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Meryl Streep is a Actor and Executive Producer American born on 22 june 1949 at Summit (USA)

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep
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Birth name Mary Louise Streep
Nationality USA
Birth 22 june 1949 (74 years) at Summit (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, National Medal of Arts

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. A three-time Academy Award winner, she is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actors of all time. Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville in 1971, and went on to receive a 1976 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made her screen debut in the 1977 television film The Deadliest Season, and made her film debut later that same year in Julia. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the miniseries Holocaust, and received her first Academy Award nomination for The Deer Hunter. Nominated for 19 Academy Awards in total, Streep has more nominations than any other actor or actress in history, winning Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Best Actress for Sophie's Choice (1982) and for The Iron Lady (2011).

Streep is one of only six actors to have won three or more competitive Academy Awards for acting. Her other nominated roles are The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), A Cry in the Dark (1988), Postcards From the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Adaptation (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), August: Osage County (2013), and Into the Woods (2014). She returned to the stage for the first time in over 20 years in The Public Theater's 2002 revival of The Seagull, won a second Emmy Award in 2004 for the HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003), and starred in the Public Theater's 2006 production of Mother Courage and Her Children. As an actress, Streep is particularly known for her chameleonic approach to her roles, transformation into the characters she plays, and her perfection of accents.

Streep has also received 29 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight—more nominations, and more competitive (non-honorary) wins than any other actor (male or female) in the history of the award. Her work has also earned her two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, two Australian Film Institute awards, five Grammy Award nominations, and five Drama Desk Award nominations, among several others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 at the Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Biography

Author Karina Longworth notes that despite her "high level of stardom" for decades, Streep has managed to maintain a relatively normal personal life. Streep lived with actor John Cazale for three years until his death from lung cancer in March 1978. Al Pacino remarked that "I've hardly ever seen a person so devoted to someone who is falling away like John was. To see her in that act of love for this man was overwhelming." Streep said of his death, "I didn't get over it. I don't want to get over it. No matter what you do, the pain is always there in some recess of your mind, and it affects everything that happens afterwards. I think you can assimilate the pain and go on without making an obsession of it".

Streep married sculptor Don Gummer six months after Cazale's death. They have four children: musician Henry (born 1979), actresses Mamie (born 1983) and Grace (born 1986), and model Louisa (born 1991). In August 1985 the family moved into a $1.8 million private estate in Connecticut, with an extensive art studio to facilitate her husband's work, and lived there until they bought a $3 million mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, in 1990. They eventually moved back to Connecticut.

When asked if religion plays a part in her life in 2009, Streep replied: "I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram." In an interview in December 2008, she also alluded to her lack of religious belief when she said: "So I've always been really, deeply interested, because I think I can understand the solace that's available in the whole construct of religion. But I really don't believe in the power of prayer, or things would have been avoided that have happened, that are awful. So it's a horrible position as an intelligent, emotional, yearning human being to sit outside of the available comfort there. But I just can't go there."

When asked from where she draws consolation in the face of aging and death, Streep responded: "Consolation? I'm not sure I have it. I have a belief, I guess, in the power of the aggregate human attempt – the best of ourselves. In love and hope and optimism – you know, the magic things that seem inexplicable. Why we are the way we are. I do have a sense of trying to make things better. Where does that come from?"

Best films

Mamma Mia! (2008)
(Actress)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
(Actress)
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
(Actress)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
(Actress)
Out of Africa (1985)
(Actress)
It's Complicated (2009)
(Actress)

