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ACTOR · BORN 1949

Meryl Streep

Born
22 June 1949, Summit, New Jersey, USA
Known for
The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Simpsons (1989), Don't Look Up (2021), Project Hail Mary (2026)

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  1. #001

    Meryl Streep initially applied to law school, but she overslept on the morning of her interview and took it as a sign that fate had other things in store for her.

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    She left the Oscar she had just won for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) behind in a restroom during the 1979 ceremonies.

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    She donated her entire salary for The Iron Lady (2011) to the National Women's History Museum.

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    Robert De Niro has said she is the actress he most enjoys working with.

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    She learned to play the violin for her role in Music of the Heart (1999), practicing six hours a day for eight weeks.

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    As of 2018, she is the most nominated actor with 21 Oscar nominations.

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    As a child she was said to have a photographic memory, which allowed her to memorize her lines after a single reading.

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    She had a two-year romantic relationship with actor John Cazale, which ended with his death from lung cancer in 1978 at the age of 42. She is very reluctant to discuss the relationship with anyone. The couple shared a loft at 146 Franklin Street in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood.

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    She took the sunglasses she wore in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and used them again in the "Money Money Money" sequence of Mamma Mia! (2008).

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    She signs her checks with her real name, Mary Louise Gummer.

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    With the announcement of the 66th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations and her two nods, the actress surpassed Jack Lemmon's 22 nominations and now holds the record for the most Golden Globe nominations of all time with 32, in addition to holding the record for the most Oscar nominations.

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    She received her master's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (1975).

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    In high school she was a cheerleader and homecoming queen.

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  14. #014

    Streep, who is sometimes confused with her friend Glenn Close, was pregnant with her fourth child while shopping at a baby store in Los Angeles, where the staff gave her plenty of baby supplies. Just as she was about to leave, they whispered, "We loved you in Fatal Attraction (1987)."

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    She donated her wardrobe from The Devil Wears Prada (2006) to a charity auction.

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    For her role as Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie's Choice (1982), Meryl Streep ranked third on Premiere magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

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    Meryl Streep has said she is a big fan of actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

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    Early in her career, Streep received a letter from Bette Davis, whom most critics and film historians consider the greatest American film actress of all time. Davis told Streep she felt she was her successor as the leading American actress. A two-time winner, Davis was nominated for an Oscar 10 times, all for Best Actress. In 1963, with What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), she broke the record for the tenth acting nomination, then surpassed Katharine Hepburn's record with her 11th nomination (and third win) for The Lion in Winter (1968). Hepburn extended the record with her 12th nomination (and fourth win) for On Golden Pond (1981).

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  19. #019

    She presented Paul McCartney with the 1990 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1965 she attended The Beatles' concert at Shea Stadium with an "I love Paul" sign, which she mentioned while presenting the award to McCartney.

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  20. #020

    She was rejected for only six roles: Dwan in King Kong (1976), Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979), Michelle Straton in American Gigolo (1980), Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams (1985), Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day (1993) and Elizabeth in Elizabeth I (1998).

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    The children's series Sesame Street (1969) featured a character named "Meryl Sheep" in her honor.

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    To get into character, she mostly uses music, often classical.

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  23. #023

    In 2013, David Letterman revealed that director Harmony Korine had been banned from Letterman's show in the late 1990s after Letterman personally caught Korine rummaging through Meryl Streep's bag in the dressing room. Streep and Korine had been scheduled to appear on Letterman's show that night, but only Streep appeared.

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    Her husband, Don Gummer, is a sculptor.

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  25. #025

    The longest gap between her Oscar nominations was the five years between Postcards from the Edge (1990) and The Bridges of Madison County (1995).

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  26. #026

    She took serious singing lessons. At the age of 12, she trained to become an opera singer.

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    In 1988 she was nominated for Best Actress alongside Cher. When Cher was announced, just before the cameras cut away from the other four actresses, Streep could be seen jumping up with delight and applauding Cher. During her acceptance speech, Cher thanked Streep personally for working together on Cher's first film, Silkwood (1983) (addressing her as Mary Louise Streep). When the camera briefly cut to Streep in the audience, she blew Cher a kiss.

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  28. #028

    She was a close friend of the late actress Natasha Richardson.

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  29. #029

    In Postcards from the Edge (1990) she played a character based on Carrie Fisher, and later became the godmother of Fisher's real-life daughter, Billie Lourd.

