Two of the Academy Award nominees announced this morning graduated from Vassar College in the Town of Poughkeepsie. Vassar graduate Meryl Streep was nominated for an Academy Award in the category ...

Streep was photographed as an up-and-coming actress in August 1976 when she was just 27 years old. At that time, the Vassar College and Yale School of Drama grad's acting credits were largely from ...

Meryl Streep, a graduate of Vassar College in the Town of Poughkeepsie, was among those with ties to the Hudson Valley who were nominated or are linked to films nominated for the motion picture ...

Blunt and Corden anchor the film with their humanity and humor, while Streep, sporting a ratty, cerulean blue mane, belts her way out of "Mamma Mia" prison and into our musical goodwill ...

Meryl Streep cemented her reputation as one of Hollywood’s finest dramatic actresses in 2003 when she received an unprecedented 13th Academy Award nomination. Streep started voice training at age 12 ...

Born in Summit, Meryl Streept attended Harding Township Middle School and graduated from Bernards High School, where she was a cheerleader and homecoming queen.

In her lovely commencement speech at Barnard College on Monday, Meryl Streep touched on a great many things: the importance of empathy; Streep's history, as a high school student, of performing ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today, we continue our series Classic Films and Movie Icons and hear interviews from our archive with Meryl Streep and Sidney Poitier. I spoke with Streep in ...

Vassar College alumna Meryl Streep received her record-breaking 18th Oscar nomination this morning for best actress in “August: Osage County.” She won three times.

Porn star Angela White has given a guest lecture to students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, speaking with students as part of a "groundbreaking" film studies class.

In a new biography called Her Again, author Michael Schulman says that at 14, Streep decided to reinvent herself — and before she was an Oscar winner, she was homecoming queen.