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Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as "the best actress of her generation",[1][2] Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three,[3] and a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning eight.[4] She has also received two British Academy Film Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and six Grammy Awards.

Meryl Streep
Streep at the 2018 Montclair Film Festival
Born
Mary Louise Streep

(1949-06-22) June 22, 1949 (age 73)
Education
OccupationActress
Years active1975–present
WorksFull list
Spouse
(m. 1978)
Partner(s)John Cazale
(1976–1978)
Children
Parent
RelativesMark Ronson (son-in-law)
AwardsFull list

Streep made her stage debut in 1975 Trelawny of the Wells and received a Tony Award nomination the following year for a double-bill production of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays. In 1977, she made her film debut in Julia. In 1978, she won her first Primetime Emmy Award for a leading role in the mini-series Holocaust, and received her first Oscar nomination for The Deer Hunter. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a troubled wife in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and went on to establish herself as a film actor in the 1980s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as a Holocaust survivor in Sophie's Choice (1982) and had her biggest commercial success to that point in Out of Africa (1985). She continued to gain awards, and critical praise, for her work in the late 1980s and 1990s, but commercial success was varied, with the comedy Death Becomes Her (1992) and the drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995), her biggest earners in that period.

Streep reclaimed her stardom in the 2000s and 2010s with starring roles in Adaptation (2002), The Hours (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Mamma Mia! (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), It's Complicated (2009), Into the Woods (2014), The Post (2017) and Little Women (2019). She also won her third Academy Award for her portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011). Her stage roles include The Public Theater's 2001 revival of The Seagull, and her television roles include two projects for HBO, the miniseries Angels in America (2003), for which she won another Primetime Emmy Award, and the drama series Big Little Lies (2019).

Streep has been the recipient of many honorary awards. She 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 National Medal of Arts in 2010, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.[5] In 2003, the French government made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.[6] She was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2017.[7]

Early life and education

 
Streep as a senior in high school, 1966

Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey.[8] She is the daughter of artist Mary Wilkinson Streep and pharmaceutical executive Harry William Streep, Jr.[9] She has two younger brothers, Harry William Streep III and Dana David Streep, both actors.[10] Her father was of German and Swiss descent; his lineage traced back to Loffenau, from where Streep's great-great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, immigrated to the United States and where one of her ancestors served as mayor (the surname was later changed to "Streep").[11] Another line of her father's family was from Giswil. Her mother had English, German, and Irish ancestry.[11] Some of Streep's maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, and were descended from 17th-century English immigrants.[12][13][14] Her maternal great-great-grandparents, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy in Ireland.[13][15][16]

 
Streep as a cheerleader at Bernards High School, 1966

Streep's mother, whom she has compared in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench,[17] strongly encouraged her daughter and instilled confidence in her from a very young age.[18] Streep said, "She was a mentor because she said to me, 'Meryl, you're capable. You're so great.' She was saying, 'You can do whatever you put your mind to. If you're lazy, you're not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.' And I believed her." Although she was naturally more introverted than her mother, when she later needed an injection of confidence in adulthood, she would consult her mother at times for advice.[18] Streep was raised as a Presbyterian[19] in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School, which was a junior high school at that time. In her junior high debut, she starred as Louise Heller in the play The Family Upstairs.[20] In 1963, the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School.[21] Author Karina Longworth described her as a "gawky kid with glasses and frizzy hair", yet noted that she liked to show off in front of the camera in family home movies from a young age.[22] At age 12, Streep was selected to sing at a school recital, leading to her having opera lessons from Estelle Liebling. Despite her talent, she later remarked, "I was singing something I didn't feel and understand. That was an important lesson—not to do that. To find the thing that I could feel through."[22] She quit after four years. Streep had many Catholic school friends, and regularly attended Mass.[23] She was a high school cheerleader for the Bernards High School Mountaineers and was also chosen as the homecoming queen her senior year.[24] Her family lived on Old Fort Road.[citation needed]

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.[25] Vassar drama professor Clinton J. Atkinson noted, "I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting. She really taught herself."[25] Streep demonstrated an early ability to mimic accents and to quickly memorize her lines. She received her BA cum laude in 1971, before applying for an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, she supplemented her course fees by working as a waitress and typist, and appeared in over a dozen stage productions per year; at one point, she became overworked and developed ulcers, so she contemplated quitting acting and switching to study law.[25] Streep played a variety of roles on stage,[26] from Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream to an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair in a comedy written by then-unknown playwrights Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato.[27][28] She was a student of choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, whom she introduced at the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors.[29] Another of her teachers was Robert Lewis, a co-founder of the Actors Studio. Streep disapproved of some of the acting exercises she was asked to do, remarking that one professor taught the emotional recall technique by delving into personal lives in a way she found "obnoxious".[30][31] She received her MFA from Yale in 1975.[32] She also enrolled as a visiting student at Dartmouth College in 1970, and received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the college in 1981.[32]

Career

1970s: Early work and breakthrough

One of Streep's first professional jobs in 1975 was at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, during which she acted in five plays over six weeks. She moved to New York City in 1975, and was cast by Joseph Papp in a production of Trelawny of the Wells at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, opposite Mandy Patinkin and John Lithgow.[30] She went on to appear in five more roles in her first year in New York, including in Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew with Raul Julia, and Measure for Measure opposite Sam Waterston and John Cazale.[33] She entered into a relationship with Cazale at this time, and resided with him until his death three years later.[30] 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.[34]

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.'[30] Streep began auditioning for film roles, and underwent an unsuccessful audition for the lead role in Dino De Laurentiis's King Kong. De Laurentiis, referring to Streep as she stood before him, said in Italian to his son: "This is so ugly. Why did you bring me this?"[22] Unknown to Laurentiis, Streep understood Italian, and she remarked, "I'm very sorry that I'm not as beautiful as I should be, but, you know – this is it. This is what you get."[25] She continued to work on Broadway, appearing in the 1976 double bill of Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play.[35] 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.[36]

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:

I had a bad wig and they took the words from the scene I shot with Jane and put them in my mouth in a different scene. I thought, I've made a terrible mistake, no more movies. I hate this business.[30]

However, Streep cites Fonda as having a lasting influence on her as an actress, and has credited her as "open[ing] probably more doors than I probably even know about".[18]

Robert De Niro, who had spotted Streep in her stage production of The Cherry Orchard, suggested that she play the role of his girlfriend in the war film The Deer Hunter (1978).[37] Cazale, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer,[38] was also cast in the film, and Streep took on the role of a "vague, stock girlfriend" to remain with Cazale for the duration of filming.[39][40][41] Longworth notes that Streep:

Made a case for female empowerment by playing a woman to whom empowerment was a foreign concept–a normal lady from an average American small town, for whom subservience was the only thing she knew.[42]

Pauline Kael, who later became a strong critic of Streep, remarked that she was a "real beauty" who brought much freshness to the film with her performance.[43] The film's success exposed Streep to a wider audience and earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.[44]

In the 1978 miniseries Holocaust, Streep played the leading role of a German woman married to a Jewish artist played by James Woods in Nazi era Germany. She found the material to be "unrelentingly noble" and professed to have taken on the role for financial gain.[45] Streep travelled to Germany and Austria for filming while Cazale remained in New York. Upon her return, Streep found that Cazale's illness had progressed, and she nursed him until his death on March 12, 1978.[46][41] With an estimated audience of 109 million, Holocaust brought a wider degree of public recognition to Streep, who found herself "on the verge of national visibility". She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance.[47] Despite the awards success, Streep was still not enthusiastic towards her film career and preferred acting on stage.[48]

She played the supporting role of Leilah in Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others in a May 1978 "Theater in America" television production for PBS's Great Performances.[49] She replaced Glenn Close, who played the role in the Off-Broadway production at the Phoenix Theatre.[50]

 
Streep in 1977

Hoping to divert herself from the grief of Cazale's death, Streep accepted a role in The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) as the chirpy love interest of Alan Alda, later commenting that she played it on "automatic pilot". She performed the role of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew for Shakespeare in the Park, and also played a supporting role in Manhattan (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script, giving her only the six pages of her own scenes,[51] and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue.[52]

In the drama Kramer vs. Kramer, Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child. Streep thought that the script portrayed the female character as "too evil" and insisted that it was not representative of real women who faced marriage breakdown and child custody battles. The makers agreed with her, and the script was revised.[53] In preparing for the part, Streep spoke to her own mother about her life as a wife with a career,[54] and frequented the Upper East Side neighborhood in which the film was set, watching the interactions between parents and children.[53] The director Robert Benton allowed Streep to write her own dialogue in two key scenes, despite some objection from Hoffman, who "hated her guts" at first.[55][a] Hoffman and producer Stanley R. Jaffe later spoke of Streep's tirelessness, with Hoffman commenting: "She's extraordinarily hard-working, to the extent that she's obsessive. I think that she thinks about nothing else, but what she's doing."[56] 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".[57]

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.[58][59] She was also awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress,[60] National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in her three film releases of 1979.[61][62] Both The Deer Hunter and Kramer vs. Kramer were major commercial successes and were consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture.[63][64]

1980s: Rise to prominence

In 1979, Streep began workshopping Alice in Concert, a musical version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with writer and composer Elizabeth Swados and director Joseph Papp; the show was put on at New York's Public Theater from December 1980. Frank Rich of The New York Times referred to Streep as the production's "one wonder", but questioned why she devoted so much energy to it.[48] By 1980, Streep had progressed to leading roles in films. She was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine with the headline "A Star for the 80s"; Jack Kroll commented,

There's a sense of mystery in her acting; she doesn't simply imitate (although she's a great mimic in private). She transmits a sense of danger, a primal unease lying just below the surface of normal behavior.[65]

Streep denounced her fervent media coverage at the time as "excessive hype".[65]

The story within a story drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) was Streep's first leading role. The film paired Streep with Jeremy Irons as contemporary actors, telling their modern story, as well as the Victorian era drama they were performing. Streep developed an English accent for the part, but considered herself a misfit for the role: " I couldn't help wishing that I was more beautiful".[66][65][b] A New York magazine article commented that, while many female stars of the past had cultivated a singular identity in their films, Streep was a "chameleon", willing to play any type of role.[68] Streep was awarded a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work.[69] The following year, she re-united with Robert Benton for the psychological thriller, Still of the Night (1982), co-starring Roy Scheider and Jessica Tandy. Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, noted that the film was an homage to the works of Alfred Hitchcock, but that one of its main weaknesses was a lack of chemistry between Streep and Scheider, concluding that Streep "is stunning, but she's not on screen anywhere near long enough".[70]

Greater success came later in the year when Streep starred in the drama Sophie's Choice (also 1982), portraying a Polish survivor of Auschwitz caught in a love triangle between a young naïve writer (Peter MacNicol) and a Jewish intellectual (Kevin Kline). Streep's emotional dramatic performance and her apparent mastery of a Polish accent drew praise.[71] William Styron wrote the novel with Ursula Andress in mind for the role of Sophie, but Streep was determined to get the role.[72] Streep filmed the "choice" scene in one take and refused to do it again, finding it extremely painful and emotionally exhausting.[73] That scene, in which Streep is ordered by an SS guard at Auschwitz to choose which of her two children would be gassed and which would proceed to the labor camp, is her most famous scene, according to Emma Brockes of The Guardian who wrote in 2006: "It's classic Streep, the kind of scene that makes your scalp tighten, but defter in a way is her handling of smaller, harder-to-grasp emotions".[17] Among several acting awards, Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance,[74] and her characterization was voted the third greatest movie performance of all time by Premiere magazine.[75] Roger Ebert said of her delivery:

Streep plays the Brooklyn scenes with an enchanting Polish-American accent (she has the first accent I've ever wanted to hug), and she plays the flashbacks in subtitled German and Polish. There is hardly an emotion that Streep doesn't touch in this movie, and yet we're never aware of her straining. This is one of the most astonishing and yet one of the most unaffected and natural performances I can imagine.[76]

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 her".[77]