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  30. #030

    Sigourney Weaver and Christine Estabrook were her classmates at the Yale School of Drama.

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  31. #031

    In 2013 she presented the Best Actor award to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln (2012). The previous year, she had won her third Oscar (her second for Best Actress) for The Iron Lady (2011) and presented Lewis with his third Best Actor Oscar. Both won their third Oscars for playing a head of government from a different nation: Streep was an American actress playing a British Prime Minister, while Day-Lewis was a British actor playing an American President. Moreover, Day-Lewis was not the only actor to play Abraham Lincoln that year. The role was played by Benjamin Walker, who is married to Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer, in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012).

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  32. #032

    On June 12, 1991, she gave birth to her fourth child, Louisa Jacobson Gummer (also known as Louisa Jacobson), at the age of 41. The child's father is her husband, Don Gummer.

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  33. #033

    Her fans call themselves "Streepers."

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  34. #034

    She has a deviated septum that she has refused to have corrected.

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  35. #035

    She has a fear of helicopters.

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  36. #036

    Before finding success as an actor, Meryl Streep worked as a waitress at the Hotel Somerset in Somerville, New Jersey.

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  37. #037

    Streep was a finalist for the role of Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979), but the part went instead to her close friend and classmate Sigourney Weaver. Streep later made her own contribution to the character, however: for Alien³ (1992), much of the special effects work was created in England after the actors, including Weaver, had returned to their homes in the United States. Because the producers needed a prosthetic mold of Ripley's head for some shots, rather than call Weaver back they used an existing mold of Streep made for an earlier project that was still lying around the studio.

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  38. #038

    She and her daughter Mamie Gummer played the same role at different ages in the film Evening (2007).

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    She ranked 6th on Entertainment Weekly's list of the "50 Smartest People in Hollywood" (2007).

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  40. #040

    On November 24, 2014, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

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  41. #041

    According to biographer Diana Maychick, when her friend John Cazale was too weak to read the newspaper, Streep read it to him while imitating the voice of the famous broadcaster Warner Wolf.

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  42. #042

    She attended Emily Blunt and John Krasinski's wedding with her husband Don Gummer.

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  43. #043

    On her 60th birthday, her husband gave her a toaster and one of her daughters gave her a rocking chair. Although she had to work late, when she returned her children had prepared a birthday dinner for her.

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  44. #044

    She rewrote the courtroom scene in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).

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  45. #045

    She lives in New York City and Salisbury, Connecticut.

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  46. #046

    She won her breakthrough role as Linda in The Deer Hunter (1978) after Robert De Niro saw her playing Dunyasha in Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" at Lincoln Center in Manhattan (1977). Streep was appearing alongside Irene Worth, Raul Julia and Mary Beth Hurt.

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  47. #047

    May 27, 2004 was declared "Meryl Streep Day" by Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields.

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    She is one of six actresses who were pregnant when they won an Oscar; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Neal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. Neal is the only one who did not accept her award in person because of her pregnancy. Streep was five months pregnant with her daughter Mamie Gummer when she won the Best Actress Oscar for Sophie's Choice (1982).

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  49. #049

    While at the Yale School of Drama, she and Sigourney Weaver appeared together in a play staged in a swimming pool. The play was titled "The Frogs".

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  50. #050

    She gave birth to her first child, her son Henry Wolfe Gummer (aka Henry Gummer), on November 13, 1979, at the age of 30. The child's father is her husband Don Gummer.

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  51. #051

    She gained about 15 kilos while filming Julie & Julia (2009).

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  52. #052

    Her son Henry Gummer is an actor, filmmaker and co-founder of a rock band; her daughter Mary Willa, known by the stage name Mamie Gummer, is an off-Broadway actress; her daughter Grace Gummer is an actress; and her daughter Louisa Jacobson is a model and actress.

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  53. #053

    Her father was an executive at a pharmaceutical company; her mother was a former artist turned housewife who ran an art studio behind the house. Her father loved playing the piano and her mother loved to sing. Meryl was given singing lessons at an early age. Her mother died in 2001 and her father in 2004.

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  54. #054

    Through the series Faces of America (2010), in which she appeared with Henry Louis Gates Jr., she learned that she is a distant relative of director Mike Nichols.

