Meryl Streep Actress, National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in her three film releases of 1979. Both "The Deer Hunter" and "Kramer vs. Kramer" were major commercial successes and were consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1979, Streep began workshopping "Alice in Concert", a musical version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", with writer and composer Elizabeth Swados and director Joseph Papp; the show was put on at New York's Public Theater from December 1980. Frank Rich of "The New York
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.