...and in Silkwood (1983)
Streep's dowdy brown wig and working-class slumming in this biopic about the nuclear-reactor whistleblower wasn't a stunt. She imbues Karen Silkwood with an earthy reality, not movie-star ''dignity,'' and in doing so added yet another indelible, utterly distinctive character to her repertoire. —Ken Tucker
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