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  55. #055

    She is one of four actors nominated for an Oscar for their performance in Walt Disney Pictures' Into the Woods (2014). The other actors to achieve this are Julie Andrews, Richard Farnsworth and Johnny Depp.

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  56. #056

    Meryl Streep is one of only four actors to have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting in five consecutive decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s), alongside Laurence Olivier (1930s–1970s), Paul Newman (1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) and Katharine Hepburn (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s).

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  57. #057

    Meryl Streep accumulated her 21 Oscar nominations (3 wins) over a span of just 38 years. Bette Davis earned 10 nominations (2 wins) over 28 years, all in leading roles. Katharine Hepburn earned 12 nominations (4 wins) over a comparatively long 48 years, all in leading roles.

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  58. #058

    Meryl Streep sings in Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986) and Postcards from the Edge (1990), all of which were directed by Mike Nichols.

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  59. #059

    Meryl Streep is a fan of Olivia Colman. Colman played her daughter Carol Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011), and Streep is a fan of Colman's performance in Tyrannosaur (2011), Paddy Considine's directorial debut.

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  60. #060

    Meryl Streep replaced Madonna in the lead role of Roberta Guaspari in Music of the Heart (1999).

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  61. #061

    Meryl Streep was voted the Best Modern Female Actor in an Entertainment Weekly online poll, finishing far ahead of second-place Michelle Pfeiffer.

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    As a young actor, Meryl Streep appeared on stage with Christopher Lloyd at the Yale Repertory Theatre.

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    Meryl Streep has six grandchildren: a grandson Peter (b. February 2019) and a granddaughter Mary (b. 2021) through her daughter Mamie Gummer; another grandson Ida June Gummer (b. 18 July 2020) and another grandson Quinn William Gummer (b. 6 May 2022) through her son Henry Gummer; and two grandchildren through her daughter Grace Gummer, the first, Ruthie (b. 2023), and the second (b. 2025).

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  64. #064

    Meryl Streep attended Natasha Richardson's funeral with her husband Don Gummer.

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  65. #065

    Meryl Streep sold her New York City home for $9.1 million in February 2006. To secure the sale she had to lower the asking price of the eight-bedroom Manhattan property from $12 million. According to the New York Post, Streep had bought the house for $2.2 million in 1995.

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  66. #066

    Meryl Streep's character Karen Silkwood in Silkwood (1983) ranked 47th on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains list of heroes.

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    Meryl Streep is friends with Diane Keaton and Viola Davis.

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    Meryl Streep was named the 37th Greatest Movie Star of All Time by Entertainment Weekly.

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    Meryl Streep is a recipient of the 2011 Kennedy Center Honor, along with Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma and Sonny Rollins.

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    Meryl Streep earned her bachelor's degree with honors from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York (1971).

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    Meryl Streep is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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  72. #072

    Meryl Streep is the only actor named in the title of a song in the stage show "Fame," even though the lyrics also mention other actors. The song is called "Think of Meryl Streep," and it plays when Carmen kisses Nick after asking how he relaxed and after Serena, who wants Nick for herself, sees them.

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  73. #073

    Meryl Streep's daughter Grace Gummer plays Nora Ephron in the film Good Girls Revolt (2015). Streep appeared in three films written by Ephron: Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986) and Julie & Julia (2009).

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    According to A. Scott Berg, Katharine Hepburn's official biographer, Meryl Streep was the modern actress Hepburn liked least on screen: "Click, click, click," she said, referring to the wheels turning inside Streep's head.

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  75. #075

    On August 3, 1983, Meryl Streep gave birth to her second child, Mary Willa Gummer (also known as Mamie Gummer), at the age of 34. The child's father is her husband, Don Gummer.

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    Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her role as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and, as of the awards ceremony evening (as of 2017), became one of 19 actors to win the award for portraying a real person who was still alive. The other sixteen actors and their performances are: Spencer Tracy as Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper as Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Jeremy Irons as Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon as Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001), Jim Broadbent as John Bayley in Iris (2001), Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo as Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale as Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014) and Allison Janney as LaVona Golden in I, Tonya (2017).

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  77. #077

    Meryl Streep was considered for the role of Evita Peron in Evita (1996), which went to Madonna.

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    Meryl Streep began her acting career on stage.

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    In the 1980s, Tennessee Williams wanted Meryl Streep for the film version of "A Streetcar Named Desire." When it emerged that Streep was unavailable, the project was reworked for television and the role of Blanche was given to Ann-Margret.

