Meryl Streep
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 22 June 1949 · Summit, New Jersey, USA
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.
Known for
Acting 162
- 2028A Sleigh of One's Own as Mrs. Claus
- 2027Narnia: The Magician's Nephew as Aslan (voice)
- 2026Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic as Joni Mitchell
- 2026Untitled Chronicles of Narnia Film #2 as Aslan
- 2026Mamma Mia! 3
- 2026Useful Idiots as Diane Castle
- 2026Little Women (2019) Behind-the-Scenes Greta Gerwig: Women Making Art as Self
- 2026Marty, Life Is Short as Self (archive footage)
- 2026The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Miranda
- 2026The Devil Wears Prada 2 Red Carpet World Premiere as Miranda Priestly
- 2026Do We Know Each Other? as Miranda Priestly
- 2026Henry David Thoreau as Various Voices (voice)
- 2026Project Hail Mary as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
- 2026Hoppers as Insect Queen (voice)
- 2025Saturday Night Live: 50th Anniversary Special as Colleen Rafferty Sr.
- 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
- 2024The Meryl Streep Project as Self (archive footage)
- 2024Schindler Space Architect as Narrator (voice)
- 2024Escape from Extinction: Rewilding as Narrator (voice)
- 2024Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep as Self
- 2021Don't Look Up as President Orlean
- 2021Dear Elizabeth as Elizabeth Bishop
- 2021Stanislavski: Lust for Life as Self
- 2020Let Them All Talk as Alice Hughes
- 2020The Prom as Dee Dee Allen
- 2020In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Meryl Streep
- 2020Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 2020Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth as Narrator (voice)
- 2019Little Women as Aunt March
- 2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
- 2019The Laundromat as Ellen Martin / Elena
- 2019Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage as Self (archive footage)
- 2019This Changes Everything as Self
- 2019Museum Town as Narrator (voice)
- 2018Mary Poppins Returns as Cousin Topsy
- 2018Paul McCartney: Live from NYC as Self
- 2018Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
- 2018Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Donna
- 2018Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary as Narrator (voice)
- 2018Every Act of Life as Maurine McElroy (voice)
- 2017The Post as Kay Graham
- 2017The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
- 2017Five Came Back as Narrator (voice)
- 2017The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits as Self
- 2017100 Years as Narrator (voice)
- 2017Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds as Suzanne Vale, Self (archive footage, uncredited)
- 2016Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
- 2016Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins
- 2016Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
- 2016Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
- 2015Aktorka as Self (archive footage)
- 2015Suffragette as Emmeline Pankhurst
- 2015Shout Gladi Gladi as Narrator (voice)
- 2015Everything Is Copy as Self
- 2015Emotional Uncertainties as Self
- 2015Ricki and the Flash as Ricki Rendazzo
- 2015Auschwitz as Narrator (voice)
- 2014Into the Woods as Witch
- 2014The Concert for Valor as Self
- 2014The Giver as Chief Elder
- 2014The Homesman as Altha Carter
- 2014And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013August: Osage County as Violet Weston
- 2013Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- 2013Out of Print as Narrator (voice)
- 2013Girl Rising as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
- 2013A Fierce Green Fire as Narrator (voice)
- 2012Radioman as Self
- 2012Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- 2012Hope Springs as Kay
- 2012Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self
- 2012To the Arctic 3D as Narrator
- 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2011The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
- 2011Wings of Life as Narrator (voice)
- 2010America: The Story of Us as Herself
- 2010This Place Knows Us as Narrator
- 2010Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life as Jennie
- 2010Sky Island as (voice)
- 2009It's Complicated as Jane Adler
- 2009Fantastic Mr. Fox as Mrs. Fox (voice)
- 2009Julie & Julia as Julia Child
- 2009Doubt: Stage to Screen as Self
- 2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2008Birthing Mamma Mia! as Self
- 2008Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
- 2008Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan
- 2008An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' as Self
- 2008Theater of War as Self
- 2008Dark Matter as Joanna Silver
- 2008Ribbon of Sand as Narrator (voice)
- 2007Lions for Lambs as Janine Roth
- 2007Rendition as Corrine Whitman
- 2007Evening as Lila Ross
- 2006Hurricane on the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
- 2006The Ant Bully as Queen (voice)
- 2006The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly
- 200610 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada as Self
- 2006A Prairie Home Companion as Yolanda Johnson
- 2006The Music of Regret as The Woman
- 2006Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
- 2005Stolen Childhoods as Narrator (voice)
- 2005Karen Blixen: Out of This World as Self - Host
- 2005Prime as Lisa Metzger
- 2004Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Josephine Anwhistle
- 2004The Manchurian Candidate as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
- 2004Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen as Self
- 2003Stuck on You as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
- 2002The Hours as Clarissa Vaughan
- 2002Adaptation. as Susan Orlean
- 2002New York at the Movies as Narrator (voice)
- 2002There's Only One Paul McCartney as Self
- 2001Vermeer Master of Light as Narrator (voice)
- 2001A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Blue Mecha (voice)
- 2001Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' as Self
- 2000A Song of Africa as Self
- 1999Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait as Narrator (voice)
- 1999Music of the Heart as Roberta
- 1999Chrysanthemum as Narrator (voice)
- 1998One True Thing as Kate Gulden
- 1998Dancing at Lughnasa as Kate Mundy
- 1997...First Do No Harm as Lori Reimuller
- 1996Marvin's Room as Lee Wakefield Lacker
- 1996Before and After as Carolyn Ryan
- 1995The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
- 1995The Halls of Vertebrate Evolution as Narrator
- 1995The Living Sea as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1994The River Wild as Gail Hartman
- 1994An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet as Self - Host
- 1993The House of the Spirits as Clara del Valle Trueba
- 1992Death Becomes Her as Madeline Ashton Menville
- 1991Age 7 in America as Narrator / Hostess
- 1991Defending Your Life as Julia
- 1991Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
- 1990Postcards from the Edge as Suzanne Vale
- 1990The Earth Day Special as Concerned Citizen
- 1989She-Devil as Mary Fisher
- 1988Evil Angels as Lindy Chamberlain
- 1988Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester as Narrator
- 1987Ironweed as Helen Archer
- 1987Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit as Narrator
- 1986Heartburn as Rachel
- 1985Out of Africa as Karen Blixen
- 1985Plenty as Susan Traherne
- 1984Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
- 1984Falling in Love as Molly Gilmore
- 1983Silkwood as Karen Silkwood
- 1982Sophie's Choice as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
- 1982Still of the Night as Brooke Reynolds
- 1982Alice at the Palace as Alice
- 1981The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah / Anna
- 1981Kiss Me, Petruchio as Katherine
- 1979Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
- 1979The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Karen Traynor
- 1979Uncommon Women and Others as Leilah
- 1979Manhattan as Jill
- 1978The Deer Hunter as Linda
- 1977Julia as Anne Marie
- 1977The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller
- 1977Secret Service as Edith Varney
- 1976Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)
Production 3
- 2026My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile · executive producer
- 2022Sell/Buy/Date · executive producer
- 1997...First Do No Harm · executive producer
crew 2
- 2015Aktorka · thanks
- 2015Emotional Uncertainties · thanks