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 Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive. Her father was of German and Swiss-German descent, and her mother had English, Irish, and German ancestry.Meryl's early performing ambitions leaned toward the opera. She became interested in acting while a student at Vassar and upon graduation she enrolled in the Yale School of Drama. She gave an outstanding performance in her first film role, Julia (1977), and the next year she was nominated for her first Oscar for her role in The Deer Hunter (1978). She went on to win the Academy Award for her performances in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Sophie's Choice (1982), in which she gave a heart-wrenching portrayal of an inmate mother in a Nazi death camp.A perfectionist in her craft and meticulous and painstaking in her preparation for her roles, Meryl turned out a string of highly acclaimed performances over the next decade in great films like Silkwood (1983); Out of Africa (1985); Ironweed (1987); and A Cry in the Dark (1988). Her career declined slightly in the early 1990s as a result of her inability to find suitable parts, but she shot back to the top in 1995 with her performance as Clint Eastwood's married lover in The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and as the prodigal daughter in Marvin's Room (1996). In 1998 she made her first venture into the area of producing, and was the executive producer for the moving ...First Do No Harm (1997). A realist when she talks about her future years in film, she remarked that "...no matter what happens, my work will stand..."
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Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive. Her father was of German and Swiss-German descent, and her mother had English, Irish, and German ancestry.Meryl's early performing ambitions leaned toward the opera. She became interested in acting while a student at Vassar and upon graduation she enrolled in the Yale School of Drama. She gave an outstanding performance in her first film role, Julia (1977), and the next year she was nominated for her first Oscar for her role in The Deer Hunter (1978). She went on to win the Academy Award for her performances in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Sophie's Choice (1982), in which she gave a heart-wrenching portrayal of an inmate mother in a Nazi death camp.A perfectionist in her craft and meticulous and painstaking in her preparation for her roles, Meryl turned out a string of highly acclaimed performances over the next decade in great films like Silkwood (1983); Out of Africa (1985); Ironweed (1987); and A Cry in the Dark (1988). Her career declined slightly in the early 1990s as a result of her inability to find suitable parts, but she shot back to the top in 1995 with her performance as Clint Eastwood's married lover in The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and as the prodigal daughter in Marvin's Room (1996). In 1998 she made her first venture into the area of producing, and was the executive producer for the moving ...First Do No Harm (1997). A realist when she talks about her future years in film, she remarked that "...no matter what happens, my work will stand..."
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Originally applied to Law School but slept in on the morning of her interview and took it as a sign she was destined for other things.She left her just-claimed Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) on the back of a toilet during the 1979 festivities.Robert De Niro said she is his favorite actress to work with.As of 2018, she is the most nominated actress with 21 Academy Award nominations.Claimed to have had a photographic memory when she was younger, which allowed her to memorize her lines after one reading.Was romantically involved with actor John Cazale for two years, culminating with his death at age 42 in 1978 from lung cancer. She is very reluctant to discuss the relationship with anyone. The couple had been sharing a loft at 146 Franklin Street in Manhattan's Tribeca district.Learned to play the violin, by practicing six hours a day for eight weeks, for her role in Music of the Heart (1999).With the announcement of the 66th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations and receiving two nominations, the actress surpassed Jack Lemmon's count of 22 nominations and is now, besides holding the record for most Oscar nominations, the actor with the most Golden Globe nominations of all time with a total of 32 nominations.Kept the sunglasses she wore in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and used them again during the "Money Money Money" sequence in Mamma Mia! (2008).Signs cheques with her real name - Mary Louise Gummer.Donated her entire salary for The Iron Lady (2011) to the Women's History Museum.Received her Master's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (1975).Has said she is a great fan of actor Leonardo DiCaprio.Occasionally mistaken for friend Glenn Close, Streep was pregnant with her fourth child while shopping in a Los Angeles baby store where the staff lavished her with huge amounts of baby paraphernalia. Just as she was about to leave they whispered, "We loved you in Fatal Attraction (1987)".Was a cheerleader and homecoming queen in high school.Her performance as Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie's Choice (1982) is ranked #3 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).Donated her wardrobe from The Devil Wears Prada (2006) to a charity auction.The children's television series Sesame Street (1969) has featured a character named "Meryl Sheep" in her honor.Presented Paul McCartney with the 1990 Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. Attended The Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in 1965 with an "I love