Meryl Streep

Known to be one of the best actresses of her generation and an A-lister in her own right, Meryl Streep undoubtedly had more than enough money good for investments and other ventures. But despite this, Meryl Streep still chooses to be in an industry she loves the most. She started her career in the ’70s when she played an award-winning role for A Memory of Two Mondays and 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Meryl won a Tony award for her exemplary performance. In 1978, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her leading role in the miniseries Holocaust, and received her first Oscar nomination for The Deer Hunter. As more and more movies and shows piled in her credentials, Meryl Streep also gathered over 157 awards and 409 nominations in her entire career.

Her recent acting projects include the British film Florence Foster Jenkins and Suffragette. In 2020, Streep had leading roles in two films, both released by streaming services. She reunited with Nicole Kidman for Netflix, in Ryan Murphy’s The Prom, a film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name; and with director Steven Soderbergh for his HBO Max comedy film Let Them All Talk.