Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep is an American actress.
==Early Life==
Streep was born on June 22, 1949 to parents Mary Wolf and William Streep Jr. in Summit, New Jersey, US.
==Career==
Streep started out doing theater productions at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, with her first role being in a production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. After graduating from Vassar, she went to Yale School of Drama, where she continued to act in plays, with her breakthrough being The Idiots Karmazov, a comic rewrite of The Brothers Karmazov. Her Broadway debut came in 1975 with a role in Arthur Wing Pinero's Trelawny of the "Wells", followed by acclaimed performances in such works as Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays, and William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (where she co-starred alongside John Cazale, with whom she was romantically involved until his death in 1978). From there, she began finding work in filmed media, with her screen debut being in the TV movie The Deadliest Season, followed by a smaller part in Julia. Her non-theatrical breakthroughs came later in the decade, with turns in The Deer Hunter, the TV miniseries Holocaust, her Academy Award-winning performance in Kramer vs. Kramer, and a supporting role in Woody Allen's Manhattan.
She gained the most acclaim in 1982 for her heartbreaking portrayal of a Polish Holocaust survivor who must choose between the lives of her two children in the film, Sophie's Choice. From 1984 to 1990, Streep won six People's Choice Awards. Her more recent works include such films as The Hours, The Devil Wears Prada, Mamma Mia!, and another Oscar-winning performance, The Iron Lady.
Streep is famous for her mastery of accents, such as a British accent and the Polish accent which she famously mastered for Sophie's Choice.
Category:Actresses
Category:1949 births
Category:Living people
Category:Best Actress Academy Award winners