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Meryl Streep: Best Actress of Her Generation

Meryl Streep, an iconic figure/actress of Hollywood needs no introduction.

She is the beauty who has impressed the audience with her versatility and acting skills.

Ever since her debut in 1970s he is ruling the Hollyowood industry.

Meryl Streep is the one who manages to look young and dashing still at this age.

You may definitely know about this gorgeous women’s professional life.

But have you ever gone through how her personal life looks like?

 

Early Life

Meryl Streep was conceived on June 22, 1949 at Summit, New Jersey, USA.

She was born to mother Mary Wolf and father Harry Willian Streep.

Streep’s mother was commercial artist and an art editor by profession and father was a pharmaceutical executive.

Mary Louise Streep, popularly known as Meryl Streep has two siblings, Dana David and Harry William.

She was raised in Presbyterian and brought up in Benardsville, New Jersey.

 

Education and Career

Meryl Streep completed her studies from Bernards High School.

Later, she enrolled in Vassar College where she studies B.A in Drama.

She exchange as an exchange student at Dartmouth College.

After finishing her bachelors, Streep went to receive her M.F.A degree from Yale School of Drama.

Meryl Streep always has keen interest in acting. During her studies at Yale School, she made her debut at stage, acting in number of plays.

After that her years went on performing on theaters in New York and New Jersey.

She worked for several productions such as The Taming of the Shrew, Measure of Measure and many others.

In 1976, at the age of twenty-seven she was seen in Broadway double bill of Tennessee Williams ’27 Wagons Full of Cottons’.

She played in many roles as the second lead yet received massive love.

After many years, she played in a movie ‘The French Lieutaenant’s Woman’.

Her performance was extremely praised by the audience which gave her a huge fan base.

 

Personal Life

Meryl Streep had an affair with actor John Cazale for three years.

The couple were so much in love with each other but unfortunately John Cazale died in 1978 due to lung cancer.

After six months, she walked up to Don Gummer. The couple has been blessed with four children, Henry Wolf, Mamie Gummer, Grace Gummer and Louisa Jacobson Gummer.

Henry became a musician while Mamie and Grace followed their mother’s footstep.

Moving towards her economic side, Meryl Streep has net worth of $65 million dollars.

 

Awards and Achievements

Talking about her awards and nominations it is remarkable.

She is the actress who has been nominated for more than hundreds of awards in her career and has won most out of them.

Meryl Streep has been nominated for record breaking 21 times at the Academy Awards which she won three out of them once for Best Supporting Actress and twice for Best Actress for the films ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’, ‘Sophie’s Choice’, and ‘The Iron Lady’.

Streep has been nominated for fourteen time at the BAFTA awards won twice for Best Actress in Leading Role for The French Lieutaenant’s Woman’ and ‘The Iron Lady’.

She was also nominated for 27 times at The Golden Globe Awards and won eight of them.

She was thrice nominated at the Primetime Emmy Awards and won twice of them.

Also, she was nominated ten times at the Satellite Awards and successful won three of them for the movies ‘Angels in America’, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and ‘Juile and Julia’.

She was also nominated for twelve time at The Screen Actors Guild Awards and won twice for the movies ‘Angels in America’, and ‘The Devil Wears Prada’.

 

Filmography and Television Series of Merly Streep

Moving towards her movies, Meryl Streep is the one who has been nominated for so many awards due to her movies.

She is the actress who has played in almost seventy movies till now.

He has played in nineteen television series and thirteen plays in her career.

She established herself as a leading actress in 1980s from a role in a movie called ‘The French Lieutaenant’s Woman’.

She has acted in many movies but she is best known for her movies like ‘The Iron Lady, The French Lieutaenant’s Woman, Julie and Julia, Angels in America, The Devil Wears Prada, Girls Rising, We Rise, The Post, Kramer vs. Kramer and many more.

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