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Meryl Streep Wiki Biography

Considered to be one of the best actors in the history of cinema, Mary Louise Streep was born on 22 June 1949, in Summit, New Jersey USA, of Swiss-German descent through her father, and English, Irish and German through her mother. Meryl is known particularly for her appearances in such movies as “The Iron Lady”, “Sophie’s Choice”, “The Devil Wears Prada”, “Adaptation”, and “Julie & Julia”. The proof of her acclaim is that she has received numerous prestigious awards, including Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, AFI Life Achievement and BAFTA Awards among many others. In 2010 Meryl received the National Medal of Arts and four years later the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

So just how rich is Meryl Streep? Authoritative sources estimate that Meryl’s net worth is over $80 million as of early 2017, earned largely through her acting ability which has been on display since the early 1970s.

When Meryl was attending Bernards High School she began taking singing lessons, and participated in several school events. Later Streep continued her studies at Vassar College and there she also acted in various plays; her talent was soon noticed by others in the college. In 1971 Meryl decided to attend Yale School of Drama, although in order to support herself, she had to work different jobs. During her studies Meryl continued to appear in plays and improve her practical acting skills. Meryl decided to seek a career in the movie industry, but unfortunately her first audition for a movie was not successful and she came back to performing in plays. In 1977 Meryl finally got her first movie role, in the film called “Julia”. One year later, Meryl appeared in the movie entitled “The Deer Hunter”, which brought her to the attention of others in the movie industry. Soon Meryl started receiving more and more invitations to act in different projects, and was cast in the television show called “Holocaust”. This show had a huge impact on the growth of Meryl Streep’s net worth and her popularity.

In 1983 Meryl appeared in another successful movie, called “Silkwood”. Then over the years he also appeared in such movies as “Falling in Love”, “Heartburn”, “Defending Your Life” and many others. All these appearances added a lot to Meryl’s net worth. In 2008 Streep became even more popular after appearing in the film adaptation of the musical “Mamma Mia!”. During the making of this movie, Meryl worked together with Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried, Julie Walters and many others. This movie also added a lot to Streep’s net worth.

Confirming Meryl Streep’s talent and worth in the movie industry, during her lengthy career, Meryl has appeared in almost 60 films, and has received 19 Oscar nominations, being one of only six actors to win three or more. Additionally, she has been nominated for Golden Globes 29 times, more than any other actor, winning eight, also the most won.

As mentioned, Streep is also known for her appearances in television shows. Some of these shows include “Web Therapy”, “Angels in America”, “Secret Service”, “Alice at the Palace” among others. Recently Meryl has been working on “Ricki and the Flash” and “Suffragette”. Hopefully, these movies will receive a lot of popularity and success, adding to her net worth.

To talk about Meryl Streep’s personal life, it can be said that she had a relationship with John Cazale, but sadly he died in 1978. In the same year, Meryl married Don Gummer and they still live together; the couple has four children. Meryl is not only a remarkable actress, but she also is a very generous person. She supports the National Women’s History Museum, and The Public Theater, as well as having established scholarships awarded to deserving English at maths students at the University of Massachusetts.

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Meryl Streep Quick Info

Meryl Streep Trademarks

1. She frequently plays real-life characters: Julia Child, Ethel Rosenberg, Karen Silkwood, Karen Blixen, ‘Roberta Guasppari’, ‘Lindy Chamberlain’, Susan Orlean, and ‘Margaret Thatcher’.
2. Known for her ability to master almost any accent
3. Known for being a perfectionist when preparing for roles

