Oscars profile: Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep. Photo / AP

Meryl Streep is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in

Doubt

.

She plays Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the strict head of a Bronx Catholic school who suspects that a new priest may be abusing one of her students.

She has been nominated for an Academy Award a record 15 times and won it twice. She also holds the record for the most Golden Globe nominations ever (23) with six wins. She received the Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice award for

Doubt

, and was nominated for a BAFTA and Golden Globe.

Streep has been acting for over thirty years. Most recently she has appeared in

Mamma Mia!, Lions for Lambs, Rendition, The Devil Wears Prada

and

The Manchurian Candidate.

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Doubt

.