Meryl Streep's Career, Greatest Living Actress, Awards, and Countless Works

Meryl Streep is an American actress, born on June 22, 1949, in New Jersey, USA. Streep has been considered by several critics as "the greatest living actress." She has been nominated for an Academy Award 21 times, winning three.

Among other awards, Streep has been nominated for 32 Golden Globe Awards, more than anyone else, and has won eight.

Streep made her stage debut in Trelawny of the Wells in 1975. In 1976, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Debut by an Actress in a Play for her roles in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Memory of Two Mondays. In 1977, she made her screen debut in the television film The Deadliest Season and also made her film debut in Julia. In 1978, she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the miniseries Holocaust and received her first Academy Award nomination for her role in The Deer Hunter. Streep won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Sophie's Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).

Meryl Streep has been nominated for Academy Awards for her other roles in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), Evil Angels (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Adaptation (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), August: Osage County (2013), Into the Woods (2014), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and The Postal Service (2017). Her stage roles include the Public Theater's revival of The Seagull, and her television roles include two HBO projects, the acclaimed miniseries Angels in America (2003), for which she won an Emmy Award, and the drama series Big Little Lies (2019).

Meryl Streep has received numerous honorary awards. She received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004, the Film Society of Lincoln Center Honors in 2008, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2011 for her contributions to American culture through the performing arts. President Barack Obama awarded her the National Medal of Arts in 2010, and in 2014, he awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2003, the Government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. She received the Cécile B. DeMille Award (Golden Globe) in 2017.

Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey. Her mother, Mary Wilkinson Streep (née Mary Wolf Wilkinson), is a commercial artist and art critic, and her father, Harry William Streep Jr., is a pharmaceutical executive. She has two younger siblings: Harry William Streep III and Dana David Streep, who are also actors.

Meryl was raised Presbyterian in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and Oak Street High School, which was then a high school. In her high school debut, she starred in a school play as Louise Hale in The Family Upstairs. In 1963, the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where Meryl attended Bernards High School. Author Karina Longworth described her as "a gawky kid with glasses and a wild head of hair," but noted that she loved to show off in family home movies from an early age.

Although Meryl acted in several school plays, she had no interest in theater until her performance as Miss Julie at Vassar College in 1969, capturing campus attention with the role. Vassar drama professor Clinton J. Atkinson noted, "I don't think Meryl took any acting classes; she really taught herself." Meryl demonstrated an early ability to imitate accents and quickly memorize her lines. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from the college in 1971 before proceeding to earn her M.F.A. at Yale University's School of Drama. At Yale, she supplemented her tuition by waitressing and writing, appearing in more than a dozen theater productions a year, to the point that she became exhausted and nearly developed ulcers. She considered quitting acting and moving on to law school.

Meryl Streep has performed many stage roles, from Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream to an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair in a play by Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato, playwrights who were little known at the time. She was a student of choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, who performed her at the Kennedy Center in 2017. Her last teacher was Robert Lewis, a co-founder of the Actors Studio. Meryl refused some of the acting exercises she was given, stating that the professors intruded into her personal life in a way she found distasteful. She earned her MFA from Yale University in 1975. Meryl also attended Dartmouth College as a visiting student in the fall of 1970 and received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the college in 1981.

To-do list Movies (1977) Julia (1978) The Deer Hunter (1979) Kramer v. Kramer (1979) Manhattan (1982) Sophie's Choice (1983) Silkwood (1985) Out of Africa (1992) Death Became Her (1994) The Wild River

(1996) Marvin's Room (2001) Artificial Intelligence (2002) Adaptation (2002) The Hours (2004) A Series of Tragic Events (2005) Prime (2006) The Devil Wears Prada (2006) The Bad Boy (2006) Partner in a Country House (2007) Lions and Lambs

(2007) Deportation (2008) Wanted and Desired (2008) Doubt (2008) Mamma Mia! (2009) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Julie & Julia (2011) The Iron Lady (2013) Osage County (2014) The Giver (2014) Man of the House (2014) In the Jungle (2015) Ricki and the Flash (2015) Savage (2016) Florence Foster Jenkins (2017) The Post (2018) Mary Poppins Returns (2018) Mamma Mia! Let's Go Again (2019) Little Women This list is imported from Wikidata periodically by a bot. TV series Big Little Lies This list is imported from Wikidata periodically by a bot.

Awards and nominations She is the most nominated actress in Academy Award history, with 21 nominations, including 17 for Best Actress and four for Best Supporting Actress. Her first nomination was in 1979 for her role in The Deer Hunter.

Meryl Streep has won three of these awards. The first was Best Supporting Actress in 1980 for her role in Kramer vs. Kramer. The second was Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1983 for her role in Sophie's Choice. The third was Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2012 for her role in The Iron Lady. She has also been nominated for 25 Golden Globe Awards, winning eight of them. This makes her the most nominated for both awards.