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Meryl Streep through the years

The acclaimed actress, star of "Sophie's Choice" and "Julie & Julia," has received more Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations than any other person.

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Image: The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Presents Meryl Streep With The 14th Annual Monte Cristo Award - Inside

Monte Cristo Award

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 21: Honoree Meryl Streep speaks at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center event to present Meryl Streep with the 14th Annual Monte Cristo Award at the the Edison Ballroom on April 21, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center)
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The selfie seen around the world

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'August: Osage County'

This publicity image released by The Weinstein Company shows, from left, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in a scene from \"August: Osage County.\" (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Claire Folger)
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85th Annual Academy Awards - Backstage

Golden night

HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 24: Actress Meryl Streep, and winner of Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis backstage during the Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
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2012 Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner

Power pair

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 1: Meryl Streep takes a photo of herself with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton following a dinner for Kennedy honorees hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the U.S. Department of State on December 1, 2012 in Washington, DC. The 2012 honorees are Buddy Guy, actor Dustin Hoffman, late-night host David Letterman, dancer Natalia Makarova, and members of the British rock band Led Zeppelin Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones. (Photo by Ron Sachs - Pool/Getty Images)
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HOPE SPRINGS, from left: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, 2012. Ph: Barry Wetcher/©Columbia Pictures/C

'Hope Springs'

HOPE SPRINGS, from left: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, 2012. Ph: Barry Wetcher/©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
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Golden girl

CORRECTS NAME TO STREEP -- Meryl Streep poses with her award for best actress for \"The Iron Lady\" during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
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Cover girl

In this cover image released by Vogue, actress Meryl Streep, star of the film \"The Iron Lady,\" is shown on the cover of the January 2012 issue of \"Vogue.\" (AP Photo/Vogue)
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Image: 2011 Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner

High honor

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 3: (AFP OUT) The five recipients of the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors, Back row, from left to right: musician Yo-Yo Ma; actress Meryl Streep; and singer Neil Diamond. Front row, from left to right: musician Sonny Rollins; and actress Barbara Cook pose for a photo following a dinner hosted by United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the U.S. Department of State December 3, 2011 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama will host the five recipients of the 34th Kennedy Center Honors at a White House reception Sunday before attending the evening gala at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The 2011 honorees are actress Meryl Streep, singer Neil Diamond, actress Barbara Cook, musician Yo-Yo Ma, and musician Sonny Rollins..(Photo by Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images)
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Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's THE IRON LADY. Photo by: Alex Bailey. Courtesy of Pathe Productions Ltd/ The Weinstein Company

Portrait of a 'Lady'

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's THE IRON LADY. Photo by: Alex Bailey. Courtesy of Pathe Productions Ltd/ The Weinstein Company
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Graduation day

From left, actress Meryl Streep and retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter speak after Streep was presented with an honorary degree, as the two were among those presented with honorary degrees during Harvard University Commencement, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, May 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
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Image: Meryl Streepp in \"Julie & Julia\"

'Julie & Julia'

Meryl Streep portrays Julia Child in the film \"Julie & Julia\" in a scene from the film in this undated publicity photograph. The film received a Golden Globe Award nomination as best comedy or musical film as nominations were announced December 15, 2009 in Beverly Hills. REUTERS/Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc./Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO COMMERCIAL USE
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Image: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin in \"It's Complicate\"

'It's Complicated'

In this film publicity image released by Universal Pictures, Meryl Streep, left, and Alec Baldwin are shown in a scene from \"It's Complicated\". (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Melinda Sue Gordon)
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Mamma Mia! The Movie: World Premiere - Arrivals

With James Bond

LONDON - JUNE 30: Pierece Brosnan and Meryl Streep wave to the crowd at the World Premiere of Mamma Mia! The Movie at the Odeon Leicester Square on June 30, 2008 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
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JULIE WALTERS as Rosie Rice, MERYL STREEP as Donna Sheridan and CHRISTINE BARANSKI as Tanya Chesham-Leigh

