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Karen Silkwood
Meryl Streep played the title role.
Kramer vs. Kramer
Kate Jackson was then offered the role played by Meryl Streep but was forced to turn it down.
Mamma Mia! (film)
Meryl Streep heads the cast, playing the role of single mother Donna Sheridan.
Meryl Streep
Streep played a supporting role in Manhattan (1979) for Woody Allen, later stating that she had not seen a complete script and was given only the six pages of her own scenes, and that she had not been permitted to improvise a word of her dialogue.
Meryl Streep
In She-Devil (1989), Streep played her first comedic role, opposite Roseanne Barr.
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
In the 1988 film A Cry in the Dark (also called Evil Angels), the role was played by Meryl Streep, while Miranda Otto played her in the 2004 Australian TV mini-series, Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story.
List of number-one DVDs of 2009 (UK)
Meryl Streep played the role of Donna Sheridan in the 2008 film, Mamma Mia!.
Reena Roy
(This was the precursor to the type of role that Meryl Streep played two years later in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)).
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Shirley MacLaine
In Albert Brooks's 1991 romantic comedy Defending Your Life, the recently deceased lead characters, played by Brooks and Meryl Streep, are astonished to find MacLaine introducing their past lives in the "Past Lives Pavilion."
Coney Island
In the 1982 film Sophie's Choice, the characters played by Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol spend 'Dress-Up Sunday' at Coney Island.
Smith College
The character Joanna Kramer, played by Meryl Streep in the 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer is a Smith College graduate.
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Le Cordon Bleu
Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep plays Child in the film version.
Julia Child
The film, directed by Ephron, was released on August 7, 2009 with Meryl Streep playing Child.
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Julie & Julia
Similarly, Stephanie Zacharek of Salon magazine concluded that "Streep isn't playing Julia Child here, but something both more elusive and more truthful — she's playing our idea of Julia Child."
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Diane Keaton
Meryl Streep played her estranged sister Lee, although had initially been considered for the role of Bessie.
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Music of the Heart
Streep learned to play a Bach violin concerto for this film.
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Ironweed (film)
Movie critic Roger Ebert wrote, "Nicholson and Streep play drunks in Ironweed, and actors are said to like to play drunks, because it gives them an excuse for overacting.
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Meryl Streep
In July 2001, Streep returned to the stage for the first time in more than twenty years, playing Arkadina in the Public Theater's revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.
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Bruce, Mississippi
New Orleans Saints player Meryl Streep is also a native.
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Barbara Harris (actress)
She co-starred in The Seduction of Joe Tynan with one of her former Broadway leading men, Alan Alda (who also wrote the screenplay), a tale of a liberal Washington Senator caught in an affair with a younger woman, played by Meryl Streep.
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Uncommon Women and Others
A made-for-television film was broadcast in 1978, with all of the stage cast reprising their roles, except that Meryl Streep played Leilah.
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Shirley MacLaine
In Albert Brooks's 1991 romantic comedy Defending Your Life, the recently deceased lead characters, played by Brooks and Meryl Streep, are astonished to find MacLaine introducing their past lives in the "Past Lives Pavilion."
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Reese Witherspoon
She starred alongside Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jake Gyllenhaal, playing Isabella El-Ibrahim, the pregnant wife of a bombing suspect.
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Anna Wintour
In the film, actress Meryl Streep plays a Priestly different enough from the book's to receive critical praise as an entirely original (and more sympathetic) character (although Streep's office in the film bears similarities striking enough to Wintour's that Wintour reportedly had hers redecorated).
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Mamma Mia (song)
In the 2008 Mamma Mia! film adaptation, it is sung by Meryl Streep, who plays Donna.
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Casual Friday (The Office)
The reference to the former film is a callback to the cold open to fourth season episode, "Money", in which Michael discusses having watched the movie recently and acts rudely toward Pam in the same fashion as Miranda Priestly, the film's antagonist, who is played by Streep.
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Pierce Brosnan
He played Sam Carmichael, one of three men rumoured to be the father of lead Amanda Seyfried, while Streep played her mother.
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Reese Witherspoon
She starred alongside Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jake Gyllenhaal, playing Isabella El-Ibrahim, the pregnant wife of a bombing suspect.
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A Cry in the Dark
Yet A Cry in the Dark is better than that, mostly because of another stunning performance by Meryl Streep, who plays Lindy Chamberlain with the kind of virtuosity that seems to redefine the possibilities of screen acting . . .
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Diane Keaton
Meryl Streep played her estranged sister Lee, although had initially been considered for the role of Bessie.
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