Golden Globes: Actress Musical/Comedy - Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

Age: 60

Character: Julia Child in Julie & Julia

Film: Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme.

Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends...until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

Previous Golden Globe Wins:  Streep has six previous Golden Globe wins:  two for Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer and Adaptation.

And three best Actress wins for The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Devil Wears Prada and Sophie’s Choice.

Previous Golden Globe Nominations:  She also has sixteen other nominations for roles including The Hours, Doubt and Marvin’s Room.

Awards/ Nominations for performance: For her performance Streep has been named Best Actress at the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, New York Film Critics Circle Awards as well as being nominated at the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Satellite Awards.

Critics:  “Deliciously funny and warming fare, for which the amazing Meryl deserves her ridiculously overdue third Oscar.” - Empire Magazine

“Hollywood, famously, makes few movies aimed at older females because young men are much easier to satisfy. Julie & Julia is that rare film targeted at your mum, but we think you’ll enjoy it too.” - Heat Magazine

“Julie & Julia is among the most heart-warming, feelgood films of the year, and so joyously obsessed with food that it might be described as a feed-good movie.” - Daily Mail