streep was raised Presbyterian).⁵⁶⁷⁸ She has two younger brothers, Dana and Harry.⁹ Streep was raised in Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended and graduated from Bernards High School.¹⁰ She received her B.A. in Drama at Vassar College and earned an M.F.A. from Yale University.

Early career

Streep's first feature film was Julia, in which she played 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 won again, for Sophie's Choice (Best Actress), where she starred alongside Peter MacNicol and Kevin Kline.

In 1978, she won her first Emmy Award, for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for the miniseries Holocaust. A year later, she appeared in her only Woody Allen film, Manhattan. Streep was engaged to John Cazale ("Fredo" in The Godfather), her costar in The Deer Hunter, until his death from bone cancer on March 12, 1978. In September 1978, she married sculptor Don Gummer. They have four children: Henry W. "Hank" Gummer (1979), Mamie Gummer (1983), Grace Jane Gummer (1986), and Louisa Jacobson Gummer (1991).¹¹ Mamie 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.

1980–present

In the 1980s, Streep appeared in the acclaimed films The French Lieutenant's Woman; Silkwood, with Kurt Russell and Cher; Out of Africa, with Robert Redford; and Ironweed, with Jack Nicholson. She received strong reviews and an Oscar nomination for Silkwood, portraying activist Karen Silkwood. In A Cry in the Dark (titled Evil Angels in Australia), Streep portrayed Lindy Chamberlain, the Australian mother who was accused of being responsible for the death of her infant after claiming that a dingo took her baby. For her performance, she was awarded Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. 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 movie actress in a screen adaptation of Carrie Fisher's novel Postcards from the Edge (in which Streep makes her singing debut), 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 actor for the animated series The Simpsons (playing Jessica Lovejoy) (Reverend Timothy Lovejoy's daughter) and King of the Hill. She also voiced the Blue Fairy character in the Steven Spielberg film A.I.

In 2002, she costarred 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 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 for Angels in America, which reunited her with director Mike Nichols (who directed her in Silkwood, Heartburn, and Postcards from the Edge). She also played Aunt Josephine in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events with Jim Carrey.

In addition, she appeared in Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate, costarring Denzel Washington, in which she played a role made famous by Angela Lansbury. Since 2002, Meryl 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 also cohosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert with Liam Neeson in Oslo, Norway in 2001.

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 US$125 million 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. One of Streep's newest film, Dark Matter, debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. It will be released on DVD in Fall of 2008.

Her latest role is Donna in the film version of the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!, which began playing in movie theaters in the US on July 18, 2008. For this role she won the award of Best Female Performance at the National Movie Awards (UK). She will play Sister Aloysius in the 2008 film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, which will come to theatres on December 12, 2008. Her future film project is Julie and Julia, where she will play the late Julia Child. As of August 2008, the film is in post-production. It will be released in theaters April 17, 2009 in the United States. She will also be staring in a new Nancy Meyers romantic comedy. Production for that film, which will also star Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, will begin in February, 2009 .¹²

As Of November 2008 Streep will also be starring in a 2009 film version of Fantastic Mr. Fox (film) directed by Wes Anderson. This is set to be released November 2009.

Streep is now one of the most highly respected and talented actresses and regarded as being one of the most talented film actresses to have ever lived.

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 the latter, 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, which she originally appeared in 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'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.¹³ 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.

Awards

Main article: List of awards and nominations for Meryl Streep

Streep holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor, having been nominated 14 times since her first nomination in 1979 for The Deer Hunter (11 for Best Actress and 3 for Best Supporting Actress).

Meryl Streep also holds the record for actress with the most Golden Globe Awards, with six wins. She is also the second-most nominated performer for a Golden Globe Award (she has 21 nominations to Jack Lemmon's 22). Streep is also tied with Jack Nicholson for most Golden Globes overall by an actor or actress (six wins). Streep has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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. In 2003, she was awarded an honorary César award by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema.

Academy Awards

Best Leading Actress nominations

• 1981: The French Lieutenant's Woman
• 1982: Sophie's Choice (won)
• 1984: Silkwood
• 1985: Out of Africa
• 1986: Ironweed
• 1988: A Cry in the Dark
• 1991: Postcards from the Edge
• 1996: The Bridges of Madison County
• 1999: One True Thing
• 2000: Music of the Heart
• 2007: The Devil Wears Prada

Best Supporting Actress nominations

• 1979: The Deer Hunter
• 1980: Kramer vs. Kramer (won)
• 2003: Adaptation.

