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Meryl Streep (born Mary Louise Streep on June 22, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is the most nominated actor in Academy Award history with 14 nominations. She is widely considered one of the most respected and talented actresses of her generation. 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. She is also one of the selected actors that has won all three major motion picture acting awards (Oscars, Golden Globes, SAG Awards).
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 DeNiro and Kramer vs. Kramer with Dustin Hoffman, the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first win.
Early life
Streep was born Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey, USA. Her father, Harry Streep, Jr., was a pharmaceutical executive and her mother, Mary, was a commercial artist of Swiss, Irish and English descent. Streep has said that her father's family is of Dutch descent.
Streep was raised in Bernardsville, New Jersey. She received her B.A. in Drama at Vassar College and earned a M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama at Yale University.
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 would win again for Sophie's Choice (Best Actress, 1982).
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.
Later career and recent credits
In the 1980s, Streep appeared in the acclaimed films The French Lieutenant's Woman, Silkwood (1982) 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 infamous Australian mother who was accused of being responsible for the death of her infant after claiming that a dingo took her baby. 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 actress 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 actress for the animated series The Simpsons playing Reverend Timothy Lovejoys daughter, and King of the Hill. She also voiced the Blue Mecha 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 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 Streep played a role made famous by Angela Lansbury. She also starred with Jim Carrey in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events."
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 also been confirmed for the role of Donna in the film version of the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!.
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. 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.
Miscellaneous
* 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 received a number of awards, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
* Streep co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert with Liam Neeson in Oslo, Norway in 2001. The winner of the prize was United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan.
* She is a supporter of the US Democratic Party.
* Streep was caricatured by the TV show Sesame Street, which featured a puppet named Meryl Sheep.
Awards
Academy Awards
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).
Golden Globes
Meryl Streep is tied with Rosalind Russell as the actress with the most Golden Globe Awards for films with 5 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).
List of wins and nominations
Year Group Award Won? Film/Play
1976 Tony Featured Actress in a Play No 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
1975-76 Theatre World Award Debut performance, Broadway / Off-Broadway Yes
1978 Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series Yes Holocaust
1979 National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Yes The Deer Hunter
Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress No
Academy Award Best Supporting Actress No
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Supporting Actress Yes Kramer vs. Kramer
National Board of Review Best Supporting Actress Yes
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Supporting Actress Yes
1980 Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role Yes
Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Yes
National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Yes
National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Yes The Seduction of Joe Tynan
BAFTA Best Actress No The Deer Hunter
BAFTA Best Supporting Actress No Manhattan
Hasty Pudding Theatricals Hasty Pudding Theatricals for Woman of the Year Yes
1981 BAFTA Best Actress No Kramer vs. Kramer
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Actress Yes The French Lieutenant's Woman
1982 BAFTA Best Actress Yes
Academy Award Best Actress No
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama Yes
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Actress Yes Sophie's Choice
National Board of Review Best Actress Yes
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actress Yes
1983 Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama Yes
National Society of Film Critics Best Actress Yes
Academy Award Best Actress Yes
1984 BAFTA Best Actress No
People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion Picture Actress Yes
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No Silkwood
Academy Award Best Actress No
1985 BAFTA Best Actress No
People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion Picture Actress Yes
Grammy Awards Best Recording for Children (Velveteen Rabbit: Narrator) No
David di Donatello Award Best Foreign Actress Yes Falling in Love
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Actress Yes Out of Africa
1986 People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion Picture Actress Yes
David di Donatello Award Best Foreign Actress Yes Out of Africa
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
Academy Award Best Actress No
1987 BAFTA Best Actress No
People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion Picture Actress Yes
1988 Academy Award Best Actress No Ironweed
Grammy Awards Best Recording for Children (Tale of Peter Rabbit: Narrator) No
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actress Yes A Cry in the Dark
1989 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Yes
Australian Film Institute Best Actress Yes
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
Academy Award Best Actress No
People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion Picture Actress Yes
1990 Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical No She-Devil
People's Choice Awards Favourite Motion Picture Actress Yes
World - Favourite Motion Picture Actress Yes
1991 Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical No Postcards from the Edge
Academy Award Best Actress No
American Comedy Awards Funniest Actress Yes
1993 Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical No Death Becomes Her
1995 Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No The River Wild
Screen Actors Guild Best Actress No
1996 Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No The Bridges of Madison County
Academy Award Best Actress No
Screen Actors Guild Best Actress No
1997 Screen Actors Guild Best Cast No Marvin's Room
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
1998 Emmy Best Actress in a Mini-series No ...First Do No Harm
Golden Globe Best Actress in a Mini-series No
1999 Gotham Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Yes
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No One True Thing
Screen Actors Guild Best Actress No
Academy Award Best Actress No
2000 Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No Music of the Heart
Screen Actors Guild Best Actress No
Academy Award Best Actress No
2003 Berlin International Film Festival's Silver Berlin Bear Best Actress (shared with Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore) Yes The Hours
Prestige Award Best Actress No
Golden Globe Best Actress, Drama No
Screen Actors Guild Best Cast No
BAFTA Best Actress No
Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress Yes Adaptation.
Prestige Award Best Supporting Actress Yes
Screen Actors Guild Best Cast No
BAFTA Best Supporting Actress No
Academy Award Best Supporting Actress No
2004 Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television Yes Angels in America
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Yes
Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Yes
American Film Institute American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Yes
2005 Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress No The Manchurian Candidate
BAFTA Best Supporting Actress No
Prestige Award Best Supporting Actress No
2006 Satellite Awards Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical Yes The Devil Wears Prada
Women Film Critics Circle Best Comedic Performance Yes
Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Yes
Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Actress No
Online Film Critics Society Best Actress No
Academy Award Best Actress No
London Film Critics Circle Actress of the Year Yes
BAFTA Best Actress No
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (Theatrical Movie) No
National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Yes
National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Yes A Prairie Home Companion
Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Acting Ensemble No
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