Before Meryl Streep, only one actress has won the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts (and she is Spanish)

Various filmmakers such as Luis García Berlanga, Pedro Almodóvar, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese have received the prestigious recognition throughout its 43 editions. Also the actors Fernando Fernán Gómez and Vittorio Gassman. However, Only one actress has won it before Meryl Streep, who has been recognized this year with the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts.

In 2016 Núria Espert was awarded for being “One of the most eminent figures on the world scene”, according to the jury record. “She has projected Hispanic literature and theatrical creation internationally throughout a long and rich career that has led her to triumph on stages all over the world,” he continued. The actress, for her part, received the award recognizing: “The theater He took over me at the age of thirteen. He chose me. Gently at first, but in three, four years, he had become the absolute master of my life, of my desires, of my dreams.”

Despite the fact that the Princess of Asturias Foundation (formerly the Prince of Asturias) does not always publish a prior list of candidates, it has done so on several occasions. It is known, therefore, that among those who opted for the award are the French Jeanne Moreau or the English Hellen Mirren and Vanessa Redgrave. But Meryl Streep is the first to receive this award.

Streep’s candidacy was proposed by Pedro Almodóvarwho has affirmed: “Few actresses in the history of American cinema have the versatility of Meryl Streep, an actress with a wide range of records who dominates all genres, comedy, drama, musical, etc. She does everything well and does everything naturally and truthfully. Meryl Streep is a worthy bearer of this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts”.

The actress, who the premiere of the third season of ‘Only murders in the building’ is on the horizonthe successful series by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez for Disney+, will thus become the second actress to be recognized with the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, an award that he will collect in Oviedo next October and that will value one of the most emblematic and successful careers in all of Hollywood. 21 Oscar nominations, three statuettes and an enviable succession of titles that are part of the collective imagination such as ‘The Bridges of Madison’ (1995), ‘Memories of Africa’ (1985), ‘Kramer against Kramer’ (1979), ‘The Hunt’ (1978) ‘The Hours’ (2002), ‘Sophie’s Choice’ (1982), ‘The Iron Lady’ (2011), ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ (2006), ‘Mamma Mia!’ (2008) or ‘Death suits you so well’ (1992).