Meryl Streep- Acclaimed Actress of Stage and Screen

Acting is being susceptible to what around you and it’s letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need—and its wonderful in that way—and when it’s right, you’re lost in the moment.
—Meryl Streep

When the Academy Award nominations were announced on February 15, 2000, it was a record-tying honor for two-time award winner Meryl Streep. This latest nomination equaled the twelve career nominations of legendary actress Katharine Hepburn. Streep earned the honor for her portrayal of East Harlem violin teacher Roberta Guaspari in Music of the Heart. Always the consummate actress, Streep studied the violin for three months so she could actually play it in the film.

What is so remarkable about Meryl Streep is that she seems to “become” her characters with such ease. She was born Mar)’ Louise Streep on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey. Parents Harry Srreep II, an advertising executive with Merck pharmaceuticals, and Mary Louise, a freelance illustrator, nicknamed their new daughter “Meryl.” Mary Louise gave birth to two more children, Hany III (affectionately called “Third”) and Dana, before the family moved to the more upscale community of Bernardsville, New Jersey.
Meryl refers to her youth as awkward. She felt like a misfit and didn’t think she was very likable. Always too big for her age, she wore glasses; had frizzy, mousy brown hair; and was bossy and nosy. Says Meryl, “I was an ugly little kid with a big mouth, an obnoxious show-off.” Despite her shortcomings, she managed to bowl over her teachers and classmates when she sang “O Holy Night” in French at the school Christmas show. Meryl’s voice had promise, and she took singing lessons from Estelle Liebling, the same teacher who coached opera diva Beverly Sills. As Meryl became more interested in boys and being popular in school, however, singing became less important. After four years she quit.
When she was fourteen, Meryl traded in the glasses for contact lenses and bleached her hair blond, completing a transformation from an ugly duckling to popular teen. She became a Bernardsville High School cheerleader, had boyfriends, and attended dances. In tenth grade Meryl auditioned for a part in the school production of The Music Man, and her love for acting was horn.

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Despite the efforts she put into her appearance and social activities to gain popularity, Meryl was also an excellent student and was accepted at Vassar College, an all-female college in Poughkeepsie, New York. At Vassar, Meryl blossomed intellectually and -emotionally. She was among young women who thrived on exchanging thoughts and exploring ideas, and in sharing their hopes and dreams with one another.
Streep loved her time at Vassar. Instead of worrying about how to fit in, she could focus her attention on her studies and acting. She was a natural on the stage. When she read the part of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, she stunned her drama teacher, Clint Atkinson. He later called Streep “a brilliant actress. . . . There was a volcano within her. I found her acting hair-raising, almost mind-boggling.”
Streep performed in a few more plays in college, continuing to reveal an ability to disappear into every character she portrayed. After college Streep joined the Green Mountain Guild, a small Vermont theater group that performed at various ski resorts. But the Guild work just wasn’t challenging enough for Streep, so she enrolled in the Yale School of Drama. There Meryl found herself drawn into a whirlwind schedule, performing no fewer than forty different roles in three years.
Jn the fall of 1975, with a master’s degree in hand, Streep headed for New York. The acting gods must have been aligned with her from the very beginning. She slept through a very important “cattle call” audition with the Theater Communications Group. However, she convinced the casting director of Joe Papp’s Public Theater to give her an audition. Streep got her first professional stage role in Trelawny of the Wells. After seeing her perform, most critics agreed that Meryl Stteep was an actress to watch. In her first year in New York, Streep received several theater award nominations and won an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton.
In her very first film audition Streep won a small role in Julia, which starred Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Honda. Her next role, in The Deer Hunter (1978), earned Meryl her first Academy Award nomination. The following year, Streep expanded her acting range, accepting a role in the television miniseries Holocaust. She won a Best Supporting Actress Emmy (television’s equivalent of film’s Oscar award) for her performance.
The career breakthrough role for Streep came in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). She won her first Academy Award playing Joanna, Dustin Hoffman’s estranged wife who is suing for custody of their yotmg son. Many believe it was Streep’s tearful performance in the courtroom scene that won her the Oscar. For the next two decades Streep’s film career was nothing less than spectacular. She appeared in almost a film a year from 1978 through 1999, acquiring another Academy Award in 1982 for her astonishing performance as a Nazi concentration camp survivor in Sophie’s Choice.
Though film roles for middle-aged women are more difficult to come by, Streep found some of the best around. In the 1995 film The Bridges of Madison County she showed that a woman in her forties can still be desirable and romantic. Now in her fifties, there is no sign of her slowing down. Streep made a triumphant return to the New York stage in the summer of 2001. Performing at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Streep starred in Anton Chekov’s The Seagull. For Streep it was like coming home; she began her New York stage career twenty years earlier working for Joe Papp in his Shakespeare Festival. The critics raved about Streep’s performance and asked the question everyone was thinking after seeing her in the show: “What took her so long to return to the stage?”
Streep completed work on two movies due out sometime in 2002— Adaptation and The Hours. Though a successful film career would be more than enough for one person to juggle, it is only one aspect of Streep’s very full life. She married sculptor Don Gummer in 1978 and is busy raising tour children, Streep is intent on keeping her role as mother her top priority. She still grocery shops, cooks dinner, and does housework. Says Streep, “You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”
Streep is very busy off-the stage and screen. She is a dedicated activist, involved in issues like nuclear disarmament. She founded Mothers & Others, an organization that focuses on the use of dangerous pesticides on foods. She has loaned her voice to narrate children’s books, including The Velveteen Rabbit, and supports charitable organizations like the Pediatric AIDS Foundation and Christopher Reeve’s Celebration of Hope. Streep has received many awards and honors over her twenty-year accing career, including the Bette Davis Lifetime Achievement Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the coveted French medal of Officier in the Ordre des Arts et Des Lettres. Streep still reads through stacks of scripts looking for good parts. Happy with her life and her roles as wife, mother, activist, artist— Streep says, ”

I like who 1 am now. Other people may not. I’m comfortable. I feel freer now. I don’t want growing older to matter to me.”

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