|
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. A three-time Academy Award winner, she is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actors of all time. Streep made her professional stage debut in ''The Playboy of Seville'' in 1971, and went on to receive a 1976 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for ''A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton''. She made her screen debut in the 1977 television film ''The Deadliest Season'', and made her film debut later that same year in ''Julia''. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the miniseries ''Holocaust'', and received her first Academy Award nomination for ''The Deer Hunter''. Nominated for 19 Academy Awards in total, Streep has more nominations than any other actor or actress in history, winning Best Supporting Actress for ''Kramer vs. Kramer'' (1979), and Best Actress for ''Sophie's Choice'' (1982) and for ''The Iron Lady'' (2011). Streep is one of only six actors to have won three or more competitive Academy Awards for acting. Her other nominated roles are ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' (1981), ''Silkwood'' (1983), ''Out of Africa'' (1985), ''Ironweed'' (1987), ''A Cry in the Dark'' (1988), ''Postcards from the Edge'' (1990), ''The Bridges of Madison County'' (1995), ''One True Thing'' (1998), ''Music of the Heart'' (1999), ''Adaptation'' (2002), ''The Devil Wears Prada'' (2006), ''Doubt'' (2008), ''Julie & Julia'' (2009), ''August: Osage County'' (2013), and ''Into the Woods'' (2014). She returned to the stage for the first time in over 20 years in The Public Theater's 2002 revival of ''The Seagull'', won a second Emmy Award in 2004 for the HBO miniseries ''Angels in America'' (2003), and starred in the Public Theater's 2006 production of ''Mother Courage and Her Children''. As an actress, Streep is particularly known for her chameleonic approach to her roles, transformation into the characters she plays, and her perfection of accents. Streep has also received 29 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight—more nominations, and more competitive (non-honorary) wins than any other actor (male or female) in the history of the award.〔Ehbar, Ned (February 28, 2014). "Did you know?" ''Metro''. New York City. p. 18.〕 Her work has also earned her 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 five Drama Desk Award nominations, among several others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 at the 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. ==Early life== Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf Wilkinson (1915–2001), a commercial artist and an art editor; and Harry William Streep Jr. (1910–2003), a pharmaceutical executive.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/65/Meryl-Streep.html )〕 She has two brothers, Dana David and Harry William III. Streep's father was of German and Swiss-German ancestry. Her father's lineage traces back to Loffenau, Germany, from where her second great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, emigrated to the United States, and where one of her ancestors served as mayor (the surname was later changed to "Streep"). Another line of her father's family was from Giswil, Switzerland. Her mother had English, German, and Irish ancestry. Some of Streep's maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island and were descended from 17th-century immigrants from England. Her eighth great-grandfather, Lawrence Wilkinson, was one of the first Europeans to settle in Rhode Island.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meryl Streep )〕 Streep is also a distant relative of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania; records show that her family is among the first purchasers of land in the state.〔 Streep's maternal great-great-grandparents, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, the namesake of Streep's second daughter, were natives of the Hook Head district of Dunfanaghy, Ireland.〔 Streep's mother, whom she has compared in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench,〔 strongly encouraged her daughter and instilled confidence in her from a very young age.〔 Streep has said: "She was a mentor because she said to me, 'Meryl, you're capable. You're so great.' She was saying, 'You can do whatever you put your mind to. If you're lazy, you're not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.' And I believed her." Although Streep was naturally more introverted than her mother, at times when she later needed an injection of confidence in adulthood she would consult her mother, asking her for advice.〔 Streep was raised as a Presbyterian in Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School. Author Karina Longworth described her as a "gawky kid with glasses and frizzy hair", yet noted that she liked to show off in front of the camera in family home videos from a young age. At the age of 12, Streep was selected to sing at a school recital, which led to her having opera lessons from Estelle Liebling. However, despite her talent, she remarked that "I was singing something I didn't feel and understand. That was an important lesson—not to do that. To find the thing that I could feel through". She quit after four years. Streep had many Catholic school friends, and regularly attended mass. Although in high school Streep appeared in numerous school plays, she was uninterested in serious theatre until acting in the play ''Miss Julie'' at Vassar College in 1969, in which she gained attention across the campus. Vassar drama professor Clinton J Atkinson noted, "I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting. She really taught herself". Streep demonstrated an early ability to mimic accents and to quickly memorize her lines. She received her BA at the college in 1971, before applying for an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. At Yale she supplemented her course fees by waitressing and typing, and appeared in over a dozen stage productions a year, to the point that she became overworked, developing ulcers. She contemplated quitting acting and switching to study law. Streep played a variety of roles onstage,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yale library's list of all roles played at Yale by Meryl Streep )〕 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. One of her teachers was Robert Lewis, one of the co-founders of the Actors Studio. Streep disapproved of some of the acting exercises she was asked to do, remarking that the professors "delved into personal lives in a way I find obnoxious". She received her MFA from Yale in 1975.〔 Streep also enrolled as a visiting student at Dartmouth College in the fall of 1970, and received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the college in 1981. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meryl Streep」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|