Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American theater, television, and film actress, who is widely regarded as one of the most talented actresses of all time. She has received a record of 21 , winning three, and 27 , winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. She also voiced Mrs. Fox in the 2009 stop-motion film adaptation of .
For Disney, she played the Witch in the 2014 movie version of Into the Woods (for which she received an Academy Award nomination for ) and Topsy in Mary Poppins Returns. She also served as the narrator in Disneynature's Wings of Life and portrayed Dr. Carolyn Ryan in the 1996 Hollywood Pictures film Before and After.
Streep was born in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wilkinson Streep, an artist, and Harry William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive. She has two younger brothers, Harry William Streep III and Dana David Streep, both actors. 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"). Her mother had English, German, and Irish ancestry. Some of Streep's maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, and were descended from 17th-century English immigrants. Her maternal great-great-grandparents, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy in Ireland.
Streep 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 Broadway play . In 1963, the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School. 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. 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." She quit after four years.
==Roles==
Meryl streep witch into the woods.jpg|Witch(Into the Woods)
Mary Poppins Returns (83).png|Topsy(Mary Poppins Returns)
Loretta Durkin.jpg|Loretta Durkin(Only Murders in the Building)
==Gallery==
Meryl Streep 84th Oscars.jpg|Meryl Streep speaks onstage at the 84th annual Academy Awards in February 2012.
Meryl Streep Into the Woods premiere.jpg|Meryl Streep at the Into the Woods premiere in December 2014.
Meryl Streep visits JKL.jpg|Meryl Streep visiting in January 2018.
Meryl Streep Mary Poppins Returns European Premiere.jpg|Meryl Streep attending the European premiere of Mary Poppins Returns in December 2018
Meryl Streep Winter TCA Tour19.jpg|Meryl Streep speaks at the panel at the 2019 Winter TCA Tour.
Meryl Streep TIFF19.jpg|Meryl Streep attending the 2019 Toronto International Film Fest.
==Trivia==
*Streep was, at one point, offered to portray P.L. Travers in the 2013 film Saving Mr. Banks before the role ultimately went to Emma Thompson.
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