Meryl Streep can do anything, be anyone, become anything and we’ll believe her. She is, undoubtedly, one of the best actress working in Hollywood and she rocks those blue glasses she wears.

Born  Mary Louise Streep in New Jersey 60 years ago, Meryl originally wanted to be an opera singer but fell in love with acting while at college.

In 1977, she landed her first role as Anne Marie, in Julia, and immediately turned heads. Julia was the beginning of a love affair between Meryl and her lesbian audience as it tells the gut-wrenching true story of Lillian Hellman (writer of the Children’s Hour) and her relationship with the titular Julia.

In 1978, she married American sculptor Don Gummer and, very un-Hollywood, they are together still with their four children.

It took just one more year until Meryl was nominated for her first Oscar for The Deer Hunter. Not bad for your second film. At the time, she was asked about her future projects:

I’m looking forward to bigger parts in the future, but I’m not doing soft-core scripts where the character emerges in half-light, half-dressed.

She continued her open support for lesbians in the 1979 film, Manhattan in which she plays Woody Allen’s ex-wife who has left him for another woman. In the same year she went on to win her first Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer. Titbit: She lost the statuette on the night after leaving it on the back of the toilet while doing her personals.

The 80′s where to be the years of the accent for Meryl and also the decade where she solidified her status as one of the greatest living actresses. She ripped our hearts out in Sophie’s Choice (Oscar number 2), had us cheer her on in Silkwood (in which Cher was in love with her), made us all gooey inside with Falling In Love, had a “faaahm in Awfrika” in Out of Africa, broke Jack Nicholson’s heart in Heartburn and got pissed with him in Ironweed. All the time she had three children; one in 1979, 1983 and another in 1986. Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it?

The 90′s saw a much more chilled out Meryl with less intense roles. She even nailed comedy in Death Becomes Her, She Devil and Postcards from the Edge and added a new accent to her repertoire in The Bridges of Madison County. In the midst of all this was The House of the Spirits, a film dripping in lesbian tension between her character and Glenn Close’s. Oh and Meryl had her fourth child for good measure.

In 1994, she was sexy. There’s no other way to describe her in The River Wild. Hot! All toned of muscle and bad of ass.

In this century, Meryl has managed to mix a bit of everything into her career. She has paid her dues and then some, so she can pretty much pick and choose what roles she wants without having to worry about her reputation.

We started in 2002 with her pitch-perfect performance in The Hours (more gay!) and then Angels in America (gay much?). She dabbled in high drama in Evening and Doubt, political intrigue in Lambs for Lions, Rendition and The Manchurian Candidate. She stole the show in comedies Prime and the Devil Wears Prada and sang her way through A Prairie Home Companion and, of course, Mamma Mia. Now, she’s making us hungry in Julie & Julia, looking like she’s having the time of her life as Julia Childs.

I’m out of breath.
Our Meryl is a good ould skin too, she donated her Devil Wears Prada wardrobe to charity. Awww. She’s no prima donna as anyone will tell you and thinks fame is a bit silly really.

Let’s face it, we were all once 3-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

I mean, come on; when you have people writing these things, that you’re the greatest thing that ever ate scenery, you’re dead. You’re fucking dead. How can you even presume to begin a new character? It’s a killer.

Fifteen times Academy Award nominations – twelve for Best Actress (winning two) and three for Best Supporting Actress – don’t lie. But is a ban alainn?

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