Meryl Streep's Most Dramatic Movie Transformations

Publish date: 2024-06-25

Silkwood (1983)

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"Karen Silkwood"

A Cry in the Dark (1988)

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"Lindy"

Death Becomes Her (1992)

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"Madeline Ashton"

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

"Aunt Josephine"

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

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"Eleanor Shaw"

Prime (2005)

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"Lisa Metzger"

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

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"Miranda Priestly"

Doubt (2008)

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"Sister Aloysius Beauvier"

Julie & Julia (2009)

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"Julia Child"

The Iron Lady (2011)

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"Margaret Thatcher"

August: Osage County (2013)

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"Violet Weston"

Into the Woods (2014)

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"The Witch"

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