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Check out the bios on the nominees, from Michelle Williams, who was nominated in the same category last year, to newcomer Rooney Mara. For those keeping score, this is Meryl Streep's seventeenth nomination. She has won twice, Best Actress in 1982 for Sophie's Choice and Best Supporting Actress in 1979 for Kramer vs. Kramer.

And the Best Actress Nominees Are... Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs Viola Davis, The Help Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn Return to the nominee Oscar 2012 page. Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Cite Print Email Bookmark Add bookmark Add to del.icio.us Digg It! Add to Reddit Did you know? Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was the infamous case that asserted that “equal but separate accommodations” for blacks and whites were constitutional.

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