In 1983, Streep played her first non-fictional character, the nuclear whistleblower and labor union activist Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant, in Mike Nichols' biographical film Silkwood. Streep felt a personal connection to Silkwood,[78] and in preparation, she met with people close to the woman, and in doing so realized that each person saw a different aspect of her personality.[79] She said:

I didn't try to turn myself into Karen. I just tried to look at what she did. I put together every piece of information I could find about her ... What I finally did was look at the events in her life, and try to understand her from the inside.[79]

Jack Kroll of Newsweek considered Streep's characterization to have been "brilliant", while Silkwood's boyfriend Drew Stephens expressed approval in that Streep had played Karen as a human being rather than a myth, despite Karen's father Bill thinking that Streep and the film had dumbed his daughter down. Pauline Kael believed that Streep had been miscast.[80] Streep next played opposite Robert De Niro in the romance Falling in Love (1984), which was poorly received, and portrayed a fighter for the French Resistance during World War II in the British drama Plenty (1985), adapted from the play by David Hare. For the latter, Roger Ebert wrote that she conveyed "great subtlety; it is hard to play an unbalanced, neurotic, self-destructive woman, and do it with such gentleness and charm ... Streep creates a whole character around a woman who could have simply been a catalogue of symptoms."[81] In 2008, Molly Haskell praised Streep's performance in Plenty, believing it to be "one of Streep's most difficult and ambiguous" films and "most feminist" role.[82]

Longworth considers Streep's next release, Out of Africa (1985), to have established her as a Hollywood superstar. In the film, Streep starred as the Danish writer Karen Blixen, opposite Robert Redford's Denys Finch Hatton. Director Sydney Pollack was initially dubious about Streep in the role, as he did not think she was sexy enough, and had considered Jane Seymour for the part. Pollack recalls that Streep impressed him in a different way: "She was so direct, so honest, so without bullshit. There was no shielding between her and me."[83] Streep and Pollack often clashed during the 101-day shoot in Kenya, particularly over Blixen's voice. Streep had spent much time listening to tapes of Blixen, and began speaking in an old-fashioned and aristocratic fashion, which Pollack thought excessive.[84] A significant commercial success, the film won a Golden Globe for Best Picture.[85] It also earned Streep another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and the film ultimately won Best Picture. Film critic Stanley Kauffmann praised her performance, writing "Meryl Streep is back in top form. This means her performance in Out of Africa is at the highest level of acting in film today."[86]

 
Streep in 1989

Longworth notes that the dramatic success of Out of Africa led to a backlash of critical opinion against Streep in the years that followed, especially as she was now demanding $4 million a picture. Unlike other stars at the time, such as Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise, Streep "never seemed to play herself", and certain critics felt her technical finesse led people to literally see her acting.[87] Her next films did not appeal to 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 "Great Performances" telecast of the Phoenix Theater production of Secret Service (1977). In Evil Angels[c] (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,[88][89][90] a Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.[91] Streep has said of developing the Australian accent in the film: "I had to study a little bit for Australian because it's not dissimilar [to American], so it's like coming from Italian to Spanish. You get a little mixed up."[17] Vincent Canby of The New York Times referred to her performance as "another stunning performance", played with "the kind of virtuosity that seems to re-define the possibilities of screen acting".[92]

In 1989, Streep lobbied to play the lead role in Oliver Stone's adaption of the play Evita, but two months before filming was due to commence, she dropped out, citing "exhaustion" initially, although it was later revealed that there was a dispute over her salary.[93] By the end of the decade, Streep actively looked to star in a comedy. She found the role in She-Devil (1989), a satire that parodied societal obsession with beauty and cosmetic surgery, in which she played a glamorous writer.[94] Though the film was not a success, Richard Corliss of Time wrote that Streep was the "one reason" to see it, and observed that it marked a departure from the dramatic roles she was known to play.[95] Reacting to her string of poorly received films, Streep said: "Audiences are shrinking; as the marketing strategy defines more and more narrowly who they want to reach males from 16 to 25 – it's become a chicken-and-egg syndrome. Which came first? First, they release all these summer movies, then do a demographic survey of who's going to see them."[93]

1990s: Established actress

Biographer Karen Hollinger described the early 1990s as a downturn in the popularity of Streep's films, attributing this partly to a critical perception that her comedies had been an attempt to convey a lighter image following several serious, but commercially unsuccessful, dramas, and, more significantly, to the lack of options available to an actress in her forties.[96] Streep commented that she had limited her options by her preference to work in Los Angeles, close to her family,[96] a situation that she had anticipated in a 1981 interview when she commented, "By the time an actress hits her mid-forties, no one's interested in her anymore. And if you want to fit a couple of babies into that schedule as well, you've got to pick your parts with great care."[68] At the Screen Actor's Guild National Women's Conference in 1990, Streep keynoted the first national event, emphasizing the decline in women's work opportunities, pay parity, and role models within the film industry.[97] She criticized the film industry for downplaying the importance of women both on screen and off.[91]

 
Streep at the 32nd Grammy Awards in 1990

After roles in the comedy-drama Postcards from the Edge (1990), and the comedy-fantasy Defending Your Life (1991), Streep starred with Goldie Hawn in the farcical black comedy, Death Becomes Her (1992), with Bruce Willis as their co-star. Streep persuaded writer David Koepp to re-write several of the scenes, particularly the one in which her character has an affair with a younger man, which she believed was "unrealistically male" in its conception. The seven-month shoot was the longest of Streep's career, during which she got into character by "thinking about being slightly pissed off all of the time".[98] Due to Streep's allergies to numerous cosmetics, special prosthetics had to be designed to age her by ten years to look 54, although Streep believed that they made her look nearer 70.[99] Longworth considers Death Becomes Her to have been "the most physical performance Streep had yet committed to screen, all broad weeping, smirking, and eye-rolling".[100] Although it was a commercial success, earning $15.1 million in just five days, Streep's contribution to comedy was generally not taken well by critics.[101] Time's Richard Corliss wrote approvingly of Streep's "wicked-witch routine" but dismissed the film as "She-Devil with a make-over" and one which "hates women".[102][101] Streep later admitted to having disliked filming the scenes involving heavy special effects, and vowed never to work again on a film with heavy special effects.[103]

Streep appeared with Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close and Winona Ryder in The House of the Spirits (1993), set in Chile during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. The film was not well received by critics.[104] Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote: "This is really quite an achievement. It brings together Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, and Vanessa Redgrave and insures that, without exception, they all give their worst performances ever".[104] The following year, Streep starred in The River Wild, as the mother of children on a whitewater rafting trip who encounter two violent criminals (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) in the wilderness. Though critical reaction was generally mixed, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone found her to be "strong, sassy and looser than she has ever been onscreen".[105]

Streep's most successful film of the decade was the romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995) directed by Clint Eastwood, who adapted the film from Robert James Waller's novel of the same name.[106] It relates the story of Robert Kincaid (Eastwood), a photographer working for National Geographic, who has a love affair with a middle-aged Italian farm wife Francesca (Streep). Though Streep disliked the novel it was based on, she found the script to be a special opportunity for an actress her age.[107] She gained weight for the part and dressed differently from the character in the book to emulate voluptuous Italian film stars such as Sophia Loren. Both Loren and Anna Magnani were an influence in her portrayal, and Streep viewed Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962) prior to filming.[108] The film was a box office hit and grossed over $70 million in the United States.[109] The film, unlike the novel, was warmly received by critics. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that Eastwood had managed to create "a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill", while Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal described it as "one of the most pleasurable films in recent memory".[109] Longworth believes that Streep's performance was "crucial to transforming what could have been a weak soap opera into a vibrant work of historical fiction implicitly critiquing postwar America's stifling culture of domesticity".[110] She considers it to have been the role in which Streep became "arguably the first middle-aged actress to be taken seriously by Hollywood as a romantic heroine".[111]

Streep played the estranged sister of Bessie (Diane Keaton), a woman battling leukemia, in Marvin's Room (1996), an adaptation of the play by Scott McPherson. Streep recommended Keaton for the role.[112] The film also featured Leonardo DiCaprio as the rebellious son of Streep's character. Roger Ebert stated that, "Streep and Keaton, in their different styles, find ways to make Lee and Bessie into much more than the expression of their problems."[113] The film was well received, and Streep earned another Golden Globe nomination for her performance.[59]

Streep's performance in ...First Do No Harm (1997) garnered her a second Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie. In 1998, Streep first appeared opposite Michael Gambon and Catherine McCormack in Pat O'Connor's Dancing at Lughnasa, another Broadway adaptation, which was entered into the Venice Film Festival in its year of release.[114] Janet Maslin of The New York Times remarked that "Meryl Streep has made many a grand acting gesture in her career, but the way she simply peers out a window in Dancing at Lughnasa ranks with the best. Everything the viewer need know about Kate Mundy, the woman she plays here, is written on that prim, lonely face and its flabbergasted gaze."[115] Later that year, she played a housewife dying of cancer in One True Thing. The film met with positive reviews. Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle declared, "After One True Thing, critics who persist in the fiction that Streep is a cold and technical actress will need to get their heads examined. She is so instinctive and natural – so thoroughly in the moment and operating on flights of inspiration – that she's able to give us a woman who's at once wildly idiosyncratic and utterly believable."[116] Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan noted that her role "is one of the least self-consciously dramatic and surface showy of her career," but she "adds a level of honesty and reality that makes [her performance] one of her most moving."[117]

Streep portrayed Roberta Guaspari, a real-life New Yorker who found passion and enlightenment teaching violin to the inner-city kids of East Harlem, in the music drama Music of the Heart (1999). Streep replaced Madonna, who dropped out of the project before filming began due to creative differences with director Wes Craven.[118][119] Required to play the violin, Streep underwent two months of intense training, five to six hours a day.[118] Streep received nominations for 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."[120]

2000s: Continued screen and stage work

 
Streep in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2004

Streep entered the 2000s with a voice cameo in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), a science fiction film about a childlike android, played by Haley Joel Osment.[121] The same year, Streep co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert with Liam Neeson which was held in Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 2001, in honour of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the United Nations and Kofi Annan.[122][123] In 2001, Streep returned to the stage for the first time in more than twenty years, playing Arkadina in The Public Theater's revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Stephen Spinella, Debra Monk, Larry Pine and Philip Seymour Hoffman.[124] Streep's son, Henry Gummer, later to be known as musician Henry Wolfe, was also featured in the play in the role of Yakov, a hired workman.

