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Meryl Streep

Birth name: Mary Louise Streep

Birth date: 22.06.1949

Considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 13 times, and has won it twice. Born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, 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 The Deer Hunter (1978). She went on to win the Academy Award for her performances in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Sophie's Choice (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 peformances over the next 10 years in great films like Silkwood (1983); Out of Africa (1985); Ironweed (1987); and A Cry in the Dark (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 The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and as the prodigal daughter in Marvin's Room (1996). In 1998 she made her first venture into the area of producing, and was the executive producer for the moving ...First Do No Harm (1997) (TV). A realist when she talks about her future years in film, she remarked that "...no matter what happens, my work will stand..."

Filmography

# Chaos (2007) (in production) # Wanted (2007) (announced) # First Man (2007) (announced) .... The President # Dirty Tricks (2006) (announced) .... Martha Mitchell # Dark Matter (2007) (post-production) .... Joanna Silver # The Ant Bully (2006) (voice) .... Queen Ant # The Devil Wears Prada (2006) .... Miranda Priestly # A Prairie Home Companion (2006) .... Yolanda Johnson # Prime (2005) .... Lisa Metzger # Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) .... Aunt Josephine ... aka Lemony Snicket - Rätselhafte Ereignisse (Germany) # The Manchurian Candidate (2004) .... Eleanor Shaw # "Angels in America" (2003) (mini) TV Series .... The Rabbi/Hannah Pitt/Ethel Rosenberg/The Angel of Australia # The Hours (2002) .... Clarissa Vaughan # Adaptation. (2002) .... Susan Orlean # Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) (voice) .... Blue Mecha ... aka A.I. Artificial Intelligence (USA: poster title) # "King of the Hill" - A Beer Can Named Desire (1999) TV Episode (voice) .... Aunt Esme Dauterive # Music of the Heart (1999) .... Roberta Guaspari # Chrysanthemum (1999) .... Narrator # One True Thing (1998) .... Kate Gulden # Dancing at Lughnasa (1998) .... Kate 'Kit' Mundy # ...First Do No Harm (1997) (TV) .... Lori Reimuller # Marvin's Room (1996) .... Lee Lacker # Before and After (1996) .... Dr. Carolyn Ryan # The Bridges of Madison County (1995) .... Francesca Johnson # "The Simpsons" - Bart's Girlfriend (1994) TV Episode (voice) .... Jessica Lovejoy # The River Wild (1994) .... Gail Hartman # The House of the Spirits (1993) .... Clara del Valle Trueba ... aka Åndernes hus (Denmark) ... aka A Casa dos Espíritos (Portugal) ... aka Geisterhaus, Das (Germany) # Death Becomes Her (1992) .... Madeline Ashton # Defending Your Life (1991) .... Julia # Postcards from the Edge (1990) .... Suzanne Vale # She-Devil (1989) .... Mary Fisher # Rabbit Ears: The Fisherman and His Wife (1989) (V) .... Storyteller # A Cry in the Dark (1988) .... Lindy Chamberlain ... aka Evil Angels (Australia) # The Tailor of Gloucester (1988) (V) .... Narrator # Ironweed (1987) .... Helen Archer # Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1987) (V) (voice) .... Storyteller # Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1987) (V) (voice) .... Storyteller # Heartburn (1986) .... Rachel Louise Samstat/Forman # Out of Africa (1985) .... Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen # Plenty (1985) .... Susan Traherne # Falling in Love (1984) .... Molly Gilmore # Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit (1984) (V) .... Storyteller # Silkwood (1983) .... Karen Silkwood # Sophie's Choice (1982) .... Sophie Zawistowski ... aka Sophie's Choice (Australia) # Still of the Night (1982) .... Brooke Reynolds # Alice at the Palace (1982) (TV) .... Alice # The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) .... Sarah/Anna # Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) .... Joanna Kramer # The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) .... Karen Traynor # Uncommon Women... and Others (1979) (TV) .... Leilah # Manhattan (1979) .... Jill # The Deer Hunter (1978) .... Linda # "Holocaust" (1978) (mini) TV Series .... Inga Helms Weiss # Julia (1977) .... Anne Marie # The Deadliest Season (1977) (TV) .... Sharon Miller # Secret Service (1977) (TV) .... Edith Varney