When was meryl streep born

I didn't have anything prepared because it's been since the Pleistocene Era that I won anything. It would be nice to have a woman President. I think half the Senate should be women, half of Parliament, half the ruling mullahs. But that will never happen, darling! He wants to be the greatest actor who ever was. I try to lead as ordinary a life as I can. You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. I don't know what I'd do without my husband. I'd be dead, emotionally at least, if I hadn't met him.

He's the greatest. Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything. But I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

The view was of the Ritz Hotel and I vowed I'd stay there one day. And I have. I hate the [Oscar] campaigning thing. It's unseemly. You should be honored for something. It shouldn't be for whose campaign was better. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't pretty enough and why didn't I have Jessica Lange 's body or someone else's legs?

What a waste of time. February I wish I could feel it more. If you've been married for a long time, you love without looking. My greatest culinary triumph was when I was falling in love with my husband. We were on the coast of Maine in a cabin and I made an apple pie I've never been able to do it again - and he asks for it often! Turning 60 was important to everyone else. It was a big number, to me it was, 'Well yeah, that comes after 59', and I don't even want to look it in the eye.

I am trying to approach the role with as much zeal, fervor and attention to detail as the real Lady Thatcher possesses - I can only hope my stamina will begin to approach her own. Yeah, I'm very sad. But I know that I have a video life. Most of my fans are home with their children waiting for my films to come out on video. But I'm disappointed because certain things should be seen on the big screen.

I was very proud of A Cry in the Dark , but it wasn't distributed widely enough for people to have seen it on the big screen. You can't possibly plot what's going to be available, what's going to be written, who's going to think of it, and if it will come to you or not.

I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you.

All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you. It took a lot out of me, but it was a privilege to play her Margaret Thatcher , it really was.

I still don't agree with a lot of her policies. But I feel she believed in them and that they came from an honest conviction, and that she wasn't a cosmetic politician just changing make-up to suit the times. It was all very clear and up front, and I loved that eagerness to mix it up and to make it about ideas. Today it's all about feelings. You know, "How do I come off? I admire the fact that she was a "love-me-or-hate-me" kind of leader who said: "This is what I stand for.

And reconciliation with your life where you come to a point where you've lived most of it, and it's behind you. I have always liked and been intrigued by older people and the idea that behind them lives every human trauma, drama, glory, jokes, love. People seemed to look at her as an icon or a monster and I just wanted to locate the human being inside those caricatures that we've seen over so many years. And to investigate myself what it must have been like for her. But the corollary of that is that, if you think that debility, delicacy, dementia are shameful, if you think that the ebbing of a life is something that should be shut away, if you think that people need to be defended from these images then - yes - then you'll think it's a shameful thing.

I was never engaged to John Cazale. We lived together for three years until he died of bone cancer. In Los Angeles there's a lot of that. I pick up on the part that doesn't move on a face. I'm immediately drawn to it and that is the opposite of what you're intending.

You pull focus on the area that's been worked on. I gotta thank everybody in England that let me come and trample over their history. I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. DeMille Award acceptance speech] Please sit down. Thank you. I love you all. You'll have to forgive me.

I've lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read. Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said: You and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners and the press. The role earned her another Academy Award nomination. As she reached her 40s, Streep continued to find challenging roles — a feat many mature actresses have struggled with in Hollywood.

She received an Academy Award nomination for her work in several films, including two big-screen adaptations — one of Carrie Fisher 's novel Postcards from the Edge and the other of Robert James Waller's romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County , in which she starred opposite Clint Eastwood. Streep also received an Oscar nod for her work in Music of the Heart , which tells the true story of a teacher who brings music into the lives of kids in New York's Harlem neighborhood by teaching them how to play the violin.

By the start of the new millennium, Streep was as busy as ever. In , she appeared in two critically acclaimed films: The Hours and Adaptation. Streep was then nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of author Susan Orlean in Adaptation. The following year, Streep lit up the small screen in the television adaptation of the award-winning play Angels in America. She won her second Emmy Award for her work on the program, which had her tackling several roles.

Streep got a chance to show some of her comic skills as a villain in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate Continuing to explore lighthearted fare, she starred in Prime , a romantic comedy with Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg. Streep played psychoanalyst Lisa Metzger, whose client falls in love with her son.

Streep later reprised her role in the sequel: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Returning to more serious work, Streep appeared in the film Doubt , which addresses sexual abuse in the Catholic church.

She played a nun who becomes suspicious of a priest's behavior Phillip Seymour Hoffman toward a young student. Streep yet again earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nods. During her film acting career Streep appeared in numerous films.

As of early , Streep was still on a very active film acting schedule. Her father, Harry Streep, Jr. The family's original surname, Messerschmitz, was changed to Streep in the Netherlands by her Sephardic Jewish ancestors.

Her Jewish ancestry is distant and Streep's father was raised an Episcopalian. The Dutch word "streep" means "line" as in dividing line. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Meryl Streep's first name is actually Mary. Meryl is a nickname her father gave her. Streep was a cheerleader and high school, and she was born and raised in New Jersey. Streep has won multiple Grammy awards and has been nominated for 21 Oscars.

Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Meryl Streep's real first name isn't Meryl. Streep was born and raised in New Jersey. In high school, she was a cheerleader.

She has applied to trademark her name. She's married to a sculptor. Two of her daughters are also actresses.