The same year, Streep began work on Spike Jonze's comedy-drama Adaptation. (2002), in which she portrayed real-life journalist Susan Orlean. Lauded by critics and viewers alike,[125] the film won Streep her fourth Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category.[59] A. O. Scott in The New York Times considered Streep's portrayal of Orlean to have been "played with impish composure", noting the contrast in her "wittily realized" character with love interest Chris Cooper's "lank-haired, toothless charisma" as the autodidact arrested for poaching rare orchids.[126] Streep appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in Stephen Daldry's The Hours (2002), based on the 1999 novel by Michael Cunningham. Focusing on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, the film was generally well received and won all three leading actresses a Silver Bear for Best Actress.[127]

In 2003, Streep re-united with Mike Nichols to star with Al Pacino and Emma Thompson in the HBO's adaptation of Tony Kushner's six-hour play Angels in America, the story of two couples whose relationships dissolve amidst the backdrop of Reagan era politics. Streep, who was cast in four roles in the miniseries, received her second Emmy Award and fifth Golden Globe for her performance.[59][128] She appeared in Jonathan Demme's moderately successful remake of The Manchurian Candidate in 2004,[129] co-starring Denzel Washington, playing the role of a woman who is both a U.S. senator and the manipulative, ruthless mother of a vice-presidential candidate.[130] The 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,[131] and won the Academy Award for Best Makeup.[132] Streep also narrated the film Monet's Palate.[133] 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 modest mainstream success, it eventually grossed US$67.9 million internationally.[134] Roger Ebert noted how Streep had "that ability to cut through the solemnity of a scene with a zinger that reveals how all human effort is, after all, comic at some level".[135]

In August and September 2006, Streep starred onstage at The Public Theater's production of Mother Courage and Her Children at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.[136] The Public Theater production was a new translation by playwright Tony Kushner, with songs in the Weill/Brecht style written by composer Jeanine Tesori; veteran director George C. Wolfe was at the helm. Streep starred alongside Kevin Kline and Austin Pendleton in this three-and-a-half-hour play.[137][36] Around the same time, Streep, along with Lily Tomlin, portrayed the last two members of what was once a popular family country music act in Robert Altman's final film A Prairie Home Companion (2006). A comedic ensemble piece featuring Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline and Woody Harrelson, the film revolves around the behind-the-scenes activities at the long-running public radio show of the same name. The film grossed more than US$26 million, the majority of which came from domestic markets.[138]

 
Streep (right) at the Venice premiere of The Devil Wears Prada in 2006

Commercially, Streep fared better with a role in The Devil Wears Prada (also 2006), a loose screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. Streep portrayed the powerful and demanding Miranda Priestly, fashion magazine editor (and boss of a recent college graduate played by Anne Hathaway). Though the overall film received mixed reviews, her portrayal, of what Ebert calls the "poised and imperious Miranda",[139] drew rave reviews from critics, and earned her many award nominations, including her record-setting 14th Oscar bid, as well as another Golden Globe.[140][141] On its commercial release, the film became Streep's biggest commercial success to this point, grossing more than US$326.5 million worldwide.[142]

She portrayed a wealthy university patron in Chen Shi-zheng's much-delayed feature drama Dark Matter, a film about a Chinese science graduate student who becomes violent after dealing with academic politics at a U.S. university. Inspired by the events of the 1991 University of Iowa shooting,[143] and initially scheduled for a 2007 release, producers and investors decided to shelve Dark Matter out of respect for the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting in April 2007.[144] The drama received negative to mixed reviews upon its limited 2008 release.[145] Streep played a U.S. government official who investigates an Egyptian foreign national suspected of terrorism in the political thriller Rendition (2007), directed by Gavin Hood.[146] Keen to get involved in a thriller film, Streep welcomed the opportunity to star in a film genre for which she was not usually offered scripts, and immediately signed on to the project.[147] Upon its release, Rendition was less commercially successful,[148] and received mixed reviews.[149]

In this period, Streep had a short role alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close, and her eldest daughter Mamie Gummer in Lajos Koltai's drama film Evening (2007), based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Susan Minot. Switching between the present and the past, it tells the story of a bedridden woman, who remembers her tumultuous life in the mid-1950s.[150] The film was released to a lukewarm reaction from critics, who called it "beautifully filmed, but decidedly dull [and] a colossal waste of a talented cast".[151] She had a role in Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs (also 2007), a film about the connection between a platoon of United States soldiers in Afghanistan, a U.S. senator, a reporter, and a California college professor. Like Evening, critics felt that the talent of the cast was wasted, and that it suffered from slow pacing, although one critic announced that Streep positively stood out, being "natural, unforced, quietly powerful", in comparison to Redford's forced performance.[152]

Streep found major commercial success when she starred in Phyllida Lloyd's Mamma Mia! (2008), 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, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, and Christine Baranski, 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 the idyllic Greek island of Skopelos known in the film as Kalokairi.[153] An instant box office success, Mamma Mia! became Streep's highest-grossing film to date, with box office receipts of US$602.6 million,[154] also ranking it first among the highest-grossing musical films.[155] Nominated for another Golden Globe, Streep's performance was generally well received by critics, with Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe commenting: "The greatest actor in American movies has finally become a movie star."[156]

 
Streep with Alec Baldwin and Josh Wood at the 2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards

Doubt (also 2008) features Streep with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. A drama revolving around the stern principal nun (Streep) of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 who brings accusations of pedophilia against a popular priest (Hoffman), the film became a moderate box office success,[157] and was hailed by many critics as one of the best films of 2008. The film received five Academy Awards nominations, for its four lead actors and for John Patrick Shanley's script.[158] Ebert, who awarded the film the full four stars, highlighted Streep's caricature of a nun, who "hates all inroads of the modern world",[159] while Kelly Vance of The East Bay Express remarked: "It's thrilling to see a pro like Streep step into an already wildly exaggerated role, and then ramp it up a few notches just for the sheer hell of it. Grim, red-eyed, deathly pale Sister Aloysius may be the scariest nun of all time."[160]

In 2009, Streep played chef Julia Child in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia, co-starring with Stanley Tucci, and again with Amy Adams. (Tucci and Streep had worked together earlier in Devil Wears Prada.) The first major motion picture based on a blog, Julie and Julia contrasts the life of Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell (Adams), who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child's cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking.[161] Longworth believes her caricature of Julia Child was "quite possibly the biggest performance of her career, while also drawing on her own experience to bring lived-in truth to the story of a late bloomer".[110] In Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy It's Complicated (also 2009), Streep starred with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. She received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for both Julie & Julia and It's Complicated; she won the award for Julie & Julia, and later received her 16th Oscar nomination for it.[162] She also lent her voice to Mrs. Felicity Fox in Wes Anderson's stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox.[163]

2010s: Further critical and commercial success

Streep re-teamed with Mamma Mia director Phyllida Lloyd on The Iron Lady (2011), a British biographical film about Margaret Thatcher, which takes a look at the Prime Minister during the Falklands War and her years in retirement.[164] Streep, who attended a session of the House of Commons to see British Members of Parliament (MPs) in action in preparation for her role as Thatcher,[165] called her casting "a daunting and exciting challenge".[166] While the film had a mixed reception, Streep's performance gained rave reviews, earning her Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs, as well as her third win at the 84th Academy Awards.[167] Former advisers, friends, and family of Thatcher criticized Streep's portrayal of her as "inaccurate" and "biased".[168] 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".[169]

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 try to bring back the intimacy missing in their relationship. Reviews for the film were mostly positive, with critics praising the "mesmerizing performances ... which offer filmgoers some grown-up laughs – and a thoughtful look at mature relationships".[170] In 2013, Streep starred alongside Julia Roberts and Ewan McGregor in the black comedy drama August: Osage County (2013) about a dysfunctional family that re-unites into the familial house when their patriarch suddenly disappears. Based on Tracy Letts's Pulitzer Prize-winning eponymous play, Streep received positive reviews for her portrayal of the family's strong-willed and contentious matriarch, who is suffering from oral cancer and an addiction to narcotics. She was subsequently nominated for another Golden Globe, SAG, and Academy Award.[171]

In 2014's The Giver, a motion picture adaptation of the young adult novel, Streep played a community leader.[172] Set in 2048, the social science fiction film recounts the story of a post-apocalyptic community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, where a young boy is chosen to learn the real world. Streep was aware of the book before being offered the role by co-star and producer Jeff Bridges.[173] Upon its release, The Giver was met with generally mixed to negative reviews from critics.[174] Streep also had a small role in the period drama film The Homesman (2014). Set in the 1850s midwest, the film stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones as an unusual pair who help three women driven to madness by the frontier to get back East. Streep does not appear until near the end of the film, playing a preacher's wife, who takes the women into care.[175] The Homesman premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it garnered largely positive reviews from critics.[176]

Directed by Rob Marshall, Into the Woods (also 2014) is a Disney film adaptation of the Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim in which Streep plays a witch.[177] A fantasy genre crossover inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales, it centers on a childless couple who set out to end a curse placed on them by Streep's vengeful witch.[178][179] Though the film was dismissed by some critics such as Mark Kermode as "irritating naffness",[180] Streep's performance earned her Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, and Critic's Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.[181] In July 2014, it was announced that Streep would portray Maria Callas in Master Class, but the project was pulled after director Mike Nichols's death in November of the same year.[182]

In 2015, Streep starred in Jonathan Demme's Ricki and the Flash, playing a grocery store checkout worker by day who is a rock musician at night, and who has one last chance to reconnect with her estranged family.[183] Streep learned to play the guitar for the semi-autobiographical drama-comedy film,[184] which again featured Streep with her eldest daughter Mamie Gummer.[184] Reviews of the film were generally mixed.[185] Streep's other film of this time was director Sarah Gavron's period drama Suffragette (also 2015), co-starring Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter. In the film, she played the small, but pivotal, role of Emmeline Pankhurst, a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote.[186] The film received mostly positive reviews, particularly for the performances of the cast, though its distributor earned criticism that Streep's prominent position within the marketing was misleading.[187]

 

Following the duties of the president at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in 2016,[188] Streep starred in the Stephen Frears-directed comedy Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), an eponymous biopic about a blithely unaware tone-deaf opera singer who insists upon public performance.[189] Other cast members were Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg.[190] Robbie Collin considered it to be one of her most "human performance" and felt that it was "full of warmth that gives way to heart-pinching pathos".[191] She won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy,[192] and received Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, and BAFTA nominations.[193]

Streep next starred as the first American female newspaper publisher, Katharine Graham, to Tom Hanks' Ben Bradlee, in Steven Spielberg's political drama The Post (2017), which centers on The Washington Post's publication of the 1971 Pentagon Papers.[194] The film received positive reviews with praise directed to the performances of the two leads.[195] Manohla Dargis wrote that "Streep creates an acutely moving portrait of a woman who in liberating herself helps instigate a revolution".[196] It earned over $177 million against a budget of $50 million.[197] Streep received her 31st Golden Globe nomination and 21st Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.[198][199]

In 2018, Streep briefly reprised her role in the musical sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.[200] She also played a supporting part in Rob Marshall's Mary Poppins Returns, a musical sequel to the 1964 film Mary Poppins starring Emily Blunt in the titular role.[201] Streep next featured in her first main role in a television series by starring in the second season of the HBO drama series Big Little Lies in 2019. She took on the part of Mary Louise Wright, the mother-in-law of Nicole Kidman's character.[202] Liane Moriarty, author of the novel of the same name, on which the first season is based, wrote a 200-page novella that served as the basis for the second season. Moriarty decided to name the new character Mary Louise, after Streep's legal name. Streep subsequently agreed to the part without reading a script for the first time in her career.[203] Writing for the BBC, Caryn James labeled her performance "delicious and wily" and found her to be the "embodiment of a passive-aggressive granny".[204] The same year, Streep then starred in the Steven Soderbergh-directed biographical comedy The Laundromat, about the Panama Papers, opposite Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas. It was the first movie distributed by Netflix in which Streep starred.[205] She also played Aunt March in Greta Gerwig's Little Women, co-starring with Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, and Laura Dern.[206] The film received critical acclaim and grossed over $218 million against its $40 million budget.[207][208]

2020s

In 2020, she voiced a role in the Apple TV+ animated short film Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth.[209] Streep had leading roles in two films, both released by streaming services. She reunited with Nicole Kidman for Netflix, in Ryan Murphy's The Prom, a film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name;[210] and with director Steven Soderbergh for his HBO Max comedy film Let Them All Talk.[211] Streep starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in Don't Look Up, directed by Adam McKay for Netflix.[212] Streep served as an executive producer on Sell/Buy/Date directed by Sarah Jones.[213]

Other ventures

After Streep starred in Mamma Mia!, her rendition of the titular song rose to popularity on the Portuguese music charts, where it peaked at number eight in October 2008.[214] At the 35th People's Choice Awards, her version of "Mamma Mia" won an award for "Favorite Song From A Soundtrack".[215] In 2008, Streep was nominated for a Grammy Award (her fifth nomination) for her work on the Mamma Mia! soundtrack.[216] Streep has narrated numerous audio books, including three by children's book author William Steig: Brae Irene, Spinky Sulks, and The One and Only Shrek!.[217]

Streep is the spokesperson for the National Women's History Museum, to which she has made significant donations (including her fee for The Iron Lady, which was $1 million), and hosted numerous events.[218] On October 4, 2012, Streep donated $1 million to The Public Theater in honor of both its late founder, Joseph Papp, and her friend, the author Nora Ephron.[219] She also supports Gucci's "Chime for Change" campaign that aims to spread female empowerment.[220]

In 2014, Streep established two scholarships for students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell – the Meryl Streep Endowed Scholarship for English majors, and the Joan Hertzberg Endowed Scholarship (named for Streep's former classmate at Vassar College) for math majors.[221]

