With Meryl Streep back in theaters with the comedy-drama "Hope Springs," check out her career over the years.
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Streep (back row, center) stands between fellow 2011 Kennedy Center Honorees cellist Yo-Yo Ma and singer Neil Diamond with jazz musician Sonny Rollins and Broadway actress Barbara Cook in the front row after a gala dinner at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 3, 2011.