Usually with

Ann Roth
Ann Roth
(12 films)
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Meryl Streep (82 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
2021Chicken Run: Dawn of the NuggetActressAdditional Chicken (voice)
2020Let Them All TalkActressAlice Hughes
2019The LaundromatActressEllen Martin / Elena
2019Little WomenActressAunt Josephine March
2018Mary Poppins ReturnsActressCousin Topsy
2018The PostActressKay Graham
2018Mamma Mia! Here We Go AgainActressDonna Sheridan-Carmichael
2016Florence Foster JenkinsActressFlorence Foster Jenkins
2015SuffragetteActressEmmeline Pankhurst
2015Ricki and the FlashActressRicki Rendazzo
2015The Guardian BrothersActressNarrator (voice)
2014The HomesmanActressAltha Carter
2014Into the WoodsActressWitch
2014The GiverActressChief Elder
2014The RooseveltsActressEleanor Roosevelt
2013August: Osage CountyActressViolet Weston
2012Hope SpringsActressKay
2012To the Arctic 3DActressNarrator (voice)
2011The Iron LadyActressMargaret Thatcher
2011Wings of LifeActressNarrator (voice)
2010Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to LifeActressJennie
2009Fantastic Mr. FoxActressFelicity Fox (voice)
2009Julie & JuliaActressJulia Child
2009It's ComplicatedActressJane Adler
2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John CazaleActressSelf
2009The Magic 7Actress
2009Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice SendakActressHerself
2008DoubtActressSister Aloysius Beauvier
2008Mamma Mia!ActressDonna Sheridan
2008Roman Polanski: Wanted and DesiredActressSelf (archive footage)
2008Dark MatterActressJoanna Silver
2007RenditionActressCorrine Whitman
2007EveningActressLila Ross
2007Lions for LambsActressJanine Roth
2006The Devil Wears PradaActressMiranda Priestly
2006A Prairie Home CompanionActressYolanda Johnson
2006The Ant BullyActressQueen (voice)
2006Hurricane on the BayouActressNarrator (voice)
2006Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony KushnerActressSelf
2005PrimeActressLisa Metzger
2004Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate EventsActressJosephine Anwhistle
2004The Manchurian CandidateActressSenator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
2003Stuck on YouActressSelf (uncredited)
2003Angels in America (TV miniseries)ActressEthel Rosenburg
2002Adaptation.ActressSusan Orlean
2002The HoursActressClarissa Vaughan
2001A.I. Artificial IntelligenceActressBlue Mecha (voice)
1999Music of the HeartActressRoberta
1998Dancing at LughnasaActressKate Mundy
1998One True ThingActressKate Gulden
1997...First Do No HarmActress, Executive ProducerLori Reimuller
1996Before and AfterActressDr. Carolyn Ryan
1996Marvin's RoomActressLee Wakefield Lacker
1995The Bridges of Madison CountyActressFrancesca Johnson
1995The Living SeaActressNarrator (voice)
1994The River WildActressGail Hartman
1994A Century of CinemaActress
1993The House of the SpiritsActressClara del Valle Trueba
1992Death Becomes HerActressMadeline Ashton Menville
1991Defending Your LifeActressJulia
1991Age 7 in AmericaActressNarrator (voice)
1990Postcards from the EdgeActressSuzanne Vale
1989She-DevilActressMary Fisher
1988Evil AngelsActressLindy Chamberlain
1987IronweedActressHelen Archer
1986HeartburnActressRachel
1985Out of AfricaActressKaren Christence Dinesen Blixen
1985PlentyActressSusan Traherne
1984Falling in LoveActressMolly Gilmore
1983SilkwoodActressKaren Silkwood
1983Sophie's ChoiceActressZofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
1982Still of the NightActressBrooke Reynolds
1981The French Lieutenant's WomanActressSarah / Anna
1979The Deer HunterActressLinda
1979Kramer vs. KramerActressJoanna Kramer
1979ManhattanActressJill
1979The Seduction of Joe TynanActressKaren Traynor
1979Uncommon Women and OthersActressLeilah
1978Holocaust (TV miniseries)ActressInga Helms
1977JuliaActressAnne Marie
1977The Deadliest SeasonActressSharon Miller
1975Everybody Rides the CarouselActressStage 6 (voice)