Meryl Streep
Born: 1949-06-22 in Summit, New Jersey, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as the best actress of her generation, Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations (winning three) and a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations (winning eight). She has also received two British Academy Film Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and six Grammy Awards.
Filmography
2028
- A Sleigh of One's Own as Mrs. Claus
2026
- Project Hail Mary as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
- Hoppers as Insect Queen (voice)
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Miranda Priestly
- Marty, Life Is Short as Self (archive footage)
- Henry David Thoreau as Various Voices (voice)
- Henry David Thoreau as Various Characters (voice)
- Do We Know Each Other? as Miranda Priestly
2025
- The American Revolution as Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
2024
- Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? as Narrator (voice)
- Schindler Space Architect as Narrator (voice)
- Escape from Extinction: Rewilding as Narrator (voice)
- Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep
2023
- Extrapolations as Eve
2022
- Sell/Buy/Date ... (Executive Producer)
2021
- Only Murders in the Building as Loretta Durkin
- Don't Look Up as President Orlean
- Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
- Hemingway as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
- Stanislavski: Lust for Life as Self
- Dear Elizabeth as Elizabeth Bishop
2020
- The Prom as Dee Dee Allen
- Let Them All Talk as Alice Hughes
- Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth as Narrator (voice)
- In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Meryl Streep
- Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self (archive footage)
- Little Women as Aunt March
- The Laundromat as Ellen Martin / Elena
- This Changes Everything as Self
- Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
- Museum Town as Narrator (voice)
2018
- You Quiz on the Block as Self
- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Donna Sheridan
- Mary Poppins Returns as Cousin Topsy
- Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
- Every Act of Life as Maurine McElroy (voice)
- Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary as Narrator (voice)
- Paul McCartney: Live from NYC as Self
2017
- Big Little Lies as Mary Louise Wright
- The Post as Kay Graham
- Five Came Back as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
- Five Came Back as Narrator (voice)
- 100 Years as Narrator (voice)
- The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits as Self
2016
- Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins
- Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
- Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
- Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- Suffragette as Emmeline Pankhurst
- Ricki and the Flash as Ricki Rendazzo
- Everything Is Copy as Self
- Aktorka as Self (archive footage)
- Auschwitz as Narrator (voice)
- Emotional Uncertainties as Self
- Shout Gladi Gladi as Narrator (voice)
2014
- The Giver as Chief Elder
- Into the Woods as Witch
- The Roosevelts: An Intimate History as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- The Homesman as Altha Carter
- The Concert for Valor as Self
2013
- August: Osage County as Violet Weston
- Makers: Women Who Make America as Narrator (voice)
- Girl Rising as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
- Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- 奥斯维辛集中营 as 讲述
- A Fierce Green Fire as Narrator (voice)
- Out of Print as Narrator (voice)
2012
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- Hope Springs as Kay
- Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- Radioman as Self
- To the Arctic 3D as Narrator
- Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self
2011
- Web Therapy as Camilla Bowner
- The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
- Wings of Life as Narrator (voice)
2010
- America: The Story of Us as Self
- America: The Story of Us as Herself
- Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life as Jennie
- Sky Island as (voice)
- This Place Knows Us as Narrator
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- Fantastic Mr. Fox as Felicity Fox (voice)
- The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- It's Complicated as Jane Adler
- Julie & Julia as Julia Child
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- Doubt: Stage to Screen as Self
2008
- Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan
- Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
- Dark Matter as Joanna Silver
- An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' as Self
- Theater of War as Self
- Ribbon of Sand as Narrator (voice)
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Lions for Lambs as Janine Roth
- Rendition as Corrine Whitman
- Evening as Lila Ross
2006
- The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly
- The Ant Bully as Queen (voice)
- A Prairie Home Companion as Yolanda Johnson
- Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
- 10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada as Self
- The Music of Regret as The Woman
- Hurricane on the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
2005
- The Colbert Report
- Unscripted as Meryl Streep
- Prime as Lisa Metzger
- Stolen Childhoods as Narrator (voice)
- Karen Blixen: Out of This World as Self - Host
2004
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Josephine Anwhistle
- The Manchurian Candidate as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
- Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen as Self
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Angels in America as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
- Stuck on You as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
2002
- The Hours as Clarissa Vaughan
- Adaptation. as Susan Orlean
- New York at the Movies as Narrator (voice)
- There's Only One Paul McCartney as Self
2001
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Blue Mecha (voice)
- School: The Story of American Public Education as Narrator (voice)
- Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' as Self
- Vermeer Master of Light as Narrator (voice)
2000
- A Song of Africa as Self
1999
- The Directors as Self
- Music of the Heart as Roberta
- Chrysanthemum as Narrator (voice)
- Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait as Narrator (voice)
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- One True Thing as Kate Gulden
- Dancing at Lughnasa as Kate Mundy
1997
- King of the Hill as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
- The View as Self
- Leute heute as Self
- ...First Do No Harm as Lori Reimuller
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Marvin's Room as Lee Wakefield Lacker
- Before and After as Carolyn Ryan
1995
- The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
- The Living Sea as Self - Narrator (voice)
1994
- The River Wild as Gail Hartman
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet as Self - Host
1993
- GMTV as Self
- The House of the Spirits as Clara del Valle Trueba
1992
- Death Becomes Her as Madeline Ashton Menville
1991
- Defending Your Life as Julia
- Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
- Age 7 in America as Narrator / Hostess
1990
- The Earth Day Special as Concerned Citizen
- Postcards from the Edge as Suzanne Vale
1989
- The Simpsons as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
- She-Devil as Mary Fisher
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- This Morning as Self - Guest
- Evil Angels as Lindy Chamberlain
- Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester as Narrator
1987
- Ironweed as Helen Archer
- Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit as Narrator
1986
- Heartburn as Rachel
1985
- Out of Africa as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
- Plenty as Susan Traherne
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Falling in Love as Molly Gilmore
- Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
1983
- Silkwood as Karen Silkwood
1982
- Sophie's Choice as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
- Still of the Night as Brooke Reynolds
- Alice at the Palace as Alice
1981
- The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah / Anna
- Kiss Me, Petruchio as Katherine
1979
- Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
- Manhattan as Jill
- Friday Night, Saturday Morning
- The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Karen Traynor
- Uncommon Women and Others as Leilah
1978
- The Deer Hunter as Linda
- Holocaust as Inga Helms Weiss
1977
- Julia as Anne Marie
- Secret Service as Edith Varney
- The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller
1976
- Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
1971
1968
- 60 Minutes as Self
1967
- Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1959
- The Grammys as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner