Meryl Streep
Gender: Female
Born: 22nd June 1949 (currently 62 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Uncommon Women and Others, Rabbit Ears Productions, Angels in America, Web Therapy, Freedom: A History of Us, Holocaust
Movies: A Prairie Home Companion, Adaptation, Death Becomes Her, Defending Your Life, Heartburn, Kramer vs. Kramer, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Manhattan, Out of Africa, Plenty, Prime, Silkwood, Sophie's Choice, The Bridges of Madison County, The Deer Hunter, The Devil Wears Prada, The Hours, The Manchurian Candidate, The River Wild, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, A Cry in the Dark, ...First Do No Harm, Marvin's Room, One True Thing, Mamma Mia!, Rendition, Ironweed, Still of the Night, The Seduction of Joe Tynan, The French Lieutenant's Woman, First Man, Music of the Heart, The House of the Spirits, Falling in Love, She-Devil, Evening, Dark Matter, Before and After, Lions for Lambs, Doubt, The Ant Bully, Secret Service, Alice at the Palace, Chrysanthemum and More Kevin Henkes Stories, Dancing at Lughnasa, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Julie & Julia, Postcards from the Edge, It's Complicated, Angels in America, Julia, The Velveteen Rabbit, Uncommon Women and Others, The Cutting Tradition, Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life, The Iron Lady, Great Hope Springs, Everybody Rides the Carousel, Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia, The Deadliest Season, The Living Sea, Vermeer: Master of Light, Stolen Childhoods, Theater of War, Hurricane on the Bayou
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress and singer who has worked in theatre, television and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected actresses of the contemporary era.
Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia. Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first win. She later won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Sophie's Choice (1982).
Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations, winning two, and 26 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, five Grammy Award nominations, a BAFTA award, an Australian Film Institute Award and a Tony Award nomination, amongst others. She was
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