Mary Louise Streep, known as Meryl Streep, is an American film, theater and television actress, known for being one of the best actresses in history and on several occasions chosen as the best in the world. She was born in Summit, New Jersey on June 22, 1949, and is the daughter of Mary Wilkinson Streep and Harry William Streep, Jr.
She lived his childhood in Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she studied at Bernards High School. She had many Catholic friends who attended mass, because, due to his Presbyterian formation, she liked those religious celebrations very much.
In 1971, she obtained a B.A. in Drama at Vassar College, where she received some instructions from Jean Arthur. Meryl also graduated with a master’s in fine arts from the School of Drama at Yale University. While at Yale, she played several roles such as Helena’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and that of an eighty-year-old wheelchair-bound woman in a comedy written by Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato.
After graduating from Yale, Meryl Streep was part of several theater productions in New York and New Jersey, including works from the Shakespeare Park Festival, such as Enrique V, The Taming of the Shrew, along with Raúl Juliá, and Measure for Measure. At that time, she was the protagonist of the play “Happy End” also won an Obie prize for her participation in “Alice at the Palace.”
She was contacted by Dino De Laurentiis to participate in the role of Dwan in “King Kong.” Streep presented the audition and could not keep the position in the film. In the year 1976, she was the protagonist in the works of Broadway “Recuerdo de dos lunes” and “27 cotton wagons.” She also appeared in “The Cherry Orchard” for which she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award.
In 1977, she worked for the first time in the cinema, where she played a small role in the movie “Julia.”
In the year 1978, Meryl Streep starred in the miniseries “Holocaust” where she represented a German married to a Jewish artist in Nazi Germany. On March 12 of that same year her boyfriend John Cazale died; To overcome her pain, she concentrated on her work, looking for fun in every role she played.
A year later, she was part of “The Seduction of Joe Tynan.” She also won the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for her performance in “Holocaust.” “The Deer Hunter” was released a month later, with which Meryl Streep had her first Oscar nomination for the best-supporting actress. She played a supporting role in the movie “Manhattan” (1979) by Woody Allen.
The excellent performance in the movies “Manhattan”; “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” and “Kramer against Kramer” made her awarded by the Association of Critics of Los Angeles, the National Society of Critics and the New Critics’ Circle York For the film “Kramer against Kramer” she won her first Oscar Award and a Golden Globe Award, among other recognitions.
In the year 1981, Meryl Streep starred in the film “The Woman of the French Lieutenant.” Thanks to that performance, she won the BAFTA Award for best actress. A year later, she participated in the psychological thriller “Still of the Night” where she played the role of Brooke Reynolds.
In 1982, she also played a Polish Holocaust survivor in “Sophie’s Decision.” She also won several international awards, among which were highlighted, her second Oscar, this time as the best actress and a Golden Globe Award, among others. After the success of “Sophie’s decision,” she played the syndicalist Karen Silkwood in the drama “Silkwood.”
Meryl participated in the films “Falling in Love” in 1984, where she worked with Robert De Niro, and “Plenty” in 1985. In that same year, she starred in the film “Out of Africa” (Memories of Africa), where she played the writer Danish Karen Blixen. She also co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the films “Heartburn” in 1986 and “Tallo de Hierro” in 1987.
In 1988, she played Lindy Chamberlain, in the film “A cry in the dark” which was filmed in Australia. Thanks to that performance, Meryl Streep was awarded by the film academy of that country (AACTA) and won the award for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival, also had a recognition by the New York Critics Circle. For the year 1989, she made the first comedic role of her career in the movie “She-Devil.”
At the beginning of the year 1990, she was named as the world’s favorite actress, thanks to her versatility when playing roles. In that same year, she played the role of a woman addicted to drugs in the film “Postcards from the edge.”