In April 2015, it was announced that Streep had funded a screenwriters lab for female screenwriters over forty years old, called the Writers Lab, to be run by New York Women in Film & Television and the collective IRIS.[222][223] The Lab was the only one of its kind in the world for female screenwriters over forty years old.[223] In 2015, Streep signed an open letter for which One Campaign had been collecting signatures; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they served as heads of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa, respectively, in setting development funding priorities.[224] Also in 2015, Streep sent each member of the U.S. Congress a letter supporting the Equal Rights Amendment.[225] Each of her letters was sent with a copy of the book Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for the ERA is Now by Jessica Neuwirth, president of the ERA Coalition.[226]

When asked in a 2015 interview with Time Out if she was a feminist, Streep replied, "I am a humanist, I am for nice easy balance."[227] In March 2016, Streep, among others, signed a letter asking for gender equality throughout the world, in observance of International Women's Day; this was also organized by One Campaign.[228] In 2018, she collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to set up the Time's Up initiative to protect women from harassment and discrimination.[229]

On April 25, 2017, Streep publicly backed the campaign to free Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker from Crimea who was subjected to a sham trial by Russia and jailed in Siberia for 20 years in August 2015. She was pictured alongside Ukrainian lawmaker Mustafa Nayyem with a "Free Sentsov" sign in a photograph taken during the PEN America Annual Literary Gala on April 25, at which Sentsov was honoured with a 2017 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write award.[230]

Reception and legacy

 
Streep receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University in 2010

In 2004, Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award by the board of directors of the American Film Institute.[231] In 2011, she received a Kennedy Center Honors, introduced by Tracey Ullman, and speeches by 2009 Kennedy Center Honoree Robert De Niro and 2003 Kennedy Center Honoree Mike Nichols. Those also to honor Streep included, Kevin Kline, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and Anne Hathaway. The tribute ended with the whole cast who sang "She's My Pal," a play on "He's My Pal" from Ironweed.[232]

In November 2014, President Barack Obama bestowed upon Streep the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.[233] The citation reads as follows, "Meryl Streep is one of the most widely known and acclaimed actors in history. Ms. Streep has captured our imaginations with her unparalleled ability to portray a wide range of roles and attract an audience that has only grown over time, portraying characters who embody the full range of the human experience."[234] In January 2017, Viola Davis presented Streep with the Cecil B. DeMille at the Golden Globes. Davis stated to Streep "You make me proud to be an artist".[235] In her acceptance speech, Streep quoted the recently departed Carrie Fisher, saying, "Take your broken heart and make it into art."[236]

Vanity Fair commented that "it's hard to imagine that there was a time before Meryl Streep was the greatest-living actress".[18] Emma Brockes of The Guardian notes that despite Streep's being "one of the most famous actresses in the world", it is "strangely hard to pin an image on Streep", in a career where she has "laboured to establish herself as an actor whose roots lie in ordinary life".[17] Despite her success, Streep has always been modest about her own acting and achievements in cinema. She has stated that she has no particular method when it comes to acting, learning from the days of her early studies that she cannot articulate her practice. She said in 1987, "I have a smattering of things I've learned from different teachers, but nothing I can put into a valise and open it up and say 'Now, which one would you like?' Nothing I can count on, and that makes it more dangerous. But then, the danger makes it more exciting." She has stated that her ideal director is one who gives her complete artistic control, allowing her to have a degree of improvisation and to learn from her mistakes.[237]

Women are better at acting than men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing somebody bigger than you of something he doesn't know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia. Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending or acting is a very valuable life skill, and we all do it. All the time.

— Streep on acting[22]

Karina Longworth notes how "external" Streep's performances are, "chameleonic" in her impersonation of characters, "subsuming herself into them, rather than personifying them". In her early roles such as Manhattan and Kramer vs. Kramer, she was compared to both Diane Keaton and Jill Clayburgh, in that her characters were unsympathetic, which Streep has attributed to the tendency to be drawn to playing women who are difficult to like and lack empathy.[237] Streep has stated that many consider her to be a technical actor, but she professed that it comes down to her love of reading the initial script, adding, "I come ready and I don't want to screw around and waste the first 10 takes on adjusting lighting and everybody else getting comfortable".[110]

Mike Nichols, who directed Streep in Silkwood, Heartburn, Postcards from the Edge, and Angels in America, praised Streep's ability to transform herself into her characters, remarking that, "In every role, she becomes a totally new human being. As she becomes the person she is portraying, the other performers begin to react to her as if she were that person."[238] He said that directing her is "so much like falling in love that it has the characteristics of a time which you remember as magical, but which is shrouded in mystery".[239] He also noted that Streep's acting ability had a profound impact on her co-stars, and that "one could improve by 1000% purely by watching her".[238] Longworth believes that in nearly every film, Streep has "sly infused" a feminist point of view in her portrayals.[240] However, film critic Molly Haskell has stated, "None of her heroines are feminist, strictly speaking. Yet, they uncannily embody various crosscurrents of experience in the last twenty years, as women have re-defined themselves against the background of the women's movement".[110]

 
Streep's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Streep is well known for her ability to imitate a wide range of accents[241] – from Danish in Out of Africa (1985) to British Received Pronunciation in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Plenty (1985), and The Iron Lady (2011); Italian in The Bridges of Madison County (1995); a southern American accent in The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979); a Minnesota accent in A Prairie Home Companion (2006); Upstate New York in Ironweed (1987); and a heavy Bronx accent in Doubt (2008). Streep has stated that she grew up listening to artists such as Barbra Streisand, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan, and she learned a lot about how to use her voice, her "instrument", by listening to Barbra Streisand's albums.[242] In the film Evil Angels (1988, released in the U.S. as A Cry in the Dark), in which she portrays a New Zealand transplant to Australia, Streep developed a hybrid of Australian and New Zealand English. Her performance received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role,[88][89] as well as Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.[91]

For her role in the film Sophie's Choice (1982), Streep spoke both English and German with a Polish accent, as well as Polish itself.[243] In The Iron Lady, she reproduced the vocal style of Margaret Thatcher from the time before Thatcher became Britain's Prime Minister, and after she had taken elocution lessons to change her pitch, pronunciation, and delivery.[244][243] Streep has commented that using accents as part of her acting is a technique she views as an obvious requirement in her portrayal of a character.[245] When questioned in Belfast as to how she reproduces different accents, Streep replied in a reportedly "perfect" Belfast accent: "I listen."[246][247][245]

Activism and advocacy

 
Streep receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2014

Politically, Streep has described herself as part of the American Left.[248] She gave a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in support of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.[249]

In January 2017, Streep was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, during which she delivered a predominantly political speech that implicitly criticized President-elect Donald Trump. She argued that Trump had a very strong platform and used it inappropriately to mock a disabled reporter, Serge F. Kovaleski, whom, in her words, Trump "outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back".[250] Trump responded by calling Streep "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood," and "a Hillary flunky who lost big."[251]

While promoting Suffragette in 2015, Streep accused the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes of disproportionately representing the opinions of male film critics, resulting in a skewed ratio that adversely affected the commercial performances of female-driven films.[252]

Personal life

Author Karina Longworth notes that despite her stardom, for decades Streep has managed to maintain a relatively normal personal life.[22] Streep lived with actor John Cazale in the 1970s, caring for him after his lung cancer diagnosis until he died in March 1978.[253] Streep said of his death:

I didn't get over it. I don't want to get over it. No matter what you do, the pain is always there in some recess of your mind, and it affects everything that happens afterwards. I think you can assimilate the pain and go on without making an obsession of it.[57]

Streep married sculptor Don Gummer six months after Cazale's death.[254] They have four children: musician Henry Wolfe Gummer (born 1979), and actresses Mary Willa "Mamie" Gummer (born 1983), Grace Jane Gummer (born 1986), and Louisa Jacobson Gummer (born 1991).[9][255]

In 1985, the family moved into a $1.8-million private estate in Connecticut and lived there until they bought a $3-million mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, in 1990.[256] They later moved back to Connecticut.[257][258] Streep is the godmother of Billie Lourd, daughter of fellow actress and close friend Carrie Fisher.[259] Fisher wrote the screenplay for Streep's 1990 film Postcards from the Edge, based on Fisher's book.[260]

When asked if religion plays a part in her life in 2009, Streep replied: "I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram."[261] In an interview in December 2008, she alluded to her lack of religious belief when she said:

So, I've always been really, deeply interested because I think I can understand the solace that's available in the whole construct of religion. But I really don't believe in the power of prayer, or things would have been avoided that have happened, that are awful. So, it's a horrible position as an intelligent, emotional, yearning human being to sit outside of the available comfort there. But I just can't go there.[262]

When asked where she draws consolation in the face of aging and death, Streep responded:

Consolation? I'm not sure I have it. I have a belief, I guess, in the power of the aggregate human attempt – the best of 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?[262]

Acting credits and awards

One of the most prolific actresses of screen and stage since her career's inception in the late 1970s, Streep's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, include Julia (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Silkwood (1983), A Cry in the Dark (1988),[d] Postcards from the Edge (1990), Defending Your Life (1991), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Marvin's Room (1996), Adaptation. (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2007), Mamma Mia (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Homesman (2014), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), Little Women (2019), and Let Them All Talk (2020). Her television projects include the miniseries Holocaust (1978), the television film ...First Do No Harm (1997), the miniseries Angels in America (2003), and the drama series Big Little Lies (2019).[264] Her notable stage roles include the Broadway theatre productions A Memory of Two Mondays, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (both 1976) and The Cherry Orchard (1977), as well as multiple plays at the Delacorte Theater.

Streep has been recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the following performances:

These nominations make Streep the most Academy Award-nominated performer in history, with 21 in total (17 for Best Actress and four for Best Supporting Actress), as well as one of only 13 performers to win an Oscar in both acting categories and one of only three performers to win three Academy Awards across the two acting categories (with Ingrid Bergman and Jack Nicholson being the only others to achieve this feat).

Also the recipient of six Grammy Award nominations, five Primetime Emmy Award nominations (with three wins), and one Tony Award nomination; Streep is one of few performers to be nominated for the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. Her other accolades include two BAFTA Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (for The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Iron Lady), eight Golden Globe Awards (as well as the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award) and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Discography

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Streep's initial impression of Hoffman had been a negative one, thinking him to have been an "obnoxious pig" when she had first met him on stage several years earlier, and Hoffman had admitted that he initially "hated her guts", but respected her as an actress.[53]
  2. ^ Despite Streep's own negative self-body-image, President Obama, while presenting the Kennedy Center Honors, remarked, "Anyone who saw The French Lieutenant's Woman had a crush on her ..."[67]
  3. ^ The film was released outside Australia and New Zealand as A Cry in the Dark.
  4. ^ a b The film was released worldwide as A Cry in the Dark, except in Australia and New Zealand, where it was released under the title Evil Angels.[263]

