Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Quoted in the media as "the best actress of his generation", Streep is primarily known for its versatility and adaptation accents. Nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, he has won three. Streep has also received 31 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight more nominations and a competitive victory than any other player.
Streep made his stage debut at Trelawny of the Wells in 1975. In 1976, he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Choice Actress in a Play for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. In 1977, she made her screen debut on the television movie The Deadliest Season, and also made her film debut at Julia . In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the Holocaust mini-series, and received her first Academy Award nomination for The Deer Hunter . Streep then won Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Best Actress for Sophie Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady 2011).
The other role of the Oscar nominee from Streep was at The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Silkwood (1983), i> Ironweed (1987), Evil Angels (1988), Postcard from Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County < > (1995), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Adaptation Devil Wears Prada (2006), Ragu (2008), Julie & amp; Julia (2009), August: Osage County (2013), Into the Woods (2014), Florence Foster Jenkins )), and The Post (2017). He returned to the stage for the first time in more than 20 years at The Public Theater in the 2001 revival of The Seagull, and won the second Emmy Award and the Golden Globe in 2004 for the HBO mini-series Angel in America (2003).
Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004, the Gala Tribute of the Lincoln Center Film Society in 2008, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for his contribution to American culture through performing arts. President Barack Obama awarded him the 2010 National Medal of Art, and in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2003, the French government made him a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. She was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2017.
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Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Mary Wilkinson Streep (nÃÆ' Â © e Mary Wolf Wilkinson), a commercial artist and art editor; and Harry William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive. He has two younger brothers, Dana David and Harry William III.
Streep's father, Harry is of German and Swiss descent. His father's line of tracing back to Loffenau, Germany, from where his second great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, immigrated to the United States, and where one of his ancestors served as mayor (the family name was later changed to "Streep"). Another line of his father's family is from Giswil, Switzerland. Her mother has British, German, and Irish descent. Some of the ancestors of Streep's ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, and were descended from immigrants of the 17th century from England. His eighth grandfather, Lawrence Wilkinson, was one of the first Europeans to settle in Rhode Island. Streep is also a distant relative of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania; records show that his family is one of the first buyers of land in the state. The great mothers of Streep, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, the last to be called second daughters of Streep, were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy, Ireland.
Streep's mother, whom she has compared in both her appearance and her way with Dame Judi Dench, is very encouraging to her daughter, and instills her trust in her from a very young age. Streep said: "He is a mentor because he said to me, 'Meryl, you're good. He said, "You can do whatever you want. If you are lazy, you will not solve it. But if you focus your mind, you can do anything. "And I believe in him." Although Streep is naturally more introverted than his mother, sometimes, when he later needs a confection of adulthood, he will consult his mother, ask his advice.
Streep was raised as a Presbyterian in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and Oak Street School, which was the junior high school of the day. In his debut in junior high, he starred as Louise Heller in the drama "The Family Upstairs". In 1963, the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where he attended Bernards High School. Writer Karina Longworth describes her as a "gawky boy with glasses and curly hair", but notes that she likes to show off in front of cameras in family home movies from a young age. At the age of 12, Streep was chosen to sing at the school recital, which led to him getting opera lessons from Estelle Liebling. Yet, despite his talent, he says that, "I sing something that I do not feel and understand, that's an important lesson - not to do that, to find out what I can feel." He quit after four years. Streep has many Catholic school friends, and regularly attends mass. Meryl is a high school cheerleader for Bernards High School Mountaineers and is also chosen as her last year's homecoming queen. His family lives on Old Fort Road.
Although Streep appeared in many school dramas during his high school years, he was not interested in serious theater until acting in Miss Julie's drama at Vassar College in 1969, where he gained attention throughout the campus. Professor of Vassar drama, Clinton J. Atkinson, said, "I do not think anyone has ever taught Meryl's acting, he's really self-taught." Streep showed early ability to mimic accents and quickly memorize the lines. He received a B.A. cum laude from college in 1971, before applying for the MFA from the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, he increased his tuition fees by doing waitresses and typing, and appeared in over a dozen production stages a year, to the point that he became overworked, developing ulcers. He contemplates stopping acting and turning to law study. Streep played various roles on stage, from Helena at A Midsummer Night's Dream to an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair in comedy written by then-unknown playwright Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato. He is a student choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, who in 2017 was introduced at the Kennedy Center Honors. One of his teachers is Robert Lewis, one of the founders of Studio Actor. Streep disagrees with some of the acting exercises he was asked to do, commenting that the professors "investigate personal life in a way that I find irksome". He received the MFA from Yale in 1975. Streep was also registered as a guest student at Dartmouth College in the fall of 1970, and received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from college in 1981.
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1970s
Theater and movie debut
One of Meryl Streep's first professional work in 1975, after Yale, was at the National Playwrights Conference Eugene O'Neill where he acted in five dramas for six weeks. Streep moved to New York City in 1975, and was fired by Joseph Papp in the production of the Trelawny of the Wells at the Public Theater, opposite Mandy Patinkin and John Lithgow. He continued to appear in five more roles in his first year in New York, including in the production of Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival Henry V , The Taming of the Shrew with RaÃÆ'ºl JuliÃÆ'¡, and Measure for Measuring across Sam Waterston and John Cazale. He has relationships with Cazale today, and lived with him until his death three years later. She starred in the musical Happy End on Broadway, and won Obie for her performance in dramas outside Broadway Alice at the Palace .
