Meryl Streep: How Well Do You Know Her? by Tim Nasson
January 8, 2008
You already know that Meryl Streep is the most honored actor in the history of the Oscars, with fourteen nominations – eclipsing Katherine Hepburn’s twelve. (Yes, Hepburn was nominated for twelve and won four, her last at age seventy-five for "On Golden Pond," and Streep has only won two, thus far). But Streep is only fifty-seven. She has at least twenty-five years of acting to go. Remember, Jessica Tandy didn’t win her first and only Oscar until she was eighty-one, for “Driving Miss Daisy.” There are great roles for women of all ages, albeit few and far between for women over sixty.
But how well do you know Meryl Streep? We have listed all of the films in which she has starred that have been released in theaters and its up to you to guess out of the list below, which thirteen performances earned her acting Oscar nominations (both Supporting and Lead Actress Oscar nominations are among the mix).
1977 – “Julia”
1978 – “The Deer Hunter”
1979 – “Manhattan”
1979 – “The Seduction of Joe Tynan”
1979 – “Kramer vs. Kramer”
1981 – “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”
1982 – “Still of the Night”
1982 – “Sophie’s Choice”
1983 – “Silkwood”
1984 – “Falling In Love”
1985 – “Plenty”
1985 – “Out of Africa”
1986 – “Heartburn”
1987 – “Ironweed”
1988 – “A Cry In the Dark”
1989 – “She Devil”
1990 – “Postcards From the Edge”
1991 – “Defending Your Life”
1992 – “Death Becomes Her”
1993 – “The House of the Spirits”
1994 – “The River Wild”
1995 – “The Bridges of Madison County”
1996 – “Before And After”
1996 – “Marvin’s Room”
1998 – “Dancing At Lughnasa”
1998 – “One True Thing”
1999 – “Music of the Heart”
2002 – “Adaptation”
2002 – “The Hours”
2004 – “The Manchurian Candidate”
2005 – “Prime”
2005 – “Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events”
