Meryl Streep Biography

Biography

Kramer" (1979), a both commercially and critically successful tear-jerking divorce saga directed by Robert Benton. It gloriously continued to circulate around her for the rest of the era as she managed to win another Oscar out of six nominations, another BAFTA Award also two more Golden Globes out of five for her roles in "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981) and "Sophie's Choice" (1982). Sadly, the actress' choice to often play emotionally cold character, sometimes with accent, made her performances became too predictable that it thereby brought a slight decline to her career by the early 1990s.

Realized the importance to explore more sides of human characters, Meryl subsequently put her focus to take roles with greater variety and so involved herself in different genre of wide-screen features, going comedic in "Death Becomes Her" (1992) while generating tension in "The River Wild" (1994) before showing her romantic side in "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995). It was through her portrayal of an earthbound farm wife undergoing love affair with a rootless photographer in the latter movie that the blue-eyed beauty ultimately soared back to the top as she made her way to land triple nominations of Actors, Golden Globes, and Oscar ...

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in leading role category a year later. The glory still continued when she successfully repeated the accomplishment not only once but twice in 1999 and 2000 for her remarkable enactments in "One True Thing" (1998) and "Music of the Heart" (1999) respectively.

Kept staying high in demand despite the continuous arrivals of fresh, talented faces in Hollywood, Meryl smoothly moved on her path to busily take part in a series of acclaimed projects which included "Adaptation" (2002), "The Hours" (2002), and HBO miniseries of "Angels in America" (2003). All satisfyingly directing her to collect more award nominations, the latter even brought her to win an Emmy Award for the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and another Golden Globes for that of Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television in 2004. Still maintained to play diverse roles as noticed in "The Manchurian Candidate" (2004), "Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events" (2004), plus "Prime" (2005), she joyously remained being productive in the following years, adding at least 7 more pictures to her resume, including those of "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006), "Evening" (2007), "Rendition" (2007), and "Lions for Lambs" ...