Meryl Streep
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2026
Narnia as Aslan (voice)
2026The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Miranda Priestly
2026Hoppers as Insect Queen (voice)
2025The American Revolution as Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
2025The American Revolution as voice
2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
2024Schindler Space Architect as Narrator (voice)
2024Escape from Extinction: Rewilding as Narrator (voice)
2024Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? as Narrator (voice)
2024Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep
2023Extrapolations as Eve
2022The U.S. and the Holocaust as Eleanor Roosevelt
2021Don't Look Up as President Orlean
2021Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
2021Only Murders in the Building as Loretta Durkin
2021Dear Elizabeth as Elizabeth Bishop
2021Hemingway as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
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
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self (archive footage)
2019This Changes Everything as Self
2019Museum Town as Narrator (voice)
2018Mary Poppins Returns as Cousin Topsy
2018Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
2018Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Donna Sheridan-Carmichael
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)
2017Five Came Back as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits as Self
2017Big Little Lies as Mary Louise Wright
2017100 Years as Narrator (voice)
2016Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins
2016Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
2016Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
2016Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
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
2015The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
2015Auschwitz as Narrator (voice)
2014Into the Woods as Witch
2014The Concert for Valor as Self
2014The Roosevelts: An Intimate History as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
2014The Giver as Chief Elder
2014The Homesman as Altha Carter
2013August: Osage County as Violet Weston
2013奥斯维辛集中营 as 讲述
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)
2013Makers: Women Who Make America 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
2011Web Therapy as Camilla Bowner
2011Wings of Life as Narrator (voice)
2010America: The Story of Us as Herself
2010America: The Story of Us as Self
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 Felicity Fox (voice)
2009Julie & Julia as Julia Child
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
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
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006Hurricane on the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
2006The Ant Bully as Queen (voice)
2006The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly
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)
2005The Colbert Report
2005Karen Blixen: Out of This World as Self - Host
2005Prime as Lisa Metzger
2005Unscripted as Self
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)
2003Angels in America as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
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)
2001School: The Story of American Public Education 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)
1999The Directors as Self
1998Vivement dimanche as Self
1998One True Thing as Kate Gulden
1998Dancing at Lughnasa as Kate Mundy
1997The View as Self
1997Leute heute as Self
1997...First Do No Harm as Lori Reimuller
1997King of the Hill as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
1996Marvin's Room as Lee Wakefield Lacker
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996Before and After as Carolyn Ryan
1995The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
1995The Living Sea as Narrator (voice)
1994The River Wild as Gail Hartman
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet as Self - Host
1993The House of the Spirits as Clara del Valle Trueba
1993GMTV as Self
1992Death Becomes Her as Madeline Ashton Menville
1991Age 7 in America as Narrator (voice)
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
1989The Simpsons as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
1989She-Devil as Mary Fisher
1988Evil Angels as Lindy Chamberlain
1988This Morning as Self - Guest
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1987Ironweed as Helen Archer
1986Heartburn as Rachel
1985Out of Africa as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
1985Plenty as Susan Traherne
1984Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
1984Falling in Love as Molly Gilmore
1984Goldene Kamera as Self
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
1978Holocaust as Inga Helms Weiss
1977Julia as Anne Marie
1977The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller
1977Secret Service as Edith Varney
1976Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)
1975Saturday Night Live as Self
1974Spécial cinéma as Self
1971Great Performances
1971Great Performances as Leilah
1971Great Performances as Self - Host
196860 Minutes as Self
1967Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
1962The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1959The Grammys as Self
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1953The Oscars as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
—Mamma Mia! 3
—Useful Idiots as Diane Castle
—The Corrections