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Mary Louise Streep |
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Female |
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5' 6" |
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US - United States of America |
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June 22, 1949 |
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Summit, NJ |
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c/o Creative Artists Agency |
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9830 Wilshire Boulevard |
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Beverly Hills, CA 90212-1825 |
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USA |
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See also:
Death Becomes Her, The River Wild
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Biography |
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Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) was born Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey, USA, Streep majored in drama at Vassar College and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama. She appeared in her first films, Julia and The Deer Hunter in 1977, the latter of which would earn her her first Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress. Streep has since been nominated twelve more times (10 for Best Actress and 3 for Best Supporting Actress). She won Academy Awards for her roles in Kramer vs. Kramer (Best Supporting Actress, 1979) and Sophie's Choice (Best Actress, 1982). From 1984 to 1990, she won six People's Choice Awards for Favorite Motion Picture Actress and, in 1990, was named World-Favorite.
Streep also has happy marriage to sculptor Don Gummer, with four children. In the 1990s Streep took to playing a variet of roles including farce in Death Becomes Her, 1995's The Bridges of Madison County (largely regarded as her great comeback role), The River Wild - her first and only action film to date; and her noted comic turn in She-Devil. By the year 2000, Streep guest voiced a character in an episode of The Simpsons, & King of the Hill. She voiced the Blue Mecha in the Steven Spielberg-Stanley Kubrick film, A.I.; appeared in Adaptation., HBO's Angels in America; The Hours; and in 2004 took roles in the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, and in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. That same year, C. Virginia Fields, the President of the Manhattan Borough, proclaimed May 27 of that year "Meryl Streep Day".
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