Meryl Streep's biography

Meryl Streep is 73 years old film actor born at Summit. She was born on Wednesday 22nd of June 1949. She is often nicknamed as Meryl. According to year of birth 1949 she belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 22nd of June means she is Cancer. Cancer is a watery sign. They are very friendly and show motherly love to everyone. According to ascendant calculator, an important trait of these natives is their sensitive nature.

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of United States of America. She is an adherent of atheism. Her primary profession is to be film actor. You can know her also as stage actor, television actor, voice actor, actor, film producer. She is recently known as television producer. She received Academy Award for Best Actress Sophie's Choice in 1983

Meryl Streep's mom

Meryl Streep's mother's name is Mary Wilkinson Streep.

Meryl Streep's family

Meryl Streep's spouse

He is known as sculptor. Her spouse was born on Thursday 12th of December 1946 in Louisville.

Meryl Streep's ex spouse

She has 1 son and 3 daughters

Meryl Streep's son: Henry Gummer

Meryl Streep's son's name is Henry Gummer. He is known as actor. Her son was born on Tuesday 13th of November 1979 in New York City.

Meryl Streep's daughter: Mamie Gummer

Meryl Streep's daughter's name is Mamie Gummer. Mary is known as actor. Her daughter was born on Wednesday 3rd of August 1983 in New York City.

Meryl Streep's daughter: Grace Gummer

Meryl Streep's daughter's name is Grace Gummer. Grace is known as actor. Her daughter was born on Friday 9th of May 1986 in New York City.

Meryl Streep's daughter: Louisa Jacobson

Meryl Streep's daughter's name is Louisa Jacobson. Louisa is known as model. Her daughter was born on Wednesday 12th of June 1991 in Los Angeles.

Meryl Streep's schools

We found 4 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: Vassar College, Yale University, Yale School of Drama, Bernards High School.

Detailed informations about her schools

Attended and graduated from Bernards High School in Bernardsville, New Jersey (1967).
She attended Harding Township Middle School in Harding, New Jersey for one or two years.

Meryl Streep's career

Her main focus is to be film actor. You could see her also in Sophie's Choice, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Iron Lady, The Devil Wears Prada, Julie & Julia, Evil Angels, Doubt, Holocaust, The Hours, Into the Woods, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Angels in America, Five Came Back, Adaptation and many more. She is also a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Meryl Streep's partner

John Cazale

Meryl Streep and John Cazale have been together since 1976 for 2 years. He is known as film actor. Her partner was born on Monday 12th of August 1935 in Revere. Her partner died on Monday 13th of March 1978 in New York City. John Cazale was 29 years old, when this happened.

Awards and competitions

Meryl Streep's Awards

She received award for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Sophie's Choice in 1983
She received award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Kramer vs. Kramer in 1980
She received award for Academy Award for Best Actress for work The Iron Lady in 2011
She received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work The Devil Wears Prada in 2006
She received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Julie & Julia in 2009
She received award for AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for work Evil Angels in 1989
She received award for Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work The Devil Wears Prada in 2006
She received award for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for work Doubt in 2009
She received award for London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year for work The Devil Wears Prada in 2006
She received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for work Kramer vs. Kramer in 1980
She received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for work Holocaust in 1978
She received award for Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for work Evil Angels in 1989
She received award for Silver Bear for Best Actress for work The Hours in 2003
She received award for MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for work Into the Woods in 2015
She received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for work The French Lieutenant's Woman in 1981
She received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for work Angels in America in 2004
She received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for work Five Came Back in 2017
She received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for work The Iron Lady in 2012
She received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for work Adaptation in 2003
She received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for work Angels in America in 2003
She received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for work The French Lieutenant's Woman in 1982
She received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for work Sophie's Choice in 1983
She received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for work The Iron Lady in 2012

Meryl Streep's Rankings

Ranked #24 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Her character Karen Silkwood from her film Silkwood (1983) was ranked #47 on the American Film Institute Heroes list of the 100 years of the Greatest Screen Heroes and Villians.
Premiere magazine ranked her as #46 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
Her performance as Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie's Choice (1982) is ranked #3 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Her performance as Karen Silkwood in Silkwood (1983) is ranked #71 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Ranked #6 on Entertainment Weekly magazine's "The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood (2007).
She was ranked #87 on Ellen DeGeneres' most sexy movie actors list (2009).

