00:00Women who change the world.
00:30Women who change the world.
00:32I'm curious about other people.
00:34That's the essence of my acting.
00:35I'm interested in what it would be like to be you, Meryl Streep.
00:39Meryl Streep was born on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolfe and Harry
00:45William Streep Jr.
00:47Her mother was a commercial artist and art editor, whereas her father was a pharmaceutical
00:51executive.
00:52Meryl Streep felt the power of acting when she was just six years old, in her first role
00:57playing the Virgin Mary in her family's living room nativity scene.
01:01Meryl has two siblings, Harry William III and Dana David.
01:05She grew up in Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she went to Bernards High School.
01:10Meryl Streep enrolled in the Yale School of Drama, where she received a Master of Fine
01:14Arts degree and the Carol Dye Acting Award.
01:17She was the first woman in the school's history to receive this honor.
01:21Meryl Streep started off by acting in several theater productions in New York and New Jersey.
01:27She starred in a Broadway production, for which she won a Broadway theater award as well.
01:32Soon, Meryl started to audition for film roles.
01:36Some of her roles were short, but she wanted to keep on working even if they were insignificant
01:41roles.
01:42Now, both producers and directors were waiting to see how she would be able to do in the
01:47film industry.
01:48Her role in The Deer Hunter was well appreciated, and she was nominated for the Academy Award
01:54for Outstanding Lead Actress.
01:56In 1978, a young Meryl Streep was on the verge of becoming the greatest actress of her generation.
02:03She was also about to lose the love of her life.
02:06Streep married Dawn Gummer in 1978, and the pair went on to have four children.
02:12But before that, she was in love with John Kazali, who she met when they both performed in Measure
02:18for Measure for Shakespeare in the Park.
02:21Their romance would be brief, interrupted by Kazali's diagnosis of terminal lung cancer.
02:27They were the envy of the New York theater world.
02:30She the most naturally gifted actress in generations, he the most naturally gifted actor.
02:37Streep remained by his side as an unconditional caregiver during the last years of his life.
02:42Streep confirmed her reputation as one of Hollywood's finest dramatic actresses.
02:47Her performances in Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979, and Sophie's Choice, 1982, earned her Academy
02:55Awards for Supporting Actress and Leading Actress, respectively.
02:59She further demonstrated her range and her gifts for rendering complex emotional states.
03:04She won the Cannes Film Festival and New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress for
03:10her moving performance in A Cry in the Dark, 1988.
03:14By the late 1980s, Streep's reputation as a brilliant technical actress came to be a burden.
03:21Her name was typically associated with a serious, often depressing sort of film.
03:26As a result, Streep tried to change her popular image by appearing in a handful of comedies, including
03:32Postcards from the Edge, 1990, and Death Becomes Her, 1992, and in the action-adventure film The
03:39River Wild, 1994. Whatever character she portrays, Ms. Streep's work is suffused with dignity and decency.
03:48Her unique empathy for women has led audiences into the lives of some of the most memorable characters on film.
03:54In 2003, Streep received an unprecedented 13th Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
04:02Meryl Streep is widely respected as one of our most distinguished and talented actors.
04:08Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for
04:14the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. She is one of the few actors to
04:21have won all four major Screen Acting Awards, Oscar, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA Awards.
04:28Over the years, Simply Streep has been able to find most of her productions with audio samples,
04:33video excerpts, and pictures, but she is also notable for the breadth and diversity of her philanthropic work.
04:51Flick in on carbon.
04:56Women Who Changed the World
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