Credits

• 2024 · Escape from Extinction Rewilding as Narrator (voice)
• 2024 · Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? as Narrator (voice)
• 2023 · Extrapolations as Eve
• 2022 · The U.S. and the Holocaust as Eleanor Roosevelt
• 2021 · Don't Look Up as President Orlean
• 2021 · Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
• 2021 · Only Murders in the Building as Loretta Durkin
• 2021 · Dear Elizabeth as Elizabeth Bishop
• 2021 · Hemingway as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
• 2021 · Stanislavski: Lust for Life as Self
• 2020 · Let Them All Talk as Alice Hughes
• 2020 · The Prom as Dee Dee Allen
• 2020 · In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Meryl Streep
• 2020 · Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis as Self - Actress (archive footage)
• 2020 · Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration as Self - Performer
• 2020 · Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth as Narrator (voice)
• 2019 · Little Women as Aunt March
• 2019 · Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
• 2019 · The Laundromat as Ellen Martin / Elena
• 2019 · Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage as Self (archive footage)
• 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self (archive footage)
• 2019 · This Changes Everything as Self
• 2019 · Museum Town as Narrator (voice)
• 2018 · Mary Poppins Returns as Cousin Topsy
• 2018 · We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World as Self
• 2018 · Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
• 2018 · Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Donna Sheridan-Carmichael
• 2018 · Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary as Narrator (voice)
• 2018 · Every Act of Life as Maurine McElroy (voice)
• 2017 · The Post as Kay Graham
• 2017 · The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
• 2017 · Five Came Back as Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2017 · Five Came Back as Narrator (voice)
• 2017 · The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits as Self
• 2017 · Big Little Lies as Mary Louise Wright
• 2017 · 100 Years as Narrator (voice)
• 2016 · Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins
• 2016 · Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
• 2016 · Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
• 2016 · Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
• 2015 · Suffragette as Emmeline Pankhurst
• 2015 · Shout Gladi Gladi as Narrator (voice)
• 2015 · Everything Is Copy as Self
• 2015 · Emotional Uncertainties as Self
• 2015 · Ricki and the Flash as Ricki Rendazzo
• 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
• 2015 · Auschwitz as Narrator (voice)
• 2014 · Into the Woods as Witch
• 2014 · The Concert for Valor as Self
• 2014 · The Roosevelts: An Intimate History as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
• 2014 · The Giver as Chief Elder
• 2014 · The Homesman as Altha Carter
• 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
• 2013 · August: Osage County as Violet Weston
• 2013 · Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
• 2013 · Girl Rising as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
• 2013 · A Fierce Green Fire as Narrator (voice)
• 2013 · Makers: Women Who Make America as Narrator (voice)
• 2012 · Radioman as Self
• 2012 · Close Up as Self (archive footage)
• 2012 · Hope Springs as Kay
• 2012 · Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self
• 2012 · To the Arctic 3D as Narrator (voice)
• 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
• 2011 · The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
• 2011 · Web Therapy as Camilla Bowner
• 2011 · Wings of Life as Narrator (voice)
• 2010 · America: The Story of Us as Self
• 2010 · Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life as Jennie
• 2010 · Sky Island as (voice)
• 2009 · It's Complicated as Jane Adler
• 2009 · Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia as Self
• 2009 · Fantastic Mr. Fox as Felicity Fox (voice)
• 2009 · Julie & Julia as Julia Child
• 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
• 2009 · Doubt: Stage to Screen as Self
• 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
• 2008 · Birthing Mamma Mia! as Self
• 2008 · Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
• 2008 · Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan
• 2008 · An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' as Self
• 2008 · Theater of War as Self
• 2008 · Dark Matter as Joanna Silver
• 2008 · Ribbon of Sand as Narrator (voice)
• 2007 · Lions for Lambs as Janine Roth
• 2007 · Rendition as Corrine Whitman
• 2007 · Evening as Lila Ross
• 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
