Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 - June 12, 1983) was an American actress born in Montreal, Quebec.

Norma Shearer

She was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. Starting as a film extra in 1920, she was already a popular star in 1927 when she married MGM's second-in-command Irving Thalberg, with whom she had two children. Shearer won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee in 1930. She was nominated the same year for her role in Their Own Desire, in 1931 for her role in A Free Soul, in 1934 for The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in 1936 for Romeo and Juliet, and in 1938 for Marie Antoinette which was reputedly her favorite role.

After Thalberg died in 1936, Shearer embarked upon a series of little known but enthusiastic love affairs, including one with teenage film star Mickey Rooney and tough-guy actor George Raft. She retired from acting in 1942 and married Martín Arrouge, a ski enthusiast quite a few years her junior. Confounding the skeptics, they were still happily married at the time of her death, though in her declining years she reportedly called Arrouge "Irving."

She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6636 Hollywood Boulevard, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in a crypt emblazoned with the name "Norma Arrouge," next to film star Jean Harlow.


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She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6636 Hollywood Boulevard, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in a crypt emblazoned with the name "Norma Arrouge," next to film star Jean Harlow.
. Confounding the skeptics, they were still happily married at the time of her death, though in her declining years she reportedly called Arrouge "Irving.". Reilly and Allison Janney. She retired from acting in 1942 and married Martín Arrouge, a ski enthusiast quite a few years her junior. 2003 SAG Nomination for The Hours shared with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Miranda Richardson, Jeff Daniels, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Stephen Dillane, John C. After Thalberg died in 1936, Shearer embarked upon a series of little known but enthusiastic love affairs, including one with teenage film star Mickey Rooney and tough-guy actor George Raft. 2003 SAG Nomination for Adaptation. shared with Nicholas Cage, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Cara Seymour and Tilda Swanton.

She was nominated the same year for her role in Their Own Desire, in 1931 for her role in A Free Soul, in 1934 for The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in 1936 for Romeo and Juliet, and in 1938 for Marie Antoinette which was reputedly her favorite role. 1997 SAG Nomination for Marvin's Room shared with Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, Dan Hedaya, Diane Keaton, Hal Scardino, Gwen Verdon and Hume Cronyn. Starting as a film extra in 1920, she was already a popular star in 1927 when she married MGM's second-in-command Irving Thalberg, with whom she had two children. Shearer won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee in 1930.
. She was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 - June 12, 1983) was an American actress born in Montreal, Quebec. Golden Globe Best Actress in a Mini-series Nomination for Angels in America.

Emmy Best Actress Winner for Angels in America. Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Nomination for Adaptation.. BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Nomination for Adaptation.. BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for The Hours.

Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for The Hours. SAG Best Cast Nomination for both The Hours and Adaptation. (shared - see note below). Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for Music of the Heart. Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for Music of the Heart.

Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for One True Thing. Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for One True Thing. Emmy Best Actress in a Mini-series Nomination for ...First Do No Harm. Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for Marvin's Room.

Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for The Bridges of Madison County. Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for The Bridges of Madison County. Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for The River Wild. Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for Postcards from the Edge.

Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for A Cry in the Dark. Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for Out of Africa. Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for Silkwood. BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for Sophie's Choice.

Academy Award Best Actress Winner for Sophie's Choice. Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for The French Lieutenant's Woman. BAFTA Best Actress Winner for The French Lieutenant's Woman. BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Nomination for Manhattan.

BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for The Deer Hunter. Kramer. Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Winner for Kramer vs. Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Nomination for The Deer Hunter.

Summarised below are her awards from the best recognized institutions.. Streep has recieved countless awards, (including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame) - all of which can be seen at numerous sites, including her page at the Internet Movie Database (link below). Streep currently has six different films in various stages of production for release in 2005 and 2006, and remains one of the most respected actors in history. Virginia Fields - the President of the Manhattan Borough proclaimed May 27 of that year "Meryl Streep Day".

