Meryl Streep

b. 1949 · American actress

Meryl Streep (b. 1949) is among the most acclaimed screen actors in history, a record-holder for Academy Award nominations. She has returned again and again to empathy as the core of her craft — telling Barnard’s 2010 graduates that “empathy is at the heart of the actor’s art,” which makes this remark about the “power of empathy” entirely in character.

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“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy”

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