Meryl streep filmography biography channel

Meryl Streep is an American actress who has had an extensive career in film, television, and stage.

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She made her stage debut in 1975 with The Public Theater production of Trelawny of the 'Wells'.^[3] She went on to perform several roles on stage in the 1970s, gaining a Tony Award nomination for her role in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1976).^[4] In 1977, Streep made her film debut with a brief role alongside Jane Fonda in Julia.

A supporting role in the war drama The Deer Hunter (1978) proved to be a breakthrough for Streep; she received her first Academy Award nomination for it. She won the award the following year for playing a troubled wife in the top-grossing drama Kramer vs.

Kramer (1979).^[7] In 1978, Streep played a German, "Aryan" woman married to a Jewish man in Nazi Germany in the television miniseries Holocaust, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award.

Streep established herself as a leading Hollyw