Meryl Streep

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The hugely talented Meryl Streep has been acting for nearly 40 years and shows no sign of stopping. The most nominated performer in Academy Award history, she is already a legend.

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Meryl Streep
born: 22-06-1949
birth place: Summit, New Jersey, USA

Some people viewed Streep’s career as having declined slightly in the early 1990s, due to the lack of suitable parts. There was ‘Postcards from the Edge’ (1990), with Shirley MacLaine and Dennis Quaid, and the farcical black comedy ‘Death Becomes Her’ (1992), with Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. The romantic drama ‘The House of Spirits’ (1993) had an all-star cast including Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Rider, Antonio Banderas and Vanessa Redgrave and was set in pre-World War II South America. Streep was back on top form with ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ (1995), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and ‘Marvin’s Room’ (1996) with Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro.

Streep returned to television work, as executive producer of ‘…First Do No Harm’ (1997), a fact-based story in which she also starred. On 16 September 1998, she was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ‘Music of the Heart’ (1999) was a role that required her to learn to play the violin, which she did by practicing six hours a day for eight weeks.

She provided the voice of the Blue Mecha in Steven Spielberg’s ‘Artificial Intelligence: AI’ (2001) before playing real-life author Susan Orlean, with Nicholas Cage, in the quirky ‘Adaptation’ (2002). Next was ‘The Hours’ (2002) with Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore, for which Streep received a BAFTA nomination for her leading role performance. She won her second Emmy Award for outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, as well as a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television, for the television mini series ‘Angels in America’ (2003), in which she played multiple roles opposite Al Pacino, Emma Thompson and Mary-Louise Parker.

‘The Manchurian Candidate’ (2004) found Streep playing a more comical role than her usual intense performances and was a film she really enjoyed making for that reason. ‘Prime’ (2005), a romantic comedy with Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg, cast Streep in the role of psychoanalyst Lisa Metzger, whose client falls in love with her son. She played the inimitable magazine editor, Miranda Priestly, in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ (2006), for which she earned SAG and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. She was cast as country music singer Yolanda Johnson in Robert Altman’s ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ (2006) and has been confirmed for the role of Donna in the film version of the ABBA musical ‘Mamma Mia!’, which is currently in pre-production. Streep will co-star in the murder drama ‘Dark Matter’ (2007), based on the true story of a Chinese physics student who shot and killed six people on the campus of Iowa University.

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