And we can say - and we’ve watched them all - she’s incapable of a bad performance. With the release of both The Prom and Let Them All Talk this weekend, Streep has appeared in more than 50 movies, in just about every genre, with some of the biggest movie stars on the planet, and some of the greatest directors of all time.
Looks like she got her money’s worth at Yale. Within two she had her first feature-film role. Want a convincing case for the value of a postgraduate education? Meryl Streep finished her MFA from Yale in 1975 at the age of 26 (she paid her way through school by waitressing and typing) and then hit the New York City stage. This article was originally published in 2015 and has been updated to include Meryl Streep’s latest work. Photo: Illustration: Maya Robinson and Photos by Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros and Miramax Streep has appeared in more than 50 movies, in just about every genre, with some of the biggest movie stars on the planet, and some of the greatest directors of all time.
