Actress Meryl Streep, Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts 2023

OVIEDO, 26 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The American theater, film and television actress and singer Mary Louise Streep, known as Meryl Streep, has been awarded the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. This was announced by the jury at 12:00 p.m. meeting this Wednesday at the Hotel Eurostars of the Reconquest of Oviedo.

With this award the forty-third edition of the Princess of Asturias Awards begins. This candidacy has been proposed by Pedro Almodóvar, 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. A total of 44 candidacies from 20 nationalities opted for this award.

Born in Summit (USA) on June 22, 1949, Meryl Streep began her artistic studies at the age of twelve with singing classes and already in high school she added acting classes. A graduate of Vassar College (1971) and the Yale School of Drama (1975), Streep began her career in New York theaters and starred in several Broadway productions, including the 1977 revival of Anton Chekhov's The Garden of Cherry trees.

With three Oscars, eight Golden Globes, two BAFTAs and three Emmys, after more than forty years of acting career, Meryl Streep is considered one of the best contemporary actresses. Known above all for her roles in the cinema, she has stood out for her characteristic versatility, which is supported, according to critics, by an extraordinary ability to interpret a wide variety of characters and reproduce different accents.

She holds the absolute record for nominations for Oscars (21) and Golden Globes (32) and is one of only two living actresses to have won the US Academy Award three times. The first of them she did as best supporting actress for 'Kramer vs Kramer' (1979), with which she also won the Golden Globe in the same category.

At the beginning of the eighties, she had her first leading roles, for which she was especially recognized: 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' (The French Lieutenant's Woman, 1981), for which she received a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, an award that He repeated with 'Sophie's Choice' (Sophie's decision, 1982), with which he also won his second Oscar.

Films such as 'Out of Africa' (Out of Africa, 1985) by S. Pollack, Ironweed (Iron Stem, 1987) and 'Evil Angels' (A Cry in the Dark, 1988), for which she was awarded an award at Cannes, are some of his best performances of that decade. The filmography with some of its most emblematic characters includes 'The Bridges of Madison County' (The Bridges of Madison, 1995), 'Marvin's Room' (Marvin's room, 1996), 'The Hours' (The hours, 2002), 'The Devil Wears Prada' (The Devil Wears Prada, 2006), 'The Doubt' (2008) -interpretation awarded by the Screen Actors Guild of the United States-, the musical 'Mamma mia!' (2008) and 'The Iron Lady' (The Iron Lady, 2011), in the role of Margaret Thatcher, which earned her, in addition to a Golden Globe and a BAFTA, her third Oscar.

'Florence Foster Jenkins' (2016), 'The Post' (The Pentagon files, 2017), 'Little Women' (Little Women, 2019), 'Let Them All Talk' (Let them talk, 2020) and 'Don't Look Up' (Don't look up, 2021) are some of his latest works.

Philanthropist and committed to the defense of women's rights and gender equality, she has been a member of the advisory board of the organization Equality Now and in 2018 she participated in the documentary 'This Changes Everything', about gender discrimination in Hollywood .

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, Streep has received numerous honorary awards such as the César (France, 2003), the Donostia of the San Sebastian Festival (Spain, 2008), the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (Germany, 2012), the Stanley Kubrick Britannia (United Kingdom, 2015) and the Cecil B. DeMille (USA, 2017), among others, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts 2010 and Presidential Medal of Freedom 2014.

The Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts is awarded to "the work of creating, cultivating and perfecting cinematography, theatre, dance, music, photography, painting, sculpture, architecture and other artistic manifestations".

Each Princess of Asturias Award is endowed with a sculpture by Joan Miró -a representative symbol of the award-, an accrediting diploma, an insignia and the cash amount of fifty thousand euros.