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1. Meryl Streep's first movie role was in 1977 opposite Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. What was the name of the movie?

Answer: Julia

"Julia" was set during the late 1930s in Nazi occupied Germany and Meryl played the role of Anne Marie. Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards both won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Actor. Meryl made her stage debut in "The Playboy of Seville" and screen debut in a television movie "The Deadliest Season".

In 1979 she played Jill in the Woody Allen romantic comedy "Manhattan".

2. At the time of the filming of "The Deer Hunter" in 1978, Meryl was in a two year relationship with one of the actors, who played the role of Stan ("Stosh"), one of the young steelworkers. Who was this actor?

Answer: John Cazale

John Cazale (1935-1978) had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer but continued to work through the production of the movie. Meryl was given a small role in the movie (Linda) so she could be at his side. For this role she received her first Oscar nomination. John died before the movie was released. John had been in two "The Godfather" movies as Fredo Corleone plus "Dog Day Afternoon" as Salvatore Naturale opposite Al Pacino. De Niro (Michael), Walken (Nick) and Savage (Steven) had significant roles in "The Deer Hunter". John Cazale played the role of Stan.

3. In 1979 Meryl won her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "Kramer vs Kramer". What was her name in the movie?

Answer: Joanna

She played opposite Dustin Hoffman (Ted Kramer) who won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Margaret Phelps was played by Jane Alexander, Kim Phelps by Melissa Morell and Phyllis Bernard by JoBeth Williams.

4. Meryl won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role of Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski in "Sophie's Choice" (1982). What was the American poem by Emily Dickinson that Sophie was fond of reading?

Answer: "Ample make this bed" (1891)

"Ample make this bed" was written in 1891. The poem uses the imagery of sex and burial and how life and death are connected to one another. This all makes sense to Sophie as she had experienced the giving of birth of her children and then their deaths in the concentration camps. The other poems are also by Emily Dickinson.

5. Meryl, as Karen Dinesen in "Out of Africa" (1985) entered into a marriage of convenience with whom?

Answer: Baron Bror Blixen

Karen who was a wealthy but unmarried woman asked Baron Bror Blixen (Klaus Maria Brandauer) to enter into marriage. Once in Africa she then had a relationship with Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford). Lord Delamere (Michael Gough) and Berkeley Cole (Michael Kitchen) were characters in the movie that takes place
in British East Africa that later became Kenya. The period of the movie is during the early 1900s.

6. In 1988 Meryl starred in an Australian production of a true story, "A Cry in the Dark", about a family that were camping in the outback and claimed that their nine-week old baby girl had been abducted by a dingo (Australian wild dog). Which antipodean actor played the role of her husband Michael Chamberlain?

Answer: Sam Neill

Sam Neill (b.1947) is a British born New Zealand actor, having moved to New Zealand with his parents in 1954. He has had leading roles in "Omen III: The Final Conflict", "The Piano", "Jurassic Park", "Merlin" and "The Hunt for Red October". Bryan Brown and Jack Thompson are Australian actors and Russell Crowe, although born in New Zealand has spent most of his life in Australia since the age of four.

7. "Postcards from the Edge" (1990) was a comedy drama with Meryl (Suzanne Vale) as a reformed drug addict trying to get her acting career back on track. Who played the role of the paternalistic director Lowell Kolchek trying to assist her with this challenge?

Answer: Gene Hackman

Lowell Kolchek wanted Suzanne to star in one of his movies but only when she had kicked the habit and come clean from drugs. At the end of the movie Suzanne was shown doing a country western number in one of Kolchek's new films. Gene Hackman (b. 1930), an accomplished novelist and actor has won Academy Awards for Best Actor in "The French Connection"(1971) and Best Supporting Actor in "Unforgiven" (1992).

In the 1960s he shared accommodation in New York with two other struggling actors: Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall.

He made his screen debut in 1964 in "Lilith" opposite Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg and Peter Fonda. In the movie Richard Dreyfuss played Dr. Frankenthal, Rob Reiner played Joe Pierce and Dennis Quaid played Jack Faulkner.

8. In the 2008 movie "Mamma Mia!", Donna and The Dynamos performed at Sophie's bachelorette party. What ABBA song did the trio perform?

Answer: Super Trouper

"Super Trouper" is performed by Donna Sheridan (Meryl Streep), Rosie Mulligan (Julie Walters) and Tanya Chesham-Leigh (Christine Baranski). "Does Your Mother Know?" was performed by Tanya to Pepper by the bar on the beach and "Dancing Queen" by Donna and the female staff of the hotel. "Waterloo" was sung by the cast at the end of the movie during the principal credits. Two members of the ABBA group made cameo but uncredited appearances with Benny Andersson as a piano player and Bjorn Ulvaeus as a Greek god.

In the movie the island that was known as Kalokairi was actually the island of Skopelos in the Aegean Sea.

9. In the 2009 comedy drama "Julie & Julia", Julia Child (Meryl Streep) co-authored a cookbook and New Yorker Julie Powell (Amy Adams), who had an unpleasant job, but a passion for cooking, set up a blog and decided to cook every recipe in the cookbook in 365 days. What was the name of this cookbook?

Answer: Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Julia Child (1912 - 2004) was a chef, author and television personality. She wrote the four books mentioned in the question. "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" was her debut cookbook and was co-authored by Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle (both of France).

It was written for the American market. Although dramatized, the movie was based on the interaction of Julie Powell and Julia Child. Due to the success of the movie the book was re-issued and became a best-seller nearly 50 years after it was first published.

10. Meryl Streep received her 17th Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the 2011 movie "The Iron Lady". Nicholas Farrell played the role of which Member of Parliament (later assassinated) who befriended Margaret on her first day in the Commons?

Answer: Airey Neave

Airey Neave (1916 - 1979) was a British Army officer, barrister and politician. During WWII he became a POW and was the first British officer to successfully escape from the German prison-of war camp, Colditz Castle (Oflag IV-C). He was assassinated on 30 March 1979 as he drove his car out of the Palace of Westminster car park which was shown in a scene in the movie. Meryl won her second Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Margaret Thatcher.

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