{"id":430208,"date":"2026-05-03T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430208\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:04:09","slug":"meryl-streep-reveals-her-donegal-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430208\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep reveals her Donegal roots!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actress Meryl Streep has revealed her Donegal roots in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Virgin Media’s Fionnuala Jay<\/a> as part of an interview promoting\u00a0The Devil Wears Prada 2, the legendary silver-screen star opened up on her deep familial roots to the county.<\/p>\n

When she and co-star Stanley Tucci were asked about their connection to the Emerald Isle, Meryl revealed her tracing her mother’s familial line to the hills through the Strain family.<\/p>\n

“Well, when I searched down the Strain family, you know, because that’s my family’s name. And it’s a very unusual name from Donegal. There aren’t very many of them.”<\/p>\n

“Grace Strain married Angus McFadden, and they had Mary McFadden, and she married somebody named Wolf, Harry Wolf, and that’s my grandmother and her mother.”<\/p>\n

Interviewer Fionnuala Jay then labelled her a “Donegal diva” before asking if the\u00a0Mamma Mia\u00a0star had ever been to the county.<\/p>\n

“You’re a Donegal diva, I love it. Have you been to Donegal?”<\/p>\n

“Donegal diva! I have!,” Meryl replied.<\/p>\n

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“Well didn’t we shoot it up there? We shot Dancing at Lughnasa up there, and oh, I thought it was beautiful. And there’s a lot of people who look like me up there.”<\/p>\n

Streep also famously visited Glenties in 1998 when Dancing at Lughnasa\u00a0was released, attending a special premiere of the film in the place that inspired Brian Friel’s work.<\/p>\n