How old is Meryl Streep?

Mary Louise Streep, or Meryl Streep, is an American actress known for her sophisticated acting style and the ability to adapt her speaking to a large variety of accents. She was born in 1949 in New Jersey, to the parents of German and Swiss origins. As a child, she liked singing and dancing, and she was one of the cheerleaders in her high school times. As a teenager, she started getting interested in acting and decided to study in the Yale School of Drama, finishing which opened the doors to the stages of many theaters to her. In the late 1970s, her cinema debut took place, with the movies Julia, The Deer Hunter and Woody Alen's movie Manhattan, which were noticed and even brought her first cinema award nominations. In 1978 Meryl won her first serious award, the Emmy, for her performance in TV series Holocaust. She is actually famous  a large number of the Academy Award nominations (21, winning 3), the Golden Globe Award (31, winning 8). Her best performances took place in the movies like Kramer vs Kramer (with Dustin Hoffman), Sophie's Choice, Out of Africa, Ironweed, Evil Angels, Postcards from the Edge (with Dennis Quaid), Death Becomes Her (with Bruce Willis and Goldie Hawn), Music of the Heart, Adaptation (with Nicolas Cage), Devil Wears Prada (with Anne Hataway), Julie & Julia, The Iron Lady, Into the Woods, Florence Foster Jenkins (with Hugh Grant), The Post (with Tom Hanks). Meryl Streep has also won a few awards for her theatrical and Broadway performances. She is one of the most successful American actresses, with a number of medals and honors granted her by the Presidents of the US and other countries of the world. She takes an active part in a number of educational projects and is a social activist. 

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