There she appeared in more than three dozen productions with the Yale Repertory Theater and became well-known for her astounding range and the intensity of her performances.
Streep went directly from Yale to the New York theater scene. She appeared at the Public Theater--its impresario Joseph Papp was her mentor--in the musical Alice in Concert. Soon Streep arrived on Broadway, and she was nominated for a Tony Award in 1977 for Tennessee Williams's 27 Wagons Full of Cotton.
While playing a lead role in a Shakespeare in the Park production of Measure for Measure, she met and fell in love with actor John Cazale, with whom she would work in The Deer Hunter. They never married, but she cared for him until he died of cancer in 1978. A few months later, she married sculptor Don Gummer.
A Woman of Substance
In 1977, Streep made her debut on the small screen in the made-for-TV movie The Deadliest Season and on the big screen in Julia. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for playing a Jewish woman persecuted by the Nazis in the TV miniseries Holocaust. Also that year, Streep was nominated for the first time for an Academy Award for a small but stirring role in The Deer Hunter as a woman in love with two men during the Vietnam conflict.
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