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Meryl Streep Biography

Meryl Streep born Mary Louise is an American actress. She is often described as the “best actress of her generation”.  She is best known for her versatility and accent adaptation. She has been nominated for a record of 21 Academy Awards she has won three.  She has received 31 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight  more nominations.  She has won more than any other actor.  Streep has also won three Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for fifteen British Academy Film Awards, and seventeen Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning two each.

Her first performance on stage was in Trelawny of the Wells in 1975. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays in 1976 . She made her screen debut in the television film The Deadliest Season in 1977 , and also made her film debut in Julia. Streep in 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the mini-series Holocaust.  She also received her first Academy Award nomination for The Deer Hunter. She continued to win as Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Best Actress for Sophie’s Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).

Her  other Oscar-nominated roles were in The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), Evil Angels (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), Into the Woods (2014), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and The Post (2017). She appeared again for the first time on stage after 20 years  in The Public Theater’s 2001 revival of The Seagull, where she won a second Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 2004 for the HBO mini-series Angels in America (2003).

In 2004 she  was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2008.  She was also awarded Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts. She was awarded by president Barack Obama a 2010 National Medal of Arts  and in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the government of France. In 2017 she was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.

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Meryl was born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey. She is 69 years old as of 2018.

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She stands at a height of 1.68 m.

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Meryl Streep Family

Streep was born  in Summit, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Mary Wilkinson Streep (née Mary Wolf Wilkinson, 1915-2001), a commercial artist and art editor; and Harry William Streep, Jr. (1910-2003), a pharmaceutical executive. Merly  has two younger brothers: Harry William Streep III (born 1951) and Dana David Streep (born 1953), who are also actors.

Meryl Streep Father

Harry her father was of German and Swiss ancestry. Streep’s father’s lineage traces back to Loffenau, Germany, from where her second great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, immigrated to the United States.   Also one of  her ancestors served as mayor (the surname was later changed to “Streep”). The other line of her father’s family was from Giswil, Switzerland. Her mother had English, German, and Irish ancestry.

Meryl Streep Mother

Streep  has compared her mother in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench.  Her mother strongly encouraged her and instilled confidence in her from a very young age. Streep has stated that: “She was a mentor because she said to me, ‘Meryl, you’re capable. You’re so great.’ She was saying, ‘You can do whatever you put your mind to. If you’re lazy, you’re not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.’ And I believed her.” Despite that Streep was naturally more introverted than her mother, at times, when she later needed more instillation  of confidence in adulthood, she would consult her mother, asking her for advice.

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She attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School, which was a Junior High school back then. During  her Junior High debut, she starred as Louise Heller in the play “The Family Upstairs”. The family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey in 1963 , where she attended Bernards High School.

Streep  enrolled as a visiting student at Dartmouth College in the fall of 1970, and received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the college in 1981.

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Streep is married  to sculptor Don Gummer.  She got married six months after Cazale her first husband died. The couple has four children: one son and three daughters, son Henry Wolfe Gummer (born 1979), a musician; daughters Mary Willa “Mamie” Gummer (born 1983), an actress; Grace Jane Gummer (born 1986), an actress; Louisa Jacobson Gummer (born 1991), a model.

Meryl Streep First Husband

Before she married her current husband she lived with actor John Cazale for three years until his death from lung cancer in March 1978.  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”.

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The family moved into a $1.8-million private estate in Connecticut in August 1985. It had an extensive art studio to facilitate her husband’s work.  They  lived there until they bought a $3-million mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, in 1990.  The family eventually moved back to Connecticut.

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• Florence Foster Jenkins
• Ricki and the Flash
• Shout Gladi Gladi
• Suffragette
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• The Giver
• The Homesman
• Into the Woods
• August: Osage County
• Violet Weston
• A Fierce Green Fire
• Girl Rising

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Though Meryl character might have died in several films in real life she is well and alive.

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• Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep

It is  intimate look at the artistic coming-of-age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the homecoming float at her suburban New Jersey high school, through her early days on the stage at Vassar College and the Yale School of Drama during its golden years, to her star-making roles in The Deer Hunter, Manhattan, and Kramer vs. Kramer. New Yorker contributor Michael Schulman brings into focus Meryl’s heady rise to stardom on the New York stage; her passionate, tragically short-lived love affair with fellow actor John Cazale; her marriage to sculptor Don Gummer; and her evolution as a young woman of the 1970s wrestling with changing ideas of feminism, marriage, love, and sacrifice.

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Meryl Streep Donald Trump

At the Golden Globes Meryl accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award — basically a lifetime achievement award — but didn’t say much about her career. Instead, Meryl spent the minutes allotted to her to speak critically of the current political climate and Trump.  In spite of her not mentioning the president-elect by name Streep was referring to Trump’s remarks during the campaign. Trump  appeared to mock New York Times reporter Serge F. Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, which visibly limits the functioning of his joints.

Trump later responded in a brief interview with the New York Times shortly after the Golden Globes aired. He told the Times he had not seen the speech, but he dismissed Streep as “a Hillary lover” and said that he was “not surprised” to be attacked by “liberal movie people.”
In addition, Trump referred to her as “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood” and “a Hillary flunky who lost big.”

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