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Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an United
States|American actor|actress who has received
numerous accolades for her work in movies and
television and who, from the 1980s to the present
day, has been regarded as one of the best in her
field.

== Biography ==
Born Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey,
United States|USA, and raised in nearby
Bernardsville, New Jersey|Bernardsville, Streep
majored in drama at Vassar College and earned a
Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama.
 She appeared in her first films, Julia
(movie)|Julia and The Deer Hunter, in 1977 and
1978, the latter of which would earn her her first
Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting
Actress.  Streep has been nominated a total of 13
times—10 for Best Actress and 3 for Best
Supporting Actress—making her the
most-nominated actor of all time, surpassing
Katharine Hepburn. She won Academy Awards for her
roles in Kramer vs. Kramer (Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress, 1979),
and Sophie's Choice (Academy Award for Best
Actress|Best Actress, 1982).

Streep's career continued to climb in the 1980s,
appearing in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979
movie)|Manhattan, The French Lieutenant's Woman,
Silkwood, Out of Africa, Ironweed, Postcards from
the Edge, and playing Lindy Chamberlain in A Cry
in the Dark, the movie telling of one of the
greatest Australian mysteries ever—the
disappearance of Chamberlain's baby daughter
Azaria Chamberlain|Azaria at Uluru, and her claims
(later substantiated in court) that a dingo had
taken the child. From 1984 to 1990, Streep won six
People's Choice Awards for Favorite Motion Picture
Actress and, in 1990, was named World-Favorite.
Having been named on so many greatest movie star
lists, Streep also defied expectations by her
happy home life—marriage to sculptor Don
Gummer, with four children—and her truthful
approach toward the industry and her own presence
within it. As she would say when collecting her
Emmy award for Angels in America, "There are some
days when even I think I'm overrated, but not
today." 

However, by 1990, her habit of performing
marvelously without fail began to have an unusual
effect, in that many critics begin to chide her
for her tradition of playing "cold" characters,
and often those with accents—in short,
characters that weren't humanized to the immediate
audience. In the 1990s, therefore, Streep took to
playing roles with greater variety, including
farce in Death Becomes Her alongside Goldie Hawn,
the movie version of Isabel Allende's The House of
the Spirits, 1995's The Bridges of Madison County
(largely regarded as her great comeback role), The
River Wild— her first and only action film
to date—and her noted comic turn in
She-Devil.

However, that is not to say that Streep did not
maintain her reputation as an acting
great—appearing in Marvin's Room, and
completing another successful decade with Music of
the Heart, for which she learned to play the
violin.

Among her other recent work were guest voices in
episodes of The Simpsons and King of the Hill. She
voiced the Blue Mecha in the Steven
Spielberg-Stanley Kubrick film, A.I. (movie)|A.I.;
appeared alongside Nicolas Cage in Adaptation
(movie)|Adaptation, played four different roles in
the HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner's six-hour play
Angels in America; starred alongside Nicole Kidman
and Julianne Moore in The Hours; and in 2004 took
on two largely comedic roles, playing the
character originated by Angela Lansbury in the
remake of The Manchurian Candidate, and taking a
role alongside Jim Carrey, Emily Browning and Jude
Law in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate
Events. That same year, Manhattan Borough
President C. Virginia Fields proclaimed May 27
"Meryl Streep Day".

Streep currently has five different films in
various stages of production for release in 2005,
2006, and 2007.

==Awards==
Streep has received countless awards, including a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—all of
which can be seen at numerous sites, including her
page at the Internet Movie Database (link below).
Summarized below are her awards from the best
recognized institutions.

Awards:
*1978 - Emmy Award|Emmy for best actress in a
mini-series, in Holocaust (miniseries)|Holocaust
*1980 - Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe for best
supporting actress, in Kramer vs. Kramer
*1980 - Academy Award for Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress|best supporting actress, in
Kramer vs. Kramer
*1982 - Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe for List
of Golden Globe Awards: Film, Best Actress,
Drama|best actress, drama, in The French
Lieutenant's Woman
*1982 - British Academy of Film and Television
Arts|BAFTA for best actress, in The French
Lieutenant's Woman
*1983 - Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe for best
actress, in Sophie's Choice
*1983 - Academy Award for Academy Award for Best
Actress|best actress, in Sophie's Choice
*1989 - Cannes Film Festival for best actress, in
A Cry in the Dark
*1991 - American Comedy Awards for funniest
actress, in Postcards from the Edge
*2003 - Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe Best
Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or
Motion Picture Made for Television, in Angels in
America
*2003 - Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe for best
supporting actress, in Adaptation
*2004 - Screen Actors Guild|SAG for best actress,
in Angels in America
*2004 - Emmy Award|Emmy for best actress, in
Angels in America
*2004 - AFI Life Achievement Award|American Film
Institute life achievement award

