{"id":430126,"date":"2026-05-03T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430126\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:44:08","slug":"american-actress-meryl-streep-opens-up-about-her-connection-to-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430126\/","title":{"rendered":"American actress Meryl Streep opens up about her connection to Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American actress Meryl Streep has opened up about her connection to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/search?q=Donegal&amp;idcanale=6&amp;idcanalericerca=6&amp;sortElement=data_pubblicazione,true&amp;page=1&amp;sortDefault=false\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donegal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Streep made the comments during an interview on the Six O\u2019Clock Show, when asked about her formative memories of Ireland. Referencing her family name, she said: \u201cWhen I searched down the strain family, it is a very unusual name from Donegal. There aren&#8217;t very many of them. Grace Strain married Angus McFadden, and they had Mary McFadden and she married Harry Wolf, that\u2019s my grandmother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meryl visited Donegal during the filming of Dancing at Lughnasa. \u201cI thought it was beautiful,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd there are a lot of people that look like me up there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The actress is known for her versatility and has starred in over 70 films, including Mamma Mia, The Devil Wears Prada, and Mary Poppins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American actress Meryl Streep has opened up about her connection to Donegal.\u00a0 Streep made the comments during an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1485,61,60,43,812],"class_list":["post-430126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-donegal","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}