Meryl Streep Parents: Who are Mary Wolf Wilkinson and Harry William Streep Jr?

Meryl Streep is an American actress and producer.

Meryl Streep Parents: Who are Mary Wolf Wilkinson and Harry William Streep Jr?

Meryl Streep’s parents are Mary Wolf Wilkinson and Harry William Streep Jr.

Meryl’s mother Mary Wolf Wilkinson was a commercial artist, and her father Harry William Streep, Jr. was a pharmaceutical executive.

Meryl’s father was of German and Swiss descent; his lineage traced back to Loffenau, from where Meryl”s great-great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, immigrated to the United States and where one of her ancestors served as mayor (the surname was later changed to “Streep”) and her mother Mary had English, German, and Irish ancestry.

Some of Streep’s maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island and were descended from 17th-century English immigrants. Her maternal great-great-grandparents, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy in Ireland.

Mary Wilkinson Streep and Harry William Streep, Jr. share three children; Meryl Streep, Harry William Streep III and Dana David Streep.