• 2006 · Hurricane on the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
• 2006 · The Ant Bully as Queen (voice)
• 2006 · The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly
• 2006 · A Prairie Home Companion as Yolanda Johnson
• 2006 · The Music of Regret as The Woman
• 2006 · Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
• 2005 · Stolen Childhoods as Narrator (voice)
• 2005 · The Colbert Report as
• 2005 · Karen Blixen: Out of This World as Self - Host
• 2005 · Prime as Lisa Metzger
• 2005 · Unscripted as Self
• 2004 · Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Josephine Anwhistle
• 2004 · The Manchurian Candidate as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
• 2004 · Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen as Self
• 2003 · Stuck on You as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
• 2003 · Angels in America as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
• 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• 2002 · The Hours as Clarissa Vaughan
• 2002 · Adaptation. as Susan Orlean
• 2002 · New York at the Movies as Narrator (voice)
• 2002 · There's Only One Paul McCartney as Self
• 2001 · Vermeer Master of Light as Narrator (voice)
• 2001 · School: The Story of American Public Education as Narrator (voice)
• 2001 · A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Blue Mecha (voice)
• 2001 · Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' as Self
• 2000 · A Song of Africa as Self
• 1999 · Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait as Narrator (voice)
• 1999 · Music of the Heart as Roberta
• 1999 · From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic as Self
• 1999 · Chrysanthemum as Narrator (voice)
• 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
• 1998 · One True Thing as Kate Gulden
• 1998 · Dancing at Lughnasa as Kate Mundy
• 1997 · The View as Self
• 1997 · Leute heute as Self
• 1997 · ...First Do No Harm as Lori Reimuller
• 1997 · King of the Hill as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
• 1996 · Marvin's Room as Lee Wakefield Lacker
• 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
• 1996 · Before and After as Dr. Carolyn Ryan
• 1995 · The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
• 1995 · The Living Sea as Narrator (voice)
• 1994 · The River Wild as Gail Hartman
• 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• 1994 · An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet as Self - Host
• 1993 · The House of the Spirits as Clara del Valle Trueba
• 1993 · GMTV as Self
• 1992 · Death Becomes Her as Madeline Ashton Menville
• 1991 · Age 7 in America as Narrator (voice)
• 1991 · Defending Your Life as Julia
• 1991 · Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
• 1990 · AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT as Self
• 1990 · Postcards from the Edge as Suzanne Vale
• 1990 · The Earth Day Special as Concerned Citizen
• 1989 · The Simpsons as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
• 1989 · She-Devil as Mary Fisher
• 1988 · Evil Angels as Lindy Chamberlain
• 1988 · This Morning as Self - Guest
• 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
• 1987 · Ironweed as Helen Archer
• 1986 · Heartburn as Rachel
• 1985 · Out of Africa as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
• 1985 · Plenty as Susan Traherne
• 1984 · Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
• 1984 · Falling in Love as Molly Gilmore
• 1983 · Silkwood as Karen Silkwood
• 1982 · Sophie's Choice as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
• 1982 · Still of the Night as Brooke Reynolds
• 1982 · Alice at the Palace as Alice
• 1981 · The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah / Anna
• 1981 · Kiss Me, Petruchio as Katherine
• 1979 · Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
• 1979 · The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Karen Traynor
• 1979 · Uncommon Women and Others as Leilah
• 1979 · Manhattan as Jill
• 1978 · The Deer Hunter as Linda
• 1978 · Holocaust as Inga Helms Weiss
• 1977 · Julia as Anne Marie
• 1977 · The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller
• 1977 · Secret Service as Edith Varney
• 1975 · Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)
• 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
• 1973 · The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
• 1971 · Great Performances as
• 1971 · Great Performances as Leilah
• 1971 · Great Performances as Self - Host
• 1968 · 60 Minutes as Self
• 1967 · Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
• 1966 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
• 1959 · The Grammy Awards as Self
• 1953 · The Oscars as Self
• Future · Mamma Mia! 3 as Donna Sheridan
• Future · The Corrections as