Paul" sign, which she mentioned when presenting the award to McCartney.Has only been turned down for six roles: Dwan in King Kong (1976), Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979), Michelle Straton in American Gigolo (1980), Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams (1985), Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day (1993), and Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998).Early in her career, Streep received a letter from Bette Davis, whom most critics and cinema historians rank as the greatest American movie actress ever. Davis told Streep that she felt that she was her successor as the premier American actress. Davis, a double winner who was nominated 10 times for an Academy Award, all of them Best Actress nods, set the record for most acting nominations with her tenth in 1963 for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), a record later surpassed by Katharine Hepburn with her 11th nomination (and 3rd win) for The Lion in Winter (1968). Hepburn extended her record with her 12th nomination (and fourth win) for On Golden Pond (1981).Uses music, most often Classical, to get into character.In 2013, David Letterman revealed that the director Harmony Korine had been banned from appearing on Letterman's show during the late 1990s when Letterman personally caught Korine rifling through Meryl Streep's purse in a dressing room. Streep and Korine had both been scheduled to appear on Letterman's show that night, but only Streep did.Her husband, Don Gummer, is a sculptor.The longest she has gone without an Oscar nomination is five years, between Postcards from the Edge (1990) and The Bridges of Madison County (1995).Before succeeding as an actress, she was a waitress at the Hotel Somerset in Somerville, New Jersey.Took serious singing lessons. At age 12, she studied to become an opera singer.Was nominated for Best Actress in 1988 along with Cher. When Cher was announced, just before the cameras cut away from the other four actresses, Streep could be seen springing to her feet in delight and applauding for Cher. During her acceptance speech, Cher thanked Streep personally (addressing her as Mary Louise Streep), as they had worked together on Cher's first film, Silkwood (1983). As the camera briefly cut away to Streep sitting in the audience, she blew Cher a kiss.In 2013, she presented the Best Actor Oscar to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln (2012). The previous year, she had received her third Oscar (second for Best Actress) for The Iron Lady (2011), and she give Lewis his third Best Actor Oscar. Both won their third Oscar for playing a Head of Government of a different nationality: Streep was an American actress playing a British Prime Minister, while Day-Lewis is a British actor playing an American President. In addition, Day-Lewis was not the only actor playing Abraham Lincoln that year. The role was played in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) by Benjamin Walker, who was married to Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer.Sigourney Weaver and Christine Estabrook were fellow classmates at Yale Drama School.She was close friends with late actress Natasha Richardson.Her fans call themselves "Streepers".Has a fear of helicopters.Gave birth to her fourth child at age 41, a daughter Louisa Jacobson Gummer (aka Louisa Jacobson) on June 12, 1991. Child's father is her husband, Don Gummer.Has a deviated septum, which she refuses to have fixed.She played a character based on Carrie Fisher in Postcards from the Edge (1990), and then became godmother to Fisher's real-life daughter, Billie Lourd.Attended Emily Blunt's and John Krasinski's wedding with her husband, Don Gummer.Was a finalist for the role of Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979), but the role went to good friend and classmate Sigourney Weaver instead. However, Streep later got to make her own contribution to the character. Many of the special effects for Alien3 (1992) were created in England, after the cast; including Weaver; had returned home to the United States. The filmmakers needed a prosthetic cast of Ripley's head for some shots, so rather than call back Weaver, they used an available cast of Streep that had been made for a previous project and was still floating around the studio.Is a fan of Olivia Colman. Colman played her daughter Carol Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and Streep is a fan of Colman's performance in Paddy Considine's directorial debut Tyrannosaur (2011).She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on November 24, 2014.She and her daughter Mamie Gummer portrayed the same role at different ages in Evening (2007).Ranked #6 on Entertainment Weekly magazine's "The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood (2007).On her 60th birthday, her husband brought her a toaster and one of her daughters brought her a rocking chair. Despite having to work until late on the day, her children cooked her a birthday meal when she returned.May 27, 2004 was proclaimed "Meryl Streep Day" by Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields. (May 2004)According to biographer Diana Maychick when companion John Cazale was too weak to read the newspapers, Streep read the paper to him imitating well-known broadcaster Warner Wolf's voice.Gave birth to her first child at age 30, a son Henry Wolfe Gummer (aka Henry Gummer) on November 13, 1979. Child's father is her husband, Don Gummer.Resides in New York City and Salisbury, Connecticut.Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Neal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Streep was 5 months pregnant with her daughter Mamie Gummer when she won the Best Actress Oscar for Sophie's Choice (1982).Landed the breakthrough role of Linda in The Deer Hunter (1978) after Robert De Niro had seen her playing Dunyasha in Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" at Manhattan's Lincoln Center (1977). Streep had been playing opposite Irene Worth, Raul Julia and Mary Beth Hurt.She gained as much as 15 pounds while filming the Julie & Julia (2009) movie. |
