"first. Jaffee and Hoffman later spoke of Streep's tirelessness, with Hoffman commenting: The film was controversial among feminists, but it was a role which film critic Stephen Farber believed displayed Streep's ""own emotional intensity"", writing that she was one of the ""rare performers who can imbue the most routine moments with a hint of mystery"". For ""Kramer vs. Kramer"", Streep won both the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, which she famously left in the ladies room after giving her speech. She was also awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting"
"Meryl Streep Mary Louise ""Meryl"" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as the ""best actress of her generation"", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptation. Nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, she has won three. Streep has received 31 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight - more nominations, and wins, than any other actor. She has also won three Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for fifteen British Academy Film Awards, and seventeen Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning two each. Streep made her stage debut in ""Trelawny of the Wells"" in"
"ourselves. In love and hope and optimism - you know, the magic things that seem inexplicable. Why we are the way we are. I do have a sense of trying to make things better. Where does that come from?"" Meryl Streep Mary Louise ""Meryl"" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as the ""best actress of her generation"", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptation. Nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, she has won three. Streep has received 31 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight - more nominations, and wins, than any other"
"""Sophie's Choice"" (1982). She was awarded the Best Actress Oscar for the latter. Streep portrayed the real-life character of Karen Silkwood in Mike Nichols' drama ""Silkwood"" (1983), before starring in her most financially successful release of the decade, the romantic drama ""Out of Africa"" (1985), in which she played the Danish writer Karen Blixen. Despite intermittent successes, Streep's career went through a period of decline post-1985, with several commentators criticizing her for her inclination towards melodramatic roles. The criticism continued despite her attempts to actively star in commercial comedies, films that parodied women's beauty and aging, ""She-Devil"" (1989) and ""Death"
"Globe in 2004 for the HBO mini-series ""Angels in America"" (2003). Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004, Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2008, and Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts, and in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. She was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2017. Mary Louise Streep was born"
"Streep's other Oscar-nominated roles were 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), """" (2013), ""Into the Woods"" (2014), ""Florence Foster Jenkins"" (2016), and ""The Post"" (2017). She returned to the stage for the first time in over 20 years in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of ""The Seagull"", and won a second Emmy Award and a Golden"
"Becomes Her"" (1992). In 1995, Streep starred opposite Clint Eastwood as an unhappily married woman in ""The Bridges of Madison County"", her biggest critical and commercial success of the decade. Although her dramas of the late 1990s received a mixed reception overall, she was praised for her role as a cancer patient in ""One True Thing"" (1998). She had acclaimed roles in the 2002 films ""Adaptation."" and ""The Hours"", and won a second Emmy Award for the television miniseries ""Angels in America"" a year later, though she failed to replicate her earlier success. This changed in 2006, with an Academy"
"received Academy Award nominations for their performances, in the categories of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. In June 1995, despite a lack of hiking experience, recent divorcée Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) leaves Minneapolis, Minnesota, to hike 1,100 miles of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail on a journey of self-discovery and healing. During the hike, Strayed reflects in flashbacks on her childhood in Minnesota and memories of her mother, Bobbi Grey (Laura Dern). Bobbi's death from cancer sent Cheryl into a deep depression that she tried to numb with heroin and anonymous sex, which eventually destroyed her marriage to"
"Meryl Streep on screen and stage Meryl Streep is an American actress who has had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. She made her stage debut in 1975 with The Public Theater production of ""Trelawny of the Wells"". She went on to perform several roles on stage in the 1970s, garnering a Tony Award nomination for her role in ""27 Wagons Full of Cotton"" (1976). In 1977, Streep starred in the television movie ""The Deadliest Season"", and made her film debut with a brief role alongside Jane Fonda in ""Julia"". A supporting role in the war drama ""The"
"and befriended. At the close of 1985, she portrayed legendary country singer Patsy Cline in Karel Reisz's biopic, ""Sweet Dreams"", opposite Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, and John Goodman. She was nominated a fourth time for an Oscar and came in second place for both the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress. In several interviews, Meryl Streep has stated that she ""begged"" Reisz, who directed her in 1981's ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", for the role of Cline, but that his first choice had always been Lange. Streep has"
"Play. Streep's other Broadway credits include Anton Chekhov's ""The Cherry Orchard"" and the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical ""Happy End"", in which she had originally appeared off-Broadway at the Chelsea Theater Center. She received Drama Desk Award nominations for both productions. Streep's first feature film role came opposite Jane Fonda in the 1977 film ""Julia"", in which she had a small role during a flashback sequence. Most of her scenes were edited out, but the brief time on screen horrified the actress: However, Streep cites Fonda as having a lasting influence on her as an actress, and has credited her as"