Nominations:
*1979 - Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress, in
The Deer Hunter
*1979 - BAFTA Best Actress, in The Deer Hunter
*1979 - BAFTA Best Supporting Actress, in
Manhattan
*1981 - BAFTA Best Actress, in Kramer vs. Kramer
*1982 - Academy Award Best Actress, in The French
Lieutenant's Woman
*1983 - BAFTA Best Actress, in Sophie's Choice
*1984 - Golden Globe Best Actress, in Silkwood
*1984 - Academy Award Best Actress, in Silkwood
*1985 - BAFTA Best Actress, in Silkwood
*1986 - Golden Globe Best Actress, in Out of
Africa
*1986 - Academy Award Best Actress, in Out of
Africa
*1987 - BAFTA Best Actress, in Out of Africa
*1988 - Academy Award Best Actress, in Ironweed
*1989 - Golden Globe Best Actress, in A Cry in the
Dark
*1989 - Academy Award Best Actress, in A Cry in
the Dark
*1990 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a
Comedy/Musical, in She-Devil
*1991 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a
Comedy/Musical, in Postcards from the Edge
*1991 - Academy Award Best Actress, in Postcards
from the Edge
*1993 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a
Comedy/Musical, in Death Becomes Her
*1995 - Screen Actors Guild Best Actress, in The
River Wild
*1995 - Golden Globe Best Actress, in The River
Wild
*1996 - SAG Best Actress, in The Bridges of
Madison County
*1996 - Golden Globe Best Actress, in The Bridges
of Madison County
*1996 - Academy Award Best Actress, in The Bridges
of Madison County
*1997 - SAG Best Cast, in Marvin's Room (shared -
see note below)
*1997 - Golden Globe Best Actress, in Marvin's
Room
*1998 - Emmy Best Actress in a Mini-series, in
...First Do No Harm
*1998 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a
Mini-series, in ...First Do No Harm
*1999 - SAG Best Actress Nomination for One True
Thing
*1999 - Golden Globe Best Actress, in One True
Thing
*1999 - Academy Award Best Actress, in One True
Thing
*2000 - SAG Best Actress, in Music of the Heart
*2000 - Golden Globe Best Actress, in Music of the
Heart
*2000 - Academy Award Best Actress, in Music of
the Heart
*2002 - SAG Best Cast, in The Hours 
*2002 - SAG Best Cast, in Adaptation (shared - see
note below)
*2002 - Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for
The Hours
*2002 - BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for The
Hours
*2002 - BAFTA Best Supporting Actress, in
Adaptation
*2002 - Academy Award Best Supporting Actress, in
Adaptation
*2005 - Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress, in
The Manchurian Candidate

Notes:

*1997 SAG Nomination for Marvin's Room shared with
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, Dan Hedaya,
Diane Keaton, Hal Scardino, Gwen Verdon and Hume
Cronyn.
*2003 SAG Nomination for Adaptation. shared with
Nicholas Cage, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Cara
Seymour and Tilda Swinton.
*2003 SAG Nomination for The Hours shared with
Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Miranda Richardson,
Jeff Daniels (actor)|Jeff Daniels, Ed Harris, Toni
Collette, Claire Danes, Stephen Dillane, John C.
Reilly and Allison Janney.

==Filmography==
*Everybody Rides the Carousel (1975) (voice)
*Julia (movie)|Julia (1977)
*The Deer Hunter (1978)
*Manhattan (1979 movie)|Manhattan (1979)
*The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
*Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
*The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
*Still of the Night (1982)
*Sophie's Choice (1982)
*Silkwood (1983)
*In Our Hands (1984) (documentary)
*Falling in Love (1984)
*Out of Africa (1985)
*Heartburn (movie)|Heartburn (1986)
*Ironweed (1987)
*A Cry in the Dark (1988)
*She-Devil (1989)
*Postcards from the Edge (1990)
*Defending Your Life (1991)
*Death Becomes Her (1992)
*The House of Spirits (1993)
*A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
*The River Wild (1994)
*The Living Sea (1995) (short subject) (narrator)
*The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
*Before and After (1996)
*Marvin's Room (1996)
*Assignment: Rescue (1997) (short subject)
(narrator)
*Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror
(1998) (documentary) (narrator)
*Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
*One True Thing (1998)
*Chrysanthemum (movie)|Chrysanthemum (1999) (short
subject) (narrator)
*Music of the Heart (1999)
*The Papp Project (2001) (documentary)
*A.I. (movie)|AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
(voice only)
*Adaptation. (2002)
*The Hours (film)|The Hours (2002)
*Monet's Palate: A Gastronomic View from the
Gardens of Giverny (2003) (documentary) (narrator)
*Stuck On You (2003) (Cameo)
*The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
*Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
(2004)
*Prime (2005) (in post production)
*Dark Matter (2005) (in pre-production)
*The Last Broadcast (film)|The Last Broadcast
(2006) (in post-production)
*The Devil Wears Prada (2006) (in pre-production)
*Chaos (2006) (in pre-production)
*Wanted (2007) (announced start of production)

== External links ==
*http://www.merylstreeponline.net
merylstreeponline.net
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