Meryl Streep's Most Dramatic Movie Transformations

Silkwood (1983)

"Karen Silkwood"

A Cry in the Dark (1988)

"Lindy"

Death Becomes Her (1992)

"Madeline Ashton"

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

"Aunt Josephine"

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

"Eleanor Shaw"

Prime (2005)

"Lisa Metzger"

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

"Miranda Priestly"

Doubt (2008)

"Sister Aloysius Beauvier"

Julie & Julia (2009)

"Julia Child"

The Iron Lady (2011)

"Margaret Thatcher"

August: Osage County (2013)

"Violet Weston"

Into the Woods (2014)

"The Witch"