MERYL STREEP The Best ACTREES

Linda

The Deer Hunter 

1978

 Jill

Manhattan

1979 

Joanna Kramer

 Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Sarah/Anna

The French Lieutenant's Woman

1981

Sophie Zawistowski

Sophie's Choice

1982

Karen Silkwood 

Silkwood

1983

Karen Blixen 

Out of Africa

1985

Helen Archer    

Ironweed

1987

Lindy Chamberlain 

A Cry in the Dark

1988

Suzanne Vale

Postcards from the Edge

1990

Madeline Ashton

Death Becomes Her

1992

Francesca Johnson

The Bridges of Madison County

1995

Kate Gulden

One True Thing

1998

 

Susan Orlean 

Adaptation.

2002

 

Clarissa Vaughan

The Hours

2002

Eleanor Shaw

The Manchurian Candidate
2004

Miranda Priestly 
The Devil Wears Prada
2006

Donna
Mamma Mia!
2008

 

Sister Aloysius Beauvier

Doubt 
2008

Julia Child 
Julie & Julia
2009

Jane Adler
It's Complicated
2009

Margaret Thatcher 
The Iron Lady
2011