Meryl Streep Quotes

• [her Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech] Please sit down. Thank you. I love you all. You’ll have to forgive me. I’ve lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read. Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said: You and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners and the press. But who are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places. I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island; Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids in Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy. And Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in London no, in Ireland I do believe, and she’s here nominated for playing a girl in small-town from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all of the nicest people, is Canadian, and Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is here playing an Indian raised in Tasmania. So, Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. They gave me three seconds to say this, so: An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us, and let you feel what that feels like. And there were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that. Breathtaking, compassionate work. But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good; there was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh, and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose. OK., this brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call him on the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our Constitution. So, I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we’re gonna need them going forward, and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth. One more thing: Once, when I was standing around on the set one day, whining about something – you know we were gonna work through supper or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, “Isn’t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?” Yeah, it is, and we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight. As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.
• 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.
• [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 gotta thank everybody in England that let me come and trample over their history.
• [on avoiding cosmetic surgery] I really understand the chagrin that accompanies aging, especially for a woman, but I think people look funny when they freeze their faces. In Los Angeles there’s a lot of that. I pick up on the part that doesn’t move on a face. I’m immediately drawn to it and that is the opposite of what you’re intending. You pull focus on the area that’s been worked on.
• I was never engaged to John Cazale. We lived together for three years until he died of bone cancer.
• [responding to those who have criticized the emphasis placed on Margaret Thatcher’s frail and confused old age] Some people have said it’s shameful to portray this part of a life. But the corollary of that is that, if you think that debility, delicacy, dementia are shameful, if you think that the ebbing of a life is something that should be shut away, if you think that people need to be defended from these images then – yes – then you’ll think it’s a shameful thing.
• [on Margaret Thatcher] I consider all the roles I play a privilege but this one was special because there are such vehement opinions about her. People seemed to look at her as an icon or a monster and I just wanted to locate the human being inside those caricatures that we’ve seen over so many years. And to investigate myself what it must have been like for her.
• [on what appealed to her about playing Margaret Thatcher] Women and power, and diminishment of power, and loss of power. And reconciliation with your life where you come to a point where you’ve lived most of it, and it’s behind you. I have always liked and been intrigued by older people and the idea that behind them lives every human trauma, drama, glory, jokes, love.
• [on Margaret Thatcher] She’s still an incredibly divisive figure, but you miss her clarity today. It was all very clear and up front, and I loved that eagerness to mix it up and to make it about ideas. Today it’s all about feelings. You know, “How do I come off?” and, “Does this seem OK?” You want people who are willing to find a solution. I admire the fact that she was a “love-me-or-hate-me” kind of leader who said: “This is what I stand for.” It’s a hard thing to do and no one’s doing that now.
• [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.
• It took a lot out of me, but it was a privilege to play her (Margaret Thatcher), it really was. I still don’t agree with a lot of her policies. But I feel she believed in them and that they came from an honest conviction, and that she wasn’t a cosmetic politician just changing make-up to suit the times.
• [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.
• [2008] One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You’re eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.
• [1994, on career choices] What affects your career choices are the three interesting scripts you get in a year, two of which you’re wrong for, one you think you might want to do if you’re real lucky. You can’t possibly plot what’s going to be available, what’s going to be written, who’s going to think of it, and if it will come to you or not.
• [1994, on if she’s bothered when one of her films don’t do well at the box-office] I’m horribly disappointed when people don’t see what I consider some of my best work. Yeah, I’m very sad. But I know that I have a video life. Most of my fans are home with their children waiting for my films to come out on video. But I’m disappointed because certain things should be seen on the big screen. I was very proud of A Cry in the Dark (1988), but it wasn’t distributed widely enough for people to have seen it on the big screen.
• [on portraying Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011)] The prospect of exploring the swathe cut through history by this remarkable woman is a daunting and exciting challenge. I am trying to approach the role with as much zeal, fervor and attention to detail as the real Lady Thatcher possesses – I can only hope my stamina will begin to approach her own.
• 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.
• My greatest culinary triumph was when I was falling in love with my husband. We were on the coast of Maine in a cabin and I made an apple pie…just whipped it up, without a recipe or anything..just the perfect pastry. I’ve never been able to do it again – and he asks for it often!
• If you’ve been married for a long time you love without looking.
• [on Natasha Richardson’s tragic death] Tash was the warm sun in the center of a large constellation of family, friends, all of those lucky enough to know her – she is irreplaceable in our lives; she gave us so much, so generously – her legacy is the love that connects us all.
• [in 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.
• [February 2009 about her appearance] My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn’t pretty enough and why didn’t I have Jessica Lange’s body or someone else’s legs? What a waste of time.
• I hate the [Oscar] campaigning thing. It’s unseemly. You should be honored for something. It shouldn’t be for whose campaign was better.
• [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.
• [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.
• Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That’s what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It’s everything. And it’s where you learn everything.
• 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.
• I try to lead as ordinary a life as I can. You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
• [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.
• 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 winning a Golden Globe 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.
• [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.
• [accepting the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical 2007] “I think I’ve worked with everyone in the room! I have!”
• [part of Emmy acceptance speech for Angels in America (2003)] Glenn Close is my friend so I know she’ll forgive me, Helen Mirren is an acting god, and no one has put a better performance on film than Judy Davis in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001). The only one in the group is Emma Thompson, who will hold a grudge for the rest of her life. But who cares?
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• [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.
• I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I’m more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
• 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.
• [on her role in The Manchurian Candidate (2004)] I loved being someone so certain. Because certainty is just so attractive in people. To me, it’s a completely bogus position – for me. Because, you know, I’m listening to every side. But it’s so nice not to have to listen to all the different sides. To be so clear and on your track and sure. It’s a fabulous thing. Unfortunately, it leads to fanaticism.
• 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.
• [accepting an Emmy for Angels in America (2003)] You know, there are some days when I myself think I’m overrated, but not today.
• 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.
• 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.
• [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.
• [on her Lifetime Achievement Award from the AFI] I don’t want to spit in the eye of good fortune, but it was weird. I felt like I’d butted in line in front of Lucille Ball, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn. Hello? How did this happen? I was only the sixth woman to receive it, but they found 26 men to give it to. I thought that was embarrassing.
• [in 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.
• [Entertainment Tonight (1981)] I had it (smoking), it stinks.

