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Cazale started as a theater actor in New York City, ranging from regional, to off-Broadway, to Broadway acting alongside Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Sam Waterston. Cazale soon became one of Hollywood's premier character actors, starting with his role as the doomed, weak-minded Fredo Corleone opposite longtime friend Pacino in Francis Ford ...
Meryl Streep accepted the role of the "vague, stock girlfriend" to remain for the duration of filming with John Cazale, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer. [31] De Niro had spotted Streep in her stage production of The Cherry Orchard and suggested she play his girlfriend Linda. [32] Meryl Streep wrote all of her lines. [33]
While Streep, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, Robert De Niro, and directors Francis Ford Coppola and Sidney Lumet all gave interviews, Michael Cimino, who had directed Cazale in The Deer Hunter refused to participate at any capacity, despite his compassion and respect for the actor.
Meryl Streep and her husband of 45 years, American sculptor Don Gummer, ... At the time, she was mourning the death of her late partner and Deer Hunter co-star, the actor John Cazale, ...
The acclaimed actress and her husband quietly split years ago.
Streep was in a relationship with actor John Cazale until he died of cancer in 1978. She then married sculptor Don Gummer. The couple has four children, and they became grandparents in 2019.
Streep as a cheerleader at Bernards High School, 1966. Streep's mother, whom she has compared in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench, [18] strongly encouraged her daughter and instilled confidence in her from a very young age. [19] Streep said, "She was a mentor because she said to me, 'Meryl, you're capable. You're so great.'
1978: Meryl Streep meets Don Gummer. Streep and Gummer met through her brother, Harry Streep III, after her boyfriend John Cazale died of lung cancer in March 1978.. This period of her life was ...