2. Was born
Meryl Streep (born Mary Louise Streep; June
22, 1949) is an American actress and
producer. Streep was born in Summit, New
Jersey. Her mother, Mary Wilkinson Streep
née Mary Wolf Wilkinson; 1915–2001, was a
commercial artist and an art editor, and her
father, Harry William Streep, Jr. (1910–2003),
was a pharmaceutical executive. She has
two brothers, Dana David and Harry William
III.
3. 1970s
Streep performed in several theater
productions in New York and New
Jersey after graduation from Yale
School of Drama. Streep began
auditioning for film roles, and later
recalled an unsuccessful audition for
Dino De Laurentis for the leading
female role in King Kong. Streep's first
feature film role was Julia 1977, in
which she played a small but pivotal
role during a flashback scene.
4. 1980s
After supporting roles in two of the
1970s' most successful films, the
consecutive winners of the Academy
Award for Best Picture, The Deer
Hunter and Kramer vs. Streep was
awarded a BAFTA Award for Best
Actress in a Leading Role for her
work. She followed this success with a
biographical film, Silkwood (1983), in
which she played her first real-life
character, the union activist Karen
Silkwood
5. 1990s
In the 1990s, Streep continued to play a
great variety of roles. From 1984 to
1990, she won six People's Choice
Awards for Favorite Motion Picture
Actress, and in 1990 was named World
Favorite. In 1995, Streep played
opposite Clint Eastwood in the love
story The Bridges of Madison Country.
The film was a hit at the box office and
grossed $70 million in the United States.
In 1996, Streep starred as Lee in Marvin's
Room, and she earned another Golden
Globe nomination for the film.
6.
7. 2000s
She began work on Spike Jonze's
comedy-drama Adaptation, in which
she portrayed real-life journalist Susan
Orlean in 2002. The film won Streep her
fourth Golden Globe in the Best
Supporting Actress category. Streep
fared better with a role in The Devil
Wears Prada in 2006, Streep portrayed
the powerful and demanding Miranda
Priestly, fashion magazine editor and
her performance drew rave reviews
from critics and earned her many
award nominations, including her
record-setting 14th Oscar bid, as well as
another Golden Globe.
8. Mamma Mia!
In 2008, Streep found major commercial
success when she starred in Phyllida
Lloyd's Mamma Mia!, a film adaptation
of the musical of the same name, based
on the songs of Swedish pop group
ABBA. Co-starring Amanda Seyfried,
Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård and
Colin Firth, Streep played a single mother
and a former girl-group singer, whose
daughter (Seyfried), a bride-to-be who
never met her father, invites three likely
paternal candidates to her wedding on
an idyllic Greek island
9. She has many rewards and also 8 Golden
Globs and 4 Golden Oscars.