Meryl Streep

📍36 Harding Road, Summit, NJ 07901

“Mary Louise Streep was born in Summit, New Jersey, in June 1949, the eldest child of Harry Streep Jr., a pharmaceutical executive, and Mary Wolf Wilkinson, a commercial artist. She spent her early childhood in Summit and the neighbouring towns before the family moved to Bernardsville, in the New Jersey hills. As a girl she took opera singing lessons with the voice teacher Estelle Liebling and sang in school productions, and at Bernardsville High School she was a cheerleader and homecoming queen as well as a performer. She studied drama at Vassar College and then at the Yale School of Drama, and moved to New York, where she quickly made her name on stage before her film career began with The Deer Hunter. She has won three Academy Awards and holds the record for the most Oscar nominations of any actor.”

Sources: Smyth, J. Meryl Streep: A Biography (2016), Aurum Press; Streep, M. various interviews with The New Yorker and Vogue