Meryl Streep in her impersonation of characters, "subsuming herself into them, rather than personifying them". In her early roles such as "Manhattan" and "Kramer vs. Kramer", she was compared to both Diane Keaton and Jill Clayburgh, in that her characters were unsympathetic, which Streep has attributed to the tendency to be drawn to playing women who are difficult to like and lack empathy. Streep has stated that many consider her to be a technical actor, but she professed that it comes down to her love of reading the initial script, adding, "I come ready and I don't want to screw around and
Mary Wilkinson Streep an art studio in the back of her home. She married Harry William Streep Jr, a pharmaceutical company executive. They had a daughter, Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep and two sons: Dana Streep and Harry William Streep III (husband of actress Maeve Kinkead). She is also the grandmother of Streep's children, musician Henry Wolfe, actresses Mamie Gummer and Grace Gummer, and model Louisa Gummer. Her daughter's husband, Don Gummer is also an artist, a sculptor. Her daughter Meryl Streep has often stated in interviews that her mother has been the inspiration for some her characters she has played on the screen.