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    Meryl Streep received an honorary degree from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

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  81. #081

    Despite being nominated for an Oscar and winning Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for her performance in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Meryl Streep said it was her least favorite of her own performances, partly because the narrative structure felt artificial. As a young American actress playing an English woman, she never felt her character was truly right in that context.

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  82. #082

    Meryl Streep's father was of German and Swiss-German descent, and his paternal ancestors' name was originally Streeb. For much of her life, Meryl wrongly believed the family was Dutch. Her mother had English, German, Irish, Scotch-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish and distant French and Swedish ancestry and was descended from the first settlers in Pennsylvania. One of Meryl's maternal great-grandmothers, Mary Agnes McFadden, was born in Ireland.

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  83. #083

    Meryl Streep spent a year as a transfer student at Dartmouth College, where she joined the theater.

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  84. #084

    Meryl Streep presented the leadership award to former Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt.

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  85. #085

    Meryl Streep ranked 71st on Premiere magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006) for her role as Karen Silkwood in Silkwood (1983).

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    Meryl Streep ranked 24th on Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.

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    Since her first Oscar nomination, Meryl Streep has been one of four co-nominees in the same category alongside 66 actresses spanning an 81-year (five-generation) age gap, from Katharine Hepburn to Emma Stone. Among them, 13 actresses have been co-nominated twice: Cate Blanchett, Debra Winger, Helen Mirren, Jane Alexander, Jessica Lange, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Sandra Bullock, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore and Susan Sarandon. Her greatest rival remains Glenn Close, with three Oscar co-nominations so far.

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    Meryl Streep was awarded the 2010 National Medal of Arts for her services to drama.

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    On May 9, 1986, Meryl Streep gave birth to her third child, daughter Grace Jane Gummer (also known as Grace Gummer), at the age of 36. The child's father is her husband, Don Gummer.

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  90. #090

    Meryl Streep campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential Election.

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  91. #091

    Meryl Streep was originally set to play the role of Iris Hineman in Minority Report (2002) but had to step back. Lois Smith was brought in in her place.

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  92. #092

    Meryl Streep was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category "The One and Only Shrek" (Best Spoken Word Album for Children).

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  93. #093

    Meryl Streep has appeared in three films selected by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Deer Hunter (1978), Manhattan (1979) and The Hours (2002).

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    Meryl Streep was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1977" in John Willis' Screen World, Volume 29.

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    Six months after giving birth to her daughter Louisa, Meryl Streep returned to work to begin filming Death Becomes Her (1992).

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  96. #096

    Meryl Streep is mentioned in 'Weird Al' Yankovic's song "Your Horoscope for Today".

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  97. #097

    Meryl Streep was considered for the role of Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979), which went to her close friend Sigourney Weaver.

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    Meryl Streep ranked 87th on Ellen DeGeneres' list of the sexiest film actors (2009).

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    When production on Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) ended in December 1978 and Streep did not become pregnant until February 1979, she was not pregnant with her son Henry Gummer, despite many reports to the contrary.

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    Meryl Streep graduated from Bernards High School in Bernardsville, New Jersey (1967).

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    Meryl Streep is mentioned by name only (twice, both times alongside her co-star Jack Nicholson) in Michael Crichton's novel "State of Fear" (2004).

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    Meryl Streep received an honorary degree (Doctor of Arts) from Middlebury College during her niece's graduation (2004).

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    Meryl Streep has worked with 11 directors who won the Best Director Oscar: Fred Zinnemann, Michael Cimino, Woody Allen, Robert Benton, Mike Nichols, Sydney Pollack, Robert Zemeckis, Jonathan Demme, Robert Redford, Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh.

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    Meryl Streep is the older sister of Harry Streep and Dana Streep.

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    Meryl Streep is the second of four consecutive winners of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress whose initials are "M. S." The others are Maggie Smith for California Suite (1978), Mary Steenburgen for Melvin and Howard (1980) and Maureen Stapleton for Reds (1981).

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  106. #106

    In 2010, Meryl Streep presented director Mike Nichols with the AFI Life Achievement Award.

