Simone SignoretSimone Signoret (March 25, 1921 - September 30, 1985), was the pseudonym (after her mother's last name) of Simone Kaminker, a French actress. She was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1959 for her performance in Room at the Top. First married to the filmmaker Yves Allégret, with whom she had a daughter Catherine Allégret, herself an actress. Her second marriage was to the Italian-born actor Yves Montand. She died of pancreatic cancer in Auteuil-Anthouillet, France, and is buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. The late American singer, pianist and composer Nina Simone took her stage name from Signoret. Filmography, as actress, includes
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See also: Cinema of France. First married to the filmmaker Yves Allégret, with whom she had a daughter Catherine Allégret, herself an actress. 1997 SAG Nomination for Marvin's Room shared with Leonardo
DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, Dan Hedaya, Diane Keaton, Hal Scardino, Gwen Verdon and Hume Cronyn. She won the Academy Award for Best
Actress in 1959 for her performance in Room at the Top. Boléro (1942). Emmy Best Actress Winner for Angels in America. Le Prince charmant (1942). Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Nomination for Adaptation.. Les Visiteurs du soir (1942). BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Nomination for Adaptation.. Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943). BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for The Hours. Adieu Léonard (1943). Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for The Hours. L'Ange de la nuit (1944). SAG Best Cast Nomination for both The Hours and Adaptation. (shared - see note below). Béatrice devant le désir (1944). Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for Music of the Heart. Service de nuit (1944). Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for Music of the Heart. Le Mort ne reçoit plus (1944). Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for One True Thing. La Boîte aux rêves (1945). Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for One True Thing. Les Démons de l'aube (1946). Emmy Best Actress in a Mini-series Nomination for ...First Do No Harm. Le Couple idéal (1946). Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for Marvin's Room. Macadam (1946). Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for The Bridges of Madison County. Fantômas (1947). Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for The Bridges of Madison County. Against the Wind (1948). Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for The River Wild. Dédée d'Anvers (1948). Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for Postcards from the Edge. Impasse des deux anges (1948). Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for A Cry in the Dark. Manèges (1949). Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for Out of Africa. Swiss Tour (1950). Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for Silkwood. La Ronde (1950). BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for Sophie's Choice. Le Traqué (1950). Academy Award Best Actress Winner for Sophie's Choice. Gunman in the Streets (1950). Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for The French Lieutenant's Woman. Sans laisser d'adresse (1951). BAFTA Best Actress Winner for The French Lieutenant's Woman. Ombre et lumière (1951). BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Nomination for Manhattan. Casque d'or (1952). BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for The Deer Hunter. Thérèse Raquin (1953). Kramer. Les Diaboliques (1955) (Diabolique). Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Winner for Kramer vs. Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1955). Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Nomination for The Deer Hunter. La Mort en ce jardin (1956). Summarised below are her awards from the best recognized institutions.. Un matin comme les autres (1956). 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). Die Windrose (1957). 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. Les Les Sorcières de Salem (1957). Virginia Fields - the President of the Manhattan Borough proclaimed May 27 of that year "Meryl Streep Day". Room at the Top (1959). That same year, C. Les Mauvais coups (1960). 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. Adua e le compagne (1960). 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. Amours célèbres (1961). 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. Barabbas (1962). 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. Term of Trial (1962). 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. Il Giorno più corto (1962). 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.". Le Jour et l'heure (1963). 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. Dragées au poivre (1963). From 1984 to 1990, she won six People's Choice Awards for Favorite Motion Picture Actress and, in 1990, was named World-Favorite. Ship of Fools (1965). 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. Compartiment tueurs (1965). Kramer (Best Supporting Actress, 1979) and Sophie's Choice (Best Actress, 1982). Paris brûle-t-il? (1966). She won Academy Awards for her roles in Kramer vs. The Deadly Affair (1966). 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. Games (1967). 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. The Sea Gull (1968). 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. Freedom (1969). 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. Mr. Notes:. L'Armée des ombres (1969). 2005 - Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress Nomination for The Manchurian Candidate. L'Américain (1969). 2004 - SAG Best Actress Winner for Angels in America. L'Aveu (1970). 2003 - Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress Winner for Adaptation.. Comptes à rebours (1971). 2000 - SAG Best Actress Nomination for Music of the Heart. Le Chat (1971). 1999 - SAG Best Actress Nomination for One True Thing. La Veuve Couderc (1971). 1998 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a Mini-series Nomination for ...First Do No Harm. Les Granges brulées (1973). 1997 - SAG Best Cast Nomination for Marvin's Room (shared - see note below). Rude journée pour la reine (1973). 1996 - SAG Best Actress Nomination for The Bridges of Madison County. La Chair de l'orchidée (1975). 1995 - Screen Actors Guild Best Actress Nomination for The River Wild. Police Python 357 (1976). 1993 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Nomination for Death Becomes Her. La Vie devant soi (1977). 1991 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Nomination for Postcards from the Edge. Judith Therpauve (1978). 1990 - Golden Globe Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Nomination for She-Devil. L'Adolescente (1979). 1989 - Golden Globe Best Actress Nomination for A Cry in the Dark. Chère inconnue (1980). 1988 - Academy Award Best Actress Nomination for Ironweed. L'Étoile du Nord (1982). 1987 - BAFTA Best Actress Nomination for Out of Africa. Guy de Maupassant (1982). 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. |