I feel like karmically, I was vindicated, but at the time it felt terrible,' she added to The Guardian. Streep might be the most Oscar-nominated star of all time, but the actress has had to push back against those who tried to derail her ambition by telling her she wasn't attractive enough to make it.
The star recalled a mortifying audition when she was years-old after she had been asked by the son of legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis to try out for the part in his father's remake of King Kong. Speaking on The Graham Norton Show , Streep recalled: 'I walked in and his son was sitting there, and he was very excited that he brought in this new actress.
Why do you bring me this ugly thing? But 18 Academy Awards later and a Golden Globe nomination just announced, we think Streep might be doing just fine. The Oscar-winning actress has often spoken out about being body confident and refusing to succumb to the pressures of Hollywood to become a size zero.
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Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut Actress Secretary. Her mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish Actress The Mask. In Joely Fisher's recent unflinching memoir, she comes clean and bares her soul about growing up in what she describes as "The Fishbowl".
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Gypsy Rose Lee Actress Belle of the Yukon Born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington, in , but called Louise from early childhood, Gypsy Rose Lee was the daughter of a mild-mannered businessman and a restless, fiery young woman named Rose, who was determined to get out of Seattle and make a life for herself and her daughter in show Haylie Duff Actress Napoleon Dynamite Haylie Katherine Duff born February 19, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, television host, writer, and fashion designer.
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Writer Tiny Furniture. Dunham was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio, graduating with a creative writing degree. It was while at Oberlin that she began writing shorts and feature films.
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A profile for The New York Times revealed that Kat Dennings was told to fix just about everything about her look when she was starting out in the business: "tighten up your teeth, dye your hair, lose weight, get a tan," were just some of the recommendations she heard. Dennings proved as stubborn as her character on 2 Broke Girls and didn't change a thing.
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