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meryl, streep, mary, louise, meryl, streep, born, june, 1949, american, actress, often, described, best, actress, generation, streep, particularly, known, versatility, accent, adaptability, received, numerous, accolades, throughout, career, spanning, over, fiv. Mary Louise Meryl Streep born June 22 1949 is an American actress Often described as the best actress of her generation 1 2 Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades including a record 21 Academy Award nominations winning three 3 and a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations winning eight 4 She has also received two British Academy Film Awards two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Primetime Emmy Awards in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and six Grammy Awards Meryl StreepStreep at the 2018 Montclair Film FestivalBornMary Louise Streep 1949 06 22 June 22 1949 age 73 Summit New Jersey U S EducationVassar College BA Yale University MFA OccupationActressYears active1975 presentWorksFull listSpouseDon Gummer m 1978 wbr Partner s John Cazale 1976 1978 ChildrenHenry WolfeMamie GummerGrace GummerLouisa JacobsonParentMary Wilkinson Streep mother RelativesMark Ronson son in law AwardsFull listStreep made her stage debut in 1975 Trelawny of the Wells and received a Tony Award nomination the following year for a double bill production of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays In 1977 she made her film debut in Julia In 1978 she won her first Primetime Emmy Award for a leading role in the mini series Holocaust and received her first Oscar nomination for The Deer Hunter She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a troubled wife in Kramer vs Kramer 1979 and went on to establish herself as a film actor in the 1980s She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as a Holocaust survivor in Sophie s Choice 1982 and had her biggest commercial success to that point in Out of Africa 1985 She continued to gain awards and critical praise for her work in the late 1980s and 1990s but commercial success was varied with the comedy Death Becomes Her 1992 and the drama The Bridges of Madison County 1995 her biggest earners in that period Streep reclaimed her stardom in the 2000s and 2010s with starring roles in Adaptation 2002 The Hours 2002 The Devil Wears Prada 2006 Doubt 2008 Mamma Mia 2008 Julie amp Julia 2009 It s Complicated 2009 Into the Woods 2014 The Post 2017 and Little Women 2019 She also won her third Academy Award for her portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady 2011 Her stage roles include The Public Theater s 2001 revival of The Seagull and her television roles include two projects for HBO the miniseries Angels in America 2003 for which she won another Primetime Emmy Award and the drama series Big Little Lies 2019 Streep has been the recipient of many honorary awards She 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 National Medal of Arts in 2010 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014 5 In 2003 the French government made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters 6 She was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B DeMille Award in 2017 7 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 1970s Early work and breakthrough 2 2 1980s Rise to prominence 2 3 1990s Established actress 2 4 2000s Continued screen and stage work 2 5 2010s Further critical and commercial success 2 6 2020s 3 Other ventures 4 Reception and legacy 5 Activism and advocacy 6 Personal life 7 Acting credits and awards 8 Discography 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 12 Sources 13 Further reading 14 External linksEarly life and education Streep as a senior in high school 1966 Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22 1949 in Summit New Jersey 8 She is the daughter of artist Mary Wilkinson Streep and pharmaceutical executive Harry William Streep Jr 9 She has two younger brothers Harry William Streep III and Dana David Streep both actors 10 Her father was of German and Swiss descent his lineage traced back to Loffenau from where Streep s great great grandfather Gottfried Streeb immigrated to the United States and where one of her ancestors served as mayor the surname was later changed to Streep 11 Another line of her father s family was from Giswil Her mother had English German and Irish ancestry 11 Some of Streep s maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island and were descended from 17th century English immigrants 12 13 14 Her maternal great great grandparents Manus McFadden and Grace Strain were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy in Ireland 13 15 16 Streep as a cheerleader at Bernards High School 1966 Streep s mother whom she has compared in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench 17 strongly encouraged her daughter and instilled confidence in her from a very young age 18 Streep said She was a mentor because she said to me Meryl you re capable You re so great She was saying You can do whatever you put your mind to If you re lazy you re not going to get it done But if you put your mind to it you can do anything And I believed her Although she was naturally more introverted than her mother when she later needed an injection of confidence in adulthood she would consult her mother at times for advice 18 Streep was raised as a Presbyterian 19 in Basking Ridge New Jersey and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School which was a junior high school at that time In her junior high debut she starred as Louise Heller in the play The Family Upstairs 20 In 1963 the family moved to Bernardsville New Jersey where she attended Bernards High School 21 Author Karina Longworth described her as a gawky kid with glasses and frizzy hair yet noted that she liked to show off in front of the camera in family home movies from a young age 22 At age 12 Streep was selected to sing at a school recital leading to her having opera lessons from Estelle Liebling Despite her talent she later remarked I was singing something I didn t feel and understand That was an important lesson not to do that To find the thing that I could feel through 22 She quit after four years Streep had many Catholic school friends and regularly attended Mass 23 She was a high school cheerleader for the Bernards High School Mountaineers and was also chosen as the homecoming queen her senior year 24 Her family lived on Old Fort Road citation needed 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 25 Vassar drama professor Clinton J Atkinson noted I don t think anyone ever taught Meryl acting She really taught herself 25 Streep demonstrated an early ability to mimic accents and to quickly memorize her lines She received her BA cum laude in 1971 before applying for an MFA from the Yale School of Drama At Yale she supplemented her course fees by working as a waitress and typist and appeared in over a dozen stage productions per year at one point she became overworked and developed ulcers so she contemplated quitting acting and switching to study law 25 Streep played a variety of roles on stage 26 from Helena in A Midsummer Night s Dream to an 80 year old woman in a wheelchair in a comedy written by then unknown playwrights Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato 27 28 She was a student of choreographer Carmen de Lavallade whom she introduced at the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors 29 Another of her teachers was Robert Lewis a co founder of the Actors Studio Streep disapproved of some of the acting exercises she was asked to do remarking that one professor taught the emotional recall technique by delving into personal lives in a way she found obnoxious 30 31 She received her MFA from Yale in 1975 32 She also enrolled as a visiting student at Dartmouth College in 1970 and received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the college in 1981 32 Career1970s Early work and breakthrough One of Streep s first professional jobs in 1975 was at the Eugene O Neill Theater Center s National Playwrights Conference during which she acted in five plays over six weeks She moved to New York City in 1975 and was cast by Joseph Papp in a production of Trelawny of the Wells at the Vivian Beaumont Theater opposite Mandy Patinkin and John Lithgow 30 She went on to appear in five more roles in her first year in New York including in Papp s New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Henry V The Taming of the Shrew with Raul Julia and Measure for Measure opposite Sam Waterston and John Cazale 33 She entered into a relationship with Cazale at this time and resided with him until his death three years later 30 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 34 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 30 Streep began auditioning for film roles and underwent an unsuccessful audition for the lead role in Dino De Laurentiis s King Kong De Laurentiis referring to Streep as she stood before him said in Italian to his son This is so ugly Why did you bring me this 22 Unknown to Laurentiis Streep understood Italian and she remarked I m very sorry that I m not as beautiful as I should be but you know this is it This is what you get 25 She continued to work on Broadway appearing in the 1976 double bill of Tennessee Williams 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Arthur Miller s A Memory of Two Mondays She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play 35 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 36 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 I had a bad wig and they took the words from the scene I shot with Jane and put them in my mouth in a different scene I thought I ve made a terrible mistake no more movies I hate this business 30 However Streep cites Fonda as having a lasting influence on her as an actress and has credited her as open ing probably more doors than I probably even know about 18 Robert De Niro who had spotted Streep in her stage production of The Cherry Orchard suggested that she play the role of his girlfriend in the war film The Deer Hunter 1978 37 Cazale who had been diagnosed with lung cancer 38 was also cast in the film and Streep took on the role of a vague stock girlfriend to remain with Cazale for the duration of filming 39 40 41 Longworth notes that Streep Made a case for female empowerment by playing a woman to whom empowerment was a foreign concept a normal lady from an average American small town for whom subservience was the only thing she knew 42 Pauline Kael who later became a strong critic of Streep remarked that she was a real beauty who brought much freshness to the film with her performance 43 The film s success exposed Streep to a wider audience and earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 44 In the 1978 miniseries Holocaust Streep played the leading role of a German woman married to a Jewish artist played by James Woods in Nazi era Germany She found the material to be unrelentingly noble and professed to have taken on the role for financial gain 45 Streep travelled to Germany and Austria for filming while Cazale remained in New York Upon her return Streep found that Cazale s illness had progressed and she nursed him until his death on March 12 1978 46 41 With an estimated audience of 109 million Holocaust brought a wider degree of public recognition to Streep who found herself on the verge of national visibility She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance 47 Despite the awards success Streep was still not enthusiastic towards her film career and preferred acting on stage 48 She played the supporting role of Leilah in Wendy Wasserstein s Uncommon Women and Others in a May 1978 Theater in America television production for PBS s Great Performances 49 She replaced Glenn Close who played the role in the Off Broadway production at the Phoenix Theatre 50 Streep in 1977 Hoping to divert herself from the grief of Cazale s death Streep accepted a role in The Seduction of Joe Tynan 1979 as the chirpy love interest of Alan Alda later commenting that she played it on automatic pilot She performed the role of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew for Shakespeare in the Park and also played a supporting role in Manhattan 1979 for Woody Allen Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script giving her only the six pages of her own scenes 51 and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue 52 In the drama Kramer vs Kramer Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child Streep thought that the script portrayed the female character as too evil and insisted that it was not representative of real women who faced marriage breakdown and child custody battles The makers agreed with her and the script was revised 53 In preparing for the part Streep spoke to her own mother about her life as a wife with a career 54 and frequented the Upper East Side neighborhood in which the film was set watching the interactions between parents and children 53 The director Robert Benton allowed Streep to write her own dialogue in two key scenes despite some objection from Hoffman who hated her guts at first 55 a Hoffman and producer Stanley R Jaffe later spoke of Streep s tirelessness with Hoffman commenting She s extraordinarily hard working to the extent that she s obsessive I think that she thinks about nothing else but what she s doing 56 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 57 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 58 59 She was also awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress 60 National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in her three film releases of 1979 61 62 Both The Deer Hunter and Kramer vs Kramer were major commercial successes and were consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture 63 64 1980s Rise to prominence In 1979 Streep began workshopping Alice in Concert a musical version of Alice s Adventures in Wonderland with writer and composer Elizabeth Swados and director Joseph Papp the show was put on at New York s Public Theater from December 1980 Frank Rich of The New York Times referred to Streep as the production s one wonder but questioned why she devoted so much energy to it 48 By 1980 Streep had progressed to leading roles in films She was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine with the headline A Star for the 80s Jack Kroll commented There s a sense of mystery in her acting she doesn t simply imitate although she s a great mimic in private She transmits a sense of danger a primal unease lying just below the surface of normal behavior 65 Streep denounced her fervent media coverage at the time as excessive hype 65 The story within a story drama The French Lieutenant s Woman 1981 was Streep s first leading role The film paired Streep with Jeremy Irons as contemporary actors telling their modern story as well as the Victorian era drama they were performing Streep developed an English accent for the part but considered herself a misfit for the role I couldn t help wishing that I was more beautiful 66 65 b A New York magazine article commented that while many female stars of the past had cultivated a singular identity in their films Streep was a chameleon willing to play any type of role 68 Streep was awarded a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work 69 The following year she re united with Robert Benton for the psychological thriller Still of the Night 1982 co starring Roy Scheider and Jessica Tandy Vincent Canby writing for The New York Times noted that the film was an homage to the works of Alfred Hitchcock but that one of its main weaknesses was a lack of chemistry between Streep and Scheider concluding that Streep is stunning but she s not on screen anywhere near long enough 70 Greater success came later in the year when Streep starred in the drama Sophie s Choice also 1982 portraying a Polish survivor of Auschwitz caught in a love triangle between a young naive writer Peter MacNicol and a Jewish intellectual Kevin Kline Streep s emotional dramatic performance and her apparent mastery of a Polish accent drew praise 71 William Styron wrote the novel with Ursula Andress in mind for the role of Sophie but Streep was determined to get the role 72 Streep filmed the choice scene in one take and refused to do it again finding