Meryl Streep

Twenty-one Academy Award nominations and three wins. Thirty-two Golden Globe nominations and eight wins. A recipient of the Cecil B. deMille Award. Fifteen Screen Actors Guild Award nominations and two wins. Five Emmy Award nominations and three wins. Four Grammy Award nominations. Lifetime achievement awards from the American Film Institute and the Women Film Critics Circle.

In total, Meryl Streep has racked up 407 awards nominations and more than 100 wins over the course of her acting career. She has received more best actress nominations than anyone, and she has done so by portraying some of the most consequential women in history, from Margaret Thatcher to Julia Child and Katharine Graham.

Streep, 71, has also become more outspoken politically in recent years. She is a principal founder of Time’s Up, an organization created in response to the sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men in Hollywood.

Her speech in 2017 accepting the Cecil B. deMille Award took on a decidedly political tone as Streep addressed the simmering divisions in the U.S.

“Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick ’em all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts,” she said. “They gave me three seconds to say this. An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like.”

— Brett Samuels