Check out too the spotlight on this weeks Birthday Girl on 22nd June, Meryl Streep, at the end of this feature.
Sunday 22nd June
- Meryl Streep - Born 1949, turns 65 - Actress
- Bruce Campbell - Born 1958, turns 56 - Actor | Producer | Director
- Lindsay Wagner - Born 1949, turns 65 - Actress
- Kris Kristofferson - Born 1936, turns 78 - Actor | Singer | Songwriter | Composer
- Uwe Boll - Born 1965, turns 49 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Cyndi Lauper - Born 1953, turns 59 - Singer | Songwriter | Actress
- Prunella Scales - Born 1932, turns 82 - Actress
- Dan Brown - Born 1964, turns 50 - Writer | Producer
Monday 23rd June
- Joel Edgerton - Born 1974, turns 40 - Actor | Writer | Producer
- Selma Blair - Born 1972, turns 42 - Actress
- Joss Whedon - Born 1964, turns 50 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Frances McDormand - Born 1957, turns 57 - Actress
- Bryan Brown - Born 1947, turns 67 - Actor | Producer
- Russell Mulcahy - Born 1953, turns 61 - Director | Producer
Tuesday 24th June
- Peter Weller - Born 1947, turns 67 - Actor | Director
- Nancy Allen - Born 1950, turns 64 - Actress
- Curt Smith - Born 1961, turns 53 - Singer | Songwriter | Composer | Actor
Wednesday 25th June
- Ricky Gervais - Born 1961, turns 53 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director
- Anthony Bourdain - Born 1956, turns 58 - Writer | TV Personality | Producer
- Timur Bekmambetov - Born 1961, turns 53 - Director | Producer | Writer
- George Michael - Born 1963, turns 51 - Singer | Songwriter | Composer
Thursday 26th June
- Jason Schwartzman - Born 1980, turns 34 - Actor | Singer | Songwriter
- Chris O'Donnell - Born 1970, turns 44 - Actor
- Paul Thomas Anderson - Born 1970, turns 44 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Chris Isaak - Born 1956, turns 58 - Singer | Songwriter | Actor
- Robert Davi - Born 1951, turns 63 - Actor | Producer
Friday 27th June
- J. J. Abrams - Born 1966, turns 48 - Director | Producer | Writer | Composer
- Tobey Maguire - Born 1975, turns 39 - Actor | Producer
Saturday 28th June
- John Cusack - Born 1966, turns 48 - Actor | Writer | Producer
- Mary Stuart Masterson - Born 1966, turns 48 - Actress | Producer
- Mel Brooks - Born 1926, turns 88 - Writer | Director | Producer | Actor | Songwriter
- Kathy Bates - Born 1948, turns 66 - Actress | Director
- Bruce Davison - Born 1946, turns 68 - Actor
Where do you start with 'the greatest living actress'? These few short paragraphs certainly won't do her justice! Mary Louise Streep was born in Summit, New Jersey and in her early life had a leaning to Opera for which she studied at age 12. Upon graduation from Vassar College in 1971 where her first interest in acting was sparked, she joined The Yale School of Drama. Her film debut came in 1977 in 'Julia' with a solid performance that brought her to attention of the studio exec's. and 'The Deer Hunter' followed in 1978 for which she garnered her first Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Academy.
That same year she married Don Gummer a sculptor with whom she still remains and with whom she has four children - one son and three daughters.
She is truly an acclaimed and accomplished actress, and has received the most Oscar nominations of any actress in history with eighteen nominations as of this year. She holds also the same record with The Golden Globes for which she has a staggering 28 nominations to date. She is only one of four actors/actresses to receive acting honours from the Academy in each of five successive decades - the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's and 10's. She is described as the consummate professional, a true perfectionist, meticulous in her preparation, and totally focused in her research and delivery of her every character. 
So far she has 74 acting credits to her name from 1977 to the present day, and is still very much in demand. She has won the Academy Award for Best Actress three times for 'The Iron Lady', 'Sophie's Choice' and 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and has 15 other nominations. The Golden Globe haul is equally as impressive with wins for 'The Iron Lady', 'Julie & Julia', 'The Devil wears Prada', 'Angels in America', 'Adaptation', 'Sophie's Choice', 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' and 'Kramer vs. Kramer', plus 20 additional nominations. The BAFTA's have given her wins too for 'The Iron Lady' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' plus 12 other nominations, and she has won two Emmy's for 'Angels in America' and TV mini-series 'Holocaust' plus one other nominations. All up her award credits total a truly outstanding 137 wins and a further 179 nominations.
Aside from the film credits mentioned above her filmography also includes the likes of 'Manhatten', 'Plenty', 'Ironweed', 'A Cry in the Dark', 'Postcards from the Edge',' Death Becomes Her', 'The River Wild', ' The Bridges of Madison County', 'The Hours', 'A Prairie Home Companion', 'Mamma Mia', 'Lions for Lambs', 'Doubt', 'Hope Springs' and more recently 'August : Osage County'. In the can and currently in post production and due for release later in 2014 and 2015 there is still to come 'The Homesman', 'Suffragette', 'The Giver', 'Into the Woods' and 'Ricky and The Flash'. Streep has also lent her impressive voice talents to such films as 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox', 'Ant Bully' and 'A.I. : Artificial Intelligence'. 'Mamma Mia' represents Streep's biggest box office haul to date with a worldwide gross of US$603M.
Streep aside from her impressive acting talents and accolades is a spokesperson for the National Women's History Museum, and a supported of Gucci's 'Chime for Change' campaign aiming to spread female empowerment.
Meryl Streep - talented actress beyond doubt, acclaimed and awarded thespian, in demand and in command, versatile, diverse, and making it real - a very Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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