Meryl Streep Important Facts

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• After getting nominated for her 1st Oscar in 1979, the biggest gap that Streep has seen in further nominations, was 5 years, between 1991 and 1996.
• Played a character based on Carrie Fisher in Postcards from the Edge (1990), and then became godmother to Fisher’s real-life daughter, Billie Lourd.
• Campaigned for Hillary Clinton, in the 2016 Presidential Election.
• Her daughter, Grace Gummer, stars as Nora Ephron in Good Girls Revolt (2015). Streep starred in three films written by Ephron: Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986) and Julie & Julia (2009).
• President of the ‘Official Competition’ jury at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in 2016.
• She won an Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011), making her one of 18 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President’s Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)_, Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jennifer Connelly for playing Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010) and Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).
• Is one of 13 actresses who won their Best Supporting Actress Oscars in a movie that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)). The others are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Celeste Holm for Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), Mercedes McCambridge for All the King’s Men (1949), Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity (1953), Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (1954), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996), Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002) and Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years a Slave (2013).
• Her role in Music of the Heart (1999) is the only performance for which Wes Craven directed an actor to an Oscar nomination.
• Is a democrat.
• Ever since her first Oscar nomination, 63 actresses have been one of her four co-nominees in the same category, spanning an age gap of 81 years (five generations) from Katharine Hepburn to Emma Stone. Among them, 11 actresses were co-nominated twice: Cate Blanchett, Debra Winger, Helen Mirren, Jane Alexander, Jessica Lange, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Sandra Bullock and Winona Ryder. So far, Meryl Streep’s greatest rival, with 3 Oscar co-nominations, is still Glenn Close.
• Is one of 27 actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination for their performance in a musical; hers being Into the Woods (2014). The others, in chronological order, are: Bessie Love for The Broadway Melody (1929), Grace Moore for One Night of Love (1934), Jean Hagen for Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Marjorie Rambeau for Torch Song (1953), Dorothy Dandridge for Carmen Jones (1954), Deborah Kerr for The King and I (1956), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Gladys Cooper for My Fair Lady (1964)), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), and Victor Victoria (1982), Debbie Reynolds for The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), Peggy Wood for The Sound of Music (1965), Carol Channing for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Kay Medford for Funny Girl (1968), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Ronee Blakley for Nashville (1975), Lily Tomlin for Nashville (1975), Ann-Margret for Tommy (1975), Lesley Ann Warren for Victor Victoria (1982), Amy Irving for Yentl (1983), Nicole Kidman for Moulin Rouge! (2001), Queen Latifah for Chicago (2002), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002), Renée Zellweger for Chicago (2002), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Penelope Cruz for Nine (2009), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), and Emma Stone for La La Land (2016).
• Donated her entire salary for The Iron Lady (2011) to the Women’s History Museum.
• Meryl Streep sings in Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986), and Postcards from the Edge (1990), all of which were directed by Mike Nichols.
• Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama 24 November 2014.
• According to biographer Diana Maychick when companion John Cazale was too weak to read the newspapers, Streep read the paper to him imitating well-known broadcaster Warner Wolf’s voice.
• In 2013, David Letterman revealed that the director Harmony Korine had been banned from appearing on Letterman’s show during the late 1990s when Letterman personally caught Korine rifling through Meryl Streep’s purse in a dressing room. Streep and Korine had both been scheduled to appear on Letterman’s show that night, but only Streep did.
• Was the 82nd actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) at The 52nd Annual Academy Awards (1980) on April 14, 1980.
• Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Neal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Streep was 5 months pregnant with her daughter Mamie Gummer when she won the Best Actress Oscar for Sophie’s Choice (1982).
