Meryl Streep then
Meryl Streep is a household name since the seventies. She’s often considered the best actress of her generation, and she’s been an integral part of the entertainment industry for almost five decades now. Streep started as a theater performer, but she was dreaming of making it to Hollywood, and one of her biggest inspirations at the time was actor Robert De Niro.
Streep received a Tony Award nomination for her debut performance on Broadway. It was only in 1978 that Streep has finally made her big-screen debut in the drama Julia. The same year, she worked for the first time alongside her role model, actor Robert De Niro, in the acclaimed film The Deer Hunter, for which she received her first (of many to come) Academy Award nomination.