KEY POINTS:
Meryl Streep is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in
Doubt
.
<i>Oscars profile</i>: Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep. Photo / AP
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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
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Mamma Mia!, Lions for Lambs, Rendition, The Devil Wears Prada
and
The Manchurian Candidate.
to read our review of
Doubt
.
