Actors whose careers were saved with one role

[TheDreamingHead Joined: Jan 8th, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 113 View Predictions]

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Glenn Close for The Wife. Regardless of her 2 Tonys, 3 Emmys in the 30 years since Dangerous Liaisons, her films career definitely took a hiatus and it wasn’t until 2018 that she got that deserving late career boost and her relevance is finally back to the public’ eyes. She even attended the MET Gala for the first time this year

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[VictorVincent Joined: Feb 10th, 2022 Topics: 1 Posts: 280 View Predictions]

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If we wanna get Meryl Streep on this thread it should probably be for The Bridges of Madison County.

At the time it was hailed by some as her best role in years.

(Before this she was in SheDevil, Defending Your Life, Death Becomes Her and The River Wild (and a small role in House of the spirits)).

For some reason critics weren’t into her comedies.

I think her Oscar nom for The Bridges of Madison County is her longest gap between Oscar nominations.

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[babypook Joined: Nov 4th, 2010 Topics: 22 Posts: 3721 View Predictions]

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VictorVincent wrote:

If we wanna get Meryl Streep on this thread it should probably be for The Bridges of Madison County.

At the time it was hailed by some as her best role in years.

(Before this she was in SheDevil, Defending Your Life, Death Becomes Her and The River Wild.)

For some reason critics weren’t into her comedies.

I think her Oscar nom for The Bridges of Madison County is her longest gap between Oscar nominations.

Love those films you’ve mentioned, including She Devil. Sag, Globe, Satellite, box office….River Wild is quite the physical role for Meryl.
Interesting. Hadn’t thought of Meryl that way.

The Sunne in Splendour.
I prefer my roses white

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[VictorVincent Joined: Feb 10th, 2022 Topics: 1 Posts: 280 View Predictions]

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babypook wrote:

Love those films you’ve mentioned, including She Devil. Sag, Globe, Satellite, box office….River Wild is quite the physical role for Meryl.
Interesting. Hadn’t thought of Meryl that way.

I love all of these too🤗
She’s so funny in SheDevil and Death Becomes Her.
And then a kick ass river rafter in The River Wild😎.

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[babypook Joined: Nov 4th, 2010 Topics: 22 Posts: 3721 View Predictions]

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VictorVincent wrote:

I love all of these too🤗
She’s so funny in SheDevil and Death Becomes Her.
And then a kick ass river rafter in The River Wild😎.

Yup! And she’s ethereal in Defending Your Life and easy to believe heaven Awaits her.

The Sunne in Splendour.
I prefer my roses white

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[VictorVincent Joined: Feb 10th, 2022 Topics: 1 Posts: 280 View Predictions]

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After The Bridges of Madison County (Oscar nom) Meryl Streep was in Marvin’s Room, Music of the Heart (Oscar nom), One True Thing (Oscar nom), The Hours; and Adaptation (Oscar nom).

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VictorVincent wrote:

I think her Oscar nom for The Bridges of Madison County is her longest gap between Oscar nominations.

If she doesn’t get nominated this year, it will tie as her longest gap between nominations.

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[Mary Joined: Nov 8th, 2021 Topics: 1 Posts: 620 View Predictions]

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LA26 wrote:

Reese Witherspoon in Wild (2014). Reese went through a period of bad movies before Wild, and decided to take charge of her own career by launching her own production company and securing roles for herself. That started with Wild, and it paid off for her because she got nominated for many awards, including an Academy Award. She also enjoyed success as a producer by producing David Fincher’s Gone Girl (Rosamund Pike was nominated for an Oscar). Reese’s production company is called Hello Sunshine, and she built it into a media empire and has a devoted book club on Instagram called Reese’s Book Club. Every month, she reveals her new book pick and some of the books have been adapted for film or television (Reese starred in Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere alongside Kerry Washington. Reese also produced an upcoming Netflix TV show called From Scratch starring Zoe Saldana, as well as the upcoming film Where the Crawdads Sing that stars Daisy Edgar-Jones. All three were based on Reese’s Book Club picks).

Agreed! Plus, Wild is one of her best roles to date.

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[Mary Joined: Nov 8th, 2021 Topics: 1 Posts: 620 View Predictions]

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I want to say Saoirse Ronan’s career was saved with Brooklyn (2015). Although she was in The Grand Budapest Hotel, the former really put her on the map and since then, she’s been in several acclaimed films.

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[Milk Money Joined: Oct 2nd, 2013 Topics: 0 Posts: 834 View Predictions]

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Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce. Has to be one of the best comebacks in Hollywood history.

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[Vicki Leekx Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 3 Posts: 1969 View Predictions]

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Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard?

FYC 2023:

Zar Amir Ebrahimi - Shayda (Best Actress)
Helen Mirren - Golda (Best Actress)
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Rynd_Rawikara Joined: Aug 28th, 2021 Topics: 2 Posts: 317 View Predictions]

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Mary wrote:

I want to say Saoirse Ronan’s career was saved with Brooklyn (2015). Although she was in The Grand Budapest Hotel, the former really put her on the map and since then, she’s been in several acclaimed films.

I would prefer to say Brooklyn catapulted her status as a “serious” adult actress, not necessarily saved her career. I don’t think her career was dying at that time, but more like taking careful steps transitioning into adult roles. It can be difficult to find good, Oscar-worthy part when you are around 15-20 years old.

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