Though he has not set out to make his career in the movie world, Robert De Niro's appearance in Taxi Driver (1976) has had a big impact on young Streep, who said to himself, "that's the kind of actor I want to be when I grew up ". Streep began auditioning for film roles, and underwent a failed audition for the lead role at Dino De Laurentiis King Kong . Laurentiis stated in Italian to his son: "This is so bad, why did you bring me this?" Unbeknownst to Laurentiis, Streep understood Italian, and he commented, "I'm so sorry that I'm not as pretty as I should be, but, you know - this is it. He continued to work on Broadway, appearing on the 1976 Tennessee Williams Bills' 27th full Wagons Full of Cotton and Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. For the first, he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Choice Actress in a Play. Other Broadway Streep Credits include Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard and Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill's
The role of the first feature film Streep came opposite Jane Fonda in the 1977 movie Julia , where she had a small role during the flashback sequence. Most of the scenes were edited, but the short time on the actress screen was horrified: "I have a bad wig and they take the words of the scene I shoot with Jane and put them in my mouth in different scenes I think I have made a mistake I do not hate this business anymore. "However, Streep calls Fonda a lasting influence on her as an actress, and has regarded it as" opening the door may be more than I might know ". Breakthrough
Robert De Niro, who has seen Streep in his stage production of The Cherry Orchard, suggested that he play the role of his girlfriend in the movie The Deer Hunter (1978). Cazale, who has been diagnosed with lung cancer, also plays a role in the film, and Streep takes on the role of an "unclear girlfriend," to stay with Cazale for the duration of the filming. Longworth notes that Streep "makes the case for the empowerment of women by playing a woman to whom empowerment is an alien concept - a normal woman of an average American small town, for whom obedience is the only thing she knows." Pauline Kael, who would later become a strong critic of Streep, said that she was a "true beauty" that brought much freshness to the film with her performance. The success of the film exposes Streep to a wider audience and earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In the mini-series 1978 Holocaust , Streep played the leading role of a German woman married to a Jewish artist in the Nazi era of Germany. He found the material to be "endlessly noble" and claimed to have taken a role to gain financial gain. Streep went to Germany and Austria to film while Cazale remained in New York. Upon his return, Streep discovered that Cazale's disease had developed, and he nurtured it until his death on 12 March 1978. With an estimated audience of 109 million, the Holocaust brought wider public recognition to Streep. , which finds itself "on the verge of national visibility". She won the Emmy Primetime Award for Best Actress in a Mini or Movie Series for her performance. Despite his success, Streep is still not enthusiastic about his film career and prefers to act on stage.
Hoping to distract herself from the sadness of Cazale's death, Streep accepted the role in The Flirt of Joe Tynan (1979) as Alan Alda's cheerful love interest, then commented that he played it on an "automatic pilot". He performed Katherine's role in The Taming of the Shrew for Shakespeare in the Park, and also played a supporting role in Manhattan (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep then says that Allen did not give him the full script, gave him only six pages of his own scene, and did not allow him to change the word dialog. In Kramer vs. Kramer drama, Streep was thrown against Dustin Hoffman as an unmarried woman who abandoned her husband and child. Streep thinks that the manuscript portrays the female character as "too evil" and insists that it does not represent a real woman who is facing marital disorder and child custody battles. The author agrees with him, and the script is revised. In preparing that section, Streep speaks to his own mother about her life as a wife with a career, and often visits the Upper East Side neighborhood where the film was made, observing the interaction between parents and children. Director Robert Benton allowed Streep to write his own dialogue in two major scenes, despite objections from Hoffman, who "hated him". Jaffee and Hoffman then talk about the accuracy of Streep, with Hoffman's comment, "He's incredibly hard-working, as far as he's obsessive, I think he does not think of the others, but what he does." The film is controversial among feminists, but it is a role criticized by film critic Stephen Farber that shows Streep's "emotional intensity", writing that he is one of the "rare players who can inspire the most routine moments with a bit of mystery".
For Kramer vs. Kramer, Streep won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, which he left in the women's room after giving his lecture. She was also awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, National Assessment Council Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Film Critics Award Society for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in her three film releases in 1979. Both < The Deer Hunter and Kramer vs. Kramer is a huge commercial success and is the consecutive winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
1980s
Rise to star
In 1979, Streep began workshopping Alice in Concert, the music version of Alice Adventure in the Wonderland, with writer and composer Elizabeth Swados and director Joseph Papp; the show was on display at the New York Public Theater from December 1980. Frank Rich of the New York Times called Streep a "miracle" of production, but questioned why he devoted so much energy to it. In 1980, Streep has advanced to a leading role in the film. She is featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine titled "A Star for the 80s"; Jack Kroll commented, "There is a sense of mystery in his acting, he not only imitates (though he is a great personality), he transmits the sense of danger, the fundamental anxiety that lies just beneath the surface of normal behavior." Streep denounced strong media coverage at the time as "excessive hype".