Meryl Streep will play the rebellious single mother of a bride-to-be who never met her father. The daughter invites three likely paternal candidates to her wedding, and the ensuing conflict triggers the performance of 22 Abba hits including \"Dancing Queen,\" \"Take a Chance on Me\" and \"The Winner Takes It All.\" Based on the crowd-pleasing musical that has played in 130 cities around the world and has grossed $1.6 billion since its 1999 opening

'Mamma Mia'

JULIE WALTERS as Rosie Rice, MERYL STREEP as Donna Sheridan and CHRISTINE BARANSKI as Tanya Chesham-Leigh Meryl Streep will play the rebellious single mother of a bride-to-be who never met her father. The daughter invites three likely paternal candidates to her wedding, and the ensuing conflict triggers the performance of 22 Abba hits including \"Dancing Queen,\" \"Take a Chance on Me\" and \"The Winner Takes It All.\" Based on the crowd-pleasing musical that has played in 130 cities around the world and has grossed $1.6 billion since its 1999 opening
Image: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep

'Doubt'

In this image released by Miramax Film Corp., Philip Seymour Hoffman portrays Father Flynn, right, and Meryl Streep portrays Sister Aloysius in a scene from \"Doubt.\" (AP Photo/Miramax Film Corp, Andrew Schwartz) ** NO SALES **
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Cash for charity

Actress Meryl Streep, center, holds up phones on the trading floor of ICAP, an international broker in financial markets, at the company's offices in Jersey City, N.J., Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. Streep and other celebrities joined ICAP brokers for the day when all company revenues are to be donated to charities around the world. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)
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Prince Of Wales And Duchess Of Cornwall Visit New York

A prince and a vice-president

NEW YORK - JANUARY 28: Britain's His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (L) receives the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment's 10th Anniversary Global Environmental Citizen Award from last year's winner, former Vice President Al Gore (C) and actress Meryl Streep (R) at the Harvard Club January 28, 2007 in New York City. The prince received the award for his outstanding work towards protecting the global environment as part of a weekend visit to the U.S with his wife Camilla Duchess of Cornwall. (Photo by Mike Segar-POOL/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Prince Charles, Prince of Wales;Meryl Streep;Al Gore
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TOM CRUISE and MERYL STREEP - Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise star in \"Lions for Lambs,\" a powerful and gripping story that digs behind the news, the politics and a nation divided to explore the human consequences of a complicated war.

'Lions for Lambs'

TOM CRUISE and MERYL STREEP - Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise star in \"Lions for Lambs,\" a powerful and gripping story that digs behind the news, the politics and a nation divided to explore the human consequences of a complicated war.
20th Century Fox Premieres The Devil Wears Prada - Arrivals

Mother and daughters

NEW YORK - JUNE 19: Actress Meryl Streep with her daughters attend the 20th Century Fox premiere of The Devil Wears Prada at the Loews Lincoln Center Theatre on June 19, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)
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Fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) is surrounded by her minions at Runway magazine, including assistant Andy (Anne Hathaway, left) and top aide Nigel (Stanley Tucci).

'The Devil Wears Prada'

Fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) is surrounded by her minions at Runway magazine, including assistant Andy (Anne Hathaway, left) and top aide Nigel (Stanley Tucci).
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Honor for 'Angels'

Meryl Streep accepts the award for best actress in a mini-series or television movie for her work on \"Angels in America,\" at the 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/NBC, Chris Haston)
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(Center, left to right) Meryl Streep as Senator Eleanor Shaw and Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw in the The Manchurian Candidate

'The Manchurian Candidate'

(Center, left to right) Meryl Streep as Senator Eleanor Shaw and Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw in the The Manchurian Candidate
Based on Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Hours draws on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of three women: Woolf, who is portrayed in the throes of writing Mrs. Dalloway and contemplating suicide; Laura Brown, a young wife and mother in the suffocating confines of her tidy little life in Los Angeles in 1949; and Clarissa Vaughn, who is giving a party in the present in New York for her closest friend, Richard, an award-winning writer dying of AIDS.

