Meryl Streep screams as she whips up support for Clinton

“She’ll be the first, but she won’t be the last”, she added. Streep said. “It takes grit and it takes grace”.

She talked about Deborah Sampson, a woman who disguised herself as a man in order to fight during the Revolutionary War and even cut a bullet out of her body to avoid being caught.

Addressing the position of grace, Streep referred directly to the presidential candidate saying Hillary Clinton has come under fire several times over her 40-year career, and yet she keeps fighting. How does she do it?

“I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and can not be boiled down to 140 characters”.

“Nearly 100 years after women got the vote, you people have made history”, she said. “Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find their strength?”

Mrs Clinton faces Republican Donald Trump in November’s election, after her former rival Bernie Sanders admitted defeat.

Streep’s love for Clinton is apparently mutual. Clinton said to cheering supporters in the crowd.

“I can’t believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet!”

Like Clinton, she grew up in a middle-class household, attended a women’s college, dabbled in campus protests and went to graduate school at Yale.

Other celebrity highlights on the convention stage Tuesday include Meryl Streep, “Scandal” co-star Tony Goldwyn, “Girls” creator Dunham and “Superstore” actress America Ferrera.

The truth is, though, that nothing, not even that godforsaken song, could curb excitement for a Meryl Streep speech.