Meryl Streep …. Happy birthday!!

~~June 22, 2014~~ 

Meryl Streep (born Mary Louise Streep; June 22, 1949) is an American actress of theater, film and television.

She is widely regarded as one of the greatest actresses of all time.

Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville (1971), before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season (1977). In that same year, she made her film debut in Julia (1977). Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the first of which brought her an Academy Award nomination, and the second, her first win, for Best Supporting Actress. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles in Sophie’s Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011). With 18 Academy Award nominations in 35 years, Streep holds the record as being the most nominated actor (male or female) in history.

Streep has also received 28 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations and more competitive (non-honorary) wins than any other actor (male or female) in history. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, two Australian Film Institute awards, five Grammy Award nominations, and a Tony Award nomination, among several others.

She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts, the youngest actor in each award’s history.

President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts. In 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.

~~Accents and dialects~~

Streep is well known for her ability to imitate a wide range of accents, from Danish in Out of Africa (1985) to English Received pronunciation in Plenty (also 1985), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981) and The Iron Lady (2011); from Italian in The Bridges of Madison County (1995) to a Minnesota accent in A Prairie Home Companion (2006) and from Irish-American in Ironweed to a heavy Bronx accent in Doubt. After A Cry in the Dark (1988), critics were impressed with Streep’s ability to master an Australian accent with shades of New Zealand English. For her role in the film Sophie’s Choice (1982), she spoke both English and German with a Polish accent, as well as Polish itself. In The Iron Lady, she reproduced the vocal style of Margaret Thatcher from the time before she became Britain’s Prime Minister, and after she had taken elocution lessons to change her pitch, pronunciation and delivery.

Despite the accolades accorded to her, Streep has emphasized that adopting accents is an element she simply considers an obvious part of creating a character. When asked whether accents helped her get into character, she responded, “I’m always baffled by this question … How could I play that part and talk like me?” When questioned in Belfast as to how she reproduces different accents, Streep replied, “I listen” – in a dead-on Ulster accent.

~~SOURCES~~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl_Streep

https://www.facebook.com/amightygirl?fref=photo

http://www.biography.com/people/meryl-streep-9497266#early-career&awesm=~oHVCZshCdB4YDg

~~Happy 65th birthday to actress Meryl Streep~~

With three Academy Awards and 18 nominations, eight Golden Globe awards, and countless other honors, Streep is widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of modern times. Her Oscars were awarded for her performances in Sophie’s Choice (Best Actress), Kramer vs. Kramer (Best Supporting Actress), and The Iron Lady (Best Actress).

Streep also received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama in 2010 and the Kennedy Center Honor for her contribution to American culture through the performing arts in 2011, the youngest actor to be honored. She is also a prominent advocate of women’s rights and a supporter the National Women’s History Museum and the effort to build a museum dedicated to honoring women’s diverse experiences and achievements on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

~Filmography~

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	Julia	Anne Marie
1978	The Deer Hunter	Linda
1979	Manhattan	Jill
1979	The Seduction of Joe Tynan	Karen Traynor
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Joanna Kramer
1981	The French Lieutenant’s Woman	Sarah/Anna
1982	Still of the Night	Brooke Reynolds
1982	Sophie’s Choice	Sophie Zawistowski
1983	Silkwood	Karen Silkwood
1984	Falling in Love	Molly Gilmore
1985	Plenty	Susan Traherne
1985	Out of Africa	Karen Blixen
1986	Heartburn	Rachel Samstat
1987	Ironweed	Helen Archer
1988	A Cry in the Dark	Lindy Chamberlain
1989	She-Devil	Mary Fisher
1990	Postcards from the Edge	Suzanne Vale
1991	Defending Your Life	Julia
1991	Age 7 in America	Narrator
1992	Death Becomes Her	Madeline Ashton
1993	The House of the Spirits	Clara del Valle Trueba
1994	The River Wild	Gail Hartman
1995	The Bridges of Madison County	Francesca Johnson
1996	Before and After	Dr. Carolyn Ryan
1996	Marvin’s Room	Lee
1998	Dancing at Lughnasa	Kate ‘Kit’ Mundy
1998	One True Thing	Kate Gulden
1999	Music of the Heart	Roberta Guaspari
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Blue Fairy (voice)
2002	Adaptation.	Susan Orlean
2002	The Hours	Clarissa Vaughan
2003	Stuck on You	Herself	Uncredited cameo
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	Eleanor Shaw
2004	Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events	Aunt Josephine
2005	Prime	Lisa Metzger
2006	A Prairie Home Companion	Yolanda Johnson
2006	The Music of Regret	The Woman	Short
2006	The Devil Wears Prada	Miranda Priestly
2006	The Ant Bully	Queen Ant (voice)
2007	Dark Matter	Joanna Silver
2007	Evening	Lila Wittenborn Ross
2007	Rendition	Corrine Whitman
2007	Lions for Lambs	Janine Roth
2008	Mamma Mia!	Donna Sheridan
2008	Doubt	Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2009	Julie & Julia	Julia Child
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Mrs. Fox (voice)
2009	It’s Complicated	Jane Adler
2010	Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life	Jennie (voice)
2011	The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher
2012	Hope Springs	Kay Soames
2013	August: Osage County	Violet Weston
2014	The Homesman	Altha Carter	Post-production
2014	Into the Woods	The Witch	Post-production
2014	The Giver	Chief Elder	Post-production
2015	Suffragette	Emmeline Pankhurst	Filming

What is your favorite Meryl Streep film?

After going through the long list above, there are so many movies and so many roles that she has interpreted. There is a wide array of variety, different topics and roles. Topics have ranged from historical, political, educational, biographical. Some have been deep and complicated roles. Others lighthearted and funny.

I have seen many of them and I have enjoyed all of her movies. 

There are some that I will make the time to watch. 

It’s hard to say which is my favorite. If the way to gauge which one is my favorite one, I would have to say it is MAMMA MIA!

I’ve lost count of how many times I have seen it.

~~Mamma Mia! Official Trailer~~

~Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried Movie (2008)~

~~Uploaded January 9, 2012~~

~~Meryl Streep~~

~~Dancing Queen – Mamma Mia!~~

~~Uploaded  October 21, 2012~~ 

~~The winner takes it all~~

~Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan~

~~Uploaded January 24, 2014~~

LOVE YOU MERYL! HAPPY BIRTHDAY … AND MANY MORE!! 

We ALL are ONE!!