That same year, C. Among them, she guest voiced a character in an episode of The Simpsons, and voiced the Blue Mecha in the Steven Spielberg-Stanley Kubrick film, A.I.; appeared alongside Nicolas Cage in Adaptation., played four different roles in the HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner's six-hour play Angels in America; starred alongside Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in The Hours; and - in 2004 - took on two largely comedic roles, playing the character originated by Angela Lansbury in the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, and taking a role alongside Jim Carrey, Emily Browning and Jude Law in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. By the year 2000, Streep was arguably the most recognised film actor in the world, and her status allowed to do a greater range of performance styles. However, that is not to say that Streep did not maintain her repuatation as an acting great - appearing in Marvin's Room, and completing another successful decade with Music of the Heart, for which she learned to play the violin.

In the 1990s, therefore, Streep took to playing a variet of roles including farce in Death Becomes Her alongside Goldie Hawn, the movie version of Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, 1995's The Bridges of Madison County (largely regarded as her great comeback role), The River Wild - her first and only action film to date; and her noted comic turn in She-Devil. However, by 1990, her habit of performing marvellously without fail began to have an unusual effect, in that many critics begin to chide her for her tradition of playing 'cold' characters, and often those with accents - in short, characters that weren't humanized to the immediate audience. As she would say when collecting her Emmy award for Angels in America, "There are some days when even I think I'm overrated, but not today.". Having been named on so many greatest movie star lists, Streep also defied expectations by her happy home life - marriage to sculptor Don Gummer, with four children; and her truthful approach toward the industry and her own presence within it.

From 1984 to 1990, she won six People's Choice Awards for Favorite Motion Picture Actress and, in 1990, was named World-Favorite. Streep's career continued to climb in the 1980s, appearing in Woody Allen's Manhattan, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Silkwood, Out of Africa, Ironweed, Postcards from the Edge, and playing Lindy Chamberlain in A Cry in the Dark, the movie telling of one of the greatest Australian mysteries ever - the disappearance of Chamberlain's baby daughter Azaria at Uluru, and her claims - later substantiated in court - that a dingo took the child. Kramer (Best Supporting Actress, 1979) and Sophie's Choice (Best Actress, 1982). She won Academy Awards for her roles in Kramer vs.

Streep has since been nominated twelve more times--10 for Best Actress and 2 for Best Supporting Actress--making her the most-nominated actor of all time. She appeared in her first films, Julia and The Deer Hunter in 1977, the latter of which would earn her her first Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress. Born Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey, USA, Streep majored in drama at Vassar College and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama. Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an actress, who by the mid-1980s was regarded by many as the best actress of her day, and remains so.

Notes:. 2005 - Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress Nomination for The Manchurian Candidate. 2004 - SAG Best Actress Winner for Angels in America. 2003 - Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress Winner for Adaptation..

2000 - SAG Best Actress Nomination for Music of the Heart. 1999 - SAG Best Actress Nomination for One True Thing. 1998 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a Mini-series Nomination for ...First Do No Harm. 1997 - SAG Best Cast Nomination for Marvin's Room (shared - see note below).

1996 - SAG Best Actress Nomination for The Bridges of Madison County. 1995 - Screen Actors Guild Best Actress Nomination for The River Wild. 1993 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Nomination for Death Becomes Her. 1991 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Nomination for Postcards from the Edge.

1990 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Nomination for She-Devil. 1989 - Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for A Cry in the Dark. 1988 - Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for Ironweed. 1987 - BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for Out of Africa.

1986 - Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for Out of Africa. 1985 - BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for Silkwood. 1984 - Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for Silkwood. 1983 - Golden Globe Best Actress Winner for Sophie's Choice.

1982 - Golden Globe Best Actress Winner for The French Lieutenant's Woman. Kramer. 1981 - BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for Kramer vs. Kramer.

1980 - Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress Winner for Kramer vs. 1979 - Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress Nomination for The Deer Hunter. 1978 - Emmy Award Best Actress in a Mini-series Winner for Holocaust.