"Meryl Streep - 74 years": TOP 10 best films of one of the main actresses of our time (10 photos)

Meryl Streep turned 74 yesterday! All possible film critics and critics recognized her as one of the greatest actresses of her time. And with that it's hard to argue, because she is the absolute champion in the most prestigious film awards. She has 21 Oscar nominations, a world record for actors and actresses. During her amazing career, she starred in a huge number of films and Meryl still continues to act. So choose Top 10 of her best films is a very difficult task. But still we let's take a chance. Of course, the list will be based on viewer ratings and reviews from critics.

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)





Meryl plays the role of the stern Miranda Priestley - the editor-in-chief fashion magazine Podium. The actress admitted that her manner of speaking she borrowed the heroine from Clint Eastwood.

Bridges of Madison County (1995)



And that's where Meryl Streep met Eastwood. Her heroine Francesca Johnson meets traveling photographer Robert Kincaid while her husband and kids were away. Many years later, the son daughter Francesca learn from her diary that the best four happened then day of her life.

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)





One fine day, Joanna Kramer decides to leave the careerist Ted Kramer, leaving them alone with their son. It's not in the plans of a man included, but he finds a common language with the child and generally turns out to be first class father. But a few months later, Joanna returns. AND wants to take the child.

Julie & Julia Cooking Happiness Recipe (2009)



An aspiring writer starts a blog with the goal of cook 524 dishes from the cookbook of the famous TV presenter Julia Child. In parallel, we are shown the life of Julia herself in the post-war decades, and we see how unexpectedly similar the lives of two women from different eras.

Sophie's Choice (1982)



Sophie Zawistowski is a Polish woman who went through a Nazi camp, and now living in America in the post-war years. She has a special relationship with current lover Nathan, to whom she does not tell the most terrible secrets of your past. However, she shares them with her friend a neighbor named Stingo - and there really is something to talk about.

Clock (2002)



The film shows one day in the life of three different women: writer Virginia Woolf in 1923, housewife Laura Brown in 1951 and publishing house editor Clarissa Vaughn in 2001. Meryl Streep plays last. In the film, as in "Julie and Julia", the similarity is shown different and unfamiliar heroines.

Deer Hunter (1978)



Drama by Michael Cimino showcases the horrors of the Vietnam War and its consequences on the example of three friends who passed it, and their relatives.

Doubt (2008)



And again, the heroine Meryl Streep is forced to make a choice. She is the director Catholic school, and one of the priests falls under her suspicion, which apparently corrupts the disciples. What to do in such situation is unclear, because inside their church closed from the whole world organizations are not easy to deal with.

Adaptation (2002)



Film screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, being in a creative crisis, literally starts writing about how he writes a script based on book by Susan Orlean (she also appears and is played by Meryl Streep) under titled The Orchid Thief. Kaufman and his fictional the twin brother is played by Nicolas Cage, and the film itself has an amazing its innovative plot.

Don't Look Up (2021)



Meryl Streep is the President of the United States! That's just such a position she occupies not at the best of times. A comet is approaching the Earth which, most likely, will destroy all life on it, which, of course, prevents heroine Streep to conduct their political affairs in the name of their own benefit careers.