Meryl Streep Biography

Birthday: 1949-06-22
Place of Birth: Summit, New Jersey USA
Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Wiki Biography: Considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 17 times, and has won it three times. Born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, 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 10 years 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) (TV). 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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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Julia | 1977 | Drama | |
Angels in America | Ethel Rosenberg | 2003 - | Drama |
Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates Jr | 2010 | History | |
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards | 2010 | ||
Marvin, Marvin | Lee | 2012 |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
---|---|---|---|
Uncommon Women and Others | 1978 | ||
The Deer Hunter | Linda | 1978 | 0 |
Holocaust | 1978 | Drama, History, Romance | |
Kramer vs. Kramer | Joanna Kramer | 1979 | |
Manhattan | Jill | 1979 | |
The Seduction of Joe Tynan | 1979 | Drama | |
Still of the Night | Brooke Reynolds | 1982 | Crime, Drama, Mystery |
Silkwood | Karen Silkwood | 1983 | Drama, Thriller |
Falling in Love | Molly Gilmore | 1984 | |
Plenty | 1985 | Drama | |
Out of Africa | 1985 | Adventure, Drama | |
Heartburn | Rachel Samstat | 1986 | Comedy, Drama |
Ironweed | 1987 | ||
A Cry in the Dark | Lindy Chamberlain | 1988 | Drama |
She-Devil | Mary Fisher | 1989 | |
Postcards from the Edge | Suzanne Vale | 1990 | 0 |
Death Becomes Her | Madeline Ashton | 1992 | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror |
The House of the Spirits | Clara del Valle Trueba | 1994 | Drama, Romance |
The River Wild | Gail Hartman | 1994 | Action, Adventure, Crime |
The Living Sea | 1995 | ||
The Bridges of Madison County | Francesca Johnson | 1995 | Drama, Romance |
Marvin's Room | Lee | 1996 | |
Before and After | 1996 | Drama, Thriller | |
One True Thing | Kate Gulden | 1998 | Drama |
Dancing at Lughnasa | 1998 | Drama | |
Ginevra's Story: Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait | Narrator | 1999 | Biography |
Music of the Heart | Roberta Guaspari | 1999 | 0 |
Adaptation | Susan Orlean | 2003 | Comedy, Crime, Drama |
The Hours | Clarissa Vaughan | 2003 | Drama |
Angels in America | Ethel Rosenberg | 2003 | Drama, Fantasy |
Prime | Lisa Metzger | 2005 | Biography, 0 |
Hurricane on the Bayou | 2006 | ||
The Devil Wears Prada | Miranda Priestly | 2006 | |
A Prairie Home Companion | Yolanda Johnson | 2006 | Comedy, Drama, Music |
The Ant Bully | Queen | 2006 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy |
Rendition | Corrine Whitman | 2007 | 0 |
Lions for Lambs | Janine Roth | 2007 | 0, 0, 0, Game Show |
Theater of War | 2008 | ||
The Fantastic Mr. Fox | Mrs. Fox | 2008 | |
It's Complicated | Jane | 2008 | |
Mamma Mia! | Donna | 2008 | Biography, 0 |
Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier | 2008 | Game Show |
Julia | 2008 | 0 | |
Dark Matter | Joanna Silver | 2008 | Drama |
Fantastic Mr. Fox | Mrs. Fox | 2009 | 0, Drama, 0 |
Julie & Julia | Julia Child | 2009 | 0 |
The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher | 2012 | Drama |
Hope Springs | Kay | 2012 | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
August: Osage County | Violet Weston | 2013 | 0, 0 |
The Homesman | Altha Carter | 2014 | Drama |
The Giver | Chief Elder | 2014 | Drama, Fantasy |
Into the Woods | The Witch | 2014 | Fantasy, Musical |
Suffragette | Emmeline Pankhurst | 2015 | Drama |
Florence Foster Jenkins | Florence Foster Jenkins | 2016 | 0 |