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Name: |
Meryl Streep |
| Height: |
5' 6" |
| Full Name: |
Mary Louise Streep |
| DOB: |
22 June 1949 |
| Birth Place: |
Summit, New Jersey, USA |
| Parents: |
Harry Streep Jr, Mary |
| Spouse: |
Don Gummer |
| AT A GLANCE |
She was born Mary Louise Streep on the 22nd of June, 1949, in
Summit, New Jersey. Her father, Harry Streep Jr, was an executive at a
pharmaceutical company, while mother Mary was a commercial artist. Mary was 35
when she had Mary Louise, her first child. Soon would come Harry III, now a
choreographer married to actress Maeve Kincaid (longstanding star of the soap
opera The Guiding Light), and Dana, now a bond salesman.
Mary Louise Streep first worked as a waitress at the Hotel Somerset in
Somerville, New Jersey. She studied drama at Yale University and quickly became
a success shortly after. Her first ambition was in opera, but acting would
eventually become her ultimate goal.
Streep made her screen debut in Julia (1977), but made her strongest impression
on television that year, with roles in the TV movie "The Deadliest Season" and
the miniseries "Holocaust" (1978), for which she won an Emmy. Streep returned to
films with The Deer Hunter (1978), receiving one of the first of her nine
Academy Award® nominations. The next year she appeared in several films,
including Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979) and Kramer vs. Kramer . For the latter
she won the first of her Oscars®, for Best Supporting Actress, as Dustin
Hoffman's troubled wife.
Meryl has tied Katherine Hepburn with a record 12 Oscar Nominations. It took
Katherine Hepburn over 50 years to accomplish the feat, Meryl did it in just 22.
Meryl has been married to Don Gummer since 1978 and they have 4 children.
Shortly after winning her first Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer, during the 1980
ceremony, Meryl accidentally left her Oscar on the back of a toilet. Back in
1995 when Madonna was vying for the title roll in Evita, Meryl expressed her
concern by saying, "I can sing better than she can. If Madonna gets it, I'll rip
her throat out!"
In addition to her feature-film career, Streep has also narrated documentaries
such as Arctic Refuge: A Vanishing Wilderness; she has even continued to make
the rare television appearance, as in the 1997 ABC network telemovie ...First Do
No Harm. |
| TRIVIA |
Ranked #24 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time"
list in October 1997
Named Best Modern Actress in an Entertainment Weekly on-line poll in September
1999
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1977" in John Willis' Screen
World, Vol. 29. |
| QUOTES |
"You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing."
(On whether Madonna should play Eva Peron in the film version of Evita instead
of her): "I can sing better than she can. If Madonna gets it, I'll rip her
throat out!" |
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