Emmy Awards

• Best Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie

• 1978: Holocaust (won)
• 1997: …First Do No Harm
• 2004: Angels in America (won)

National Movie Awards (UK)

• 2008 - Best Female Performance - Mamma Mia! The Movie (won)

Work

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role	Notes and Awards	Director
1977	Julia	Anne Marie		Fred Zinnemann
1978	The Deer Hunter	Linda		Michael Cimino
1979	Manhattan	Jill		Woody Allen
	The Seduction of Joe Tynan	Karen Traynor		Jerry Schatzberg
	Kramer vs. Kramer	Joanna Kramer, mother of Billy	Academy Award, Golden Globe	Robert Benton
1981	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Sarah/Anna	Golden Globe, BAFTA Award	Karel Reisz
1982	Still of the Night	Brooke Reynolds		Robert Benton
	Sophie's Choice	Sophie Zawistowski	Academy Award, Golden Globe, NYFCC Award	Alan J. Pakula
1983	Silkwood	Karen Silkwood		Mike Nichols
1984	Falling in Love	Molly Gilmore		Ulu Grosbard
1985	Plenty	Susan Traherne		Fred Schepisi
	Out of Africa	Karen Blixen		Sydney Pollack
1986	Heartburn	Rachel Samstat		Mike Nichols
1987	Ironweed	Helen Archer		Hector Babenco
1988	A Cry in the Dark	Lindy Chamberlain	Prix d'interprétation féminine (Cannes); NYFCC Award	Fred Schepisi
1989	She-Devil	Mary Fisher		Susan Seidelman
1990	Postcards from the Edge	Suzanne Vale		Mike Nichols
1991	Defending Your Life	Julia		Albert Brooks
1992	Death Becomes Her	Madeline Ashton		Robert Zemeckis
1993	The House of the Spirits	Clara del Valle Trueba		Bille August
1994	The River Wild	Gail Hartman		Curtis Hanson
1995	The Bridges of Madison County	Francesca Johnson		Clint Eastwood
1996	Before and After	Dr. Carolyn Ryan		Barbet Schroeder
	Marvin's Room	Lee	Golden Globe	Jerry Zaks
1998	Dancing at Lughnasa	Kate 'Kit' Mundy		Pat O'Connor
	One True Thing	Kate Gulden		Carl Franklin
1999	Chrysanthemum	Narrator		Virginia Wilkos
	Music of the Heart	Roberta Guaspari		Wes Craven
2001	Artificial Intelligence: A.I.	Blue Mecha	(voice cameo)	Steven Spielberg
2002	Adaptation.	Susan Orlean	Golden Globe	Spike Jonze
	The Hours	Clarissa Vaughan	Silver Bear Award	Stephen Daldry
2003	Stuck on You	Herself		Farrelly brothers
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	Eleanor Shaw		Jonathan Demme
	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Aunt Josephine		Brad Silberling
2005	Prime	Lisa Metzger, therapist		Ben Younger
2006	A Prairie Home Companion	Yolanda Johnson		Robert Altman
	The Music of Regret	The Woman	(short musical)	Laurie Simmons
	The Devil Wears Prada	Miranda Priestly, editor-in-chief	Golden Globe	David Frankel
	The Ant Bully	Queen Ant	(voice)	John A. Davis
2007	Dark Matter	Joanna Silver		Chen Shi-Zheng
	Evening	Lila Wittenborn Ross		Lajos Koltai
	Rendition	Corrine Whitman, CIA official		Gavin Hood
	Lions for Lambs	Janine Roth		Robert Redford
2008	Mamma Mia!	Donna Sheridan	National Movie award Best Female Performance	Phyllida Lloyd
	Doubt	Sister Aloysius	awaiting release	John Patrick Shanley
2009	Julie & Julia	Julia Child	post-production	Nora Ephron
	Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)	"(character detail un-released)"	post-production	Wes Anderson
	Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World"(film)	Author	post production	Unknown

Television

Year	Television	Role	Notes and Awards	Director
1978	Holocaust	Inga Helms Weiss		Marvin J. Chomsky
1994	"Bart's Girlfriend" episode of The Simpsons	Jessica Lovejoy		Susie Dietter
1999	"A Beer Can Named Desire" episode of King of the Hill	Aunt Esme Dauterive		Chuck Austen and Chris Moeller
1997	…First Do No Harm	Lori Reimuller		Jim Abrahams
2003	Angels in America	Ethel Rosenberg The Rabbi Hannah Pitt The Angel of Australia		Mike Nichols
2008	Friday Night with Jonathan Ross	herself

Stage

Year	Show	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 at the Palace	Alice	Elizabeth Swados
1978	The Taming of the Shrew	Kate	Wilford Leach
1979	Taken in Marriage	Andrea	Robert Allan Ackerman
1980-81	Alice at the Palace	Alice	Joseph Papp
2001	The Seagull	Irina Nikolayevna	Mike Nichols
2006	Mother Courage and her Children	Mother Courage	George C. Wolfe

References

• Napoleon, Davi. Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater. Includes discussion of Streep's performance in Robert Kalfin's production of Happy End at the Chelsea Theater and on Broadway. Iowa State University Press. ISBN-0-8138-1713-7, 1991.
• Finding Herself: The Prime of Meryl Streep by Molly Haskell, Film Comment, May/June 2008.