it extremely painful and emotionally exhausting 73 That scene in which Streep is ordered by an SS guard at Auschwitz to choose which of her two children would be gassed and which would proceed to the labor camp is her most famous scene according to Emma Brockes of The Guardian who wrote in 2006 It s classic Streep the kind of scene that makes your scalp tighten but defter in a way is her handling of smaller harder to grasp emotions 17 Among several acting awards Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance 74 and her characterization was voted the third greatest movie performance of all time by Premiere magazine 75 Roger Ebert said of her delivery Streep plays the Brooklyn scenes with an enchanting Polish American accent she has the first accent I ve ever wanted to hug and she plays the flashbacks in subtitled German and Polish There is hardly an emotion that Streep doesn t touch in this movie and yet we re never aware of her straining This is one of the most astonishing and yet one of the most unaffected and natural performances I can imagine 76 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 her 77 In 1983 Streep played her first non fictional character the nuclear whistleblower and labor union activist Karen Silkwood who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr McGee plutonium plant in Mike Nichols biographical film Silkwood Streep felt a personal connection to Silkwood 78 and in preparation she met with people close to the woman and in doing so realized that each person saw a different aspect of her personality 79 She said I didn t try to turn myself into Karen I just tried to look at what she did I put together every piece of information I could find about her What I finally did was look at the events in her life and try to understand her from the inside 79 Jack Kroll of Newsweek considered Streep s characterization to have been brilliant while Silkwood s boyfriend Drew Stephens expressed approval in that Streep had played Karen as a human being rather than a myth despite Karen s father Bill thinking that Streep and the film had dumbed his daughter down Pauline Kael believed that Streep had been miscast 80 Streep next played opposite Robert De Niro in the romance Falling in Love 1984 which was poorly received and portrayed a fighter for the French Resistance during World War II in the British drama Plenty 1985 adapted from the play by David Hare For the latter Roger Ebert wrote that she conveyed great subtlety it is hard to play an unbalanced neurotic self destructive woman and do it with such gentleness and charm Streep creates a whole character around a woman who could have simply been a catalogue of symptoms 81 In 2008 Molly Haskell praised Streep s performance in Plenty believing it to be one of Streep s most difficult and ambiguous films and most feminist role 82 Longworth considers Streep s next release Out of Africa 1985 to have established her as a Hollywood superstar In the film Streep starred as the Danish writer Karen Blixen opposite Robert Redford s Denys Finch Hatton Director Sydney Pollack was initially dubious about Streep in the role as he did not think she was sexy enough and had considered Jane Seymour for the part Pollack recalls that Streep impressed him in a different way She was so direct so honest so without bullshit There was no shielding between her and me 83 Streep and Pollack often clashed during the 101 day shoot in Kenya particularly over Blixen s voice Streep had spent much time listening to tapes of Blixen and began speaking in an old fashioned and aristocratic fashion which Pollack thought excessive 84 A significant commercial success the film won a Golden Globe for Best Picture 85 It also earned Streep another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and the film ultimately won Best Picture Film critic Stanley Kauffmann praised her performance writing Meryl Streep is back in top form This means her performance in Out of Africa is at the highest level of acting in film today 86 Streep in 1989 Longworth notes that the dramatic success of Out of Africa led to a backlash of critical opinion against Streep in the years that followed especially as she was now demanding 4 million a picture Unlike other stars at the time such as Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise Streep never seemed to play herself and certain critics felt her technical finesse led people to literally see her acting 87 Her next films did not appeal to 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 Great Performances telecast of the Phoenix Theater production of Secret Service 1977 In Evil Angels c 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 88 89 90 a Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress 91 Streep has said of developing the Australian accent in the film I had to study a little bit for Australian because it s not dissimilar to American so it s like coming from Italian to Spanish You get a little mixed up 17 Vincent Canby of The New York Times referred to her performance as another stunning performance played with the kind of virtuosity that seems to re define the possibilities of screen acting 92 In 1989 Streep lobbied to play the lead role in Oliver Stone s adaption of the play Evita but two months before filming was due to commence she dropped out citing exhaustion initially although it was later revealed that there was a dispute over her salary 93 By the end of the decade Streep actively looked to star in a comedy She found the role in She Devil 1989 a satire that parodied societal obsession with beauty and cosmetic surgery in which she played a glamorous writer 94 Though the film was not a success Richard Corliss of Time wrote that Streep was the one reason to see it and observed that it marked a departure from the dramatic roles she was known to play 95 Reacting to her string of poorly received films Streep said Audiences are shrinking as the marketing strategy defines more and more narrowly who they want to reach males from 16 to 25 it s become a chicken and egg syndrome Which came first First they release all these summer movies then do a demographic survey of who s going to see them 93 1990s Established actress Biographer Karen Hollinger described the early 1990s as a downturn in the popularity of Streep s films attributing this partly to a critical perception that her comedies had been an attempt to convey a lighter image following several serious but commercially unsuccessful dramas and more significantly to the lack of options available to an actress in her forties 96 Streep commented that she had limited her options by her preference to work in Los Angeles close to her family 96 a situation that she had anticipated in a 1981 interview when she commented By the time an actress hits her mid forties no one s interested in her anymore And if you want to fit a couple of babies into that schedule as well you ve got to pick your parts with great care 68 At the Screen Actor s Guild National Women s Conference in 1990 Streep keynoted the first national event emphasizing the decline in women s work opportunities pay parity and role models within the film industry 97 She criticized the film industry for downplaying the importance of women both on screen and off 91 Streep at the 32nd Grammy Awards in 1990 After roles in the comedy drama Postcards from the Edge 1990 and the comedy fantasy Defending Your Life 1991 Streep starred with Goldie Hawn in the farcical black comedy Death Becomes Her 1992 with Bruce Willis as their co star Streep persuaded writer David Koepp to re write several of the scenes particularly the one in which her character has an affair with a younger man which she believed was unrealistically male in its conception The seven month shoot was the longest of Streep s career during which she got into character by thinking about being slightly pissed off all of the time 98 Due to Streep s allergies to numerous cosmetics special prosthetics had to be designed to age her by ten years to look 54 although Streep believed that they made her look nearer 70 99 Longworth considers Death Becomes Her to have been the most physical performance Streep had yet committed to screen all broad weeping smirking and eye rolling 100 Although it was a commercial success earning 15 1 million in just five days Streep s contribution to comedy was generally not taken well by critics 101 Time s Richard Corliss wrote approvingly of Streep s wicked witch routine but dismissed the film as She Devil with a make over and one which hates women 102 101 Streep later admitted to having disliked filming the scenes involving heavy special effects and vowed never to work again on a film with heavy special effects 103 Streep appeared with Jeremy Irons Glenn Close and Winona Ryder in The House of the Spirits 1993 set in Chile during Augusto Pinochet s dictatorship The film was not well received by critics 104 Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote This is really quite an achievement It brings together Jeremy Irons Meryl Streep Winona Ryder Antonio Banderas and Vanessa Redgrave and insures that without exception they all give their worst performances ever 104 The following year Streep starred in The River Wild as the mother of children on a whitewater rafting trip who encounter two violent criminals Kevin Bacon and John C Reilly in the wilderness Though critical reaction was generally mixed Peter Travers of Rolling Stone found her to be strong sassy and looser than she has ever been onscreen 105 Streep s most successful film of the decade was the romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County 1995 directed by Clint Eastwood who adapted the film from Robert James Waller s novel of the same name 106 It relates the story of Robert Kincaid Eastwood a photographer working for National Geographic who has a love affair with a middle aged Italian farm wife Francesca Streep Though Streep disliked the novel it was based on she found the script to be a special opportunity for an actress her age 107 She gained weight for the part and dressed differently from the character in the book to emulate voluptuous Italian film stars such as Sophia Loren Both Loren and Anna Magnani were an influence in her portrayal and Streep viewed Pier Paolo Pasolini s Mamma Roma 1962 prior to filming 108 The film was a box office hit and grossed over 70 million in the United States 109 The film unlike the novel was warmly received by critics Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that Eastwood had managed to create a moving elegiac love story at the heart of Mr Waller s self congratulatory overkill while Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal described it as one of the most pleasurable films in recent memory 109 Longworth believes that Streep s performance was crucial to transforming what could have been a weak soap opera into a vibrant work of historical fiction implicitly critiquing postwar America s stifling culture of domesticity 110 She considers it to have been the role in which Streep became arguably the first middle aged actress to be taken seriously by Hollywood as a romantic heroine 111 Streep played the estranged sister of Bessie Diane Keaton a woman battling leukemia in Marvin s Room 1996 an adaptation of the play by Scott McPherson Streep recommended Keaton for the role 112 The film also featured Leonardo DiCaprio as the rebellious son of Streep s character Roger Ebert stated that Streep and Keaton in their different styles find ways to make Lee and Bessie into much more than the expression of their problems 113 The film was well received and Streep earned another Golden Globe nomination for her performance 59 Streep s performance in First Do No Harm 1997 garnered her a second Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress Miniseries or a Movie In 1998 Streep first appeared opposite Michael Gambon and Catherine McCormack in Pat O Connor s Dancing at Lughnasa another Broadway adaptation which was entered into the Venice Film Festival in its year of release 114 Janet Maslin of The New York Times remarked that Meryl Streep has made many a grand acting gesture in her career but the way she simply peers out a window in Dancing at Lughnasa ranks with the best Everything the viewer need know about Kate Mundy the woman she plays here is written on that prim lonely face and its flabbergasted gaze 115 Later that year she played a housewife dying of cancer in One True Thing The film met with positive reviews Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle declared After One True Thing critics who persist in the fiction that Streep is a cold and technical actress will need to get their heads examined She is so instinctive and natural so thoroughly in the moment and operating on flights of inspiration that she s able to give us a woman who s at once wildly idiosyncratic and utterly believable 116 Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan noted that her role is one of the least self consciously dramatic and surface showy of her career but she adds a level of honesty and reality that makes her performance one of her most moving 117 Streep portrayed Roberta Guaspari a real life New Yorker who found passion and enlightenment teaching violin to the inner city kids of East Harlem in the music drama Music of the Heart 1999 Streep replaced Madonna who dropped out of the project before filming began due to creative differences with director Wes Craven 118 119 Required to play the violin Streep underwent two months of intense training five to six hours a day 118 Streep received nominations for 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 120 2000s Continued screen and stage work Main article Meryl Streep in the 2000s Streep in Saint Petersburg Russia in 2004 Streep entered the 2000s with a voice cameo in Steven Spielberg s A I Artificial Intelligence 2001 a science fiction film about a childlike android played by Haley Joel Osment 121 The same year Streep co hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert with Liam Neeson which was held in Oslo Norway on December 11 2001 in honour of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate the United Nations and Kofi Annan 122 123 In 2001 Streep returned to the stage for the first time in more than twenty years playing Arkadina in The Public Theater s revival of Anton Chekhov s The Seagull directed by Mike Nichols and co starring Kevin Kline Natalie Portman John Goodman Marcia Gay Harden Stephen Spinella Debra Monk Larry Pine and Philip Seymour Hoffman 124 Streep s son Henry Gummer later to be known as musician Henry Wolfe was also featured in the play in the role of Yakov a hired workman The same year Streep began work on Spike Jonze s comedy drama Adaptation 2002 in which she portrayed real life journalist Susan Orlean Lauded by critics and viewers alike 125 the film won Streep her fourth Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category 59 A O Scott in The New York Times considered Streep s portrayal of Orlean to have been played with impish composure noting the contrast in her wittily realized character with love interest Chris Cooper s lank haired toothless charisma as the autodidact arrested for poaching rare orchids 126 Streep appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in Stephen Daldry s The Hours 2002 based on the 1999 novel by Michael Cunningham Focusing on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf the film was generally well received and won all three leading actresses a Silver Bear for Best Actress 127 In 2003 Streep re united with Mike Nichols to star with Al Pacino and Emma Thompson in the HBO s adaptation of Tony Kushner s six hour play Angels in America the story of two couples whose relationships dissolve amidst the backdrop of Reagan era politics Streep who was cast in four roles in the miniseries received her second Emmy Award and fifth Golden Globe for her performance 59 128 She appeared in Jonathan Demme s moderately successful remake of The Manchurian Candidate in 2004 129 co starring Denzel Washington playing the role of a woman who is both a U S senator and the manipulative ruthless mother of a vice presidential candidate 130 The 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 131 and won the Academy Award for Best Makeup 132 Streep also narrated the film Monet s Palate 133 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 modest mainstream