American actress Meryl Streep, 73, has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts in recognition of her long and award-winning career. Nominated up to 21 times for the Oscar, the interpreter born in New Jersey has won the statuette three times.
Graduated in Drama from Yale University, Streep began in the theater, participated in the acclaimed miniseries Holocaust and made her big screen debut with Julia (1977) alongside Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. She has been married for 38 years to the sculptor Don Gummer, she is the mother of four children and a woman committed to the fight for gender equality.
Her second feature film as a film actress was in this Michael Cimino-directed drama that reflects on friendship against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. She played Linda and formed a peculiar love triangle with Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken. Meryl only made the film because it also starred John Cazale, her real-life great love, who was already very ill during filming. Her performance did not go unnoticed by the Academy and she was nominated for the first time in the best supporting actress category.
The difficult role he had to play in this tape about the complicated divorce of a couple with a child. Joanna Kramer abandoned her husband (Dustin Hoffman) and her seven-year-old child and after a while fought in court for custody of the child. Director Robert Benton allowed Streep to modify some dialogue in two of the most important scenes in the film because the actress believed that they did not correspond to reality. What is clear is that she was splendid playing the 'bad' role and she won her first Oscar as a supporting actress.
Another great performance by Streep in a melodrama by Karel Reisz, with a script by Harold Pinter and with Jeremy Irons as a co-star. Sarah's recreation of her in a film set in the Victorian era and her current one earned her the label "chameleon" in a New York Magazine article. For her work he won the Golden Globe and the Bafta.
Streep played Sophie, a Catholic Polish emigrant, in Alan J. Pakula's harrowing drama set in 1947 Brooklyn. Her intense role as an Auschwitz death camp survivor, in which she had to speak with a Polish accent, gave her her second Oscar, the first as best actress, in addition to the Golden Globe and numerous awards. In the words of the actress herself, she wanted so much to get the role of her that she even knelt before the director to beg him to be the protagonist of her.
Directed by Mike Nichols, he starred alongside Kurt Russell and Cher in this anti-nuclear allegation based on true events that earned him his fifth Oscar nomination. Streep got into the shoes of trade unionist Karen Silkwood who died under strange circumstances after denouncing irregularities at the nuclear plant where she worked. The actress assured that she faced her character through the different moments of her life and that she tried to understand Karen from the inside. She without a doubt, she got it.
A true classic in the history of cinema and perhaps his most emblematic film. For viewers, Meryl Streep will always be the prestigious Danish writer Karen Blixen in the unforgettable film directed by Sydney Pollack. Her on-screen African romance with Robert Redford and the scene in which the actor washes her hair dazzled Hollywood and critics. Winner of seven Oscars, Out of Africa became an icon of the romantic genre that established the American interpreter as the absolute protagonist of the female dramatic roles of the eighties.
The Francesca that the actress immortalized in the film based on the novel by Robert James Waller was originally intended for Isabella Rossellini, but in the end it was Meryl who starred in this delicious mature love story between a photographer (Clint Eastwood) and a mistress. from an Italian home
Streep shined brighter than ever again in this ensemble story by Spike Jonze in which she played the journalist Susan Orlean, with whom she became friends. A difficult, multi-layered role that earned her international critical acclaim and her thirteenth Oscar nomination. The sequence of her being drugged and talking on the phone about her with Chris Cooper is one of the best of this dramatic comedy.
Under the orders of John Patrick Shanley, he got into the shoes of Aloysius Beauvier, a strict nun who firmly believes in iron discipline to educate the students of a Bronx school in the sixties. Streep had a high-level interpretive duel with the charismatic priest who played Philip Seymour Hoffman, whom she accused of abusing a minor. With this work she got her fifteenth nomination at the prestigious Academy Awards.
His third Oscar took him for a role he initially rejected. And it is that Margaret Thatcher was not a saint of his devotion. However, director Phyllida Lloyd persuaded her until she got yes for an answer. The controversial character posed quite a challenge for Streep, one that she far exceeded expectations and brought her her third Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Bafta. The film focuses on the key moments of Thatcher's political career and for this the actress was present during the debates of the members of the House of Commons. Her physical characterization was spectacular, she matched the gestures of the former prime minister and with her perfect British accent, she once again demonstrated that there is no role that can resist her.