The story in the drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) is the main role of Streep. The film paired Streep with Jeremy Irons as a contemporary actor, telling their modern story, as well as the Victorian drama they did. Streep perfects the English accent for that part, but considers himself unsuited to the role: "I can not resist the urge to hope that I am prettier". A New York magazine article commented that, while many female stars in the past have developed a single identity in their films, Streep is a "chameleon", willing to play any role. Streep was awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in the Main Role for his work. The following year, he reunited with Robert Benton for the psychological thriller, Still in the Night (1982), starring Roy Scheider and Jessica Tandy. Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, notes that the film is a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's work, but one of his main drawbacks is the lack of chemistry between Streep and Scheider, concluding that Streep "is amazing, but he is not on the screen anywhere long enough ".
Larger success came later in the year when Streep starred in Sophie's Choice drama (also 1982), describing a Polish holocaust victim who was trapped in a love triangle between a naive young writer (Peter MacNicol) and a Jewish Intellectual ( Kevin Kline). Streep's dramatic emotional performance and his clear mastery of the Polish accent drew praise. William Styron wrote a novel with Ursula Andress in mind for Sophie's role, but Streep is determined to get that role. Streep filmed the "choice" scene in one shot and refused to do it again, feeling very painful and exhausting emotionally. The scene, in which Streep was ordered by SS guards at Auschwitz to choose which of his two children would be gassed and which would proceed to a forced labor camp, was his most famous scene, according to Emma Brockes of The Guardian wrote in 2006: "This classic Streep, the kind of scene that makes your scalp tight, but defter in a way is the way it handles smaller and more elusive emotions." Among several acting awards, Streep won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, and her character was voted the third greatest movie of all time by Premiere magazine. Roger Ebert said of his submission, "Streep plays the Brooklyn scene with a dazzling Polish-American accent (he has the first accent I ever wanted to hug), and he plays flashbacks in German and Polish subtitles.Almost no emotion that Streep does not touch in this film, but we were never conscious of his determination.This is one of the most amazing and most unnatural and least imaginable shows ever seen. "Pauline Kael, on the other hand, called the film" a very annoying film, "and thought that Streep "decorates himself," which he believes explains why his movie hero "does not seem to be a full-fledged character, and why there is no incidental joy to be gained from watching him".
In 1983 saw Streep playing his first non-fictional character, nuclear whistleblower and trade union activist Karen Silkwood who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged mistakes at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant, in the biopic Mike Nichols of Silkwood Streep felt a personal connection with Silkwood, and in preparation he met people close to the woman, and by doing so realized that everyone saw different aspects of his personality. He said, "I'm not trying to turn myself into Karen, I'm just trying to see what he's doing.I collected every piece of information I could find about him... What I ended up doing was seeing the events in his life, and trying to understand he's from within. "Jack Kroll of Newsweek considers Streep's characterization to be" brilliant ", while Silkwood's girlfriend Drew Stephens has expressed his approval in Streep who has played Karen as a human rather than a myth, even though Karen Bill's father thinks that Streep and the film has silenced her daughter. Pauline Kael believes that Streep has been misplaced. Streep subsequently played against Robert De Niro in the Falling in Love romance (1984), which was poorly received, and described a fighter for the French Resistance during World War II in British drama Many (1985), adapted from the drama by David Hare. For the latter, Roger Ebert writes that he conveys "substantial smoothness; it is difficult to play an unbalanced, neurotic, self-destructive woman, and do so with such tenderness and charm... Streep creates whole characters around a woman who can is just a catalog of symptoms. "In 2008, Molly Haskell praised Streep's performance on Plenty, believing it to be" one of the most difficult and ambiguous Streep movies "and" most feminist. "
Out of Africa and backlash
Longworth considers Streep's next release, Out of Africa (1985), to have established him as a Hollywood superstar. In the film, Streep starred as Danish writer Karen Blixen, in front of Robert Redford's Denys Finch Hatton. Director of Sydney Pollack initially doubted Streep in that role, as he did not think he was sexy enough, and considers Jane Seymour as his share. Pollack recalls that Streep impressed him in a different way: "He is so direct, very honest, no nonsense, no shield between him and me." Streep and Pollack often clashed during a 101-day shoot in Kenya, especially over Blixen's voice. Streep spent a great deal of time listening to the Blixen tapes, and began to speak in an old-fashioned and aristocratic way, which Pollack said exaggerated. Significant commercial and critical success, the film earned Streep an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and the film eventually won Best Picture. Critics Stanley Kaufmann wrote, "Meryl Streep is back in top shape, meaning her performance at Out Out Africa is at the highest acting level in today's film."
Longworth notes that the dramatic success of Out of Africa led to a critical backlash against Streep in the years to come, especially as he now demands $ 4 million in a picture. Unlike other stars at the time, like Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise, Streep "never seemed to play alone," and certain critics felt his technical ability to get people to see his acting. Subsequent films did not attract a large audience; She starred in Jack Nicholson in the drama Heartburn (1986) and Ironweed (1987), where she sings on screen for the first time since the Secret Service i> (1977). In Evil Angels (1988), she plays Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman who has been convicted of the murder of her infant daughter despite claiming that her baby has been taken by the dingo. Filmed in Australia, Streep won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in the Main Role, Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Streep has said perfecting the Australian accent in the film: "I have to learn a bit for Australia because it's not different [to America], so like coming from Italy to Spain you're a bit confused." Vincent Canby of The New York Times refers to his performance as "another amazing performance", playing with "the kind of expertise that seems to redefine the possibility of acting screens".