External links

• Meryl Streep at the Internet Broadway Database
• Meryl Streep at the Internet Movie Database
• Meryl Streep at the TCM Movie Database
• merylstreeponline.net- official website
• simplystreep.com- website
• The most nominated actor in Academy Awards history

Awards and achievements
American Film Institute
Preceded by Robert De Niro	Life Achievement Award 2004	Succeeded by George Lucas
Australian Film Institute Award
Preceded by Nadine Garner for Mullaway	Best Actress in a Leading Role 1989 for Evil Angels	Succeeded by Catherine McClements for Weekend with Kate
BAFTA Award
Preceded by Judy Davis for My Brilliant Career	Best Actress in a Leading Role 1981 for The French Lieutenant's Woman	Succeeded by Katharine Hepburn for On Golden Pond
Berlin International Film Festival
Preceded by Halle Berry for Monster's Ball	Silver Bear for Best Actress 2003 for The Hours (tied with Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore)	Succeeded by Charlize Theron for Monster and Catalina Sandino Moreno for Maria Full of Grace
Cannes Film Festival
Preceded by Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, and Linda Mvusi for A World Apart	Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival) 1989 for A Cry in the Dark	Succeeded by Krystyna Janda for Przesluchanie
Golden Globe Award
Preceded by Dyan Cannon for Heaven Can Wait	Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture 1979 for Kramer vs. Kramer	Succeeded by Mary Steenburgen for Melvin and Howard
Preceded by Mary Tyler Moore for Ordinary People	Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1981 for The French Lieutenant's Woman 1982 for Sophie's Choice	Succeeded by Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment
Preceded by Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind	Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture 2002 for Adaptation.	Succeeded by Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain
Preceded by Uma Thurman for Hysterical Blindness	Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie 2003 for Angels in America	Succeeded by Glenn Close for The Lion in Winter
Preceded by Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line	Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 2006 for The Devil Wears Prada	Succeeded by Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose
NYFCC Award
Preceded by Glenda Jackson for Stevie	Best Actress 1982 for Sophie's Choice	Succeeded by Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment
Preceded by Holly Hunter for Broadcast News	Best Actress 1988 for A Cry in the Dark	Succeeded by Michelle Pfeiffer for The Fabulous Baker Boys
San Sebastián International Film Festival
Preceded by Richard Gere , Liv Ullmann	Donostia Award 2008	Succeeded by -
Screen Actors Guild Award
Preceded by Stockard Channing for The Matthew Shepard Story	Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie 2003 for Angels in America	Succeeded by Glenn Close for The Lion in Winter

v • d • e Academy Award for Best Actress Katharine Hepburn (1981) · Meryl Streep (1982) · Shirley MacLaine (1983) · Sally Field (1984) · Geraldine Page (1985) · Marlee Matlin (1986) · Cher (1987) · Jodie Foster (1988) · Jessica Tandy (1989) · Kathy Bates (1990) · Jodie Foster (1991) · Emma Thompson (1992) · Holly Hunter (1993) · Jessica Lange (1994) · Susan Sarandon (1995) · Frances McDormand (1996) · Helen Hunt (1997) · Gwyneth Paltrow (1998) · Hilary Swank (1999) · Julia Roberts (2000) Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Rita Moreno (1961) · Patty Duke (1962) · Margaret Rutherford (1963) · Lila Kedrova (1964) · Shelley Winters (1965) · Sandy Dennis (1966) · Estelle Parsons (1967) · Ruth Gordon (1968) · Goldie Hawn (1969) · Helen Hayes (1970) · Cloris Leachman (1971) · Eileen Heckart (1972) · Tatum O'Neal (1973) · Ingrid Bergman (1974) · Lee Grant (1975) · Beatrice Straight (1976) · Vanessa Redgrave (1977) · Maggie Smith (1978) · Meryl Streep (1979) · Mary Steenburgen (1980) Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie Susan Clark / Rosemary Harris (1976) · Sally Field / Patty Duke (1977) · Joanne Woodward / Meryl Streep (1978) · Bette Davis (1979) · Patty Duke (1980) · Vanessa Redgrave (1981) · Ingrid Bergman (1982) · Barbara Stanwyck (1983) · Jane Fonda (1984) · Joanne Woodward (1985) · Marlo Thomas (1986) · Gena Rowlands (1987) · Jessica Tandy (1988) · Holly Hunter (1989) · Barbara Hershey (1990) · Lynn Whitfield (1991) · Gena Rowlands (1992) · Holly Hunter (1993) · Kirstie Alley (1994) · Glenn Close (1995) · Helen Mirren (1996) · Alfre Woodard (1997) · Ellen Barkin (1998) · Helen Mirren (1999) · Halle Berry (2000) Complete list: (1954-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie Judy Davis (2001) · Laura Linney (2002) · Maggie Smith (2003) · Meryl Streep (2004) · S. Epatha Merkerson (2005) · Helen Mirren (2006) · Helen Mirren (2007) · Laura Linney (2008) Complete list: (1954-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

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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, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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