Meryl Streep was on The Graham Norton Show a while ago, and the host asked her about her name. It turns out that she wasn’t always Meryl Streep. Her last name was the same, but her first name was Mary, like her mother and her mother before her.
The Oscar winner’s dad didn’t want to have two Marys in the house, so he came up with Meryl.
When the actress was a child, she hated her name. However, it is that name, along with her acting, that made her stand out in a crowd.
Sometimes a rose by any other name is not the same!
