STRIP Meryl

Date of Birth: September 29, 1949
Place of Birth: Summit, pc. New York.
Profession: American actress.
She graduated from the Yale School of Dramatic Art. Deserved reputation as a serious actress, differing impeccable technique, external restraint, but able to communicate complex, deep feelings and passion. She worked in New York theater. Was awarded two prizes 'Oscar' for the film 'Kramer vs. Kramer' R. Benton (1979) and 'Sophie's Choice' A. Pakula (1982). Starred in the film 'Julie' F. Zinnemann (1977), 'French Lieutenant's Woman' To. Reis (1981), 'Out of Africa' N. Pollack (1985).

She graduated from Yale University with a Masters of Fine Arts. In the movie Strip came in 1977, has gained fame in the theater, but the real success of it has managed to achieve only in 1980 when she performed the role of Joan - a mother who has abandoned the child for a career in the film F. Benton's "Kramer vs. Kramer '(Award Oscar for best supporting actress,' Golden Globe 'award and the New York Film Critics Circle). In the film 'French Lieutenant's Woman' To. Reis (1981), Streep embodied on the screen at once two characters: reject Victorian society woman Sarah and modern actress named Anna, creating two distinct. They are linked by a desire for freedom and independence in the sphere of personal relations. Like Joanna, the heroine endowed with 'negative charisma'. For this work, Streep received a 'Golden Globe' and the British Film Academy Award. His second 'Oscars' - have for the execution of the main female role - Streep won for her role in the movie A. Pakula antifascist novel by William Styron "Sophie's Choice '(1982). Here, she again had to play two roles, but not different women, but one: in Auschwitz and postwar New York. And there and then put before a choice: welfare or decency - she chose the latter, paying for it with his life (prize 'Golden Globe' award and the New York Film Critics Circle).

Mid 1980. Streep was marked for a series of films about love ( 'Love', 1984, 'Jealousy', 1984, 'Out of Africa', 1985). Several tired of all these beautiful and passionate woman, the actress was pulled to a plan and the roles played by the singer, which became the tramp in the film 'Ironweed' Brazilian producer E. Babenko (1987). For his role in the film by Fred Schepisi 'Cry in the Dark' (1988) actress won the Cannes Film Festival (1989) (she played the mother convicted of killing her infant). In 1990-ies. actress co-starred in films of different genres: comedy ( 'Death to her to-face', 1992), fictionalized chronicle of the family Allende ( 'House of the Spirits', 1993), adventure tapes ( 'Wild River', 1994). In 1995, Streep played the heroine in the adaptation of the acclaimed novel 'The Bridges of Madison County' By. Eastwood - about short romantic love, which overturned all my life no longer a young married woman. It is particularly clearly visible leading theme of creativity that actress: defending human dignity, women's independence, the right to love of their choice.