In 1989, Streep lobbied to play a leading role in Oliver Stone's adaptation of the Evita drama, but two months before the filming would begin, he came out, citing "exhaustion" initially, though it later revealed that there was a dispute about his salary. By the end of this decade, Streep is actively looking for stars in comedy. He found a role in She-Devil (1989), an allusion that parodies the public's obsession with beauty and beauty surgery, where he plays a glamorous writer. Though the film was not successful, Richard Corliss of Time wrote that Streep was "a reason" to see it, and observed that it marked the departure of the dramatic role he knew to play. Reacting to the badly received film strings, Streep says: "The audience is shrinking, because the narrower and narrower the marketing strategy they want to reach from 16 to 25 - it's a chicken-and-egg syndrome that comes first." "First, they released all the movies this summer, then did a demographic survey of who would see them."
1990s
The failed comedy, and The Bridges of Madison County
Biographer Karen Hollinger describes the early 1990s as a decline in the popularity of Streep's films, attributing this in part to the critical perception that his comedies were an attempt to convey a lighter image after some serious drama, but commercially unsuccessful, more significant, due to the lack of options available to an actress in her forties. Streep commented that he had limited his choice with preference to work in Los Angeles, close to his family, the situation he had anticipated in a 1981 interview when he commented, "By the time an actress touched his mid forties, there was no interest in him anymore. want to pair some babies into that schedule too, you have to choose your body parts very carefully. "At the Women's National Screen Acting Women's Conference in 1990, Streep voiced the first national event, emphasizing the decline in women's employment, parity salary, and role models in the film industry. He criticized the film industry to downplay the importance of women both on screen and beyond.
After the role in the postcard drama Postcard from the Edge (1990), and the comedies of Defending Your Life (1991), Streep starred with Goldie Hawn in comedy funny black, Death Becomes Her (1992), with Bruce Willis as his co-star. Streep persuaded writer David Koepp to rewrite some scenes, especially scenes in which his character was having an affair with a younger man, whom he believed to be an "unrealistic man" in conception. The seven-month photo shoot is the longest in Streep's career, where he becomes a character with "thinking about being a little upset all the time". Because of Streep's allergies to many cosmetics, special prosthetics should be designed to age up to ten years to see 54, although Streep believes that they make it look closer 70. Longworth thinks Death Becomes Her has been "the most physically streep yet committed to the screen, all crying broad, grinning, and eye-rolling ". Although it is a commercial success, earning $ 15.1 million in just five days, Streep's contribution to comedy is generally not well received by critics. ' s Richard Corliss wrote approves of Streep's "wicked witch routine" but refuses the film as "She-Devil with make-over" and the " hate women ".
Streep appeared with Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close and Winona Ryder at The House of the Spirits (1993), which was formed during the Chilean military dictatorship. The film is not well received by critics. Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote: "This is truly an achievement that unites Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas and Vanessa Redgrave and ensures that, without exception, they all give their worst performances ". The following year, Streep appeared on The River Wild as the mother of the children on a white water rafting trip that met two cruel criminals (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) in the wilderness. Although the critical reactions are generally mixed, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone finds him "strong, sassy and looser than ever on the screen".
Streep's most successful film of the decade is the romance of The Bridges of Madison County (1995) directed by Clint Eastwood, who adapted the film from the Robert James Waller novel of the same name. This is related to the story of Robert Kincaid (Eastwood), a photographer working for National Geographic, who has a love affair with a middle-aged Italian farm wife in Iowa named Francesca (Streep). Although Streep did not like the novel that became his foundation, he found the script to be a special occasion for an actress of his age. She gained weight for that part, and dressed differently from the characters in the book to emulate an exciting Italian movie star like Sophia Loren. Both Loren and Anna Magnani were influences in his portrayal, and Streep saw Pier Paolo Pasolini Mamma Roma (1962) before filming. The film became a box office hit and grossed $ 70 million more in the United States. The movie, unlike the novel, was warmly welcomed by critics. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that Eastwood has succeeded in creating "a touching and loving love story in the heart of the overly grateful Mr. Waller," while Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal describes it as "one of the most fun movies in the last memory". Longworth believes that Streep's performance "is critical to transforming what could be a weak soap opera into a living work of historical fiction that implicitly criticizes the ferocious culture of domestication in postwar America." He considered it to be the role in which Streep became "the first middle-aged actress could be taken seriously by Hollywood as a romantic hero".
The late 1990s
Streep plays an estranged Bessie (Diane Keaton) sister, a woman struggling against leukemia, in Marvin's Room (1996), an adaptation of drama by Scott McPherson. Streep recommends Keaton for the role. The film also features Leonardo DiCaprio as the son of rebel character Streep. Roger Ebert stated that, "Streep and Keaton, in their different styles, found a way to make Lee and Bessie more than just expressions of their problems." The film was well received, and Streep won another Golden Globe nomination for his performance.
