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Meryl Streep Biography
Mary Louise Streep (known as Meryl Streep). Born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey (USA). As a teenager, Meryl Streep is destined for a career as a singer. She discovered the scene and took courses in drama at Yale University before joining the Phoenix Repertory Theatre in New York. It appears for the first time in the movies Julia ( Fred Zinnemann , 1977) and knows the consecration in 1978 with Journey to the End of Hell .
While companion John Cazale , she accepted a secondary role in the film of Michael Cimino to be with the actor, sick with bone cancer. It was she who undertook to write his lines in order to give more weight to his character. For this performance, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and an Emmy Award for his role in the series Holocaust . In 1980, she managed to grab the famous gold statuette for her portrayal of unfit mother in Kramer against Kramer . Meryl Streep then specialized in the roles of women both fragile and strong, battered by life or by others, as in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) by Karel Reisz and Sophie's Choice (1982), which won the Oscar for Best Actress.
It also proves that she can call the characters of women from the middle class , sometimes portrayed in their everyday ordinary, sometimes immersed in a particular context, as in The Mystery of Silkwood ( Mike Nichols , 1983). The biggest players, like Robert De Niro ( Falling in Love , 1984) and Jack Nicholson ( The Force of Destiny , 1987), the tear is to give the reply. Meryl Streep goes from love story that ends badly ( Out of Africa , 1985) to the impossible love with The Bridges of Madison (1994), directed by and starring Clint Eastwood .
Often confined to dramatic roles predestination receive an Oscar ( Marvin , Backlight , The Music of My Heart , The Hours ), the actress most "nominee" of film history, however, attempts to vary the genres: undead in fantasy comedy The Death Becomes Her (1992), she tries to raft the needs of the thriller The River Wild (1995) and embodies the manipulative politician's remake A Manchurian Candidate (2004). After the tragedy is to comedy turns Meryl Streep joining Jim Carrey in The Grim adventures of the Baudelaire orphans , which she played the wacky and neurotic Aunt Agrippina. She then, brilliantly, the features of the Jewish mother in protecting classified secrets (my therapist) of Ben Younger . Then the actress chose Ant Bully him to take his first steps in the animation by lending his voice to the queen ants. In 2006, she played a country singer in The Last Show , the latest film from Robert Altman .
She then joined the adaptation of the novel by Lauren Weisberger , The Devil Wears Prada , where she takes pleasure in tyrannizing the young actress Anne Hathaway , a role which earned him another Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Meryl Streep multiplies the genres that are not alike. The year 2007 was marked by two films very closely related to political news. Lions for Lambs whose theme is the war in Iraq, she starred alongside Tom Cruise , directed by Robert Redford . Then Rendition a thriller disturbing on the detention of suspected terrorists. The following year discovered yet another facet of the actress plays Donna since, the main character of the musical Mamma Mia! adapted to the screen by Phyllida Lloyd .
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