Meryl Streep's Nominations

She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work The Deer Hunter in 1979
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work The French Lieutenant's Woman in 1982
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Silkwood in 1984
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Adaptation in 2003
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Music of the Heart in 2000
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Julie & Julia in 2010
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Death Becomes Her in 1992
She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work She-Devil in 1989
She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Hope Springs in 2012
She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Postcards from the Edge in 1990
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for work The Devil Wears Prada in 2007
She was nominated for European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film for work Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again in 2019

What Meryl Streep has done for a first time

Mentioned by first name only (with two-time co-star Jack Nicholson) in Michael Crichton's novel "State of Fear" (2004).
Friends with Jill Clayburgh. First met in their roles as mothers.
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.

Meryl Streep's Donations

Donated her wardrobe from The Devil Wears Prada (2006) to a charity auction.
Donated her entire salary for The Iron Lady (2011) to the Women's History Museum.

Meryl Streep's quotes

[Entertainment Tonight (1981)] I had it (smoking), it stinks.
[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.
[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.
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.
Let's face it, we were all once 3-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.
[accepting an Emmy Award for Angels in America (2003)] You know, there are some days when I myself think I'm overrated, but not today.
Someone once said that sometimes studio heads don't want to cast films with the image of their first wife in the role. It's just rather unpleasant for them. So they like the idea of the new one.
I think I was wired for family. You know how they say people are wired for religion, or wired for this or that? I always knew I would like to, if I could find the right person, have a family. I can't imagine living single.
I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
[on winning the 1983 Best Actress Oscar for Sophie's Choice (1982)] Oh boy, no matter how much you try to imagine what this is like, it's just so incredibly thrilling right down your toes.
But ... in my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.
I mean, come on; when you have people writing these things, that you're the greatest thing that ever ate scenery, you're dead. You're fucking dead. How can you even presume to begin a new character? It's a killer.
It's a lesson I learned in drama school: the teacher asks, how do you be the queen? And everybody says, "Oh it's about posture and authority." And they said, no, it's about how the air in the room shifts when you walk in. And that's everyone else's work.
I really, really depend on the other actors for the confirmation of who I think I am," she says. "And so it's important to me to work with good people that are not worried about how they look. You know. Real actors. They're your blood.
[2007, accepting the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical] I think I've worked with everyone in the room! I have!
[on her struggles as an actress earlier in her career] It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.
[on winning a Golden Globe Award for Adaptation. (2002)]. I've been nominated 789 times and I was getting settled over there for a long winter's nap... I didn't have anything prepared because it's been since the Pleistocene Era that I won anything.
It would be nice to have a woman President. I think half the Senate should be women, half of Parliament, half the ruling mullahs. But that will never happen, darling!
[on Dustin Hoffman] He's energized and the greatest combination of the generous and the selfish that ever lived. He wants to be the greatest actor who ever was.
I try to lead as ordinary a life as I can. You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
I don't know what I'd do without my husband. I'd be dead, emotionally at least, if I hadn't met him. He's the greatest.
[on her marriage] There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. But I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
[on life as a young actress] When I was 20 I busked to afford accommodation. One night I hadn't earned enough, I actually slept in the open in Green Park [in London]. The view was of the Ritz Hotel and I vowed I'd stay there one day. And I have.
I hate the [Oscar] campaigning thing. It's unseemly. You should be honored for something. It shouldn't be for whose campaign was better.
[2009] I've been nominated for an Oscar 15 times and won twice, but it still feels like it's happening to someone else. I wish I could feel it more.
If you've been married for a long time, you love without looking.
Turning 60 was important to everyone else. It was a big number, to me it was, 'Well yeah, that comes after 59', and I don't even want to look it in the eye.
[on The Iron Lady (2011)] It was one of those rare, rare films where I was grateful to be an actor and grateful for the privilege of being able to look at a life deeply with empathy.
[on Margaret Thatcher] We on the Left didn't like her policies but secretly we were thrilled that a woman had made it, and we thought, "Wow, if it can happen there in England, it could happen here." But we're still waiting in America.
I was never engaged to John Cazale. We lived together for three years until he died of bone cancer.
I gotta thank everybody in England that let me come and trample over their history.
[on her college life] A kid who had read only seven books in high school and was now face-to-face with class valedictorians and full time intellectuals, girls whose idea of a Saturday night was an extra chunk of free time to conduct a biology experiment.
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
The formula of happiness and success is just being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

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