{"id":339,"date":"2026-04-30T19:27:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/meryl-streep-and-anna-wintour-share-a-historic-relative\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:27:59","slug":"meryl-streep-and-anna-wintour-share-a-historic-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/meryl-streep-and-anna-wintour-share-a-historic-relative\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour share a historic relative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/126718573.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Meryl Streep confirmed that she and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour are distant cousins while promoting the highly anticipated \u201cDevil Wears Prada 2\u201d film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt came out that \u2026 y\u2019all are, like, fifth cousins or something,\u201d \u201cToday\u201d host Jenna Bush Hager told the \u201cMama Mia\u201d star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iA_ZrpUkHik&amp;list=PLVn1ZdfiPPpr984OZSFr8VUIGLOv-66WJ&amp;index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on her \u201cOpen Book\u201d podcast<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Streep explained the connection to Hager and her co-stars, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, saying that their family roots are from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Meryl Streep confirmed that she and Anna Wintour (both seen here) are distant cousins. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for 20th Century Studios<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The actress explained the connection on \u201cToday\u201d host Jenna Bush Hager\u2019s \u201cOpen Book\u201d podcast. <span class=\"credit\">TODAY\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe are old English, the Wilkinsons, my mother\u2019s side,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Streep shared that she was unaware of the family connection until recently, joking that she might have \u201ccopied\u201d Wintour\u2019s mannerisms in the film if she had known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe she\u2019s copying me,\u201d the \u201cOnly Murders in the Building\u201d star quipped.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cWe are old English, the Wilkinsons, my mother\u2019s side,\u201d she said. <span class=\"credit\">TODAY\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Wintour (seen here) and Streep are sixth cousins. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blunt and Tucci were in disbelief, as Streep playfully added, \u201cHandle that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/news\/meryl-streep-anna-wintour-related-ancestry-family-tree-rcna266099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cToday\u201d revealed<\/a> that Streep and Wintour, both 76, shared their fifth great-grandparents, Thomas Smith and Elizabeth Kinsey, and were sixth cousins.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic duo has worked together throughout the years since the release of \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d in 2006.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The actress is currently promoting \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2.\u201d Seen here: Streep, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci in the upcoming movie. <span class=\"credit\">Walt Disney Studios<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Streep\u2019s character is Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of Runway Fashion magazine. <span class=\"credit\">Walt Disney Studios<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Streep portrayed Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of Runway Fashion magazine, widely believed to be inspired by Wintour.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was inspired by a novel written by Wintour\u2019s former junior assistant, Lauren Weisberger.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Streep and Wintour paired up to promote the film\u2019s sequel and were spotted mingling at the 2025 Milan Fashion Week last September, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/fashion\/meryl-streep-devil-wears-prada-anna-wintour-fashion-week-1236533064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per Variety.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The character is believed to be inspired by Wintour (photographed above on Wednesday). <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The upcoming movie will be released on May 1. Seen here: Streep and Hathaway on the movie set. <span class=\"credit\">Walt Disney Studios<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The actress also convinced Wintour to<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/07\/style\/meryl-streep-and-anna-wintour-cover-vogue-together-for-the-devil-wears-prada-2\/\"> join her on May\u2019s cover<\/a> of Vogue edition while dressed in Prada.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the fashion legend<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/07\/style\/meryl-streep-and-anna-wintour-cover-vogue-together-for-the-devil-wears-prada-2\/\"> gushed over being portrayed by Wintour<\/a>, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s such an honor to be played by Meryl, however distant Miranda is from myself. Who wouldn\u2019t think that that wasn\u2019t the most extraordinary gift?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d will be released in theaters on May 1.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/30\/celebrity-news\/meryl-streep-and-anna-wintour-share-a-historic-relative\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Streep confirmed that she and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour are distant cousins while promoting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/126718573.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}