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Meryl Streeps real name was Mary
She has been nominated for an Oscar 19 times, having won thrice
She has two honorary doctorates
Meryl studied opera as a teenager with a teacher named Estelle Liebling.
"I'd travel from New Jersey to New York to study with her (Liebling). She was a great teacher and I was an idiot. I was a teenager. I thought opera was boring, and I wanted to be a cheerleader, so I quit and started smoking," Streep said on the show Reel Pieces, reported femalefirst.co.uk.
However, singing has always been a big part of the 67-year-old's life.
"If you have children, when they're babies, they let you sing to them. But after that, no. My kids were always telling me to shut up, so I didn't sing at home," she said.
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