Actress Meryl Streep birth name was Mary Louise Meryl Streep. She was born on 22nd June 1949. She was an American actress. She had described as the best actress of her generation. Meryl Streep parents are Mary Wolf Wilkinson (mother) & Harry William Streep, Jr. (father).
Meryl Streep lived with actor John Cazale in the 1970s. She cared for him after his lung cancer diagnosis until he passed away in March 1978. After his death Meryl Streep had married with American Sculptor “Don Gummer” 6 months after Cazale’s death.
Meryl Streep has 4 children. They are musician Henry Wolfe Gummer (1979), Actress Mary Willa “Mamie” Gummer (1983), Actress Grace Jane Gummer (1986) and Actress Louisa Jacobson Gummer (1991).
Meryl Streep actress was particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability. She had received many accolades throughout on her career spanning over the decades.
Actress Meryl Streep got 21 Academy Awards nominations, in that she won 3 awards. Also, she got 32 Golden Globe Award nominations, in that she won 8 awards. She also received 2 British Academy Film Awards, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards, 3 Primetime Emmy Awards & 6 Grammy Awards.
In 1975, Meryl Streep made her first appearance on stage in “Trelawny of the Wells” play.
The following year, she was nominated for a Tony Award for her performances in the movie “27 Wagons Full of Cotton” and in the movie “A Memory of Two Mondays”.
Actress Meryl Streep had made her film debut in “Julia” in the year 1977.
Meryl Streep won her first Primetime Emmy Award for the leading role in the mini-series “Holocaust.” She received her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a troubled wife in the movie “Kramer vs. Kramer” in 1979. She went on to establish herself as a film actress in the 1980s.
Meryl Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a Holocaust survivor in the movie “Sophie’s Choice” in 1982. She had her biggest commercial success in the movie “Out of Africa” in 1985.
Meryl Streep continued to gain awards and critical praise for her work in the late 1980s to 1990s. The comedy movie “Death Becomes Her” in 1995 was her biggest earner in that period.
Meryl Streep got more stardom for the movies “The Hours” and “Adaptation in the year 2002.
Meryl Streep some of the acted movies are The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Mamma Mia (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), It’s Complicated (2009), Into the Woods (2014), The Post (2017) and the Little Women (2019) etc.
Meryl Streep had also won 3rd Academy Award for her portrayal of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the movie “The Iron Lady” in the year 2011.
Meryl Streep received many honorary awards. She has received AFI Life Achievement Award (2004). She also received “Gala Tribute” award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in the year 2008. Furthermore, she got “Kennedy Center Honor (2011)” for her contribution in the American culture through the performing arts.
Meryl Streep got The President Barak Obama has awarded her the National Medal of Arts (2010) and the Presidential Medal of the Freedom (2014).
The French government made her a Commander of the “Order of Arts and Letters” award in the year 2003. In French this award name was “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”. In the year 2017, she has also received “Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille” Award.
