Meryl Streep (Hannah Pitt) is a two-time Academy Award® winner and
a recipient of 13 Oscar® nominations. She won the Best Actress award for
her performance in "Sophie's Choice" and the Best Supporting Actress award
for "Kramer vs. Kramer." Her other nominations were for "Adaptation," "Music
of the Heart," "One True Thing," "The Bridges of Madison County," "Postcards
from the Edge," "A Cry in the Dark," for which she won the Best Actress award
at the Cannes Film Festival, "Ironweed," "Out of Africa," "Silkwood," "The
French Lieutenant's Woman" and "The Deer Hunter." A 16-time Golden Globe
nominee, Streep won Best Actress awards for "Sophie's Choice" and "The French
Lieutenant's Woman," and Best Supporting Actress awards for "Kramer vs.
Kramer" and "Adaptation." Her other films include "The Hours," for which she
won the Best Actress Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, "Julia,"
"Manhattan," "The Seduction of Joe Tynan," "Still of the Night," "Falling in
Love," "Plenty," "Heartburn," "She-Devil," "Defending Your Life," "Death
Becomes Her," "The House of the Spirits," "The River Wild," "Before and
After," "Marvin's Room" and "Dancing at Lughnasa."