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Meryl Streep and Tina Fey to Star in Stanley Tucci’s Mommy & Me Movie

Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Oscar winner Meryl Streep and Emmy Award winner Tina Fey will co-star in the new film Mommy & Me, directed by Stanley Tucci, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Streep’s stage credits include Trelawny of the Wells, Secret Service, The Cherry Orchard, Happy End, The Seagull, and Mother Courage and Her Children. She is a two-time Oscar winner for Kramer Vs. Kramer and Sophie’s Choice. In addition, she won the Emmy Award for HBO’s film version of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.

Fey currently stars on the hit NBC comedy 30 Rock and is well known for her work on Saturday Night Live. Her films include Date Night, Baby Mama, and Mean Girls.

Tucci is currently represented on Broadway as the director of Lend Me a Tenor. He also starred on Broadway in Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune. He received a 2010 Oscar nomination for The Lovely Bones. He has co-starred with Streep in the films Julie and Julia and The Devil Wears Prada.