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    Meryl Streep is one of 27 actors nominated for an Oscar for a performance in a musical; hers was for Into the Woods (2014). The others, in chronological order, are: Bessie Love for The Broadway Melody (1929), Grace Moore for One Night of Love (1934), Jean Hagen for Singin' in the Rain (1952), Marjorie Rambeau for Torch Song (1953), Dorothy Dandridge for Carmen Jones (1954), Deborah Kerr for The King and I (1956), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Gladys Cooper for My Fair Lady (1964), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Debbie Reynolds for The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), Peggy Wood for The Sound of Music (1965), Carol Channing for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Kay Medford for Funny Girl (1968), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Ronee Blakley for Nashville (1975), Lily Tomlin for Nashville (1975), Ann-Margret for Tommy (1975), Lesley Ann Warren for Victor/Victoria (1982), Amy Irving for Yentl (1983), Nicole Kidman for Moulin Rouge! (2001), Queen Latifah for Chicago (2002), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002), Renée Zellweger for Chicago (2002), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Penélope Cruz for Nine (2009), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012) and Emma Stone for La La Land (2016).

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  108. #108

    Meryl Streep was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, on September 16, 1998.

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    In 2001, Meryl Streep's son Henry W. Gummer ("Hank") was a student at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

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  110. #110

    Meryl Streep and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren were born on the same day (June 22, 1949).

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    Meryl Streep gives birth in three of her films: Heartburn (1986), A Cry in the Dark (1988) and The House of the Spirits (1993).

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    Six months after giving birth to her son Henry Gummer, Meryl Streep returned to work to begin shooting The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981).

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    Meryl Streep was born on the same date as Lindsay Wagner, known for The Bionic Woman (1976).

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    Every time Meryl Streep has appeared in a film that won the Best Picture Oscar, she has delivered a performance nominated for an Oscar. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Deer Hunter (1978), won Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and was nominated for Best Actress for Out of Africa (1985).

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    Meryl Streep was nominated for the 1976 Tony Award for Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for Tennessee Williams's "27 Wagons Full of Cotton".

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    Meryl Streep is one of 14 actresses who have won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for a film that also won Best Picture (she won for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)). The others are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Celeste Holm for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Mercedes McCambridge for All the King's Men (1949), Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity (1953), Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (1954), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996), Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002), Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

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    In 2016, Meryl Streep served as president of the Official Competition jury at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.

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    Meryl Streep was nominated for the 2007 Drama Desk Award for her performance in "Mother Courage and Her Children" (Outstanding Actress in a Play).

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    Meryl Streep is the daughter of Mary Streep and Harry Streep, a pharmaceutical executive.

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    As of 2019, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for Best Actress (17 nominations); she also holds the records for the most Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress - Drama in a motion picture (14), Best Actress - Comedy or Musical (10) and Best Supporting Actress (5, tied with Lee Grant and Maureen Stapleton).

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    Meryl Streep speaks fluent Italian.

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    Meryl Streep studied acting with Michael Howard in New York.

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    Meryl Streep attended Harding Township Middle School in Harding, New Jersey, for one or two years.

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    In 2003, Meryl Streep was named a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon.

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    Meryl Streep became the 82nd actor to win an Oscar, taking the Best Supporting Actress award for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) at the 52nd Academy Awards on 14 April 1980.

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    Meryl Streep is the sister-in-law of Maeve Kinkead.

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    Seven months after giving birth to her daughter Mamie Gummer, Meryl Streep returned to work to begin shooting Falling in Love (1984).

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    When she finished shooting Heartburn (1986), Meryl Streep was two months pregnant with her daughter Grace Gummer.

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    Nine months after giving birth to her daughter Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep returned to work to begin shooting Ironweed (1987).

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    Meryl Streep was born at 8:05 a.m. EDT.

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    Meryl Streep is one of 19 actors who received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for a performance in which they portrayed a birth and/or gave birth; hers was for A Cry in the Dark (1988). In chronological order, the others are: Luise Rainer for The Good Earth (1937), Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948), Eleanor Parker for Caged (1950), Elizabeth Taylor for Raintree County (1957), Leslie Caron for The L-Shaped Room (1962), Shirley MacLaine for Irma la Douce (1963), Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora (1968), Geneviève Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Marsha Mason for Cinderella Liberty (1973), Ann-Margret for Tommy (1975), Ellen Burstyn for Same Time, Next Year (1978), Jessica Lange for Sweet Dreams (1985), Samantha Morton for In America (2002), Elliot Page for Juno (2007), Gabourey Sidibe for Precious (2009), Ruth Negga for Loving (2016), Yalitza Aparicio for Roma (2018) and Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman (2020).

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