DID YOU KNOW? Meryl Streep

New Netflix drama The Prom stars Meryl Streep as a stage actress who thinks a small-town

high school can revive her flagging career. Not a problem Meryl has experienced…

● She was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949, and decided that law wasn’t the career for in New Jersey on America’s east coast. her after all. She went on to study drama at Meryl was a nickname her father gave her. Yale University, and got a master’s degree.

● Meryl worked hard at school, in her ● Her husband, Don Gummer, is a sculptor. studies as well as on stage. She served They married in 1978, and have four children. on the student council, took the lead Daughters Mamie and Grace are actresses. in high-school plays and was even Their eldest, Henry Wolfe, is a musician, crowned homecoming queen in and their youngest, Louisa, is a model. her senior year, graduating in 1967.

● She donated her $1 million salary

● She studied singing from the for the 2011 film The Iron Lady –her age of 12, and although she was performance as Margaret Thatcher trained in opera, she wasn’t all earned her an Oscar – to America’s that interested – preferring National Women’s History Museum. ‘cheerleading and boys’ instead.

● Meryl has won three Oscars and

● She slept through the law school currently holds the record for most entrance exam when she was 23, acting nominations, with a total of 21.