• As of 2014, has appeared in five films that nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Julia (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Out of Africa (1985), The Hours (2002). Winners in the category are The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Out of Africa (1985).
• London, UK, rehearsing Into the Woods (2014). [August 2013]
• London, UK: To begin promoting the film, The Iron Lady (2011). [November 2011]
• Acting mentors were Jean Arthur and Joseph Papp.
• Her father was of German and Swiss-German descent, and his patrilineal ancestors had originally been surnamed “Streeb”. Her mother had English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and remote French, ancestry, and was descended from early settlers in Pennsylvania. One of Meryl’s maternal great-grandmothers, Mary Agnes McFadden, was born in Ireland.
• Was a finalist for the role of Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979), but the part went to good friend and classmate Sigourney Weaver instead. However, Streep later got to make her own contribution to the character. Many of the special effects for Alien³ (1992) were created in England, after the cast; including Weaver; had returned home to the U.S. The filmmakers needed a prosthetic cast of Ripley’s head for some shots, so rather than call back Weaver, they used an available cast of Streep that had been made for a previous project and was still floating around the studio.
• In 2013, she presented the Best Actor Oscar to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln (2012). The previous year, she had received her third Oscar (second for Best Actress) for The Iron Lady (2011), and she give Lewis his third Best Actor Oscar. Both won their third Oscar for playing a Head of Government of a different nationality: Streep was an American actress playing a British Prime Minister, while Day-Lewis is a British actor playing an American President. In addition, Day-Lewis was not the only actor playing Abraham Lincoln that year. The part was played in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) by Benjamin Walker, who was married to Streep’s daughter Mamie Gummer.
• As of 2015, she has the most Academy award nominations.
• Gave birth to her 4th child at age 41, a daughter Louisa Jacobson Gummer on June 12, 1991. Child’s father is her husband, Don Gummer.
• Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 36, a daughter Grace Jane Gummer (aka Grace Gummer) on May 9, 1986. Child’s father is her husband, Don Gummer.
• Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 34, a daughter Mary Willa Gummer (aka Mamie Gummer) on August 3, 1983. Child’s father is her husband, Don Gummer.
• Gave birth to her 1st child at age 30, a son Henry Wolfe Gummer (aka Henry Gummer) on November 13, 1979. Child’s father is her husband, Don Gummer.
• Spokesperson for the Center for Reproductive Rights’ Draw the Line campaign. The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global legal organization dedicated to advancing women’s reproductive health, self-determination and dignity as basic human rights.
• Claimed to have had a photographic memory when she was younger, which allowed her to memorize her lines after one reading.
• Referenced in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s song “Your Horoscope for Today”.
• Is one of only four thespians to be nominated for acting honors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences over five decades – 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s. Along with Laurence Olivier (1930s-1970s), Paul Newman (1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s) and Katherine Hepburn (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s).
• Was considered for the part of Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979).
• Recipient of the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors, along with Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, and Sonny Rollins.
• She was awarded the 2010 National Medal of the Arts for her services to drama.
• As of 2015 she is still the most Oscar-nominated actress with 19 nominations.
• Kept the sunglasses she wore in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and used them again during the “Money Money Money” sequence in Mamma Mia! (2008).
• Attended Emily Blunt and John Krasinski’s wedding with her husband, Don Gummer.
• On her 60th birthday, her husband brought her a toaster and one of her daughters brought her a rocking chair. Despite having to work until late on the day, her children cooked her a birthday meal when she returned.
• Landed the breakthrough role of Linda in The Deer Hunter (1978) after Robert De Niro had seen her playing Dunyasha in Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center (1977). Streep had been playing opposite Irene Worth, Raul Julia and Mary Beth Hurt.
• She presented leadership award to ex-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt on March 2010.
• Lives in New York City and Salisbury, Connecticut.
