Powerhouse: Streep is soon to be on TV with Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon Back in the '70s, budding actress Meryl Streep played a woman ill-treated by the Nazis in TV miniseries Holocaust.

Meryl Streep starred as Karen Silkwood, while a transformed Cher and Kurt Russell played workers at the plant and Streep's roommates. The film was a failure at the box office, but won big during ...