Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

Two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep is widely regarded as one of the best actresses in history. The Yale-educated performer is a perennial favorite with the critics, having been nominated for an Academy Award a record 14 times.

 
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Julie & Julia: Meryl & Amy
JULIE & JULIA stars Meryl Streep and Amy Adams take TV Guide behind the scenes of the movie.  (Celebrity Interviews)

Meryl Streep Talks 'Julie & Julia'
Meryl Streep sits down with Access to talk about her accidental audition for Nora Ephron.  (Access Hollywood)

Viola Davis Feels the Love
Oscar nominee Viola Davis talks about Meryl Streep. (AP Video: Entertainment Extra)

2009 SAG Awards: Meryl Streep
What was going through Meryl's mind during her win? (Live From the Red Carpet)

Davis in No Doubt: Streep Is 'talented and Kind'
Meryl Streep's co-stars were singing her praises at the premiere to her latest film 'Doubt'  (AP Video: Entertainment Extra)

'Doubt' Hollywood Premiere
Meryl Streep and Amy Adams hit the red carpet in Hollywood for the premiere of "Doubt" (Access Hollywood)

Meryl+Streep in
Los Angeles Premiere of "Julie & Julia".Mann Village Theatre, Westwood, CA. (Bauer Griffin)more pics »
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The Nora Ephron film and one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the past year Julie & Julia is on sale as a pre-order from Amazon.com for $9.99 . This screenplay is based on the book by the same title written by Julie Powell, where she challenges herself to work her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking (2 Volume Set) in one year, and to blog about it. The movie however is first and foremost a salute to the person of Julia Child, and how unique she was for her time. Meryl Streep offers a performance as Julia Child ... Read Full Story
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Getty Images The Devil Wears Prada actress Meryl Streep , who stars as chef Julia Child in Julie and Julia with Amy Adams , revealed the film allowed her to pay homage to her mom Mary. She explained: Yes, the performance is an idealized version of Julia, but I'm also doing an idealized version of my mother, who had a similar joie de vivre. She had undeniable sense of how to enjoy her life, and made every room she walked into brighter by her presence. She really was something. I have a good deal of my father in me. I'm another kind of sensibility. ... Read Full Story
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On 11.16.09, In Movies , by Roque . Meryl Streep is getting used to being swept off her feet. Two summers ago, she frolicked on a Greek island with no fewer than three former lovers in “Mamma Mia!” Last August, an adoring husband beamed at her in “Julie & Julia.” And in next month’s movie, “It’s Complicated” (out December 25) She plays a divorcee who has a fling with her hotheaded ex-husband (Alec Baldwin) just as she’s contemplating dating her gentlemanly architect friend, (Steve Martin). “I loved doing this movie.” she said. “It’s about the intimacy of marriage and the comfort and the mess ... Read Full Story
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Meryl Streep saw her role as US cooking idol Julia Child in "Julie & Julia" as a tribute to her mother, a woman "with the same joie de vivre," the veteran actress said Thursday. "What I was trying to do with Julia was do homage to my mother," she told a news conference at the Rome film festival, where the film by Nora Ephron was to be screened out of competition on Friday. "My mother was a woman of this era, she had the same joie de vivre," said two-time Oscar winner Streep, 60, who was to receive a career award on Friday to ... Read Full Story
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Hitting theaters near the end of a summer movie season filled with explosions, over-the-top action and general silliness, Julie and Julia is a delightful, tasty treat for adults. Julie and Julia is cooked to cinematic perfection and filled with terrific performances from the entire ensemble cast, led by Doubt co-stars Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. The story - like the delicious food served in Julie and Julia - will satiate moviegoers looking to fill up on a full-bodied film for their box office dollars. Julie and Julia , though based on two true stories, plays out as a tale almost too good to be ... Read Full Story
Welcome to a new series here on Cinematical where we select an actor or actress and the role we think is their all time best. Last August, "Meryl Streep" wrote an op-ed piece for The Onion called "Name One Masterpiece Of Cinema That I've Starred In." It was really written by the Onion staff, of course, but they (and Streep) made a good point. For a woman who is very possibly the finest living actor of any sex, she has made very few truly...  
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It's mid-November, which means it's officially not too early to talk about the Oscars, and Steven Zeitchik at the Hollywood Reporter weighs in today on the Best Actress race -- which is, he says, unusually shallow this year. There's one sure thing -- Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" -- and a couple of newcomers who are likely possibilities: Carey Mulligan in "An Education" and Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious." Otherwise, he says, slim pickings...  
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ALEC Baldwin admits he was desperate to work with Meryl Streep. The 30 Rock actor — who appears opposite the Devil Wears Prada star in new movie It’s Complicated – says he would have taken any role on offer if it meant sharing the silver screen with Streep. “I’ve come to this place late in my own [...]  
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ALEC Baldwin admits he was desperate to work with Meryl Streep. The 30 Rock actor — who appears opposite the Devil Wears Prada star in new movie It’s Complicated – says he would have taken any role on offer if it meant sharing the silver screen with Streep. “I’ve come to this place late in my own [...]  
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Written and directed by Nora Ephron, Julie & Julia (2009) is a feel-good movie that features a great performance by Meryl Streep as Julia Child (1912-2004), who co-authored Mastering the Art of French Cooking and did the TV show The French Chef. Because of Julia, millions of Americans lost their fear of dishes like boeuf bourguignon and sole meunière. Read more: Julie & Julia DVD review Other Reviews of Interest: Doubt DVD Review...  
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At last night's premiere of Fantastic Mr. Fox, we asked Meryl Streep — who voices Mrs. Fox in the stop-motion adaptation by Wes Anderson — if she did anything particularly special to get into the role. "You know, I didn't really prepare," she said. "I was really sick when I made this. Really sick. And I brought my daughter to Paris with me and she was getting me all sorts of cough medicine and stuff and I had a very sort of deeper...  
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Grace Gummer, la fille de 23 ans que Meryl Streep a eue avec son mari Don Gummer, a fait ses début sur scène, en novembre dernier (08) à New York, dans la comédie noire, The Sexual Neuroses Of Our Parents, ...  
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Meryl Streep's daughter is following in her mother's Hollywood footsteps after landing her first big acting break.   Grace Gummer, Streep's 23-year-old child with husband Don Gummer, made her stage debut in New York last year (Nov08) in dark comedy The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents, and now she's making the transition to the small screen to p...  
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• Who volunteers to tell Kathy Griffin that the guest actress Emmys don't get presented on the prime-time kudocast but are relegated to the creative arts awardsfest that she has dubbed the Schmemmys? The two-time Emmy champ for her reality series "My Life on the D List" has inked a deal to appear in an episode of "Law & Order: SVU" later this season. That procedural produces episodes that showcase actresses, racking up 14 guest Emmy nods and...  
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BY JILL SERJEANT Reuters LOS ANGELES - Meryl Streep’s daughter Grace Gummer is set to star in a television drama about the chaotic life of being a Hollywood “It” kid, marking Gummer’s first big break into the acting industry. Gummer, 23, will play a 17 year-old daughter of a famous celebrity couple in “Gigantic” a fictional series for [...]  
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