Meryl Streep 1975. In 1976, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" and "A Memory of Two Mondays". In 1977, she made her screen debut in the television film "The Deadliest Season", and also made her film debut in "Julia". In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the mini-series "Holocaust", and received her first Academy Award nomination for "The Deer Hunter". Streep went on to win Best Supporting Actress for "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), and Best Actress for "Sophie's Choice" (1982) and "The Iron Lady" (2011).
Meryl Streep frizzy hair", yet noted that she liked to show off in front of the camera in family home movies from a young age. At the age of 12, Streep was selected to sing at a school recital, leading to her having opera lessons from Estelle Liebling. However, despite her talent, she has remarked that, "I was singing something I didn't feel and understand. That was an important lesson—not to do that. To find the thing that I could feel through." She quit after four years. Streep had many Catholic school friends, and regularly attended mass. Meryl was a high school