Meryl Streep, in Dior, at Cannes on Tuesday.

), understated and vulnerable (The Hours), or glamorously wacky (Death Becomes Her).

A studio portrait of Streep taken in the late 70s.

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Photographed for a studio session in August 1976.

Arriving to the 51st Annual Academy Awards, where she received her first Oscar nomination for 1978sThe Deer Hunter.

Streeppregnant with her first child, Henry Wolfe Gummerat the New York premiere of 1979sThe Seduction of Joe Tynan.

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Meryl Streep, in Dior, at Cannes on Tuesday.

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