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Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep TV Listings

Channel	Date & Time	Title	Buy
MOMAXe	Wed, Feb 10, 11:05 AM	Rendition	Buy
PBS	Wed, Feb 10, 8:00 PM	Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New	Buy
CINEMAX	Thu, Feb 11, 7:40 AM	Mamma Mia!	Buy
STARZ	Thu, Feb 11, 8:15 AM	Doubt	Buy
STARZ	Thu, Feb 11, 7:20 PM	Doubt	Buy
STARZ	Fri, Feb 12, 1:35 AM	Doubt	Buy
IFC	Fri, Feb 12, 5:30 PM	Manhattan	Buy
TMCe	Sat, Feb 13, 3:40 PM	Lions for Lambs	Buy
MOMAXe	Sat, Feb 13, 7:10 PM	Mamma Mia!	Buy
SUNDe	Sun, Feb 14, 3:00 PM	A Prairie Home Companion	Buy
HBO2e	Sun, Feb 14, 3:45 PM	Death Becomes Her	Buy
SUNDe	Mon, Feb 15, 4:00 AM	A Prairie Home Companion	Buy
MOMAXe	Mon, Feb 15, 7:00 PM	Rendition	Buy
TMCe	Mon, Feb 15, 8:00 PM	Lions for Lambs	Buy
PBS	Tue, Feb 16, 1:00 AM	Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New	Buy
PBS	Wed, Feb 17, 8:00 PM	Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New	Buy
CARTOON	Wed, Feb 17, 10:30 PM	King of the Hill	Buy
TCM	Thu, Feb 18, 2:15 AM	Kramer vs. Kramer	Buy
CARTOON	Thu, Feb 18, 2:30 AM	King of the Hill	Buy
SUNDe	Fri, Feb 19, 8:30 AM	A Prairie Home Companion	Buy

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Meryl Streep Biography

Birth Name: Mary Louise Streep
Birth Place: Summit, NJ
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/22/1949, Cancer
Profession: Actor

Routinely hailed as the greatest actress of her generation, Streep earned that accolade with her amazing ability to transform herself physically, vocally and emotionally into seemingly any character. Equally adept at drama and comedy, comfortable on stage and screen, able to embody contemporary and classical roles, and even a formidable singer (she showed off her vocal chops in Death Becomes Her, Postcards from the Edge, Mamma Mia), Streep has earned a record 16 Academy Award acting nods and has won two Oscars, a pair of Emmys, seven Golden Globes, not to mention a host of other honors during her lauded career. After earning an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, she made her mark in New York theater, picking up a 1976 Tony nomination for her turn in a revival of two Tennessee Williams one-acts, A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Two years later, she proved she could command both the big and small screens, winning her first Emmy for her riveting turn as a Catholic married to a Jew in Holocaust, and picking up her first Oscar nomination for her devastating work in The Deer Hunter. In 1979, she took home her first Academy Award as a mom trying to find herself in the divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer and she snagged her second statuette as the tormented title character in 1982's Sophie Choice. Impossible to pigeonhole, Streep spent the next three decades stretching herself and her remarkable talents, portraying characters of all ethnic backgrounds (a reviled Australian mom in A Cry in the Dark, a lovesick Danish noblewoman in Out of Africa, an Irish spinster in Dancing at Lughnasa, an Italian immigrant in love in The Bridges of Madison County); all temperaments (comic turns as callous women in Death Becomes Her and The Devil Wears Prada, a mom-cum-action hero in The River Wild); different sexual orientations (a literary lesbian in The Hours); and even both genders (a male rabbi, one of a quartet of characters that earned her a 2004 Emmy Award for her multitasking in the miniseries Angels in America). For a star of her caliber, she also managed to stay out of the tabloids. Still engaged to her Deer Hunter costar John Cazale when he died of cancer in 1978, she married sculptor Don Gummer soon after and had a son and three daughters (one of whom is up-and-coming actress Mamie Gummer) and is beloved by the Hollywood community.
Meryl Streep Fast Facts:

Wanted to be an opera singer when she was young.
Was a cheerleader and the homecoming queen in high school.
Sigourney Weaver was a classmate at the Yale Drama School.
Said that her all-time favorite actress is Bette Davis; the classic star sent Streep a complimentary letter early in her career.
Received Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Award as Woman of the Year in 1980.
In 2003, passed Katherine Hepburn as the most nominated actor/actress in Oscar history.
Had to wear extra high heels while playing Julia Child in 2009's Julie & Julia, as she's eight inches shorter than Child in real-life.

Meryl Streep Relationships:

Dana Streep - Brother
Donald J. Gummer - Husband
Grace Jane Gummer - Daughter
Harry Streep III - Brother
Harry Streep Jr. - Father
Henry Gummer - Son
John Cazale - Ex-fiancé
Louisa Jacobson Gummer - Daughter
Mamie Gummer - Daughter
Mary W. Streep - Mother

Meryl Streep Awards:

2004 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie - Winner
1978 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series - Winner
1982 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Winner
1983 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Winner
1984 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
1990 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Nominee
1991 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Nominee
1993 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Nominee
2003 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Winner
2005 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Nominee
1998 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominee
1986 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
1989 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
1995 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
2007 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Winner
1996 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
1997 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
1999 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
2000 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
2003 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
1979 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Nominee
1980 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Winner
2004 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Winner
1981 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1982 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Winner
1983 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1985 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1987 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1988 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1990 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1995 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1998 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1999 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
2006 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1978 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Nominee
1979 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Winner
2002 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Nominee
1997 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special - Nominee
2009 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
2009 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Nominee
2008 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1986 People's Choice Awards: Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer - Winner
1986 People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Actress - Winner
1985 People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Actress - Winner
1984 People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Actress - Winner
2009 People's Choice Awards: Favorite Song from a Soundtrack - Winner
1990 People's Choice Awards: World Favorite Motion Picture Actress - Winner
1990 People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Actress - Winner
1989 People's Choice Awards: Favorite Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture - Winner
1987 People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Actress - Winner
1976 Tony: Actress (Play) - Nominee
2010 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Nominee
2010 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Winner
2009 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee

College:
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (BA, 1971); attended Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Yale University, School of Drama, New Haven, CT (MFA, 1975)

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