Name: Meryl Streep
Age: 62
Character: Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady
Film: The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom.
One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world
Previous Golden Globe Wins: Streep has seven Golden Globe Wins: Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer, Adaptation.
Best Actress for Julie & Julia, The Devil Wears Prada, Sophie’s Choice and The French Lieutenant’s Woman as well as Best actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for Angles in America
Previous Golden Globe Nominations: And nineteen other nominations: including nods for Doubt, Mamma Mia!, The Hours and The Bridges of Madison County.
Award/Nominations for role: Streep has already won Best Actress at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and New York Film Critics Online.
And she has been nominated at the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, Satellite Awards, Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, Screen actors Award
Critics: “Playing both the staunch human battleship and the diminished old woman sifting through her past, Meryl Streep is riveting in The Iron Lady.” - Hollywood Reporter
“Meryl Streep once again proves to be working on another plane than the actors around her.” - ComingSoon.net
“Meryl Streep delivers a nomination-friendly -- and physically pretty much spot-on -- performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the oddly superficial The Iron Lady.” - Screen International
Take a look at the other nominees:
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