• Through the television series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2010), she learned that she is a distant relative of director Mike Nichols.
• Studied acting with Michael Howard in New York City.
• In the stage show of Fame, though other actors are mentioned in song lyrics, she is the only actress to have her name in a song title. The song is called “Think of Meryl Streep” and takes place after Carmen kisses Nick when he asks her how she relaxes, and Serena (who wants Nick for herself) sees them.
• Her fans call themselves “Streepers”.
• She gained as much as 15 pounds while filming the Julie & Julia (2009) movie.
• She was awarded honorary Princeton degree in June 2009.
• She was ranked #87 on Ellen DeGeneres’ most sexy movie actors list. (2009).
• Signs cheques with her real name – Mary Louise Gummer.
• She attended Natasha Richardson’s funeral along with husband Don Gummer.
• She was a close friend of late actress Natasha Richardson.
• With the announcement of the 66th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations and receiving two nominations, the actress surpassed Jack Lemmon’s count of 22 nominations and is now, besides holding the record for most Oscar nominations, the actor with the most Golden Globe nominations of all time with a total of 29 nominations.
• Has said she is a great fan of actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
• Nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award for “The One and Only Shrek” (Best Spoken Word Album For Children).
• In 2007, she ranked #6 on Entertainment Weekly’s ‘The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood’.
• She and her daughter Mamie Gummer portrayed the same role at different ages in Evening (2007).
• Elected to the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2007 for her services to arts and entertainment (inaugural election). Official induction ceremonies held in May 2008.
• Occasionally mistaken for friend Glenn Close, Streep was pregnant with her fourth child while shopping in a Los Angeles baby store where the staff lavished her with huge amounts of baby paraphernalia. Just as she was about to leave they whispered, “We loved you in Fatal Attraction (1987)”.
• Her accumulation of 19 Oscar nominations (3 wins) was accomplished over a period of only 36 years. Bette Davis scored 10 nominations (2 wins) over 28 years (all leading roles). Katharine Hepburn garnered 12 nominations (4 wins) after a relatively lengthy 48 years (all leading roles).
• Daughter of Mary Streep and Harry Streep (a pharmaceutical executive).
• Nominated for a 2007 Drama Desk Award for her performance in “Mother Courage and Her Children” (Outstanding Actress in a Play).
• Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).
• Uses music, most often Classical, to get into character.
• Donated her wardrobe from The Devil Wears Prada (2006) to a charity auction.
• Considered for the role of Evita Peron in Evita (1996).
• Was nominated for Best Actress in 1988 along with Cher. When Cher was announced, just before the cameras cut away from the other four actresses, Streep could be seen springing to her feet in delight and applauding for Cher. During her acceptance speech, Cher thanked Streep personally (addressing her as Mary Louise Streep), as they had worked together on Cher’s first film, Silkwood (1983). As the camera briefly cut away to Streep sitting in the audience, she blew Cher a kiss.
• Robert De Niro said she is his favorite actress to work with.
• The longest she has gone without an Oscar nomination is five years, between Postcards from the Edge (1990) and The Bridges of Madison County (1995).
• Friend of Jill Clayburgh. First met in their roles as mothers.
• Son Henry Gummer is an actor, filmmaker and co-founder of a rock band. Daughter Mary Willa, whose stage name is Mamie Gummer, is an off-Broadway actress.
• Her father was a drug company exec; her mother, an artist-turned-housewife who kept an art studio behind the house. Her father loved to play the piano and her mother to sing. Meryl was given singing lessons at a young age. Her mother died in 2001 and her father in 2004.
• Her husband, Don Gummer, is a sculptor.
• Her performance as “Karen Silkwood” in Silkwood (1983) is ranked #71 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
• Her performance as “Sophie Zawistowska” in Sophie’s Choice (1982) is ranked #3 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
• Early in her career, Streep received a letter from Bette Davis, whom most critics and cinema historians rank as the greatest American movie actress ever. Davis told Streep that she felt that she was her successor as the premier American actress. Davis, a double winner who was nominated 10 times for an Academy Award, all of them Best Actress nods, set the record for most acting nominations with her tenth in 1963 for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), a record later surpassed by Katharine Hepburn with her 11th nomination (and 3rd win) for The Lion in Winter (1968). Hepburn extended her record with her 12th nomination (and fourth win) for On Golden Pond (1981).
