October 7, 2009, 7 pm
Public $50, Members $45. Waiting list now closed
From Sophie’s Choice to Julie & Julia, Meryl Streep has earned a position in the world of film equalled by few. The ROM is pleased to present an evening of thoughtful reflection with one of today’s true Hollywood icons, including clips from her films, as interviewed by Johanna Schneller, the Globe and Mail's film critic.
This event is presented by the Institute for Contemporary Culture as part of The Question of Celebrity, the Fall lineup of public programs related to the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008, presented by the Bay.
Proceeds from this event will benefit the ICC, Kageno, and SafeHands for Mothers.
About Meryl Streep
A two-time Academy Award winner and recipient of a record-breaking fifteen Oscar nominations, Meryl Streep has portrayed an astonishing array of roles in a career that has cut its own unique path from the theatre through film and television.
Currently, Streep can be seen in theatres playing the famed master chef, Julia Childs in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia. This follows her SAG win as Best Actress and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for the blockbuster Doubt (2008).
Streep's career began in 1977 staring opposite Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave in Julia. In her second screen role, The Deer Hunter (1978), Streep earned her first Academy Award nomination and the following year won an Academy Award for her role in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). Her third Academy nomination came only two years after for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and in 1983 Streep won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Sophie's Choice (1983).
In the 1990's Streep took on a variety of roles including She Devil (1989) and Postcards from the Edge (1990), Clint Eastwood's screen adaptation of The Bridges of Madison County (1995); Marvin's Room (1996) with Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio; One True Thing (1998) opposite Renee Zellweger; Dancing in Lughnasa (1998) and Wes Craven's Music of the Heart (1999). This selection of work won her critical acclaim and SAG, Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.
Streep's recent works include Mamma Mia! (2008); The Hours (2002); Spike Jonze's Adaptation (2002); The Manchurian Candidate (2004); Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004); Prime (2005) with Uma Thurman; Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion (2006); Evening (2007); Lions for Lambs (2007) with Robert Redford and Tom Cruise, Rendition (2007) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006).
In theatre, Streep won the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Theater World Award and a Tony nomination for her role in the 1976 Broadway double-bill of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays. Most recently Streep appeared in the Tony Kushner adaptation of Mother Courage (2006).
In TV, Streep won Emmys for the eight-part mini-series Holocaust (1978) and for the Mike Nichol's directed HBO movie Angels in America (2003), which also won her Golden Globe and SAG Awards. Streep was also Emmy nominated for her performance in First Do No Harm (1997), which she co-produced with director Jim Abrahams.
In 2003, Meryl was accorded a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the French government's highest civilian honor. In 2004, she received an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2008 a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
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