success it eventually grossed US 67 9 million internationally 134 Roger Ebert noted how Streep had that ability to cut through the solemnity of a scene with a zinger that reveals how all human effort is after all comic at some level 135 In August and September 2006 Streep starred onstage at The Public Theater s production of Mother Courage and Her Children at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park 136 The Public Theater production was a new translation by playwright Tony Kushner with songs in the Weill Brecht style written by composer Jeanine Tesori veteran director George C Wolfe was at the helm Streep starred alongside Kevin Kline and Austin Pendleton in this three and a half hour play 137 36 Around the same time Streep along with Lily Tomlin portrayed the last two members of what was once a popular family country music act in Robert Altman s final film A Prairie Home Companion 2006 A comedic ensemble piece featuring Lindsay Lohan Tommy Lee Jones Kevin Kline and Woody Harrelson the film revolves around the behind the scenes activities at the long running public radio show of the same name The film grossed more than US 26 million the majority of which came from domestic markets 138 Streep right at the Venice premiere of The Devil Wears Prada in 2006 Commercially Streep fared better with a role in The Devil Wears Prada also 2006 a loose screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger s 2003 novel of the same name Streep portrayed the powerful and demanding Miranda Priestly fashion magazine editor and boss of a recent college graduate played by Anne Hathaway Though the overall film received mixed reviews her portrayal of what Ebert calls the poised and imperious Miranda 139 drew rave reviews from critics and earned her many award nominations including her record setting 14th Oscar bid as well as another Golden Globe 140 141 On its commercial release the film became Streep s biggest commercial success to this point grossing more than US 326 5 million worldwide 142 She portrayed a wealthy university patron in Chen Shi zheng s much delayed feature drama Dark Matter a film about a Chinese science graduate student who becomes violent after dealing with academic politics at a U S university Inspired by the events of the 1991 University of Iowa shooting 143 and initially scheduled for a 2007 release producers and investors decided to shelve Dark Matter out of respect for the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting in April 2007 144 The drama received negative to mixed reviews upon its limited 2008 release 145 Streep played a U S government official who investigates an Egyptian foreign national suspected of terrorism in the political thriller Rendition 2007 directed by Gavin Hood 146 Keen to get involved in a thriller film Streep welcomed the opportunity to star in a film genre for which she was not usually offered scripts and immediately signed on to the project 147 Upon its release Rendition was less commercially successful 148 and received mixed reviews 149 Streep at the 2008 San Sebastian International Film Festival In this period Streep had a short role alongside Vanessa Redgrave Glenn Close and her eldest daughter Mamie Gummer in Lajos Koltai s drama film Evening 2007 based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Susan Minot Switching between the present and the past it tells the story of a bedridden woman who remembers her tumultuous life in the mid 1950s 150 The film was released to a lukewarm reaction from critics who called it beautifully filmed but decidedly dull and a colossal waste of a talented cast 151 She had a role in Robert Redford s Lions for Lambs also 2007 a film about the connection between a platoon of United States soldiers in Afghanistan a U S senator a reporter and a California college professor Like Evening critics felt that the talent of the cast was wasted and that it suffered from slow pacing although one critic announced that Streep positively stood out being natural unforced quietly powerful in comparison to Redford s forced performance 152 Streep found major commercial success when she starred in Phyllida Lloyd s Mamma Mia 2008 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 Skarsgard Colin Firth Julie Walters and Christine Baranski 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 the idyllic Greek island of Skopelos known in the film as Kalokairi 153 An instant box office success Mamma Mia became Streep s highest grossing film to date with box office receipts of US 602 6 million 154 also ranking it first among the highest grossing musical films 155 Nominated for another Golden Globe Streep s performance was generally well received by critics with Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe commenting The greatest actor in American movies has finally become a movie star 156 Streep with Alec Baldwin and Josh Wood at the 2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards Doubt also 2008 features Streep with Philip Seymour Hoffman Amy Adams and Viola Davis A drama revolving around the stern principal nun Streep of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 who brings accusations of pedophilia against a popular priest Hoffman the film became a moderate box office success 157 and was hailed by many critics as one of the best films of 2008 The film received five Academy Awards nominations for its four lead actors and for John Patrick Shanley s script 158 Ebert who awarded the film the full four stars highlighted Streep s caricature of a nun who hates all inroads of the modern world 159 while Kelly Vance of The East Bay Express remarked It s thrilling to see a pro like Streep step into an already wildly exaggerated role and then ramp it up a few notches just for the sheer hell of it Grim red eyed deathly pale Sister Aloysius may be the scariest nun of all time 160 In 2009 Streep played chef Julia Child in Nora Ephron s Julie amp Julia co starring with Stanley Tucci and again with Amy Adams Tucci and Streep had worked together earlier in Devil Wears Prada The first major motion picture based on a blog Julie and Julia contrasts the life of Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell Adams who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child s cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking 161 Longworth believes her caricature of Julia Child was quite possibly the biggest performance of her career while also drawing on her own experience to bring lived in truth to the story of a late bloomer 110 In Nancy Meyers romantic comedy It s Complicated also 2009 Streep starred with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin She received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for both Julie amp Julia and It s Complicated she won the award for Julie amp Julia and later received her 16th Oscar nomination for it 162 She also lent her voice to Mrs Felicity Fox in Wes Anderson s stop motion film Fantastic Mr Fox 163 2010s Further critical and commercial success Streep re teamed with Mamma Mia director Phyllida Lloyd on The Iron Lady 2011 a British biographical film about Margaret Thatcher which takes a look at the Prime Minister during the Falklands War and her years in retirement 164 Streep who attended a session of the House of Commons to see British Members of Parliament MPs in action in preparation for her role as Thatcher 165 called her casting a daunting and exciting challenge 166 While the film had a mixed reception Streep s performance gained rave reviews earning her Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs as well as her third win at the 84th Academy Awards 167 Former advisers friends and family of Thatcher criticized Streep s portrayal of her as inaccurate and biased 168 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 169 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 try to bring back the intimacy missing in their relationship Reviews for the film were mostly positive with critics praising the mesmerizing performances which offer filmgoers some grown up laughs and a thoughtful look at mature relationships 170 In 2013 Streep starred alongside Julia Roberts and Ewan McGregor in the black comedy drama August Osage County 2013 about a dysfunctional family that re unites into the familial house when their patriarch suddenly disappears Based on Tracy Letts s Pulitzer Prize winning eponymous play Streep received positive reviews for her portrayal of the family s strong willed and contentious matriarch who is suffering from oral cancer and an addiction to narcotics She was subsequently nominated for another Golden Globe SAG and Academy Award 171 Streep at the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards In 2014 s The Giver a motion picture adaptation of the young adult novel Streep played a community leader 172 Set in 2048 the social science fiction film recounts the story of a post apocalyptic community without war pain suffering differences or choice where a young boy is chosen to learn the real world Streep was aware of the book before being offered the role by co star and producer Jeff Bridges 173 Upon its release The Giver was met with generally mixed to negative reviews from critics 174 Streep also had a small role in the period drama film The Homesman 2014 Set in the 1850s midwest the film stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones as an unusual pair who help three women driven to madness by the frontier to get back East Streep does not appear until near the end of the film playing a preacher s wife who takes the women into care 175 The Homesman premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it garnered largely positive reviews from critics 176 Directed by Rob Marshall Into the Woods also 2014 is a Disney film adaptation of the Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim in which Streep plays a witch 177 A fantasy genre crossover inspired by the Grimm Brothers fairy tales it centers on a childless couple who set out to end a curse placed on them by Streep s vengeful witch 178 179 Though the film was dismissed by some critics such as Mark Kermode as irritating naffness 180 Streep s performance earned her Academy Award Golden Globe SAG and Critic s Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress 181 In July 2014 it was announced that Streep would portray Maria Callas in Master Class but the project was pulled after director Mike Nichols s death in November of the same year 182 In 2015 Streep starred in Jonathan Demme s Ricki and the Flash playing a grocery store checkout worker by day who is a rock musician at night and who has one last chance to reconnect with her estranged family 183 Streep learned to play the guitar for the semi autobiographical drama comedy film 184 which again featured Streep with her eldest daughter Mamie Gummer 184 Reviews of the film were generally mixed 185 Streep s other film of this time was director Sarah Gavron s period drama Suffragette also 2015 co starring Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter In the film she played the small but pivotal role of Emmeline Pankhurst a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote 186 The film received mostly positive reviews particularly for the performances of the cast though its distributor earned criticism that Streep s prominent position within the marketing was misleading 187 Streep at the Embassy of the United States Berlin in 2016 Following the duties of the president at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in 2016 188 Streep starred in the Stephen Frears directed comedy Florence Foster Jenkins 2016 an eponymous biopic about a blithely unaware tone deaf opera singer who insists upon public performance 189 Other cast members were Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg 190 Robbie Collin considered it to be one of her most human performance and felt that it was full of warmth that gives way to heart pinching pathos 191 She won the Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy 192 and received Academy Award Golden Globe SAG and BAFTA nominations 193 Streep next starred as the first American female newspaper publisher Katharine Graham to Tom Hanks Ben Bradlee in Steven Spielberg s political drama The Post 2017 which centers on The Washington Post s publication of the 1971 Pentagon Papers 194 The film received positive reviews with praise directed to the performances of the two leads 195 Manohla Dargis wrote that Streep creates an acutely moving portrait of a woman who in liberating herself helps instigate a revolution 196 It earned over 177 million against a budget of 50 million 197 Streep received her 31st Golden Globe nomination and 21st Academy Award nomination for Best Actress 198 199 In 2018 Streep briefly reprised her role in the musical sequel Mamma Mia Here We Go Again 200 She also played a supporting part in Rob Marshall s Mary Poppins Returns a musical sequel to the 1964 film Mary Poppins starring Emily Blunt in the titular role 201 Streep next featured in her first main role in a television series by starring in the second season of the HBO drama series Big Little Lies in 2019 She took on the part of Mary Louise Wright the mother in law of Nicole Kidman s character 202 Liane Moriarty author of the novel of the same name on which the first season is based wrote a 200 page novella that served as the basis for the second season Moriarty decided to name the new character Mary Louise after Streep s legal name Streep subsequently agreed to the part without reading a script for the first time in her career 203 Writing for the BBC Caryn James labeled her performance delicious and wily and found her to be the embodiment of a passive aggressive granny 204 The same year Streep then starred in the Steven Soderbergh directed biographical comedy The Laundromat about the Panama Papers opposite Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas It was the first movie distributed by Netflix in which Streep starred 205 She also played Aunt March in Greta Gerwig s Little Women co starring with Saoirse Ronan Emma Watson Florence Pugh Timothee Chalamet and Laura Dern 206 The film received critical acclaim and grossed over 218 million against its 40 million budget 207 208 2020s In 2020 she voiced a role in the Apple TV animated short film Here We Are Notes for Living on Planet Earth 209 Streep had leading roles in two films both released by streaming services She reunited with Nicole Kidman for Netflix in Ryan Murphy s The Prom a film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name 210 and with director Steven Soderbergh for his HBO Max comedy film Let Them All Talk 211 Streep starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in Don t Look Up directed by Adam McKay for Netflix 212 Streep served as an executive producer on Sell Buy Date directed by Sarah Jones 213 Other venturesAfter Streep starred in Mamma Mia her rendition of the titular song rose to popularity on the Portuguese music charts where it peaked at number eight in October 2008 214 At the 35th People s Choice Awards her version of Mamma Mia won an award for Favorite Song From A Soundtrack 215 In 2008 Streep was nominated for a Grammy Award her fifth nomination for her work on the Mamma Mia soundtrack 216 Streep has narrated numerous audio books including three by children s book author William Steig Brae Irene Spinky Sulks and The One and Only Shrek 217 Streep is the spokesperson for the National Women s History Museum to which she has made significant donations including her fee for The Iron Lady which was 1 million and hosted numerous events 218 On October 4 2012 Streep donated 1 million to The Public Theater in honor of both its late founder Joseph Papp and her friend the author Nora Ephron 219 She also supports Gucci s Chime for Change campaign that aims to spread female empowerment 220 In 2014 Streep established two scholarships for students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell the Meryl Streep Endowed Scholarship for English majors and the Joan Hertzberg Endowed Scholarship named for Streep s former classmate at Vassar College for math majors 221 In April 2015 it was announced that Streep had funded a screenwriters lab for female screenwriters over forty years old called the Writers Lab to be run by New York Women in Film amp Television and the collective IRIS 222 223 The Lab was the only one of its kind in the world for female