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 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference during which she acted in five plays over six weeks. Streep moved to New York City in 1975, and was cast by Joseph Papp in a production of "Trelawny of the Wells" at the Public Theater, opposite Mandy Patinkin and John Lithgow. She went on to appear in five more roles in her first year in New York, including in Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival productions of "Henry V", "The Taming of the Shrew" with Raúl Juliá, and "Measure for Measure" opposite Sam Waterston and John Cazale. She entered into a