Known for her versatility and adept accent work, she has been described as "the best actress of her generation". She made her feature film debut in Julia and soon established herself as one of the most respected actresses of all time. She has received three Academy Awards , the first for Best Supporting Actress for playing a troubled wife in Kramer vs. For her work on television, Streep won three Primetime Emmy Awards including for her roles in the miniseries Holocaust and Angels in America DeMille Award in You're so great.
If you're lazy, you're not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything. Despite her talent, she later remarked, "I was singing something I didn't feel and understand. That was an important lessonβnot to do that. To find the thing that I could feel through. Streep had many Catholic school friends, and regularly attended Mass.
She was also chosen as the homecoming queen her senior year. Atkinson noted, "I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting. She really taught herself. At Yale, she supplemented her course fees by working as a waitress and typist, and appeared in over a dozen stage productions per year; at one point, she became overworked and developed ulcers, so she contemplated quitting acting and switching to study law.
Streep disapproved of some of the acting exercises she was asked to do, remarking that one professor taught the emotional recall technique by delving into personal lives in a way she found "obnoxious". One of Streep's first professional jobs in was at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center 's National Playwrights Conference, during which she acted in five plays over six weeks.
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Although Streep had not aspired to become a film actor, Robert De Niro 's performance in Taxi Driver had a profound impact on her; she said to herself, 'That's the kind of actor I want to be when I grow up.