As an Irish woman, Streep competes acting with Michael Gambon and Catherine McCormack in Pat O'Connor's "Dancing in Lughnasa" (1998), which was incorporated into the Venice Film Festival in the year of her release. Janet Maslin of The New York Times says that "Meryl Streep has made a lot of great acting moves in her career, but her way of just peeking out the window at Dancing in Lughnasa ranked with that the best that everything the audience needs to know about Kate Mundy, the woman she plays here, is written on her primitive face, her loneliness and dazzled eyes. "Later that year, she plays a cancer sufferer trapped in a difficult family situation, playing mother of Renà ©  © e Zellweger and wife William Hurt in One True Thing . The film received positive reviews. Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle stated, "After 'One True Thing', critics who persist in fiction that Streep is a cold and technical actress will need to get their head examined.She is so instinctive and natural - very meticulous at the moment and operating with inspiration - that he is capable of giving us a woman who is at once very idiosyncratic and totally trustworthy. "Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan noted that his role" is one the most unconsciously dramatic and prominent surface in his career "but he" added a level of honesty and reality that made [his appearance] one of the most moving. "
Streep describes Roberta Guaspari, a real-life New Yorker who finds passion and enlightenment that teaches violins to the inner-city children of East Harlem, in the music drama Music of the Heart (1999). Departing from Wes Craven's earlier work in films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream series, Streep replaces singer Madonna, who left the project before the filming began due to creative differences with Craven. Required to perform on the violin, Streep undergoes two months of intensive training, five to six hours a day. Streep received nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. Roger Ebert writes that "Meryl Streep is known for her mastery of accents: she may be the most versatile speaker in the movie, here you may think she has no accent, unless you have heard a real speaking voice, then you realize that Guaspari's speaking style is no less a special achievement than any other Streep accent.This is not Streep's voice, but the voice of others - with certain flat qualities, as if education and further improvement came after a less sophisticated childhood. "
2000s
2000-2005
Streep entered the 2000s with a cameo voice in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), a fictional, childish science fiction film, played by Haley Joel Osment. In the same year, Streep hosted the Nobel Peace Prize Concert with Liam Neeson held in Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 2001, in honor of Nobel Peace Prize recipients, United Nations and Kofi Annan. In 2001, Streep returned to the stage for the first time in over twenty years, playing Arkadina at The Public Theater's Anton Chekhov's Seagull Seed, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Stephen Spinella, Debra Monk, Larry Pine, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The son of Streep, Henry Gummer, later to be known as musician Henry Wolfe, was also featured in the drama in the role of Yakov, a hired worker. That same year, Streep began working on the Spike Jonze drama Adaptation. (2002), in which she describes the real life journalist Susan Orlean. Hailed by critics and viewers, the film won its fourth Streep Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category. AO Scott in The New York Times considers Streep's portrayal of Orlean to be "quietly played", showing the contrast in his "wittily aware" character with Chris Cooper's love interest "shabby hair, toothless charisma" as an autodidact arrested for rare orchid hunting. Streep appeared with Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore at Stephen Daldry's
Streep has a cameo like him in the Farrelly brothers comedy Stuck on You 2003, and reunited with Mike Nichols to star Al Pacino and Emma Thompson in HBO adaptation Tony Kushner for six hours playing the Angels in America (2003), the story of two couples whose connection broke out in the midst of Reagan's political background. Streep, who plays four roles in the mini-series, receives both the Emmy Award and the fifth Golden Globe for his performance. He appeared in the successful remake of Jonathan Demme from The Manchurian Candidate (2004), starring Denzel Washington, playing the role of a woman who was a US senator and a cruel, manipulative mother of a presidential-presidential vice. In the same year, he played the supporting role of Aunt Josephine in the 'Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events' with Jim Carrey, based on the first three novels in the Snicket book series. Black comedy received generally favorable comments from critics, and won the Academy Award for Best Makeup. Streep also narrated the movie Monet's Palate . Streep was the next cast in comedy film Prime (2005), directed by Ben Younger. In the film, he played Lisa Metzger, a Jewish psychoanalyst from a divorced and lonely business woman, played by Uma Thurman, who entered a relationship with 23-year-old Metzger son (Bryan Greenberg). Simple mainstream success, it has earned US $ 67.9 million internationally. Roger Ebert notes how Streep has "the ability to cut the solitude of a scene with a tone that reveals how all human efforts".
2006-2009
In August and September 2006, Streep starred in the stage at The Public Theater's Mother Courage and Her Children production at Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Public Theater Production is a new translation by playwright Tony Kushner ( Angels in America ), with songs in the Weill/Brecht style written by composer Jeanine Tesori ( Caroline, or Change ); veteran director George C. Wolfe was at the helm. Streep starred alongside Kevin Kline and Austin Pendleton in this three-and-a-half hour game. Around the same time, Streep, along with Lily Tomlin, described the last two members of what was once a popular family country music acting in Robert Altman's latest movie A Prairie Home Companion (2006). A comedy ensemble featuring Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline and Woody Harrelson, the film revolves around behind-the-scenes activities on long-running public radio shows of the same name. The film earned more than US $ 26 million, mostly from the domestic market.
Commercially, Streep fared better with the role in The Devil Wears Prada (also 2006), a loose screen adaptation of the 2003 novel Lauren Weisberger of the same name. Streep describes Miranda Priestly, the fashion magazine editor (and boss of recent college graduates played by Anne Hathaway). Although the entire film received mixed reviews, its portrayal of what Ebert called "quiet and arrogant Miranda," drew warm reviews from critics and earned numerous award nominations, including his record of winning the 14th Oscars bid, as well as Golden others. Globe. In its commercial release, the film became Streep's biggest commercial success to date, with gross revenues in excess of US $ 326.5 million worldwide.
