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Two Time Oscar Winner: Meryl Streep Best Supporting Actress : 1980 “Kramer vs. Kramer” Best Actress : 1983 “Sophie’s Choice” |
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After a handful of small appearances in TV movies (“The Secret Service” & “The Deadliest Season”), Meryl got her big break & her first Oscar nomination for her work in the critically acclaimed film “The Deer Hunter” (1979). Within the next few years Meryl had won 2 Academy Awards for “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1980) & “Sophie’s Choice” (1983).
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Meryl Streep Fact File : |
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Birth Name: Mary Louise Streep
Date Of Birth: 22nd June 1949
Place Of Birth: Summit, New Jersey, USA
Height: 5’ 6”
Spouse: Don Gummer (1978 - Present)
Film Debut: “Julia” (1977)
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Meryl Streep’s Top 10 Movies on DVD : |
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The Bridges Of Madison County [DVD](1995) DVD Robert James Waller's monster best-seller about the passionate but doomed love affair between a magazine photographer and a bored farmwife in mid-'60s Iowa is beautifully transferred to the screen by director/star Clint Eastwood, who teams with Meryl Streep for a love story that is moving, funny and unforgettable. Annie Corley, Victor Slezak also star. 135 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; filmographies; production notes; scene access.
The Deer Hunter [DVD](1978) DVD Winner of five Oscars, this harrowing indictment of war from director Michael Cimino stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage as three Pennsylvania steeltown friends whose lives are forever changed by their experiences together in Vietnam. Co-stars Meryl Streep, John Cazale. 183 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Surround; Subtitles: French, Spanish; scene access.
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Kramer vs. Kramer [DVD](1979) DVD A moving, sensitive story about contemporary relationships and values. Dustin Hoffman is a man who finds himself starting anew when his wife walks out on him and their young son. Winner of Best Picture, Best Actor and three other Oscars. Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander also star. 105 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby mono, French; Subtitles: English, Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai; "making of" featurette; production notes; filmographies; trailers.
The French Lieutenant's Woman [DVD](1981) DVD A film-within-a-film structure was applied to John Fowles' romantic novel, with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons playing both the woman of dubious reputation and her refined gentleman lover in Victorian England and the actress and actor portraying the pair in a contemporary film production. Karel Reisz directs Harold Pinter's script. 123 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby stereo, French Dolby mono, Spanish Dolby stereo; Subtitles: Spanish, French; trailer.
Sophie's Choice [DVD](1982) DVD Meryl Streep earned her second Academy Award for her masterful performance as a Nazi death camp survivor who moves to America, but cannot escape the dark secret from her past that haunts her. Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol give able support as the men in her life. Alan J. Pakula directs this moving adaptation of the William Styron novel. 150 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby 2.0; Subtitles: Spanish; audio commentary; documentary; production notes; biographies; trailer.
Silkwood [DVD](1983) DVD Acclaimed biodrama of Karen Silkwood, who died in a mysterious accident in 1974 after threatening to expose unsafe conditions at the Oklahoma nuclear supply plant where she worked. Meryl Streep shines in the title role, supported by Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward and Ron Silver, in this gripping Mike Nichols film. 131 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; theatrical trailer; scene access.
Falling In Love [DVD](1984) DVD Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep are reunited for the first time since "The Deer Hunter" in this tender drama of two married people whose accidental encounter leads to friendship and, finally, a forbidden romance. Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek also star. 107 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby mono, French mono; Subtitles: English; interactive menus; scene access.
Out Of Africa [DVD](1985) DVD Spectacular, beautiful filming of author Isak Dinesen's accounts of her life in 1910s Africa won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Director. Meryl Streep stars as the Danish woman who reluctantly goes to Africa with husband Klaus Maria Brandauer to run a coffee plantation, but slowly comes to fall in love with the untamed land and with hunter Robert Redford; directed by Sydney Pollack. 161 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Surround, French stereo; audio commentary by Pollack; documentary; production notes; biographies; trailer.
The River Wild [DVD](1994) DVD In her first action role, Meryl Streep plays a Boston woman who joins her architect husband and 10-year-old son on a rafting trip in the Western area where she was raised. Their journey takes a dangerous turn when two fishermen they've helped turn out to be gun-toting fugitives counting on Streep to lead them to freedom through treacherous waters. Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn co-star. 112 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French, Spanish; Subtitles: Spanish; scene access.
The Hours [DVD](2002) DVD Nicole Kidman delivers an Oscar-winning performance as author Virginia Woolf in this poignant tale that focuses on three women, living in different times but bound by a common thread. In 1929, Woolf fights a losing battle with mental illness as she begins to write her novel "Mrs. Dalloway." Twenty-two years later, a suburban housewife (Julianne Moore) finds solace in the book while struggling with her dreary life. And a present-day literary editor (Meryl Streep) represents a modern Clarissa Dalloway who faces mortality as she plans a party for her friend, a prominent writer dying of AIDS. With Ed Harris, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels and John C. Reilly. 114 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English; audio commentary by Kidman, Moore, Streep, others;
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