Tell about Meryl Streep ?

Streep has said: "She was a mentor because she said to me, 'Meryl, you're capable. You're so great.' She was saying, 'You can do whatever you put your mind to. If you're lazy, you're not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.' And I believed her

Although Streep was naturally more introverted than her mother, at times, when she later needed an injection of confidence in adulthood, she would consult her mother, asking her for advice

Streep, who has portrayed characters ranging from Danish author Isak Dinesen in "Out of Africa" to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady," grew up in Somerset County, New Jersey.

Streep won her second Academy Award—her first for best actress—for her work on the film. In Out of Africa (1985), she took on the role of a Danish plantation owner living in Kenya. The role earned her another Academy Award nomination.

Streep's husband is sculptor Don Gummer. Streep and Gummer got married after dating for six months and the pair is still together.

Streep was raised as a Presbyterian[21] in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School, which was a Junior High school back then. In her Junior High debut, she starred as Louise Heller in the play "The Family Upstairs".

she reached her 40s, Streep continued to find challenging roles — a feat many mature actresses have struggled with in Hollywood.

Streep and her husband have four kids. Their oldest, Henry Wolfe (who uses only his first and middle names), is a musician, and their youngest, Louisa, is a model. But middle children Mamie and Grace are both actresses.

In 1963, the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School.[22] Author Karina Longworth described her as a "gawky kid with glasses and frizzy hair", yet noted that she liked to show off in front of the camera in family home movies from a young age

She received an Academy Award nomination for her work in several films, including two big-screen adaptations — one of Carrie Fisher's novel Postcards from the Edge (1990) and the other of Robert James Waller's romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

When she was a teenager, she learned to sing opera, albeit reluctantly.

At the age of 12, Streep was selected to sing at a school recital, leading to her having opera lessons from Estelle Liebling. However, despite her talent, she has remarked that, "I was singing something I didn't feel and understand. That was an important lesson—not to do that. To find the thing that I could feel through.

he starred opposite Clint Eastwood. Streep also received an Oscar nod for her work in Music of the Heart (1999), which tells the true story of a teacher who brings music into the lives of kids in New York's Harlem neighborhood by teaching them how to play the violin.

Her most recent nomination was a 2008 nod for her contribution to the "Mamma Mia!" soundtrack.

Streep was as busy as ever. In 2002, she appeared in two critically acclaimed films: The Hours and Adaptation.

She quit after four years. Streep had many Catholic school friends, and regularly attended mass.[24] Meryl was a high school cheerleader for the Bernards High School Mountaineers and was also chosen as the homecoming queen her senior year.[25] Her family lived on Old Fort Road.

She was last seen on the stage in 2006, starring in the Public Theater's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children" in New York City's Central Park.

Although Streep appeared in numerous school plays during her high school years, she was uninterested in serious theater until acting in the play Miss Julie at Vassar College in 1969, in which she gained attention across the campus.

Streep was then nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of author Susan Orlean in Adaptation.

She appeared in "Julia," a Holocaust drama based on a book by Lillian Hellman, opposite fellow screen legends Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave.

Streep earned the award for "Holocaust," in which she portrayed a Christian German woman married to a Jewish man.

She won her second Emmy Award for her work on the program, which had her tackling several roles.

She also won two subsequent Emmy Awards― one in 2004, for her lead performance in HBO's adaptation of the Tony Kushner play "Angels in America," and another in 2017, for narrating the Netflix documentary "Five Came Back."

One of Meryl Streep's first professional jobs in 1975, after Yale, was at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference during which she acted in five plays over six weeks

Streep got a chance to show some of her comic skills as a villain in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate (2004).