A Star is Born: Meryl Streep

"Meryl Streep is a film actress not a stage actress! Wah!" No she's not. She has tons of stage credits to her name and 2 Tony Award Nominations. Besides Meryl Streep was in plenty of films that were adapted from a play or a musical. Miss Streep is an insanely talented actress and I'm pretty sure she has gotten more attractive and more talented with age. She is also an extremely caring woman. She is the spokeswoman for the National Women's History Museum and has hosted many events for them. She even donated all of her salary from The Iron Lady* (It was about $1 million) and she has donated tons more money to them throughout the years.

Streep at a dinner she hosted for NWHM

Besides the NWHM she also supports other charities as well including: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Equality Now, Healthy Child Healthy World, The Rainforest Foundation, etc, etc. Miss Streep is not only a wonderful actress and a wonderful person. Besides supporting these charities she also donated $1 million to The Public Theater and she established two scholarships for students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell- the Meryl Streep Endowed Scholarship (For English majors) and Joan Hertzberg Endowed Scholarship (For Math majors) Streep is very vast with her charity work which makes her all the more amazing. She has been in several adaptions of plays and musicals (Doubt, August: Osage County, Mamma Mia, Into the Woods, Master Class) She has plenty of stage credits that include: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (Flora Meighan), A Memory of Two Mondays (Patricia), The Taming of the Shrew (Kate), Romeo & Juliet (Juliet), Mother Courage and Her Children (Mother Courage) and lots of others. Meryl Streep is probably the most diverse actor I have ever seen. She was trained in opera** and has a phenomenal voice at her age.

Streep at the 2014 Oscars

Streep has been nominated for many awards and has won many awards as well.***

Tony Awards:
1976: Best Featured Actress in a Play for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (Nominated)
1976: Best Feautred Actress in a Play for A Memory of Two Mondays (Nominated)

Academy Awards:
1979: Best Supporting Actress for The Deer Hunter (Nominated)
1980: Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs Kramer (WON)
1982: Best Actress for The French Lieutenant's Woman (Nominated)
1983: Best Actress for Sophie's Choice (WON)
1984: Best Actress for Silkwood (Nominated)
1986: Best Actress for Out of Africa (Nominated)
1988: Best Actress for Ironweed (Nominated)
1989: Best Actress for Evil Angels (Nominated)
1991: Best Actress for  Postcards from the Edge (Nominated)
1996: Best Actress for The Bridges of Madison County (Nominated)
1999: Best Actress for One True Thing (Nominated)
2000: Best Actress for Music of the Heart (Nominated)
2003: Best Supporting Actress for Adaptation (Nominated)
2007: Best Actress for The Devil Wears Prada (Nominated)
2009: Best Actress for Doubt (Nominated)
2010: Best Actress for Julie & Julia (Nominated)
2012: Best Actress for The Iron Lady (WON)
2014: Best Actress for August: Osage County (Nominated)

2015: Best Supporting Actress for Into the Woods (Nominated)

Primetime Emmy Awards:
1978: Outstanding Lead Actress- Miniseries or a Movie for Holocaust (WON)
1997: Outstanding Lead Actress- Miniseries or a Movie for ...First Do No Harm (Nominated)
2004: Outstanding Lead Actress- Miniseries or a Movie for Angels in America (WON)

Honorary Degree/ Doctorate of Arts:
1981: Dartmouth College Awards
1983: Yale School of Art Awards
2009: Princeton University Awards
2010: Harvard University Awards
2014: Indiana University Bloomington

Honors:
2010: National Medal of Arts
2011: Kennedy Center Honor
2014: Presidential Medal of Freedom

*The film which she won her 3rd Oscar for.
**Speaking of opera Streep has signed on to play the famous awful opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins in a biopic film titled: Florence
***Meryl Streep has been nominated for over 400 awards and counting and has won over 150 awards and counting