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Meryl Streep |
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5' 6' (1.68 m) |
| Biography: |
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wi |
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Originally applied to Law School but slept in on the morning of her interview and took it as a sign she was destined for other things.She left her just-claimed Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) on the back of a toilet during the 1979 festivities.Robert De Niro said she is his favorite actress to work with.As of 2018, she is the most nominated actress with 21 Academy Award nominations.Claimed to have had a photographic memory when she was younger, which allowed her to memorize her lines after one reading.Was romantically involved with actor John Cazale for two years, culminating with his death at age 42 in 1978 from lung cancer. She is very reluctant to discuss the relationship with anyone. The couple had been sharing a loft at 146 Franklin Street in Manhattan's Tribeca district.Learned to play the violin, by practicing six hours a day for eight weeks, for her role in Music of the Heart (1999).With the announcement of the 66th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations and receiving two nominations, the actress surpassed Jack Lemmon's count of 22 nominations and is now, besides holding the record for most Oscar nominations, the actor with the most Golden Globe nominations of all time with a total of 32 nominations.Kept the sunglasses she wore in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and used them again during the "Money Money Money" sequence in Mamma Mia! (2008).Signs cheques with her real name - Mary Louise Gummer.Donated her entire salary for The Iron Lady (2011) to the Women's History Museum.Received her Master's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (1975).Has said she is a great fan of actor Leonardo DiCaprio.Occasionally mistaken for friend Glenn Close, Streep was pregnant with her fourth child while shopping in a Los Angeles baby store where the staff lavished her with huge amounts of baby paraphernalia. Just as she was about to leave they whispered, "We loved you in Fatal Attraction (1987)".Was a cheerleader and homecoming queen in high school.Her performance as Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie's Choice (1982) is ranked #3 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).Donated her wardrobe from The Devil Wears Prada (2006) to a charity auction.The children's television series Sesame Street (1969) has featured a character named "Meryl Sheep" in her honor.Presented Paul McCartney with the 1990 Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. Attended The Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in 1965 with an "I love Paul" sign, which she mentioned when presenting the award to McCartney.Has only been turned down for six roles: Dwan in King Kong (1976), Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979), Michelle Straton in American Gigolo (1980), Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams (1985), Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day (1993), and Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998).Early in her career, Streep received a letter from Bette Davis, whom most critics and cinema historians rank as the greatest American movie actress ever. Davis told Streep that she felt that she was her successor as the premier American actress. Davis, a double winner who was nominated 10 times for an Academy Award, all of them Best Actress nods, set the record for most acting nominations with her tenth in 1963 for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), a record later surpassed by Katharine Hepburn with her 11th nomination (and 3rd win) for The Lion in Winter (1968). Hepburn extended her record with her 12th nomination (and fourth win) for On Golden Pond (1981).Uses music, most often Classical, to get into character.In 2013, David Letterman revealed that the director Harmony Korine had been banned from appearing on Letterman's show during the late 1990s when Letterman personally caught Korine rifling through Meryl Streep's purse in a dressing room. Streep and Korine had both been scheduled to appear on Letterman's show that night, but only Streep did.Her husband, Don Gummer, is a sculptor.The longest she has gone without an Oscar nomination is five years, between Postcards from the Edge (1990) and The Bridges of Madison County (1995).Before succeeding as an actress, she was a waitress at the Hotel Somerset in Somerville, New Jersey.Took serious singing lessons. At age 12, she studied to become an opera singer.Was nominated for Best Actress in 1988 along with Cher. When Cher was announced, just before the cameras cut away from the other four actresses, Streep could be seen springing to her feet in delight and applauding for Cher. During her acceptance speech, Cher thanked Streep personally (addressing her as Mary Louise Streep), as they had worked together on Cher's first film, Silkwood (1983). As the camera briefly cut away to Streep sitting in the audience, she blew Cher a kiss.In 2013, she presented the Best Actor Oscar to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln (2012). The previous year, she had received her third Oscar (second for Best Actress) for The Iron Lady (2011), and she give Lewis his third Best Actor Oscar. Both won their third Oscar for playing a Head of Government of a different nationality: Streep was an American actress playing a British Prime Minister, while Day-Lewis is a British actor playing an American