The Meryl Streep Roles That Prove She’s a Class of Her Own

Here, Meryl Streep abandons glamour entirely. As a nuclear worker exposing corporate danger, she embodies moral exhaustion with documentary precision. Mike Nichols directs her into understatement — courage as fatigue, activism as duty. Nominated for an Oscar, she turns a true story into testament.

Beside Cher and Kurt Russell, she reflects the collective toll of quiet resistance. This heroism, stripped of rhetoric, shining through contamination and fear.