He described the rich protector of the university in the highly delayed Chen Shi-zheng feature drama of Dark Matter, a film about a Chinese graduate student of science who became violent after dealing with academic politics at a US university. Inspired by the 1991 shooting incident of the University of Iowa, and originally scheduled for release in 2007, producers and investors decided to override Dark Matter in honor of the Virginia Tech massacre victims in April 2007. The drama received negative reviews for the diverse in limited 2008 release. Streep plays a US government official investigating an alleged Egyptian foreigner in a political thriller Rendition (2007), directed by Gavin Hood. Interested in engaging in a thriller, Streep welcomes the opportunity to star in a movie genre that is not usually offered the script, and immediately goes into the project. Upon release, Rendition was less commercially successful, and received mixed reviews.
In this period, Streep has a short role with Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close, and her eldest daughter Mamie Gummer in the drama Lajos Koltai Evening (2007), based on a 1998 novel of the same name by Susan Minot. Switching between the present and the past, she tells the story of a woman lying in bed, who remembers her chaotic life in the mid-1950s. The film was released to the warm reaction of criticism, which calls it "beautifully filmed, but definitely boring [and] a gigantic waste of talented players". He has a role in Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs (also 2007), a film about the relationship between a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan, a US senator, a reporter, and a California college professor. Like the Night , critics feel that the talent of the cast is wasted, and that it suffers slowly pacing, although one critic announces that Streep is positively prominent, being "naturally, without coercion, silently strong ", in comparison to Redford's forced performance.
Streep found great commercial success when he starred in Phyllida Lloyd's Mamma Mia! (2008), a film adaptation of a musical of the same name, based on Swedish pop group ABBA songs. Starring Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan SkarsgÃÆ' Â¥ rd, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, and Christine Baranski, Streep plays a single mother and former girl-group singer, whose daughter (Seyfried), a bride who never met her father , invited three prospective fathers from his marriage on the beautiful Greek island. Instant box office success, Mamma Mia! became Streep's current best-selling film, with box office receipts of $ 602.6 million, also ranked first among the top selling musical films. Nominated for another Golden Globe, Streep's performance is generally well received by critics, with Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe commenting: "The greatest actor in an American movie ends up being a movie star."
Doubts (also 2008) featured Streep with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. A drama that revolved around the head of the main nun (Streep) of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 that brought pedophilia accusations against a famous priest (Hoffman), the film became a moderate box office success, and was praised by many critics as one of the best films in 2008. The film received five Academy Awards nominations, for the four main actors and for the Shanley script. Ebert, who awarded the film with four full stars, highlighted the caricature of Streep about a nun, who "hates all the breakthroughs of the modern world", while Kelly Vance from The East Bay Express commented: "It is very thrilling to see a pro as Streep stepped into a very exaggerated role, and then increased it a few notches just for the hell.Grim, red-eyed, pale papa, Aloysius is probably the scariest nun of all time. "
In 2009, Streep played Julia Child's chef at Nora Ephron Julie & amp; Julia , starring along with Stanley Tucci, and again with Amy Adams. (Tucci and Streep previously worked together at Devil Wears Prada.) The first major film based on blogs, Julie and Julia distinguished the lives of Children in the early years. his culinary career with the young life of New Yorker Julie Powell (Adams), who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in cookbooks Children Master the French Cooking Arts . Longworth believes his Julia Child's caricature "is probably the greatest performance of his career, while also leveraging his own experience to bring the living truth-into the story of a big mistake". In the romantic comedy Nancy Meyers It's Complicated (also 2009), Streep starred Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. She received a nomination 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 her. He also lent his voice to Mrs. Felicity Fox in the stop-motion movie Fantastic Mr. Fox .
2010s
2010-2015
Streep is back in collaboration with Phyllida Lloyd's Mamma Mia director of The Iron Lady (2011), a British biopic about Margaret Thatcher, who saw the Prime Minister during the Falklands War and the years before, year in retirement. Streep, who attended the House of Commons session to see British MPs act in preparation for his role as Thatcher, called him casting "a daunting and exciting challenge". While the film has mixed acceptance, Streep's performance received a warm welcome, earned her Best Actress at the Golden Globes and BAFTA, and her third win at the 84th Academy Awards. Thatcher's former advisor, friends and family criticized Streep's portrayal of himself as "inaccurate" and "biased". The following year, following Thatcher's death, Streep issued an official statement describing Thatcher's "heavy fiscal measures" and "hands-off approach to financial regulation," while extolling his personal "power and grit".
Streep reunited with director David Levy in the romantic comedy drama Hope Springs (2012), 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 restore the lost intimacy in their relationship. The reviews for the film are mostly positive, with critics praising "stunning performances [...] that offer movie audiences some adult laughter - and a wise look at an adult relationship".
