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* Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as the best actress of her generation, Streep is particularly known for her versatility & accent adaptability. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over 4 decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three & a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning 8. She has also received 2 British Academy Film Awards, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards & 3 Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award & 6 Grammy Awards.
Streep made her stage debut in Trelawny of the Wells & received a Tony Award nomination for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays in 1976. In 1977, she made her film debut in Julia. In 1978, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her leading role in the mini-series Holocaust, and received her first Oscar nomination for The Deer Hunter. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a troubled wife in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and went on to establish herself as a film actor in the 1980s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as a Holocaust survivor in Sophie's Choice (1982) and had her biggest commercial success to that point in Out of Africa (1985). She continued to gain awards, and critical praise, for her work in the late 1980s and 1990s, but commercial success was varied, with the comedy Death Becomes Her (1992) and the drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995), her biggest earners in that period.
Streep reclaimed her stardom in the 2000s and 2010s with starring roles in Adaptation (2002), The Hours (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Mamma Mia! (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), It's Complicated (2009), Into the Woods (2014), The Post (2017) and Little Women (2019). She also won her third Academy Award for her portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011). Her stage roles include The Public Theater's 2001 revival of The Seagull, and her television roles include two projects for HBO, the miniseries Angels in America (2003), for which she won another Emmy Award, and the drama series Big Little Lies (2019).
Streep has been the recipient of many honorary awards. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004, Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2008, and Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture, through performing arts. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts, and in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. She was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2017.
* The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 105 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in both American and international film and television.
The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is normally held every January, and is a major part of the film industry's awards season, which culminates each year in the Academy Awards. The eligibility period for the Golden Globes corresponds to the calendar year (from January 1 through December 31), although the 78th Golden Globe Awards presented an exception to this rule due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema.
* Angels in America is a 2003 American HBO miniseries directed by Mike Nichols & based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1991 play of the same name by Tony Kushner. Set in 1985, the film revolves around 6 New Yorkers whose lives intersect. At its core, it is the fantastical story of Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS who is visited by an angel. The film explores a wide variety of themes, including Reagan era politics, the spreading AIDS epidemic & a rapidly changing social & political climate.
Angels in America was the most-watched made-for-cable film in 2003 & earned much critical acclaim & numerous accolades: at the 56th Primetime Emmy Awards, it became the first of only 3 programs in Emmy history (along with Schitt's Creek in 2020 & The Crown in 2021) to sweep every major eligible category, & won all 4 acting categories. It also won in all 5 eligible categories at the 61st Golden Globe Awards. In 2006, The Seattle Times listed the series among Best of the filmed AIDS portrayals on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of AIDS.
