EBN- the Cannes Film Festival announced that it will honor international star Meryl Streep, by awarding her an honorary Palme d’Or, while she is the guest of honor at the opening ceremony of the 77th session of the Cannes Festival, which is being held at the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
Meryl is one of the most important Hollywood stars who has in her professional history an archive that includes many successful films, which achieved record views and won many awards, including 3 Oscars, so let us get to know Meryl Streep in the following lines.
Who is Meryl Streep and how did she get into acting?
Meryl Streep is an American actress, born on June 22, 1949 in the American state of New Jersey. Her mother, who was of British-German origins, was an advertising artist, while her father, who was of German-Swiss origins, worked in the field of pharmacy. She has two brothers, Dana David and Harry William. Third, her real name is Mary, just like her mother and grandmother, but her father used to call her Meryl until it became her official name.
She attended Vassar University in 1971, where she began to discover her passion for acting, which led her to attend Yale University in 1975, after graduation, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree.
She then attended Dartmouth College in the 1970s as a visiting student, from which in 1981 she received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.
Meryl Streep’s beginnings
In addition, from a young age, she received opera lessons from Estelle Liebling, dance lessons from Carmen de Lavalade, and acting lessons from Robert Lewis, all of which contributed to building her talented and distinguished personality in the world of Hollywood.
Her cinematic debut was in 1977 with the movie “Julia” when she was 28 years old. Immediately after that, the star was exposed to the first psychological shock she received in her life following the death of her friend, actor John Cazale, who passed away in 1978, after a battle with cancer.
The star was then able to gather her strength again to launch into the world of Hollywood, especially since she had filmed the movie “The Deer Hunter” with the late John Cazale, which is considered the official beginning of her fame in this world, and which is considered one of the most important films in the history of cinema.
The film’s story revolves around the Vietnam War, where Meryl played the role of “Linda”, who lives a complicated love story with the character of international actor Robert De Niro. This role is considered a turning point in Meryl Streep’s path to fame, especially since she received her first nomination for an Oscar in 1967. 1979.
After that, the star’s distinguished roles continued in the world of Hollywood, which made her the greatest person to stand in front of the camera in history, and she won several well-deserved titles, including “Award Recipient” and “Queen of Hollywood,” in addition to “Greatest Living Actress.”
