Meryl Streep
22 June, 1949
| 1.68 m
Actress
Writer
Producer
Biography
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive. Her father was of German and Swiss-German descent, and her mother had English, Irish, and German ancestry.Meryl's early performing ambitions leaned toward the opera. She became interested in acting while a student at Vassar and upon graduation she enrolled in the Yale School of Drama. She gave an outstanding performance in her first film role, Julia (1977), and the next year she was nominated for her first Oscar for her role in Łowca jeleni (1978). She went on to win the Academy Award for her performances in Sprawa Kramerów (1979) and Wybór Zofii (1982), in which she gave a heart-wrenching portrayal of an inmate mother in a Nazi death camp.A perfectionist in her craft and meticulous and painstaking in her preparation for her roles, Meryl turned out a string of highly acclaimed performances over the next decade in great films like Silkwood (1983); Pożegnanie z Afryką (1985); Chwasty (1987); and Krzyk w ciemności (1988). Her career declined slightly in the early 1990s as a result of her inability to find suitable parts, but she shot back to the top in 1995 with her performance as Clint Eastwood's married lover in Co się wydarzyło w Madison County (1995) and as the prodigal daughter in Pokój Marvina (1996). In 1998 she made her first venture into the area of producing, and was the executive producer for the moving Po pierwsze nie szkodzić (1997). A realist when she talks about her future years in film, she remarked that "...no matter what happens, my work will stand..."
Movies
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor.
Rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
After seventeen years, a fiercely independent woman and her rebellious son return home and together they turn the family she left behind upside down.
A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high-school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife, and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.
It's been a roller-coaster ride for Ricki, a one-time wife and mother of three who left them all behind to follow her dreams of rock 'n' roll stardom. Now, Ricki must face the music when she returns home to reconnect with her family.
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.
A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.
In an afterlife way-station resembling a major city, the lives of the recently deceased are examined in a court-like setting.
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
A surprisingly resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Although they live married lives, two strangers keep running into each other, starting a friendship that could blossom into so much more.
Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
A famous author goes on a cruise trip with her friends and nephew in an effort to find fun and happiness while she comes to terms with her troubled past.