'The Hours'

Based on Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Hours draws on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of three women: Woolf, who is portrayed in the throes of writing Mrs. Dalloway and contemplating suicide; Laura Brown, a young wife and mother in the suffocating confines of her tidy little life in Los Angeles in 1949; and Clarissa Vaughn, who is giving a party in the present in New York for her closest friend, Richard, an award-winning writer dying of AIDS.
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'Adaptation'

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - DECEMBER 19: US actress Meryl Streep is shown in a scene from the film \"Adaptation\" which received six Golden Globes nominations, including best motion picture supporting actress for Streep, in Beverly Hills, CA, 19 December 2002. Streep was also nominated for best actress in a motion picture-drama for her role in \"The Hours.\" (Photo credit should read BEN KALLER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Actress Meryl Streep in a scene from the movie \"Mu

'Music of the Heart'

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 15: Actress Meryl Streep in a scene from the movie \"Music of the Heart\" received a Best Actress nomination for an Academy Award in Beverly Hills 15 February, 2000. Streep becomes the second most nominated actress in history, after Katherine Hepburn. (Photo credit should read KERRY HAYES/AFP/Getty Images)
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The 68th Annual Academy Awards

Family portrait

Meryl Streep, Husband Donald Gummer, and Son Henry Gummer (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)
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4/26/95 LOS ANGELS, CA CLINT EASTWOOD AND MERYL STREEP IN \"THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

'The Bridges of Madison County'

4/26/95 LOS ANGELS, CA CLINT EASTWOOD AND MERYL STREEP IN \"THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
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Meryl Streep sits at a piano while portraying Helen in the Hector Babenco film 
adaptation of the William Kennedy Pulitzer-prize winning novel 'Ironweed' June 
15, 1987 in the USA. 'Ironweed' is the story of Francis Phelan, an 
ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, and a man trying to make 
peace with the ghosts of his past and present. (Photo by Liaison)

'Ironweed'

Meryl Streep sits at a piano while portraying Helen in the Hector Babenco film adaptation of the William Kennedy Pulitzer-prize winning novel 'Ironweed' June 15, 1987 in the USA. 'Ironweed' is the story of Francis Phelan, an ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, and a man trying to make peace with the ghosts of his past and present. (Photo by Liaison)
OUT OF AFRICA, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, 1985. (c) MCA/Universal: Courtesy Everett Collection.

'Out of Africa'

OUT OF AFRICA, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, 1985. (c) MCA/Universal: Courtesy Everett Collection.
SILKWOOD, Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, 1983

'Silkwood'

SILKWOOD, Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, 1983
Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice

'Sophie's Choice'

Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice
Irons And Streep

'The French Lieutenant's Woman'

1981: Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons play the tragic hero and heroine of Karel Reisz' drama 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', based on the novel by John Fowles. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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52nd Annual Academy Awards - Pre-Party - April 13, 1980

Golden girl

Meryl Streep (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)
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The Kramers

'Kramer vs. Kramer'

1979, American actors Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman and Justin Henry embrace outdoors in the film 'Kramer vs Kramer', directed by Robert Benton. (Photo by Express/Getty Images)
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Queen And Streep

Royal reception

American actress, Meryl Streep meeting Queen Elizabeth II after a Royal Film Performance of 'Kramer vs Kramer' at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London. Original Publication: People Disc - HO0297 (Photo by Graham Turner/Getty Images)
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THE DEERHUNTER

'The Deer Hunter'

THE DEERHUNTER, THE DEERHUNTER US 1978 EMI FILMS LTD/UNIVERSAL PICTURES ROBERT DE NIRO MERYL STREEP Date 1978. Photo by: Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection(10310060)
Rights Managed

Bright college days

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