In 2013, Streep starred alongside Julia Roberts and Ewan McGregor in the August August Osage County black drama: Osage County (2013) about dysfunctional families who re-united into the family home when their patriarchs suddenly disappeared. Based on the work of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning, Streep received positive reviews for her portrayal of a strong-willed and fighting family, suffering from oral cancer and addiction to narcotics, and later nominated for another Golden Globe, SAG, and Academy Award. At the National Board of Review Awards in 2013, Streep calls Walt Disney "anti-semitism" and "gender genius". Former actors, employees, and animators who knew Disney during his lifetime dismissed comments as false and selective information. The Walt Disney Family Museum issued a statement that reproves Streep's accusations indirectly, citing, among other things, Disney's contribution to the Jewish charity and his published letters stating that women "have the right to expect equal opportunities for advancement as men, male ". However, Disney's grandson, Abigail Disney, wholeheartedly agrees with Streep's statement, stating that he is an "anti-Semitic" and "racist" who is also an exemplary filmmaker whose work "makes billions of happy people."
In 2014 the Giver , a film adaptation of a young adult novel, Streep plays community leader. Set in 2048, the social science fiction film tells the story of a post-apocalyptic community without war, pain, suffering, difference or choice, in which a boy is chosen to study the real world. Streep was aware of the book before being offered a star-studded role and producer Jeff Bridges. Upon release, the Giver meets the negative, mixed negative reviews of critics. Streep also has a small role in the drama film The i The Homesman (2014). Set in the mid-1850s, movie stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones as an unusual couple who helped three women were driven into insanity by the border to regain the East. Streep did not appear until near the end of the film, playing the wife of a preacher, which made the women a concern. The Homesman premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where most of the positive reviews of criticism.
Directed by Rob Marshall, Into the Woods (also 2014) is a Disney movie adaptation of Broadway musicals with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim in which Streep plays a magician. A crossover fantasy genre inspired by the fairy tale of the Grimm Brothers, it centers on a childless couple who set out to end the curse placed on them by Streep's grudge wizards. Although the film was rejected by some critics such as Mark Kermode as "irritating naffness", Streep's performance earned Academy Award nominations, Golden Globe, SAG, and Critic's Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress. In July 2014, it was announced that Streep would portray Maria Callas in the Master Class, but the project was withdrawn after the death of director Mike Nichols in November of the same year.
In 2015, Streep starred in Jonathan Demme's Ricki and the Flash, playing a daytime grocery store checkout who is a rock musician at night, and who has one last chance to reconnect with an exiled family. Streep learned to play the guitar for the semi-autobiography drama-comedy, which once again featured Streep with his eldest daughter, Mamie Gummer. Reviews about films are generally mixed. Another Streep film this time is director Sarah Gavron's drama, Suffragette (also 2015), starring Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter. In the film, he plays a small but important role, Emmeline Pankhurst, a British political activist and leader of the British voting movement that helps women win the right to vote. The film got a lot of positive reviews, especially for the players' performances, although the distributors were criticized that Streep's prominent position in marketing was misleading.
2016-present
In February 2016, Streep was president of the main competition jury at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. His only film of the year was Stephen Frears' landing comedy Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), a biopic about an unconscious, carefree opera singer who insisted on public performance. Other cast members are Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg. For her performance, Streep won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in Comedy, and received Academy Award nominations, Golden Globe, SAG, and BAFTA. In 2017, Streep starred as the publisher of the first US women's newspaper, Kay Graham, to Tom Hanks' Ben Bradlee, in the drama Steven Spielberg The Post , centered on The Washington Post > ' s publishing of the Pentagon Letter 1971. The film received very positive reviews, with special praise for the performances of both leaders. Streep received the 31st Golden Globe nomination at the 75th Golden Globe Awards, and 21st Academy Award at the 90th Academy Awards for Best Actress.
In February 2017, Streep returned to work with Rob Marshall and Emily Blunt, at Mary Poppins Returns (2018), playing cousin of the titular character Topsy. The film also brings together Streep with Colin Firth and Julie Walters. Streep is set to re-enact her role as Donna Sheridan of Mamma Mia! , along with the majority of original players, in the sequel to 2018 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. He will also join the second season of the HBO series Big Little Lies, where he will play Mary-Louise Wright, Nicole Kidman's mother-in-law character, and will star in an upcoming political thriller movie Steven Soderbergh The Laundromat , based on the Panama Papers scandal.
Style and acting heritage
Vanity Fair commented that "it's hard to imagine that there's a time before Meryl Streep is the most lively actress". Emma Brockes of The Guardian notes that although Streep is "one of the most famous actresses in the world", "it is oddly difficult to put a picture on Streep", in a career where she has "worked hard". to establish himself as an actor rooted in ordinary life. "Despite his success, Streep has always been simple about his own acting and achievements in the cinema.He has stated that he has no specific method of acting, learning from his early days of study that he can not articulating his practice.He said in 1987, "I have a handful of things I learned from different teachers, but there's nothing I can put in a hole and open it and say, 'Now, which one do you like?' There's nothing I can count on, and that makes it even more dangerous. But then, the dangers make it more interesting. "He has stated that the ideal director is someone who gives him full artistic control, and allows him the level of improvisation and learn from his own mistakes.
