Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
Image:Devil Wears Prada.jpg
Birth name	Mary Louise Streep
Born	June 22 1949 (1949-06-22) (age 59) Summit, New Jersey
Spouse(s)	Don Gummer (1978-)
Children	Henry Gummer (b.1979) Mamie Gummer (b.1983) Grace Gummer (b.1986) Louisa Gummer (b.1991)
Awards 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 2003 Lifetime Achievement 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 Other Awards NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actress 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer ; 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 Lifetime Achievement

Mary Louise Streep (born June 22, 1949), known as Meryl Streep, is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. 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. 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 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, six Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG), a Grammy Award nomination, a BAFTA award and a Cannes award. She has received 14 Academy Award nominations, more than any other actor or actress in the history of the awards. Streep is widely considered to be one of the most respected^[1] and talented^[2] film actors of all time. She is also one of the few actors to have won all four major motion picture acting awards (Oscars, Golden Globes, SAG, and BAFTA awards).

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Early career 1.3 Later career and recent credits 1.4 Theatre 2 Awards 3 Filmography 4 Television credits 5 Stage credits 6 References 7 See also 8 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] 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.^[3][4] Streep's mother had Swiss, Irish and English ancestry and Streep's father's family was of Dutch descent, with distant Sephardic Jewish ancestors from Spain.^[5][6] She has two younger brothers, Dana and Harry.^[7] Streep was raised in Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended and graduated from Bernards High School.^[8] She received her B.A. in Drama at Vassar College and earned a M.F.A. from 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 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 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 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 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 B-film actor 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 actor for the animated series The Simpsons (playing 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 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 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.

In addition, she appeared in Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate co-starring Denzel Washington, in which she played a role made famous by Angela Lansbury. She also starred with Jim Carrey in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. 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 also co-hosted 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 $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 been called a "hot bitch" by Jake Gyllenhaal on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

She has 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.^[9] 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] 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 fourteen 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 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). Streep has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes	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	Academy Award	Robert Benton
1981	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Sarah/Anna		Karel Reisz
1982	Still of the Night	Brooke Reynolds		Robert Benton
	Sophie's Choice	Sophie Zawistowski	Academy 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		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		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)	Steven Spielberg
2002	Adaptation.	Susan Orlean		Spike Jonze
	The Hours	Clarissa Vaughan		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		Ben Younger
2006	A Prairie Home Companion	Yolanda Johnson		Robert Altman
	The Music of Regret	The Woman		Laurie Simmons
	The Devil Wears Prada	Miranda Priestly		David Frankel
	The Ant Bully	Queen	(voice)	John A. Davis
2007	Dark Matter	Joanna Silver		Chen Shi-Zheng
	Evening	Lila Wittenborn		Lajos Koltai
	Rendition	Corrine Whitman		Gavin Hood
	Lions for Lambs	Janine Roth		Robert Redford
2008	Mamma Mia!	Donna	post-production	Phyllida Lloyd
	Doubt	Sister Aloysius	filming	John Patrick Shanley
	Dirty Tricks	Martha Mitchell	in-production	Ryan Murphy
2009	Julie & Julia	Julia Child	pre-production	Nora Ephron
	A Question of Mercy		in-production	Rodrigo García

[edit] Television credits

• Holocaust (1978)
• "The Simpsons" as "Jessica Lovejoy" (1994)
• A Beer Can Named Desire episode of "King of the Hill" as Aunt Esme Dauterive (1999)
• ...First Do No Harm (1997)
• Angels in America (2003) (miniseries)

[edit] 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

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of Awards and Nominations for Meryl Streep

[edit] External links

• Meryl Streep at the Internet Movie Database
• Meryl Streep at the TCM Movie Database
• Meryl Streep at the Internet Broadway Database

• merylstreeponline.net- official website
• The most nominated actor in Academy Awards history

Awards
Preceded by Joanne Woodward for See How She Runs	Emmy Award - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series 1978 for Holocaust	Succeeded by Bette Davis for Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
Preceded by Dyan Cannon for Heaven Can Wait	Golden Globe - Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role 1979 for Kramer vs. Kramer	Succeeded by Mary Steenburgen for Melvin and Howard
Preceded by Maggie Smith for California Suite	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1979 for Kramer vs. Kramer	Succeeded by Mary Steenburgen for Melvin and Howard
Preceded by Mary Tyler Moore for Ordinary People	Golden Globe - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama 1981 for The French Lieutenant's Woman 1982 for Sophie's Choice	Succeeded by Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment
Preceded by Judy Davis for My Brilliant Career	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 1981 for The French Lieutenant's Woman	Succeeded by Katharine Hepburn for On Golden Pond
Preceded by Katharine Hepburn for On Golden Pond	Academy Award for Best Actress 1982 for Sophie's Choice	Succeeded by Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment
Preceded by Glenda Jackson for Stevie	NYFCC Award for Best Actress 1982 for Sophie's Choice	Succeeded by Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment
Preceded by Holly Hunter for Broadcast News	NYFCC Award for Best Actress 1988 for A Cry in the Dark	Succeeded by Michelle Pfeiffer for The Fabulous Baker Boys
Preceded by Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, and Linda Mvusi for A World Apart	Award for Best Actress - Cannes Film Festival 1989 for A Cry in the Dark	Succeeded by Krystyna Janda for Przesluchanie
Preceded by Nadine Garner for Mullaway	Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 1989 for Evil Angels	Succeeded by Catherine McClements for Weekend With Kate
Preceded by Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind	Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 2002 for Adaptation.	Succeeded by Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain
Preceded by Uma Thurman for Hysterical Blindness	Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television 2003 for Angels in America	Succeeded by Glenn Close for The Lion in Winter
Preceded by Halle Berry for Monster's Ball	Silver Bear for Best Actress - Berlin Film Festival 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
Preceded by Maggie Smith for My House in Umbria	Emmy Award - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie 2003 for Angels in America	Succeeded by S. Epatha Merkerson for Lackawanna Blues
Preceded by Stockard Channing for The Matthew Shepard Story	Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Movie 2003 for Angels in America	Succeeded by Glenn Close for The Lion in Winter
Preceded by Robert De Niro	AFI Life Achievement Award 2004	Succeeded by George Lucas
Preceded by Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line	Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 2006 for The Devil Wears Prada	Succeeded by incumbent

Persondata
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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