Meryl has attended yesterday’s amfAR New York Gala honoring Natasha Richardson. Pictures can be found in the Image Library.

Last night stars of stage, screen and song came out to celebrate the late, great Natasha Richardson as amfAR (an organization Natasha did so much good on behalf of) dedicated their annual New York Fashion Week kick off gala to the star. Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Brooke Shields, Heidi Klum, Julianna Margulies, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver were just a few of tasha’s friends who opened their hearts and wallets to continue the actresses quest to find a cure for AIDS. And while Lady GaGa’s performance was a hot ticket, an impromptu one drew a much bigger crowd reaction. During her tribute, Meryl dedicated an Irish song “to Tash, and to everybody else who isn’t here tonight.”

Edit: A video clip of Meryl performing the Irish song “The Parting Glass” in tribute to Natasha Richardson, has been added to the video archive.

I am proud and grateful to stand with these women who have given such a range of beautiful, indelible performances this year!! – Meryl Streep

 

Source: Entertainment Tonight

This morning, Meryl has received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress for “Julie & Julia”.

Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

This is the 16th Academy Award nomination in Meryl’s career! The Oscars will be broadcast live around the world on March 7th, 2010.

What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Building on the success of his series African American Lives (called by the New York Times “the most exciting and stirring documentary on any subject to appear on television in a long time,”) and African American Lives 2, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. again turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans, including Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, Stephen Colbert, Queen Noor, Yo-Yo Ma and Eva Longoria Parker. The series premieres nationally Wednesdays, February 10 – March 3, 2010 from 8-9 p.m. ET on PBS.

There have been quite a few articles on Meryl lately, so have a look at the recently added scans. Many thanks to Alvaro for contributing the US Weekly and Woman’s Weekly scans (both from January), Anke for the Laviva scans and Nathalie from Amazing Rachel Weisz for the Myself Magazine scans (both from Germany and both February 2010 issues).

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2010 > US Weekly (USA, January 2010)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2010 > Women’s Weekly (United Kingdom, January 2010)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2010 > Myself Magazine (Germany, February 2010)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2010 > Laviva Magazine (Germany, February 2010)

Added more photographs of Meryl’s appearances at the Golden Globe and SAG Awards to the Image Library. Enjoy!

New pictures and videos from the Screen Actors Guild Awards have been added. Clips include segments from the show – the Best Actress category (the award went to Sandra Bullock – not the end of the world ;-)) and Meryl presenting the Best Actor award to Jeff Bridges, as well as two interviews from the red carpet. Enjoy the new additions!

Here are the very first pictures of Meryl arriving at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is nominated as Best Actress for “Julie & Julia”.

Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Julia Roberts and Reese Witherspoon are the latest to appear in public service messages for the American Red Cross Haitian relief effort. The Advertising Council on Friday announced that they and Tim McGraw, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eva Longoria will be featured in the messages that will start to be distributed this weekend. The latest spots were produced with assistance of the Creative Artists Agency Foundation by ad agency GSD&M Idea City.

George Clooney has rallied a few mates for a telethon today to raise money for earthquake-ravaged communities in Haiti. Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief is set to become the most widely distributed telethon in history, reaching 640 million viewers. Foxtel viewers can see the benefit from 11am today on MTV, VH! and CNN, with repeats throughout the day. The two-hour commercial-free telecast will feature performances from Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Sting, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder and Taylor Swift. Caboolture boy Keith Urban will perform a group act with Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow, while Coldplay, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Bono and The Edge will collaborate from London. There’ll be a star-studded team working off stage too, with Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Meryl Streep and former US president Bill Clinton giving testimonials and manning the phones. Funds raised will be split evenly between relief organisations in Haiti.