There are few actors so singular, so exceptional that they can be identified via first name only: Denzel, Julia, Harrison, Leonardo, Tilda. But the biggest of them all, even they’d argue, is, of course, Meryl.
One of cinema’s most formidable forces and versatile performers, Streep holds the record for the most Academy Award and Globe nominations of any performer — with 21 and 34 respectively — out of a decades-spanning career that includes 64 films and 18 television projects. Along the way, the three-time Oscar winner has dabbled in period dramas ("Out of Africa," "The French Lieutenant’s Woman"), lively musicals (the "Mamma Mia" franchise, "Into the Woods"), fizzy rom-coms ("It’s Complicated," "Hope Springs") and some of the gorgeously devastating films ever ("Sophie’s Choice," "Kramer vs. Kramer").