In 1993, she starred in the movie The House of the Spirits, where starred with Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder and Antonio Banderas. A year later, she acted in the first film. She has worked with Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly. For the year 1995, she starred with Clint Eastwood in the movie “The Bridges of Madison.” The film was a success in North American income since it raised approximately 70 million dollars in the United States. In the year 1996, she participated in the film “Marvin’s Room” in that production she worked with Diane Keaton and with Leonardo DiCaprio. The film was not released on a large scale.
For the year 1999, Meryl Streep played the role of the violinist Roberta Guaspari in the film “Music of the Heart.” To play that role, the actress had to take intensive violin lessons for two months. She made part of the movie “Artificial Intelligence” (2001), where Meryl Streep lent her voice to the Blue Fairy character. On December 11 of that same year, she and Liam Neeson conducted the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
In 2002, after 20 years, Meryl Streep returned to the theater, where she played Arkadina in “The Hours.” Where also actors like Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, and Philip Seymour Hoffman participated. In that same year, she made an outstanding cast appearance in the movie “Adaptation” where she played reporter Susan Orlean. For her excellent performance, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Oscar. She also starred in the film “The Hours” with which she won the Silver Bear for the best actress.
For the year 2003, she made a cameo appearance in the comedy “Farrelly Stuck on You.” That same year she won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe. In 2004, she was awarded an honorary prize by the American Film Institute. In that same year, she appeared in the thriller “The Manchurian Candidate” where played an American senator. She also represented Aunt Josephine in the movie “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.” For the year 2005 Meryl Streep participated in Ben Younger’s comedy, “Prime”; there she played Lisa Metzger, the Jewish psychologist of a divorced and lonely businesswoman.
Between the months of August and September of the following year, she acted in “Mother Courage and his children” a production of the Public Theater of the Festival of Shakespeare of New York. In 2006, she was also in the musical by Robert Altman entitled “A Prairie Home Companion.” In 2007, she was in the films “Dark Matter”; “Rendition” and the drama “Lajos Koltai Evening.” His next film was Robert Redford’s thriller “Lions for Lambs,” which narrated the connection between a platoon of the US Navy in Afghanistan, a senator from that American country, a reporter and a professor at a university in California.
In 2008, Meryl Streep achieved commercial success again, as she starred in the movie “Mamma Mia!” where she played a single mother and member of a group of women singers. The musical became a blockbuster, after raising worldwide of more than 600 million dollars, was also considered one of the most successful musicals in history. In that same year, she starred in “The Doubt.”
Meryl Streep represented Julia Child in Nora Ephron’s comedy “Julie & Julia” (2009). The same year Meryl appeared in the movie “It’s Complicated” along with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. She also lent her voice to Felicity Fox in the animated film “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” In 2011 Streep participated in the film “The Iron Lady” thanks to which she won her first BAFTA, a Golden Globe Award and her Third Oscar Award. A year later, she starred with Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell in the comedy-drama “Hope Springs.”
For the year 2013, Meryl Streep represented Violet, a mature woman with problems of drug addiction and alcoholism in the drama “August: Osage County.” In early 2014, she played Chief Elder in the movie” The Giver.” In the month of December of that same year, the actress represented The Witch, sharing the stage with Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp, Christine Baranski and Tracey Ullman, in the movie “Into the Woods.” In the month of August of 2015, she starred in the movie “Ricki and the flash” where she played the role of Ricki Randazzo / Linda, a woman who leaves her family to become a rock star. At the end of that year, she was part of the film “Suffragette” where she represented the British suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst.
For the year 2016, Meryl Streep was sworn in at the 66th edition of the Berlin Film Festival. She was also part of the cast of the film “Florence Foster Jenkins.” For her excellent work in the film, Meryl Streep won the Film Critic Award for best comedy actress and was a candidate for BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Oscar. In 2017, she worked with Rob Marshall in the film “Mary Poppins Returns” and was confirmed in the film” The Papers” directed by Steven Spielberg and inspired by the case of the Pentagon Papers.
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