[150], Streep found major commercial success when she starred in Phyllida Lloyd's Mamma Mia! "[25] Streep demonstrated an early ability to mimic accents and to quickly memorize her lines. [148] The film was released to a lukewarm reaction from critics, who called it "beautifully filmed, but decidedly dull [and] a colossal waste of a talented cast". Kevin Spacey makes his film debut in a minor role as a subway thief. Roger Ebert stated that, "Streep and Keaton, in their different styles, find ways to make Lee and Bessie into much more than the expression of their problems. In the film, she played the small, but pivotal, role of Emmeline Pankhurst, a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. [74], Pauline Kael, on the contrary, called the film an "infuriatingly bad movie", and thought that Streep "decorporealizes" herself, which she believed explained why her movie heroines "don't seem to be full characters, and why there are no incidental joys to be had from watching her".[75]. Yet, they uncannily embody various crosscurrents of experience in the last twenty years, as women have re-defined themselves against the background of the women's movement". [99] Time's Richard Corliss wrote approvingly of Streep's "wicked-witch routine" but dismissed the film as "She-Devil with a make-over" and one which "hates women". [14] Streep is also a second cousin seven times removed of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania; records show that her family is among the first purchasers of land in the state. [32] She also enrolled as a visiting student at Dartmouth College in 1970, and received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the college in 1981. [56][57] She was also awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress,[58] National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in her three film releases of 1979. [237], Streep, when asked in a 2015 interview by Time Out magazine if she was a feminist, answered, "I am a humanist; I am for nice easy balance. Dana Streep is an actor whereas Harry Streep is an actor and producer. [22] At the age of 12, Streep was selected to sing at a school recital, leading to her having opera lessons from Estelle Liebling. [3], Her daughter Meryl Streep has often stated in interviews that her mother has been the inspiration for some her characters she has played on the screen. So, it's a horrible position as an intelligent, emotional, yearning human being to sit outside of the available comfort there. [248] They have four children: one son and three daughters, son Henry Wolfe Gummer (born 1979), a musician; daughters Mary Willa "Mamie" Gummer (born 1983), an actress; Grace Jane Gummer (born 1986), an actress; and Louisa Jacobson Gummer (born 1991), a model. [11] Another line of her father's family was from Giswil. [228], Streep is the spokesperson for the National Women's History Museum, to which she has made significant donations (including her fee for The Iron Lady, which was $1 million), and hosted numerous events. They were residents of Mason's Island, Connecticut. Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. I think you can assimilate the pain and go on without making an obsession of it. [25] Streep played a variety of roles on stage,[26] from Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream to an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair in a comedy written by then-unknown playwrights Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato. [97] Longworth considers Death Becomes Her to have been "the most physical performance Streep had yet committed to screen, all broad weeping, smirking, and eye-rolling". [142] The drama received negative to mixed reviews upon its limited 2008 release. She found the role in She-Devil (1989), a satire that parodied societal obsession with beauty and cosmetic surgery, in which she played a glamorous writer. I thought, I've made a terrible mistake, no more movies. [59][60] Both The Deer Hunter and Kramer vs. Kramer were major commercial successes and were consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture.[61][62]. Dana o Danah, in arabo, significa "la perla più perfetta, preziosa e bella". [67] The following year, she re-united with Robert Benton for the psychological thriller, Still of the Night (1982), co-starring Roy Scheider and Jessica Tandy. Women are better at acting than men. They have four children. She said in 1987, "I have a smattering of things I've learned from different teachers, but nothing I can put into a valise and open it up and say, 'Now, which one would you like?' [130] Streep also narrated the film Monet's Palate. Streep had spent much time listening to tapes of Blixen, and began speaking in an old-fashioned and aristocratic fashion, which Pollack thought excessive. [30] She starred in the musical Happy End on Broadway, and won an Obie for her performance in the off-Broadway play Alice at the Palace. Charles Harrison Streep Education. [180], In 2015, Streep starred in Jonathan Demme's Ricki and the Flash, playing a grocery store checkout worker by day who is a rock musician at night, and who has one last chance to reconnect with her estranged family. Streep developed an English accent for the part, but considered herself a misfit for the role: " I couldn't help wishing that I was more beautiful". [102] Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote: "This is really quite an achievement. A drama revolving around the stern principal nun (Streep) of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 who brings accusations of pedophilia against a popular priest (Hoffman), the film became a moderate box office success,[155] and was hailed by many critics as one of the best films of 2008. [89], For her role in the film Sophie's Choice (1982), Streep spoke both English and German with a Polish accent, as well as Polish itself. Artificial Intelligence (2001), a science fiction film about a childlike android, played by Haley Joel Osment. '[30] Streep began auditioning for film roles, and underwent an unsuccessful audition for the lead role in Dino De Laurentiis's King Kong. Moriarty decided to name the new character Mary Louise, after Streep's legal name. [17] Despite her success, Streep has always been modest about her own acting and achievements in cinema. I put together every piece of information I could find about her ... What I finally did was look at the events in her life, and try to understand her from the inside. "[115], Streep portrayed Roberta Guaspari, a real-life New Yorker who found passion and enlightenment teaching violin to the inner-city kids of East Harlem, in the music drama Music of the Heart (1999). Frank Rich of The New York Times referred to Streep as the production's "one wonder", but questioned why she devoted so much energy to it. Il vero cognome … Though Streep disliked the novel it was based on, she found the script to be a special opportunity for an actress her age. Linja e babait të saj kthehet prapa në Loffenau, Gjermani, nga ku gjyshi i dytë i saj, Gottfried Streeb, emigroi në Shtetet e Bashkuara dhe ku një prej paraardhësve të saj shërbeu si kryetar i bashkisë (mbiemri më vonë u ndryshua në "Streep"). CONTACT. But then, the danger makes it more exciting." [252][253] Streep is the godmother of Billie Lourd, daughter of fellow actress and close friend Carrie Fisher.[254]. In 1998, Streep first appeared opposite Michael Gambon and Catherine McCormack in Pat O'Connor's Dancing at Lughnasa, another Broadway adaptation, which was entered into the Venice Film Festival in its year of release. [208], In 2004, Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award by the board of directors of the American Film Institute. "[17] Vincent Canby of The New York Times referred to her performance as "another stunning performance", played with "the kind of virtuosity that seems to re-define the possibilities of screen acting". Dana Streep was born on August 18, 1953 in Summit, New Jersey, USA as Dana David Streep. [35] Streep's other Broadway credits include Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical Happy End, in which she had originally appeared off-Broadway at the Chelsea Theater Center. [11] Some of Streep's maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, and were descended from 17th-century English immigrants. "[244] Trump responded on Twitter by calling Streep "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood", and "a Hillary flunky who lost big". Most of her scenes were edited out, but the brief time on screen horrified the actress: I had a bad wig and they took the words from the scene I shot with Jane and put them in my mouth in a different scene. Questo nome è utilizzato principalmente dagli arabi del Golfo Persico (Arabia Orientale). Though critical reaction was generally mixed, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone found her to be "strong, sassy and looser than she has ever been onscreen". Dana Streep was born on August 18, 1953 in Summit, New Jersey, USA as Dana David Streep. [109], Streep played the estranged sister of Bessie (Diane Keaton), a woman battling leukemia, in Marvin's Room (1996), an adaptation of the play by Scott McPherson.