'You always want to do better!'

In the years that followed her first Oscar win, Meryl took on the roles of Miss Sarah Woodruff / Mrs. Roughwood and Anna in the 1981 drama 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'.

She starred opposite Jeremy Irons but admitted that

she wasn't entirely happy with the way she came across, even though the part earned her third Academy Award nomination.

She said: "I didn't feel I was living it. You always want to do something better after the fact. I’m giving myself an out, but part of it was, the structure of it was sort of artificial because I was the actress playing the French Lieutenant’s Woman. At the same time I was an American actress playing a British woman!"