"Award-nominated role as a ruthless fashion magazine editor in the comedy-drama ""The Devil Wears Prada"". This late-period success led to starring roles in several high-profile films, including the US$609 million-grossing romantic comedy ""Mamma Mia!"" (2008), her highest-grossing release, and the comedy-drama ""Julie & Julia"" (2009), in which she played Julia Child. These roles re-established Streep's stardom in Hollywood. Her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the biopic ""The Iron Lady"" (2011) earned her another Academy Award for Best Actress. The starring role of Katharine Graham in the 2017 drama ""The Post"" garnered Streep her 21st Oscar nomination, more than any actor"
"a wide audience; she co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the dramas ""Heartburn"" (1986) and ""Ironweed"" (1987), in which she sang onscreen for the first time since the television movie ""Secret Service"" (1977). In ""Evil Angels"" (1988), she played Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman who had been convicted of the murder of her infant daughter despite claiming that the baby had been taken by a dingo. Filmed in Australia, Streep won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best"
"Sophie's Choice (film) Sophie's Choice is a 1982 American drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, who adapted William Styron's novel of the same name. Meryl Streep stars as Sophie, a Polish immigrant who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline in his feature film debut), and a young writer, Stingo (Peter MacNicol). Streep's performance was acclaimed, and she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film was nominated for Best Cinematography (Néstor Almendros), Best Costume Design (Albert Wolsky), Best Music (Marvin Hamlisch), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Alan J. Pakula). British company ITC"
"the past 50 years. In 2002, Graham was presented, posthumously, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In 2002, Graham was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. In 2017, Graham was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the Steven Spielberg film ""The Post"". Streep was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress (among other awards) for her work. On July 14, 2001, Graham fell and struck her head while visiting Sun Valley, Idaho; she died three days later. Her funeral took place at the Washington National Cathedral. Graham is buried in historic Oak Hill"
"or actress in history. Meryl Streep on screen and stage Meryl Streep is an American actress who has had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. She made her stage debut in 1975 with The Public Theater production of ""Trelawny of the Wells"". She went on to perform several roles on stage in the 1970s, garnering a Tony Award nomination for her role in ""27 Wagons Full of Cotton"" (1976). In 1977, Streep starred in the television movie ""The Deadliest Season"", and made her film debut with a brief role alongside Jane Fonda in ""Julia"". A supporting role in"
"Academy Awards, winning five : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Hoffman), Best Supporting Actress (for Streep), and Best Adapted Screenplay. Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Billy (Justin Henry) by himself. Ted and Billy initially resent one another as Ted no longer has time to carry his increased"
"and was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning in the Best Make-Up category. Though the film became a financial success, grossing US$209 million on a budget of US$140 million, plans to expand the film into a franchise failed to materialize. Streep's was next cast in the 2005 romantic comedy ""Prime"", directed by Ben Younger. In the film, she plays a Jewish New York psychoanalyst, whose 23-year-old son (played by Bryan Greenberg) enters a relationship with one of her patients, a divorced 37-year-old business-woman, played by Uma Thurman, resulting in a dilemma of two conflicting intentions. Streep welcomed the opportunity to"
"success and won three Academy Awards. In 1990, Zemeckis commented, when asked if he would want to make non-comedies, ""I would like to be able to do everything. Just now, though, I'm too restless to do anything that's not really zany."" In 1992, Zemeckis directed the black comedy ""Death Becomes Her"", starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. Although his next film would have some comedic elements, it was Zemeckis's first with dramatic elements, and was also his biggest commercial success to date, ""Forrest Gump"" (1994). Starring Tom Hanks in the title role, and borrowing to some extent from"
"of scene that makes your scalp tighten, but defter in a way is her handling of smaller, harder-to-grasp emotions"". Among several acting awards, Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, and her characterization was voted the third greatest movie performance of all time by ""Premiere"" magazine. Roger Ebert said of her delivery: Pauline Kael, on the contrary, called the film an ""infuriatingly bad movie"", and thought that Streep ""decorporealizes"" herself, which she believed explained why her movie heroines ""don't seem to be full characters, and why there are no incidental joys to be had from watching"
"2012. While many confuse ""The Artist"" as a silent feature, it is actually a sound picture with an accompanying soundtrack. The 1927 film ""Wings"" is still the only silent film to win Best Picture, an honor received at the inaugural awards ceremony in 1929. Moreover, it was also the first black-and-white feature to win Best Picture since 1993's ""Schindler's List"". Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin became the first French actor to win an Oscar. With her latest win for Best Actress, Meryl Streep became the fifth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. At age 82, Best Supporting Actor"
"(1941), and ""The Devil Pays Off"" (1941). The latter film was released in November 1941 when she was pregnant with her second child. She did not return to the screen. Even before the United States entered the war, her husband was an outspoken advocate for the defense of Great Britain. His first Oscar-winning film, ""Mrs. Miniver"" (1942), was a sympathetic portrayal of an English family enduring the Battle of Britain. After completing that film, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps and flew in missions over Europe in order to make documentaries about them. At the 1943 Academy"
