Considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 17 times, and has won it three times. Born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, Meryl's early performing ambitions leaned toward the opera....See full bio »
2008Mamma Mia!
(performer: "Money, Money, Money", "Mamma Mia", "Chiquitita", "Super Trouper", "Dancing Queen", "Our Last Summer", "SOS", "Slipping Through My Fingers", "The Winner Takes It All", "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", "When All Is Said And Done", "Waterloo")
2006A Prairie Home Companion
(performer: "Go Tell Aunt Gladys", "Softly And Tenderly", "My Minnesota Home", "Beboparebop Rhubarb Pie", "Gold Watch & Chain", "Goodbye To My Mama")
200915th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
(TV movie)
Herself - Winner: Best Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture & Nominee: Best Cast in a Motion Picture
2005The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards
(TV special documentary)
Herself - Presenter: Best Mini-Series or Made for TV Movie/Nominee: Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
200410th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
(TV special)
Herself - Winner: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Mini-Series or Made for TV Movie
2004The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards
(TV special)
Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Mini-Series or a TV-Movie/Presenter: Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
2003The 75th Annual Academy Awards
(TV special)
Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role/Presenter: Honorary Award to Peter O'Toole/Past Winner
2003The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards
(TV special)
Herself - Winner: Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture & Nominee: Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama
While a student at Yale, her credits at Yale Repertory Theatre included: "Shearwater" by William Hauptman, "The Royal Pardon" by John Arden, Shaw's "Major Barbara", Gorky's "Lower Depths" (1972), Marlowe's "Edward II", "The Brothers...
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[on what appealed to her about playing Margaret Thatcher] Women and power, and diminishment of power, and loss of power. And reconciliation with your life where you come to a point where you've lived most of it, and it's behind you. I have always liked and been intrigued by older people and the idea that behind them lives every human trauma, drama, glory, jokes, love.
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Trivia:
The children's TV series
Sesame Street has featured a character named "Meryl Sheep" in her honor.
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Trademark:
She frequently plays real-life characters: Julia Child, Ethel Rosenberg, Karen Silkwood, Karen Blixen, Roberta Guasppari, Lindy Chamberlain, Susan Orlean and Margaret Thatcher.
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,4,136,14,196,arialbd,7,255,255,255,1_.jpg "The Comic Strip Presents...: Season 4: Episode 1 -- Al Pacino (Peter Richardson) and Meryl Streep (Jennifer Saunders) star as Arthur Scargill and his wife in an overly dramatized Hollywood epic about the 1984 miners' strike.")
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