President. In addition, Day-Lewis was not the only actor playing Abraham Lincoln that year. The role was played in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) by Benjamin Walker, who was married to Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer.Sigourney Weaver and Christine Estabrook were fellow classmates at Yale Drama School.She was close friends with late actress Natasha Richardson.Her fans call themselves "Streepers".Has a fear of helicopters.Gave birth to her fourth child at age 41, a daughter Louisa Jacobson Gummer (aka Louisa Jacobson) on June 12, 1991. Child's father is her husband, Don Gummer.Has a deviated septum, which she refuses to have fixed.She played a character based on Carrie Fisher in Postcards from the Edge (1990), and then became godmother to Fisher's real-life daughter, Billie Lourd.Attended Emily Blunt's and John Krasinski's wedding with her husband, Don Gummer.Was a finalist for the role of Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979), but the role went to good friend and classmate Sigourney Weaver instead. However, Streep later got to make her own contribution to the character. Many of the special effects for Alien3 (1992) were created in England, after the cast; including Weaver; had returned home to the United States. The filmmakers needed a prosthetic cast of Ripley's head for some shots, so rather than call back Weaver, they used an available cast of Streep that had been made for a previous project and was still floating around the studio.Is a fan of Olivia Colman. Colman played her daughter Carol Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and Streep is a fan of Colman's performance in Paddy Considine's directorial debut Tyrannosaur (2011).She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on November 24, 2014.She and her daughter Mamie Gummer portrayed the same role at different ages in Evening (2007).Ranked #6 on Entertainment Weekly magazine's "The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood (2007).On her 60th birthday, her husband brought her a toaster and one of her daughters brought her a rocking chair. Despite having to work until late on the day, her children cooked her a birthday meal when she returned.May 27, 2004 was proclaimed "Meryl Streep Day" by Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields. (May 2004)According to biographer Diana Maychick when companion John Cazale was too weak to read the newspapers, Streep read the paper to him imitating well-known broadcaster Warner Wolf's voice.Gave birth to her first child at age 30, a son Henry Wolfe Gummer (aka Henry Gummer) on November 13, 1979. Child's father is her husband, Don Gummer.Resides in New York City and Salisbury, Connecticut.Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Neal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Streep was 5 months pregnant with her daughter Mamie Gummer when she won the Best Actress Oscar for Sophie's Choice (1982).Landed the breakthrough role of Linda in The Deer Hunter (1978) after Robert De Niro had seen her playing Dunyasha in Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" at Manhattan's Lincoln Center (1977). Streep had been playing opposite Irene Worth, Raul Julia and Mary Beth Hurt.She gained as much as 15 pounds while filming the Julie & Julia (2009) movie. |
| Trademarks: |
Known for being a perfectionist when preparing for roles
Known for her ability to master almost any accent
Frequently plays real-life characters: Julia Child, Ethel Rosenberg, Karen Silkwood, Karen Blixen, Roberta Guaspari, Lindy Chamberlain, Susan Orlean and Margaret Thatcher.
Frequently worked with Academy Award-winning director Mike Nichols. |
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[Entertainment Tonight (1981)] I had it (smoking), it stinks.
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[1978] I'm looking forward to bigger parts in the future, but I'm not doing soft-core scripts where the character emerges in half-light, half-dressed.
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[on her Lifetime Achievement Award from the AFI] I don't want to spit in the eye of good fortune, but it was weird. I felt like I'd butted in line in front of Lucille Ball, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn. Hello? How did this happen? I was only the sixth woman to receive it, but they found 26 men to give it to. I thought that was embarrassing.
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[on her view of acting back in college] I thought it was really fun, you've got to understand, but I didn't think it was a serious way to conduct your life. You know, I had a sense of mission. I was a true child of the '60s.
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I love doing comedy, but people just don't give me enough of a chance. It's one of the reasons I enjoy The Manchurian Candidate (2004) so much. It's because I actually get a chance to be funny. |
| Salaries: |
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) - $3,000,000
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Ricki and the Flash (2015) - $5,000,000
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Into the Woods (2014) - $1,500,000
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The Iron Lady (2012) - % of gross (original $1,000,000 donat |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Additional Crew |
| Others works: |
Her credits at New York's Public Theater include: Katherine in Shakespeare's "Henry V", Isabella in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" (1976), the title role in Shakespeare's "The Taming of The Shrew" opp |
| Spouse: |
Don Gummer (September 30, 1978 - present) (4 children) |
| Children: |
Mamie GummerHenry GummerGrace GummerLouisa Jacobson |
| Parents: |
Harry William Streep Jr.
Mary Wolf Wilkinson |
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