"an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. Roger Ebert wrote that ""Meryl Streep is known for her mastery of accents; she may be the most versatile speaker in the movies. Here you might think she has no accent, unless you've heard her real speaking voice; then you realize that Guaspari's speaking style is no less a particular achievement than Streep's other accents. This is not Streep's voice, but someone else's - with a certain flat quality, as if later education and refinement came after a somewhat unsophisticated childhood."" Streep entered the 2000s"
"positive reviews with praise directed to the performances of the two leads. Manohla Dargis wrote that ""Streep creates an acutely moving portrait of a woman who in liberating herself helps instigate a revolution"". It earned over $177 million against a budget of $50 million. Streep received her 31st Golden Globe nomination and 21st Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2018, Streep briefly reprised the role of Donna Sheridan in the musical sequel ""Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again"". She played a supporting part in Rob Marshall's ""Mary Poppins Returns"", starring Emily Blunt in the title role. Streep will next"
"same year, she played the supporting role of Aunt Josephine in ""Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"" alongside Jim Carrey, based on the first three novels in Snicket's book series. The black comedy received generally favorable reviews from critics, and won the Academy Award for Best Makeup. Streep also narrated the film ""Monet's Palate"". Streep was next cast in the comedy film ""Prime"" (2005), directed by Ben Younger. In the film, she played Lisa Metzger, the Jewish psychoanalyst of a divorced and lonesome business-woman, played by Uma Thurman, who enters a relationship with Metzger's 23-year-old son (Bryan Greenberg). A"
"portrayed by Anthony Head. While the film was met with mixed reviews, Streep's performance was widely acclaimed, and considered to be one of the greatest of her career. She received her 17th Oscar nomination for her portrayal and ultimately won the award, 29 years after her first Best Actress win. She also earned her third Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama award (her eighth Golden Globe Award win overall), and her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and the BAFTA Award for"
"whom she introduced at the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors. Another one of her teachers was Robert Lewis, one of the co-founders of the Actors Studio. Streep disapproved of some of the acting exercises she was asked to do, remarking that the professors ""delved into personal lives in a way I find obnoxious"". She received her MFA from Yale in 1975. Streep also enrolled as a visiting student at Dartmouth College in the fall of 1970, and received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the college in 1981. One of Meryl Streep’s first professional jobs in 1975, after Yale, was"
"100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition). Academy Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe Awards Writers Guild of America Streep also made a clean sweep in the Best Actress categories at all major critics groups: National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics and Boston Society of Film Critics Sophie's Choice (film) Sophie's Choice is a 1982 American drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, who adapted William Styron's novel of the same name. Meryl Streep stars as Sophie, a Polish immigrant who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous"
"relationship with Cazale at this time, and resided with him until his death three years later. She starred in the musical ""Happy End"" on Broadway, and won an Obie for her performance in the off-Broadway play ""Alice at the Palace"". Although Streep had not aspired to become a film actor, Robert De Niro's performance in ""Taxi Driver"" (1976) had a profound impact on her; she said to herself, 'That's the kind of actor I want to be when I grow up.' Streep began auditioning for film roles, and underwent an unsuccessful audition for the lead role in Dino De Laurentiis's"
"was discovered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talent scouts, who signed her to a three-year contract in Hollywood in 1935. A number of filmmakers predicted she might become another Greta Garbo, MGM's leading female star at the time. Her first American film role was in ""Escapade"" in 1935. The following year she was given a supporting part in the musical biography ""The Great Ziegfeld"", where, despite limited appearances, her emotion-filled performance so impressed audiences that she was awarded the Oscar for Best Actress. She was later dubbed the ""Viennese teardrop"" for her dramatic telephone scene in the film. For her next role, producer"
"and the BAFTAs, as well as her third win at the 84th Academy Awards. Former advisers, friends, and family of Thatcher criticized Streep's portrayal of her as ""inaccurate"" and ""biased"". The following year, after Thatcher's death, Streep issued a formal statement describing Thatcher's ""hard-nosed fiscal measures"" and ""hands-off approach to financial regulation"", while praising her ""personal strength and grit"". Streep re-united with ""Prada"" director David Frankel on the set of the romantic comedy-drama film ""Hope Springs"" (2012), co-starring Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell. Streep and Jones play a middle-aged couple, who attend a week of intensive marriage counseling to"
"cheerleader for the Bernards High School Mountaineers and was also chosen as the homecoming queen her senior year. Her family lived on Old Fort Road. Although Streep appeared in numerous school plays during her high school years, she was uninterested in serious theater until acting in the play ""Miss Julie"" at Vassar College in 1969, in which she gained attention across the campus. Vassar drama professor Clinton J. Atkinson noted, ""I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting. She really taught herself."" Streep demonstrated an early ability to mimic accents and to quickly memorize her lines. She received her B.A."
"First Asian Woman to receive that title. Meryl Streep and other Hollywood actors have received awards from that prestigious festival. Her film Tears Of Ghost was launched together with Academy-Award winner’s film Philip Seymour Hoffman in Asia Pacific Filmmaker Festival. In late 2016, Natasha gets 5 Nominations for her film Tears Of Ghost one of the prestigious film festival, London International Film Festival. Natasha, once again being the only female director and youngest director on the list of Best Director nomination. In February 2017, the music film “Earth"" won the Gold Medal Best Soundtrack by one of the film festivals"