Logo

Biography


His real name was Mary Louise Streep, American actress Meryl Streep was born June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, a pharmacist father and a mother designer.

Coming from a wealthy background, she is sent to a college girl. She is quite ill at ease and feels more tomboyish girl that model. She dreams of becoming a singer and trained to be an opera singer. It eventually settling on the film and took classes at the Yale Drama School and Vassar graduate released it in 1971. During her studies, she tries repeatedly to the theater.

Like many young actors are rather difficult beginning. It starts on TV where several small appearances allow him to earn some money and make themselves known. Her first movie role in 1977 film Zinnemann, Julia. But thanks largely to the TV series Holocaust aired in 1978, that Meryl Streep is finally discovered by the public and a great success.

This success opens the doors of the final film. She was spotted by Michael Cimino gives him a very nice role alongside Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken in his masterpiece, Journey to The Deer Hunter (1978) and by Woody Allen in 1979 for which rotates in Manhattan. In 1980, she received her first Oscar (Oscar for best supporting actress) for her role as beautiful divorced mother desperate to retain custody of her child in the film by Alan J. Pakula, Kramer Kramer cons, in which she played opposite Dustin Hoffman.

Therefore, she never left the front of the stage, multiplying the various roles. It is very noticeable in the second film she toured with Alan J. Pakula, Sophie's Choice (1982), where she plays a mother so shocking forced to choose which of her two children will be spared by the Nazis from entering a concentration camp. This role earned him an Oscar for best actress. It is found later in Out of Africa (1986) by Sidney Pollack with Robert Redford in Hector Babenco Ironweed (1987), and especially in 1995 in the beautiful film (and with) Clint Eastwood On the road to Madison, where she plays the role of a mother who discovers belatedly row true love in the arms of a passing photographer.

The great actress to look wise and reserved, who can play all the roles, activist bent on the average American guy, he never seems more comfortable and takes all its fullness, in melodramas, where his grace and his sensibility vibrate in unison.

Meryl Streep is now living on his property in Connecticut, surrounded by her husband, Don Gummer and her four children. She lives a green, close to nature, away from the hectic life and the gutter press in .

Filmography

It's Complicated 2009
The Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009
Julie & Julia 2009
Doubt 2008
Mamma Mia! 2008
Dark Matter 2008
Lions for Lambs 2007
Rendition 2007
Evening 2007
The Ant Bully 2006
The Devil Wears Prada 2006
A Prairie Home Companion 2006
Prime 2005
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 2004
The Manchurian Candidate 2004
Adaptation 2002
The Hours 2002
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001
Music of the Heart 1999
Dancing at Lughnasa 1998
One True Thing 1998
Before and After 1996
Marvin's Room 1996
Bridges of Madison County, The 1995
River Wild, The 1994
House of the Spirits, The 1993
Death Becomes Her 1992
Defending Your Life 1991
Postcards from the Edge 1990
She-Devil 1989
Cry in the Dark, A 1988
Ironweed 1987
Heartburn 1986
Out of Africa 1985
Plenty 1985
Falling in Love 1984
Silkwood 1983
Sophie's Choice 1982
Still of the Night 1982
French Lieutenant's Woman, The 1981
Manhattan 1979
Seduction of Joe Tynan, The 1979
Kramer vs. Kramer 1979
Deer Hunter, The 1978
Julia 1977