Biography of meryl streep and cher movies
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Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep Now: Actor Seeks Fourth Emmy Win
Acting legend Meryl Streep secured a Emmy nomination for her performance in the Hulu comedy-drama series Only Murders in the Building. The year-old joined the cast of the show in its third season, portraying Loretta Durkin, a quirky struggling actor with a hefty secret.
Streep is competing for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series alongside fellow icon Carol Burnett, as well as Janelle James, Hannah Einbinder, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Liza Colón-Zayas. If Streep wins at the 76th awards ceremony on September 15, she’ll have a fourth Emmy to add to her collection.
Get Ready for the Ceremony
The actor’s last Emmy win was seven years ago. She was recognized for her narration of an episode of Netflix’s docuseries Five Came Back.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in March, Streep revealed she actually asked to appear on Only Murders in the Building, reaching out directly to one o
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Silkwood
film by Mike Nichols
This article is about the film directed by Mike Nichols. For the town in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, see Silkwood, Queensland.
Silkwood is a American biographicaldrama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was adapted from the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone writer and activist Howard Kohn, which detailed the life of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistle-blower and a labor unionactivist who investigated alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGeeplutonium plant where she worked. In real life, her inconclusive death in a car crash gave rise to a lawsuit, Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee, led by attorney Gerry Spence. The jury rendered its verdict of $10 million in damages to be paid to the Silkwood estate (her children), the largest amount in damages ever awarded for that kind of case at the time. The Silkwood estate eventually set
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Cher Recalls the First Time She Met Silkwood Costar Meryl Streep: 'From Then on We Were Joined at the Hip'
Cher and Meryl Streep's friendship has been going strong for over 40 years.
During an appearance on Wednesday's episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show, the year-old "Believe" icon opened up about feeling nervous to meet Streep when they costarred in the rulle Silkwood and how working tillsammans sparked their strong bond.
"I went to make a movie with her. I was packing my bag, and then I started unpacking it, and my sister kept packing it," recalled Cher. "I went, 'I cannot go make a movie with Meryl Streep, OK?'"
Cher Reveals Reason Why She Dates Younger Men — and Once Turned Down Elvis Presley
"And then I get to Texas, and a woman comes at me with wide, white hair and a white dress," added the Rock and Roll ingång of Fame inductee. "She puts her arms around me, and she says, ‘I’m so lycklig you’re here,’ and it was her."