BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Moviegoers looking to the Golden Globe Awards as Oscar forecasters should consider their bets hedged. ''The Artist'' was Sunday night's big winner, taking home three prizes, including one for best comedy. But it was a photo finish with ''The Descendants,'' which won two awards, including best drama. And in a break from...
The best thing about ''The Iron Lady'' may be that viewers going into the theater with strong views, pro or con, about its subject, the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, are likely to emerge in a state of greater ambivalence, even confusion. Those who know or care little about her will also be confused, but for different reasons....
WHAT do you do after turning yourself into Julia Child, a bold, occasionally bossy woman who changed the way people think about food? You turn yourself into Margaret Thatcher, of course, an even bolder and bossier one, who changed the way people think about Britain. This is what Meryl Streep does in ''The Iron Lady,'' which opens Friday in New...
Meryl Streep (døbt Mary Louise Streep) (født 22. juni 1949 i Summit, New Jersey) er en amerikansk skuespiller.
Meryl Streep har haft mange store roller, hvilket også afspejles i hendes mange oscarnomineringer. Hele 16 gange er hun blevet nomineret (3 gange for bedste kvindelige hovedrolle og 13 gange for bedste kvindelige birolle) to gange har hun vundet. Første gang i en birolle for Kramer mod Kramer (1979), anden gang som bedste skuespiller for Sophies valg (1982). Hun har også modtaget det amerikanske filminstituts (AFI's) Life Achievement Award i 2004 for sin samlede karriere.
Man ved meget lidt om Meryl Streep, hun skærmer sit privatliv og er kendt for at sige; jeg er en skuespillerinde, der går hjem efter arbejde.
Meryl Streep var nomineret til en Oscar i Oscaruddelingen 2009, for Bedste kvindelige hovedrolle, i filmen Doubt (2008), men vandt den ikke. Fold ud