But for all the accolades she's received—21 Oscar nominations and three wins; 32 Golden Globe nominations and eight wins, plus the Cecil B. DeMille Award; three Emmys; two SAG Awards and countless other prizes, all for acting—and amid the attention inevitably paid to her more than to anyone else in any given production, Streep has managed another, perhaps mightier achievement. Namely, the year-old has managed to have a five-decade career in which the focus has remained almost entirely on her work instead of what she's up to off camera, when she's just being Meryl.
These days especially, living that private life sounds like a far more daunting task than mastering accents, channeling historical figures and disappearing into characters. But it's not as if Streep's personal life started out charmed. Rather, she suffered a crushing heartbreak, after which she accidentally fell into Mr.
Right's arms after a series of unlikely events. Streep met John Cazale when he auditioned to co-star with her in a Shakespeare in the Park production of Measure for Measure. He got it, and she fell in love with the actor, best known for playing unfortunate brother Fredo in The Godfather but whose entire cinematic repertoire consists of Best Picture Oscar winners or nominees: two Godfather films, The Conversation , Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter.
When he was only 42, Cazale was diagnosed with lung cancer and for five months Streep was by his side as he underwent treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center while they were shooting The Deer Hunter. Upon finding out that he was sick, the studio wanted to drop Cazale from the picture, and Streep threatened to quit if they fired him.
He died on March 12, , not long after they finished filming, and Streep ended up with her first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actress. Devastated, she left New York to stay with a friend in Canada, only to find upon her return that she was being evicted from the loft she and Cazale had shared. According to Michael Schulman 's biography Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep , her brother Harry showed up to help her move, and he brought a friend, a sculptor whom Meryl had met a few times but hadn't thought much about.
The kind artist offered to keep whatever boxes she didn't have room to store at his studio while she went to go make a movie in Maryland. Meryl Streep knows a thing or two about long-term success, and her marriage is no exception. She and her husband, Don Gummer, have been married for over 40 years, and he's been by her side at a number of industry events and award shows since they got together in the late '70s.
The pair first met through Meryl's brother, who came to NYC with his friend Don to help Meryl move out of her apartment following the death of her partner, actor John Cazale. At the time, Meryl's acting career was just kicking off, and after she moved out of the loft she'd shared with John, Don invited her to stay in his vacant apartment while he traveled abroad.
They kept in touch, and when he returned to the city, they struck up a romance and tied the knot about six months later. The couple has four kids together, including one son and Meryl's three lookalike daughters. That something turns up on your doorstep that turns you on When Streep and Gummer tied the knot in September , the world gasped via People.
Was it too soon? Just months earlier, Streep had lost her boyfriend of two years, actor John Cazale , to a grueling, and very public battle with cancer.
Streep, in fact, met Gummer as a direct result of Cazale's untimely death. After being kicked out of her and Cazale's apartment, Streep's brother came with Gummer to help her pack her things.
The two soon began corresponding by letter. She said: 'Fun fact: we once made my dad a fake Oscar for acting comfortable at these things for 40 years straight'. Here's Meryl collecting her Best Actress Oscar in for The Iron Lady, and giving a loving thanks to her husband Don for his support, saying "I want you to know that everything I value most in life you've given me.
Her first movie was a cameo opposite Jane Fonda in Julia. She later said of the experience: "I had a bad wig and they took the words from the scene I shot with Jane and put them in my mouth in a different scene.
I thought, I've made a terrible mistake, no more movies. I hate this business. Some more of Meryl's award-winning performances include:. Kramer vs Kramer : Meryl won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing unhappily married Joanne Kramer who leaves her son in the care of his father.
For a time, an unfounded rumour that Meryl and Robert Redford were a couple circulated - even suggesting they might get married! But there doesn't seem to be any truth behind this whatsoever.
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