In another off-beat choice for a role, Meryl Streep reunited with director Fred Schepisi for the real-life story of Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman accused and convicted of murdering her baby daughter and the infant went missing during a camping trip. Ms. Chamberlains claim that a dingo, an Australian wild dog, fetched the baby from their tent, was met with disbelief and led to her lifelong imprisonment in 1982. The filming attracted quite a media attention in Australia, especially because new evidence was found in 1987 which led to Ms. Chamberlain’s exoneration. It gave Schepisi’s film an even more current feel with additional scenes being added. Meryl Streep received rave reviews for her performance. She won Australia’s equivalent of the Academy Award, the AFI Award and was awarded the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, she received another Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for her performance.
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The Simply Streep Archives has gathered details on all of Meryl Streep's feature films, television, theatre and voice narration, and also features an
extensive library of articles, photographs and video clips. You can browse the collection by Ms. Streep's career or through a year-by-year summary.Related Productions
NOW STREAMING | Released December 11, 2020 on Netflix
A group of stage performers (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Andrew Rannells) in need of a career boost travel to a small Indiana town to
help out a teenage girl who is refused to attend the high-school prom with her girlfriend.
NOW STREAMING | Released December 10, 2020 on HBO Max
In Steven Soderbergh's improvised comedy, Meryl Streep plays a famed author who takes a trip to England to accept an award and invites her old friends - played by
Candice Bergen & Dianne Wiest - to reconnect and heal old wounds.
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