Karina Longworth notes how Streep's "external" appearance, "chameleon" in mimicking her character, "puts herself inside of them, instead of personifying them". In early roles such as Manhattan
Mike Nichols, who directed Streep at Silkwood , Heartburn , Postcard from the Edge , and Angels in America , praised The ability of Streep to transform himself into his character, commenting that, "In every role, he becomes a completely new man.When he becomes the person he describes, the other players start reacting to him as if he were that person." He says that directing it is "very much like falling in love that has the character of time you remember as magic, but that is shrouded in mystery". He also noted that Streep's acting skills had a great impact on his co-stars, and that "one can increase by 1000% by pure viewing". Longworth believes that in almost every film, Streep "cunningly inserts" the feminist point of view in his portrayal. However, film critic Molly Haskell has stated, "None of her female heroes is feminist," he explains, but they unusually manifest different experiences in the last twenty years, because women have redefined themselves against the backdrop women's movement ".
Streep is renowned for his ability to mimic accents - from Danish in Out of Africa (1985) to English receptions in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Many (1985), and The Iron Lady (2011); Italian at The Bridges of Madison County (1995); a South American accent in The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979); Minnesota accent in A Prairie Home Companion (2006); Irish-Americans at Ironweed (1987); and heavy Bronx accents in Doubt (2008). Streep has stated that he grew up listening to artists such as Barbra Streisand, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan, and he learned a lot about how to use his voice, his "instrument," by listening to Barbra Streisand's albums. In the movie Evil Angels (1988, released in the US as A Cry in the Dark ), where he describes New Zealand's transplant to Australia, Streep perfects the mix of Australian English and New Zealand. His performance received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in the Main Role, as well as Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
For his role in the Sophie Choice film (1982), Streep speaks English and German with Polish accents, as well as Polish himself. In The Iron Lady , he reproduced vocal style of Margaret Thatcher from the time before Thatcher became Prime Minister of England, and after he took fluent lessons to change his tone, pronunciation, and sending. Streep commented that using an accent as part of his acting is a technique he sees as a clear requirement in his role as a character. When asked in Belfast about how he reproduced a different accent, Streep responded with a perfect Belfast accent: "I'm listening."
In 2004, Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award by the board of directors of the American Film Institute.
Other jobs
After Streep appeared in Mamma Mia! , his rendition of the song "Mamma Mia" rose to be popular on the Portuguese music charts, where it peaked at No. 1. 8 in October 2008. At the 35th Person Choice Awards, the "Mamma Mia" version won the award for "Favorite Songs From A Soundtrack". In 2008, Streep was nominated for a Grammy Award (fifth nominee) for his work on the soundtrack of Mamma Mia! . Streep has narrated many audio books, including three by children's author William Steig: Brae Irene , Spinky Sulks , and The One and Only Shrek !.
Streep is a spokesperson for the National Women's History Museum, where he has made significant contributions (including his $ 1 million to The Iron Lady, $ 1 million), and holds numerous events. On October 4, 2012, Streep donated $ 1 million to The Public Theater in honor of its founder, Joseph Papp, and his friend, author Nora Ephron. He also supports Gucci's "Chime for Change" campaign aimed at spreading women's empowerment.
In 2014, Streep founded two scholarships for students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell - Meryl Streep Scholarship Endowed for English majors, and Joan Hertzberg Endowed Scholarship (named for former classmate Streep at Vassar College) for math majors.
In April 2015, it was announced that Streep had funded a screenwriter's laboratory for female screenwriters over forty, called Lab Writers, to be run by New York Women in Movies & Television and IRIS collectively. Labs are the only one of its kind in the world for female screenwriters over the age of forty. In 2015, Streep signs an open letter that ONE Campaign has collected signatures; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women when they served as heads of G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa, respectively, in setting priorities for development financing. Also in 2015, Streep sends every US Congressman a letter supporting the Equal Rights Amendment. Each letter was sent with a copy of the book Equal Means Equal: Why Time for the Current ERA By Jessica Neuwirth, president of the ERA Coalition.
Streep, when asked in a 2015 interview by Time Out magazine if he was a feminist, replied, "I am a humanist, I am for a nice easy balance." In March 2016, Streep, among others, signed a letter calling for gender equality throughout the world, within the framework of International Women's Day; this is also organized by ONE Campaign. In 2018, he collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to prepare Time's Up initiatives to protect women from abuse and discrimination.
Streep on 25 April 2017 openly supported the campaign to free Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker from Crimea who was subjected to a fake trial by Russia and imprisoned in Siberia for 20 years in August 2015. He was depicted with Ukrainian lawmaker Mustafa Nayyem with "Free Sentsov "signed a photograph taken during the PEN American Annual Literature Gala on April 25, where Sentsov was honored with the PENA/Barbey Freedom Writing award in 2017.
Political view
Politically, Streep describes itself as part of the American Left. He gave a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention to support presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
On January 8, 2017, Streep received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Golden Globes, where he delivered a highly political speech criticizing Donald Trump (without naming him). He says that Trump has a very powerful platform and uses it improperly. He said that he mocked a flawed reporter, Serge F. Kovaleski, who, in his words, Trump "outranked in privilege, power, and capacity to fight", and that, "When strongly used their position to bully, lost ". He also said, "Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and strangers, and if you kick us all, you will have nothing to watch except soccer and mixed martial arts, which is not art." Trump responded on Twitter by calling Streep "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood", and "a great flunky Hillary lost".
Personal life
Author Karina Longworth notes that despite the "high level of fame" for decades, Streep has managed to maintain a relatively normal personal life. Streep lived with actor John Cazale for three years until his death from lung cancer in March 1978. Streep said his death, "I can not handle it.
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