• Sold her New York City townhouse for $9.1 million in February 2006. She was forced to slash the asking price for the eight-bedroom Manhattan property from $12 million to secure a sale. Streep bought the house for $2.2 million in 1995, according to the New York Post.
• She attended Harding Township Middle School, in Harding, New Jersey for 1 or 2 years
• Received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Middlebury College during her nephew’s graduation in 2004.
• Is the second of 4 consecutive winners of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to have the initials “M.S.”. The others are: Maggie Smith – California Suite (1978), Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard (1980), and Maureen Stapleton – Reds (1981).
• Acting career began on the stage.
• Took serious singing lessons. At age 12, she studied to become an opera singer.
• 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).
• Tony Nominee in 1976 as Best Actress (Featured Role – Play) for Tennessee Williams’ “27 Wagons Full of Cotton.”.
• Mentioned by first name only (with two-time co-star Jack Nicholson) in Michael Crichton’s 2004 novel “State of Fear.”.
• She often works with Academy award-winning director Mike Nichols.
• Has only been turned down for four roles: Michelle Straton in American Gigolo (1980), Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams (1985), Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day (1993), and Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998).
• According to Katharine Hepburn’s official biographer A. Scott Berg, Meryl Streep was her least favorite modern actress on screen: “Click, click, click,” she said, referring to the wheels turning inside Streep’s head.
• As a young actor, she performed at the Yale Repertory Theater with Christopher Lloyd.
• She was voted the 37th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
• May 27, 2004 was proclaimed “Meryl Streep Day” by Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields. [May 2004]
• Back at the Drama school, she and Sigourney Weaver appeared in a play staged in a swimming pool together. The play was called ‘The Frogs.’.
• Sigourney Weaver and Christine Estabrook were fellow classmates at Yale Drama School.
• Originally applied to Law School but slept in on the morning of her interview and took it as a sign she was destined for other things.
• Spent a year as a transfer student at Dartmouth College where she participated in theater.
• Older sister of Harry Streep and Dana Streep.
• Presented Paul McCartney with the 1990 Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. Attended The Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in 1965 with an “I love Paul” sign, which she mentioned when presenting the award to McCartney.
• Her character Karen Silkwood from her 1983 film Silkwood (1983) was ranked #47 on the American Film Institute Heroes list of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villians.
• Was originally supposed to play the role of Iris Hineman is the film Minority Report (2002), but had to back out. She was replaced by Lois Smith.
• The children’s TV series Sesame Street (1969) has featured a character named “Meryl Sheep” in her honor.
• Has a deviated septum, which she refuses to have fixed.
• Tennessee Williams wanted her for a film version of “A Streetcar Named Desire” in the 1980s. When Streep proved unavailable, the project was refashioned for television and the role of Blanche given to Ann-Margret.
• Born at 8:05 a.m. EDT.
• In 2000, named an Officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
• Sister-in-law of Maeve Kinkead.
• In 2001, her son, Henry W. Gummer (“Hank”) was a student at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
• Replaced Madonna for the lead in Music of the Heart (1999).
• She left her just-claimed Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) on the back of a toilet during the 1979 festivities.
• Was a cheerleader and homecoming queen in high school.
• Before making it big, she was a waitress at The Hotel Somerset in Somerville, New Jersey, USA.
• Graduated from Bernards High School.
• Was romantically involved with actor John Cazale for a 2 years, culminating with his death at age 42 in 1978 from lung cancer. She is very reluctant to discuss the relationship with anyone. The couple had been sharing a loft at 146 Franklin Street in Manhattan’s Tribeca district.
• Graduated from Vassar College in 1971.
• Educated at Yale University. Studied Drama.
• In October 1997, ranked #24 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list.
• Listed as one of 12 “Promising New Actors of 1977” in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 29.
• Has a fear of helicopters.
• Learned to play the violin, by practicing 6 hours a day for 8 weeks, for her role in Music of the Heart (1999).
• In September 1999, named Best Modern Actress in an Entertainment Weekly online poll, substantially beating out runner-up Michelle Pfeiffer.

Meryl Streep Filmography

Meryl Streep Awards