Meryl Streep is an American actress who portrayed Aunt Josephine in the film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Biography[]
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive. Her father was of German and Swiss-German descent, and her mother had English, Irish, and German ancestry.
Meryl's early performing ambitions leaned toward the opera. She became interested in acting while a student at Vassar and upon graduation she enrolled in the Yale School of Drama. She gave an outstanding performance in her first film role, Julia (1977), and the next year she was nominated for her first Oscar for her role in The Deer Hunter (1978). She went on to win the Academy Award for her performances in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Sophie's Choice (1982), in which she gave a heart-wrenching portrayal of an inmate mother in a Nazi death camp.
A perfectionist in her craft and meticulous and painstaking in her preparation for her roles, Meryl turned out a string of highly acclaimed performances over the next decade in great films like Silkwood (1983); Out of Africa (1985); Ironweed (1987); and A Cry in the Dark (1988). Her career declined slightly in the early 1990s as a result of her inability to find suitable parts, but she shot back to the top in 1995 with her performance as Clint Eastwood's married lover in The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and as the prodigal daughter in Marvin's Room (1996). In 1998 she made her first venture into the area of producing, and was the executive producer for the moving ...First Do No Harm (1997). A realist when she talks about her future years in film, she remarked that "...no matter what happens, my work will stand..."[1]
A Series of Unfortunate Events[]
Meryl Streep joined the cast for the 2004 film because her children read the books.
She is referenced subtly in the Netflix Adaptation: In "The Austere Academy: Part Two," a screengrab of a page from The Incomplete History of Secret Organizations shows the line:
| “ | These are some of the many reasons why V.F.D. is honoured to award Ike Anwhistle with his 99th Volunteer of the Month Nomination he is in the ranks of the great Meryl Streep! | ” |
This implies that in the Netflix universe, Meryl Streep exists and is a member of VFD.[2]
Filmography[]
Film[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Everybody Rides the Carousel | Stage 6 | Voice |
| 1977 | The Deadliest Season | Sharon Miller | |
| 1977 | Julia | Anne Marie | |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Linda | |
| 1979 | Manhattan | Jill | |
| 1979 | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Karen Traynor | |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Joanna Kramer | |
| 1981 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Sarah and Anna | |
| 1982 | Alice at the Palace | Alice | |
| 1982 | Still of the Night | Brooke Reynolds | |
| 1982 | Sophie's Choice | Sophie | |
| 1983 | Silkwood | Karen Silkwood | |
| 1984 | Falling in Love | Molly Gilmore | |
| 1985 | Plenty | Susan | |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Karen | |
| 1986 | Heartburn | Rachel | |
| 1987 | Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Storyteller | Voice
Short |
| 1987 | Ironweed | Helen | |
| 1987 | Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher | Storyteller | Voice
Short |
| 1988 | A Cry in the Dark | Lindy | |
| 1988 | The Tailor of Gloucester | Narrator | |
| 1989 | She-Devil | Mary Fisher | |
| 1989 | Rabbit Ears: The Fisherman and His Wife | Storyteller | Voice
Short |
| 1990 | The Earth Day Special | Concerned Citizen | |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Suzanne Vale | |
| 1991 | Defending Your Life | Julia | |
| 1992 | Death Becomes Her | Madeline Ashton | |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits | Clara | |
| 1994 | The River Wild | Gail Hartman | |
| 1995 | The Bridges of Madison County | Francesca Johnson | |
| 1996 | Before and After | Carolyn Ryan | |
| 1996 | Marvin's Room | Lee | |
| 1997 | ...First Do No Harm | Lori Reimuller | |
| 1998 | Dancing at Lughnasa | Kate Mundy | |
| 1998 | One True Thing | Kate Gulden | |
| 1999 | Chrysanthemum | Narrator | Voice
Short |
| 1999 | Music of the Heart | Roberta | |
| 1999 | Ginevra's Story: Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait | Narrator | |
| 2001 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Blue Mecha | Voice |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Susan Orlean | |
| 2002 | The Hours | Clarissa Vaughan | |
| 2003 | Stuck on You | Meryl Streep | Uncredited |
| 2004 | Gilda's Club: A Special Place | Narrator | Voice
Short |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Eleanor Shaw | |
| 2004 | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Aunt Josephine | |
| 2005 | Prime | Lisa Metzger | |
| 2006 | A Prairie Home Companion | Yolanda Johnson | |
| 2006 | The Music of Regret | The Woman | Short |
| 2006 | The Devil Wears Prada | Miranda Priestly | |
| 2006 | The Aunt Bully | Queen | Voice |
| 2007 | Dark Matter | Joanna Silver | |
| 2007 | Evening | Lila Ross | |
| 2007 | Rendition | Corrine Whitman | |
| 2007 | Lions for Lambs | Janine Roth | |
| 2008 | Mamma Mia! | Donna | |
| 2008 | Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier | |
| 2009 | Julie & Julia | Julia Child | |
| 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Mrs. Fox | Voice |
| 2009 | It's Complicated | Jane Adler | |
| 2010 | Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life | Jennie | Voice
Short |
| 2011 | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher | |
| 2012 | Hope Springs | Kay | |
| 2013 | August: Osage County | Violet Weston | |
| 2014 | The Homesman | Altha Carter | |
| 2014 | The Giver | Chief Elder | |
| 2014 | Into the Woods | Witch | |
| 2015 | Ricki and the Flash | Ricki | |
| 2015 | Suffragette | Emmeline Pankhurst | |
| 2016 | The Guardian Brothers | Narrators | Voice
English Version |
| 2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins | Florence Foster Jenkins | |
| 2016 | Shoulders | Narrator | |
| 2017 | The Post | Kay Graham | |
| 2018 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Donna | |
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | Cousin Topsy | |
| 2019 | The Laundromat | Ellen Martin | |
| 2019 | Little Women | Aunt March | |
| 2020 | Let Them All Talk | ||
| 2020 | The Prom | Dee Dee Allen |
Television[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Holocaust | Inga Helms Weiss | |
| 1977-1979 | Great Performances | Leilah / Edith Varney | |
| 1989 | American Masters | Narrator | One Episode |
| 1994 | The Simpsons | Jessive Lovejoy | One Episode |
| 1999 | King of the Hill | Aunt Esme Dauterive | One Episode |
| 2003 | Angels in America | Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi | |
| 2003 | Freedom: A History of Us | Margaret Chase Smith / Mother Jones / Mary Easty / Abigail Adams | |
| 2010 | Web Therapy | Camilla Bowner | |
| 2019 | Big Little Lies | Mary Louise Wright |
Sources[]
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