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Meryl
Streep
| Full
NAME |
Mary
Louise Streep |
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| BORN |
22
June 1949 (Summit, NJ, USA) |
| ASSOCIATION |
Actress |
| NATIONALITY |
American |
| SPOUSE |
Don
Gummer (1978-) |
| CHILDREN |
Henry
Gummer (1979-)
Mary Willa Gummer (1983-)
Grace Jane Gummer (1986-)
Louisa Jacobson Gummer (1991-) |
| REVIEWED
ENTRIES |
23
(22) |
| MAX.
RATING |
 |
| MIN.
RATING |
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| AVERAGE
RATING |
4.13 |
FILMOGRAPHY
(REVIEWED ENTRIES ONLY)
PORTRAYAL
(IN NORWEGIAN)
 Jordnære,
yndige Meryl Streep har siden slutten av 70-tallet vært den alminnelige
kvinnen i et ellers så glamorøst og overfladisk Hollywood. Hun har
gitt substans, troverdighet og - ikke minst - sjel til filmbransjen
såvel på lerretet som i det virkelige liv. Til fødenavnet Mary Louise
Streep, vokste hun opp på østkysten av USA, og tok sikte på en
skuespillerkarriere allerede som skolejente. Hun studerte teater ved
Vassar, Dartmouth og Yale og slo igjennom i teatermiljøet i New York
med brask og bram tidlig på 70-tallet. Etter et par tv-produksjoner
midt på 70-tallet før hun fikk en mindre rolle i storsatsingen Julia,
og dermed begynte snøballen å rulle. Etter å ha truffet John
Cazale,
en av 70-tallets mest anerkjente karakterskuespillere, kapret Streep en
rolle i Michael Ciminos suksess The Deer
Hunter, og mottok både Oscar-
og Golden Globe-nominasjoner for denne. Men forloveden Cazale
døde av
kreft ikke lenge etter filmens utgivelse, noe som skulle bli et tøft
slag for Streep. Hun traff dog sin fremtidige Don Glummer snart etter,
og i 1979 var Streep et av de heteste nye navnene i Hollywood med filmer
som Manhattan og Kramer vs. Kramer (som ga henne den første
Oscar-statuetten). Gjennom 80-tallet opprettet Streep sin posisjon som
en av tidenes mest distingverte kvinnelige skuespillere med gode
rollevalg og meget sterke prestasjoner. Etter en noe svak periode tidlig
på 90-tallet, var hun tilbake med fantastisk spill i Clint Eastwood's
The Bridges of Madison County, og har siden opprettholdt et imponerende
høyt nivå. Hennes utseende, som tidlig i karrieren gjorde at hun
fremsto modnere enn alderen skulle tilsi, har nærmet vært uforandret
siden midt på 80-tallet, noe som gjør at hun midt i 50-årene fortsatt
er en attraktiv rollebesetter for middelaldrende kvinnelige
rollefigurer. Da hun foran Oscar-utdelingen 2003 ble nominert for beste
birolle med Spike Jonzes Adaptation. ble hun den skuespilleren (kvinnelig
og mannlig) gjennom tidene med flest Oscar-nominasjoner.
WHAT
DO THE CRITICS SAY?
 The French Lieutenant's Woman
- "Meryl Streep gives an immaculate, technically accomplished performance as Sarah
Woodruff (...)" - Pauline Kael
- "Streep was showered with praise for her remarkable double performance, and she deserved it. She is offhandedly contemporary one moment, and then gloriously, theatrically Victorian the next."
- Roger Ebert
Sophie's Choice
- "Meryl Streep is a wonder as Sophie. She does not quite look or sound or feel like the Meryl Streep we have seen before in THE DEER HUNTER or MANHATTAN or THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN. There is something juicier about her this time; she is merrier and sexier, more playful and cheerful in the scenes before she begins to tell Stingo the truth about her past. Streep plays the Brooklyn scenes with an enchanting Polish-American accent (she has the first accent I've ever wanted to hug), and she plays the flashbacks in subtitled German and Polish. There is hardly an emotion that Streep doesn't touch in this movie, and yet we're never aware of her straining. This is one of the most astonishing and yet one of the most unaffected and natural performances I can imagine."
- Roger Ebert
Silkwood
- "Streep is outstanding as real-life Karen Silkwood"
- Leonard Maltin
- "Silkwood is played by Meryl Streep, in another of her great performances, and there's a tiny detail in the first moments of the movie that reveals how completely Streep has thought through the role. Silkwood walks into the factory, punches her time card, automatically looks at her own wristwatch, and then shakes her wrist: It's a self-winding watch, I guess. That little shake of the wrist is an actor's choice. There are a lot of them in this movie, all almost as invisible as the first one; little by little, Streep and her coactors build characters so convincing that we become witnesses instead of merely viewers."
- Roger Ebert
Plenty
- "The movie stars Meryl Streep as Susan and it is a performance of great subtlety; it is hard to play an unbalanced, neurotic, self-destructive woman, and do it with such gentleness and charm"
- Roger Ebert
Ironweed
- "The salvation is Nicholson and Streep, whose rich performances are a privilege to watch."
- Leonard Maltin.
- "The only moments of reprieve from all the sombre artistry come when Streep sings "He's Me Pal" in the all-out, sentimental-Irish manner of a balladeer of a decade or two earlier; it's a spectacular re-creation of the old technique for "selling a song."
- Pauline Kael
- "This may be Streep's finest hour. Her
complete descend into the part is riveting" - Mick Martin &
Marsha Porter
The Bridges of Madison County
- "Streep and Eastwood weave a spell, and it is based on that particular knowledge of love and self that comes with middle age."
QUOTES
"You can't get spoiled if you do
your own ironing."
On whether Madonna should play Eva Peron in the
film version of Evita instead of her:
"I can sing better than she can. If Madonna gets it, I'll rip
her throat out!"
CHARACTER
QUOTES
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