Streep takes third career Oscar
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&Ldquo;When they called my name,” said Streep. “I had the feeling I could hear half of America going, ‘oh, no. Come on.’” Streep, 62, is widely regarded as the best living movie actress, and most critics said she turned in her best performance ever as Thatcher. She won her first Oscar at the age of 30 for “Kramer vs. Kramer,” her fourth feature, according to the movie website IMDB. “I was a kid when I received the first nomination,” she said in comments to reporters backstage. “Two of the nominees (tonight) weren’t even conceived.” In “The Iron Lady,” she plays the feisty British leader both as a woman at the height of her powers in the 1980s, and as an old and lonely woman suffering from dementia in the present day. Streep first appeared on screen in 1977 in “Julia” after having honed her craft at the Yale School of Drama and on stage. She quickly became known for the depth and breadth of her characterizations, and for her gift with accents such as the Polish Holocaust survivor she played in “Sophie’s Choice”.
Source: The Nation, Pakistan