screenwriters over forty years old 223 In 2015 Streep signed an open letter for which One Campaign had been collecting signatures the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma urging them to focus on women as they served as heads of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively in setting development funding priorities 224 Also in 2015 Streep sent each member of the U S Congress a letter supporting the Equal Rights Amendment 225 Each of her letters was sent with a copy of the book Equal Means Equal Why the Time for the ERA is Now by Jessica Neuwirth president of the ERA Coalition 226 When asked in a 2015 interview with Time Out if she was a feminist Streep replied I am a humanist I am for nice easy balance 227 In March 2016 Streep among others signed a letter asking for gender equality throughout the world in observance of International Women s Day this was also organized by One Campaign 228 In 2018 she collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to set up the Time s Up initiative to protect women from harassment and discrimination 229 On April 25 2017 Streep publicly backed the campaign to free Oleg Sentsov a Ukrainian filmmaker from Crimea who was subjected to a sham trial by Russia and jailed in Siberia for 20 years in August 2015 She was pictured alongside Ukrainian lawmaker Mustafa Nayyem with a Free Sentsov sign in a photograph taken during the PEN America Annual Literary Gala on April 25 at which Sentsov was honoured with a 2017 PEN Barbey Freedom to Write award 230 Reception and legacy Streep receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University in 2010 In 2004 Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award by the board of directors of the American Film Institute 231 In 2011 she received a Kennedy Center Honors introduced by Tracey Ullman and speeches by 2009 Kennedy Center Honoree Robert De Niro and 2003 Kennedy Center Honoree Mike Nichols Those also to honor Streep included Kevin Kline Emily Blunt Stanley Tucci and Anne Hathaway The tribute ended with the whole cast who sang She s My Pal a play on He s My Pal from Ironweed 232 In November 2014 President Barack Obama bestowed upon Streep the Presidential Medal of Freedom the nation s highest civilian honor 233 The citation reads as follows Meryl Streep is one of the most widely known and acclaimed actors in history Ms Streep has captured our imaginations with her unparalleled ability to portray a wide range of roles and attract an audience that has only grown over time portraying characters who embody the full range of the human experience 234 In January 2017 Viola Davis presented Streep with the Cecil B DeMille at the Golden Globes Davis stated to Streep You make me proud to be an artist 235 In her acceptance speech Streep quoted the recently departed Carrie Fisher saying Take your broken heart and make it into art 236 Vanity Fair commented that it s hard to imagine that there was a time before Meryl Streep was the greatest living actress 18 Emma Brockes of The Guardian notes that despite Streep s being one of the most famous actresses in the world it is strangely hard to pin an image on Streep in a career where she has laboured to establish herself as an actor whose roots lie in ordinary life 17 Despite her success Streep has always been modest about her own acting and achievements in cinema She has stated that she has no particular method when it comes to acting learning from the days of her early studies that she cannot articulate her practice She said in 1987 I have a smattering of things I ve learned from different teachers but nothing I can put into a valise and open it up and say Now which one would you like Nothing I can count on and that makes it more dangerous But then the danger makes it more exciting She has stated that her ideal director is one who gives her complete artistic control allowing her to have a degree of improvisation and to learn from her mistakes 237 Women are better at acting than men Why Because we have to be If successfully convincing somebody bigger than you of something he doesn t know is a survival skill this is how women have survived through the millennia Pretending is not just play Pretending is imagined possibility Pretending or acting is a very valuable life skill and we all do it All the time Streep on acting 22 Karina Longworth notes how external Streep s performances are chameleonic in her impersonation of characters subsuming herself into them rather than personifying them In her early roles such as Manhattan and Kramer vs Kramer she was compared to both Diane Keaton and Jill Clayburgh in that her characters were unsympathetic which Streep has attributed to the tendency to be drawn to playing women who are difficult to like and lack empathy 237 Streep has stated that many consider her to be a technical actor but she professed that it comes down to her love of reading the initial script adding I come ready and I don t want to screw around and waste the first 10 takes on adjusting lighting and everybody else getting comfortable 110 Mike Nichols who directed Streep in Silkwood Heartburn Postcards from the Edge and Angels in America praised Streep s ability to transform herself into her characters remarking that In every role she becomes a totally new human being As she becomes the person she is portraying the other performers begin to react to her as if she were that person 238 He said that directing her is so much like falling in love that it has the characteristics of a time which you remember as magical but which is shrouded in mystery 239 He also noted that Streep s acting ability had a profound impact on her co stars and that one could improve by 1000 purely by watching her 238 Longworth believes that in nearly every film Streep has sly infused a feminist point of view in her portrayals 240 However film critic Molly Haskell has stated None of her heroines are feminist strictly speaking Yet they uncannily embody various crosscurrents of experience in the last twenty years as women have re defined themselves against the background of the women s movement 110 Streep s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Streep is well known for her ability to imitate a wide range of accents 241 from Danish in Out of Africa 1985 to British Received Pronunciation in The French Lieutenant s Woman 1981 Plenty 1985 and The Iron Lady 2011 Italian in The Bridges of Madison County 1995 a southern American accent in The Seduction of Joe Tynan 1979 a Minnesota accent in A Prairie Home Companion 2006 Upstate New York in Ironweed 1987 and a heavy Bronx accent in Doubt 2008 Streep has stated that she grew up listening to artists such as Barbra Streisand the Beatles and Bob Dylan and she learned a lot about how to use her voice her instrument by listening to Barbra Streisand s albums 242 In the film Evil Angels 1988 released in the U S as A Cry in the Dark in which she portrays a New Zealand transplant to Australia Streep developed a hybrid of Australian and New Zealand English Her performance received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 88 89 as well as Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress 91 For her role in the film Sophie s Choice 1982 Streep spoke both English and German with a Polish accent as well as Polish itself 243 In The Iron Lady she reproduced the vocal style of Margaret Thatcher from the time before Thatcher became Britain s Prime Minister and after she had taken elocution lessons to change her pitch pronunciation and delivery 244 243 Streep has commented that using accents as part of her acting is a technique she views as an obvious requirement in her portrayal of a character 245 When questioned in Belfast as to how she reproduces different accents Streep replied in a reportedly perfect Belfast accent I listen 246 247 245 Activism and advocacy Streep receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2014 Politically Streep has described herself as part of the American Left 248 She gave a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in support of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton 249 In January 2017 Streep was honored with the Cecil B DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Golden Globe Awards during which she delivered a predominantly political speech that implicitly criticized President elect Donald Trump She argued that Trump had a very strong platform and used it inappropriately to mock a disabled reporter Serge F Kovaleski whom in her words Trump outranked in privilege power and the capacity to fight back 250 Trump responded by calling Streep one of the most over rated actresses in Hollywood and a Hillary flunky who lost big 251 While promoting Suffragette in 2015 Streep accused the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes of disproportionately representing the opinions of male film critics resulting in a skewed ratio that adversely affected the commercial performances of female driven films 252 Personal lifeAuthor Karina Longworth notes that despite her stardom for decades Streep has managed to maintain a relatively normal personal life 22 Streep lived with actor John Cazale in the 1970s caring for him after his lung cancer diagnosis until he died in March 1978 253 Streep said of his death I didn t get over it I don t want to get over it No matter what you do the pain is always there in some recess of your mind and it affects everything that happens afterwards I think you can assimilate the pain and go on without making an obsession of it 57 Streep married sculptor Don Gummer six months after Cazale s death 254 They have four children musician Henry Wolfe Gummer born 1979 and actresses Mary Willa Mamie Gummer born 1983 Grace Jane Gummer born 1986 and Louisa Jacobson Gummer born 1991 9 255 In 1985 the family moved into a 1 8 million private estate in Connecticut and lived there until they bought a 3 million mansion in Brentwood Los Angeles in 1990 256 They later moved back to Connecticut 257 258 Streep is the godmother of Billie Lourd daughter of fellow actress and close friend Carrie Fisher 259 Fisher wrote the screenplay for Streep s 1990 film Postcards from the Edge based on Fisher s book 260 When asked if religion plays a part in her life in 2009 Streep replied I follow no doctrine I don t belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram 261 In an interview in December 2008 she alluded to her lack of religious belief when she said So I ve always been really deeply interested because I think I can understand the solace that s available in the whole construct of religion But I really don t believe in the power of prayer or things would have been avoided that have happened that are awful So it s a horrible position as an intelligent emotional yearning human being to sit outside of the available comfort there But I just can t go there 262 When asked where she draws consolation in the face of aging and death Streep responded Consolation I m not sure I have it I have a belief I guess in the power of the aggregate human attempt the best of 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 262 Acting credits and awardsMain articles Meryl Streep on screen and stage and awards and nominations One of the most prolific actresses of screen and stage since her career s inception in the late 1970s Streep s most acclaimed and highest grossing films according to the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes include Julia 1977 The Deer Hunter 1978 Kramer vs Kramer 1979 The French Lieutenant s Woman 1981 Sophie s Choice 1982 Silkwood 1983 A Cry in the Dark 1988 d Postcards from the Edge 1990 Defending Your Life 1991 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Marvin s Room 1996 Adaptation 2002 The Devil Wears Prada 2007 Mamma Mia 2008 Fantastic Mr Fox 2009 The Homesman 2014 Florence Foster Jenkins 2016 Little Women 2019 and Let Them All Talk 2020 Her television projects include the miniseries Holocaust 1978 the television film First Do No Harm 1997 the miniseries Angels in America 2003 and the drama series Big Little Lies 2019 264 Her notable stage roles include the Broadway theatre productions A Memory of Two Mondays 27 Wagons Full of Cotton both 1976 and The Cherry Orchard 1977 as well as multiple plays at the Delacorte Theater Streep has been recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences AMPAS for the following performances 51st Academy Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role nomination for The Deer Hunter 1978 52nd Academy Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role win for Kramer vs Kramer 1979 54th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for The French Lieutenant s Woman 1981 55th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role win for Sophie s Choice 1982 56th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for Silkwood 1983 58th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for Out of Africa 1985 60th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for Ironweed 1987 61st Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for A Cry in the Dark 1988 d 63rd Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for Postcards from the Edge 1990 68th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for The Bridges of Madison County 1995 71st Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for One True Thing 1998 72nd Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for Music of the Heart 1999 75th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role nomination for Adaptation 2002 79th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for The Devil Wears Prada 2006 81st Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for Doubt 2008 82nd Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for Julie amp Julia 2009 84th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role win for The Iron Lady 2011 86th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for August Osage County 2013 87th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role nomination for Into the Woods 2014 89th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for Florence Foster Jenkins 2016 90th Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination for The Post 2017 These nominations make Streep the most Academy Award nominated performer in history with 21 in total 17 for Best Actress and four for Best Supporting Actress as well as one of only 13 performers to win an Oscar in both acting categories and one of only three performers to win three Academy Awards across the two acting categories with Ingrid Bergman and Jack Nicholson being the only others to achieve this feat Also the recipient of six Grammy Award nominations five Primetime Emmy Award nominations with three wins and one Tony Award nomination Streep is one of few performers to be nominated for the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT Her other accolades include two BAFTA Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The French Lieutenant s Woman and The Iron Lady eight Golden Globe Awards as well as the honorary Cecil B DeMille Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards DiscographyThe Velveteen Rabbit 1984 265 A Prairie Home Companion 2006 265 Mamma Mia The Movie Soundtrack 2008 265 Into the Woods 2014 265 Florence Foster Jenkins 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Toronto Sun Archived from the original on January 22 2015 The Grammy nominated singer for Mamma Mia talks about a Broadway gig in the past The One and Only Shrek Macmillan Publishers Archived from the original on October 16 2015 Retrieved July 2 2015 About National Women s History Museum Archived from the original on November 5 2011 Retrieved January 11 2012 Meryl Streep donates 1M to The Public Theatre Yahoo News Archived from the original on October 8 2012 Retrieved October 6 2012 Karmali Sarah February 28 2013 Beyonce Leads New Gucci Empowerment Campaign Vogue Archived from the original on August 16 2017 Retrieved April 22 2013 Meryl Streep at UMass Lowell Chancellor s Speaker Series www uml edu UMass Lowell Massachusetts USA April 1 2014 Archived from the original on April 8 2017 Retrieved April 7 2017 Gordon Cox April 19 2015 Meryl Streep Funds Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40 Variety Archived from the original on April 28 2015 Retrieved April 28 2015 a b Inkoo Kang April 20 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