Meryl-Streep

Name: Meryl Streep

Birth Name: Mary Louise Streep

Birthdate: June 22, 1949

Birthplace: Summit, N.J.

It sure would be great to have a little anecdote here about how Streep was discovered in a deli and went on to unlikely Oscar fame. Truth is, she's been busting her butt since she first fell for acting as a student at Vassar. After graduation, she enrolled in the Yale School of Drama — Jodie Foster was a classmate — and quickly landed film work. Her first role in 1977's Julia earned raves and led to her being cast in The Deer Hunter the following year. Two roles is all it took — Streep took home her first Oscar for Deer Hunter and the rest is history. She became a master at accents, played dramatic, comedic and heroic rolls with equal aplomb, earning 13 Academy Award nominations. She's won twice (the other for 1982's Sophie's Choice) and is now considered one of the greatest (if not the greatest) living film actresses.


1. Dedicated to a fault, Streep spent months learning to play the violin for her role as a master violinist in Music of the Heart.
2. Streep is afraid of helicopters.
3. Before the world discovered her talent, Streep worked as a waitress at The Hotel Somerset in New Jersey.
4. She was a cheerleader and homecoming queen in high school.
5. She was named an Officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2000.



On how she stays grounded: "You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing."


Husband, Don Gummer, sculptor, married 1978
Daughter: Louisa, born 1991
Daughter: Grace, born 1986
Daughter: Mary Willa, born 1983
Son: Henry, born 1979

2007: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress, The Devil Wears Prada; Golden Globe: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy), The Devil Wears Prada

2005: Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, The Manchurian Candidate

2003: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Adaptation; Golden Globe: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, Adaptation; Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), The Hours

2000: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Music of the Heart; Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), Music of the Heart

1999: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, One True Thing; Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), One True Thing

1997: Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), Marvin's Room

1996: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, The Bridges of Madison County; Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), The Bridges of Madison County

1991: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Postcards from the Edge

1989: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, A Cry in the Dark; Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), A Cry in the Dark

1988: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Ironweed

1986: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Out of Africa; Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama)

1984: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Silkwood; Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), Silkwood

1983: Academy Award: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Sophie's Choice; Golden Globe: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), Sophie's Choice

1982: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, The French Lieutenant's Woman; Golden Globe: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), The French Lieutenant's Woman

1980: Academy Award: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Kramer vs. Kramer; Golden Globe: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, Kramer vs. Kramer

1979: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, The Deer Hunter; Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, The Deer Hunter

 

FILMS

Mamma Mia! - (2008) - Actor
Rendition - (2007 ) - Actor
Evening - (2007) - Actor
Lions for Lambs - (2007) - Actor
Ant Bully - (2006) - Voice
The Squid and the Whale (Special Edition)/Adaptation - (2006) - Actor
The Devil Wears Prada - (2006) - Actor
A Prairie Home Companion - (2006) - Actor
Prime - (2005) - Actor
The Manchurian Candidate - (2004) - Actor
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events - (2004) - Actor
Stuck on You - (2003) - Actor
Angels in America - (2003) - Actor
The Hours - (2002) - Actor
Adaptation - (2002) - Actor
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - (2001) - Voice
Music of the Heart - (1999) - Actor
One True Thing - (1998) - Actor
Dancing at Lughnasa - (1998) - Actor
First Do No Harm - (1997) - Actor
Before and After - (1996) - Actor
Marvin's Room - (1996) - Actor
The Bridges of Madison County - (1995) - Actor
The House of the Spirits - (1994) - Actor
The River Wild - (1994) - Actor
Rabbit Ears - The Night Before Christmas - (1992) - Actor
Death Becomes Her - (1992) - Actor
Defending Your Life - (1991) - Actor
Postcards From the Edge - (1990) - Actor
She-Devil - (1989) - Actor
A Cry in the Dark - (1988) - Actor
Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester - (1988) - Actor
Ironweed - (1987) - Actor
Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit - (1987) - Actor
Heartburn - (1986) - Actor
Out of Africa - (1985) - Actor
Plenty - (1985) - Actor
Falling in Love - (1984) - Actor
Rabbit Ears - The Velveteen Rabbit - (1984) - Actor
Silkwood - (1983) - Actor
French Lieutenant's Woman - (1982) - Actor
Sophie's Choice - (1982) - Actor
Alice at the Palace - (1982) - Actor
Still of the Night - (1982) - Actor
Kramer vs. Kramer - (1979) - Actor
Manhattan - (1979) - Actor
The Seduction of Joe Tynan - (1979) - Actor
The Deer Hunter - (1978) - Actor
Holocaust - (1978) - Actor
Julia - (1977) - Actor