
Meryl Streep
June 22, 1949 (76 years old) in 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
Credits
- 2026 · The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Miranda Priestly
- 2025 · SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- 2025 · Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
- 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 · Hemingway as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
- 2019 · Little Women as Aunt March
- 2019 · The Laundromat as Ellen Martin / Elena
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Mary Poppins Returns as Cousin Topsy
- 2018 · Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Donna Sheridan-Carmichael
- 2017 · The Post as Kay Graham
- 2017 · Five Came Back as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Big Little Lies as Mary Louise Wright
- 2016 · Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins
- 2015 · Suffragette as Emmeline Pankhurst
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- 2014 · Into the Woods as Witch
- 2014 · The Roosevelts: An Intimate History as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- 2014 · The Giver as Chief Elder
- 2014 · The Homesman as Altha Carter
- 2013 · August: Osage County as Violet Weston
- 2013 · 奥斯维辛集中营 as 讲述
- 2012 · Radioman as Self
- 2012 · Hope Springs as Kay
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2011 · The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
- 2011 · Web Therapy as Camilla Bowner
- 2010 · America: The Story of Us as Self
- 2009 · It's Complicated as Jane Adler
- 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
- 2008 · Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
- 2008 · Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan
- 2007 · Rendition as Corrine Whitman
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · The Ant Bully as Queen (voice)
- 2006 · The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as
- 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)
- 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
- 2001 · School: The Story of American Public Education as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Blue Mecha (voice)
- 1999 · Music of the Heart as Roberta
- 1999 · The Directors as Self
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · The View as
- 1997 · Leute heute as Self
- 1997 · King of the Hill as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
- 1996 · Marvin's Room as Lee Wakefield Lacker
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
- 1994 · The River Wild as Gail Hartman
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · The House of the Spirits as Clara del Valle Trueba
- 1993 · GMTV as Self
- 1992 · Death Becomes Her as Madeline Ashton Menville
- 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
- 1985 · Out of Africa as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
- 1984 · Falling in Love as Molly Gilmore
- 1984 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
- 1979 · Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
- 1978 · The Deer Hunter as Linda
- 1978 · Holocaust as Inga Helms Weiss
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1971 · Great Performances as
- 1971 · Great Performances as Leilah
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self - Host
- 1968 · 60 Minutes as Self
- Future · The Corrections as
- 2026 · Narnia as Aslan (voice)
- 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 · Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
- 2019 · Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · This Changes Everything as Self
- 2018 · Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Every Act of Life as Maurine McElroy (voice)
- 2017 · The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
- 2017 · Five Came Back as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · 100 Years as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Ricki and the Flash as Ricki Rendazzo
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 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 · Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · To the Arctic 3D as Narrator
- 2011 · Wings of Life as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2008 · Dark Matter as Joanna Silver
- 2007 · Lions for Lambs as Janine Roth
- 2007 · Evening as Lila Ross
- 2006 · Hurricane on the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · A Prairie Home Companion as Yolanda Johnson
- 2004 · Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen as Self
- 1998 · One True Thing as Kate Gulden
- 1998 · Dancing at Lughnasa as Kate Mundy
- 1997 · ...First Do No Harm as Lori Reimuller
- 1996 · Before and After as Carolyn Ryan
- 1995 · The Living Sea as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · Defending Your Life as Julia
- 1991 · Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
- 1990 · Postcards from the Edge as Suzanne Vale
- 1990 · The Earth Day Special as Concerned Citizen
- 1987 · Ironweed as Helen Archer
- 1986 · Heartburn as Rachel
- 1985 · Plenty as Susan Traherne
- 1982 · Still of the Night as Brooke Reynolds
- 1977 · Julia as Anne Marie
- 1975 · Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)
- 1959 · The Grammys as Self
- Future · Mamma Mia! 3 as Donna Sheridan
- 2024 · Schindler Space Architect as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Escape from Extinction: Rewilding as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Dear Elizabeth as Elizabeth Bishop
- 2021 · Stanislavski: Lust for Life as Self
- 2019 · Museum Town as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits as Self
- 2016 · Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
- 2016 · Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
- 2016 · Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
- 2015 · Shout Gladi Gladi as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Everything Is Copy as Self
- 2015 · Emotional Uncertainties as Self
- 2015 · Auschwitz as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 · The Concert for Valor as Self
- 2012 · Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self
- 2010 · Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life as Jennie
- 2010 · Sky Island as (voice)
- 2009 · Doubt: Stage to Screen as Self
- 2008 · Birthing Mamma Mia! as Self
- 2008 · An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' as Self
- 2008 · Theater of War as Self
- 2008 · Ribbon of Sand as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · The Music of Regret as The Woman
- 2006 · Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
- 2005 · Stolen Childhoods as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 · Karen Blixen: Out of This World as Self - Host
- 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 · 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 · Chrysanthemum as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 · An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet as Self - Host
- 1991 · Age 7 in America as Narrator (voice)
- 1984 · Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
- 1983 · Silkwood as Karen Silkwood
- 1982 · Sophie's Choice as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
- 1982 · Alice at the Palace as Alice
- 1981 · The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah / Anna
- 1981 · Kiss Me, Petruchio as Katherine
- 1979 · The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Karen Traynor
- 1979 · Uncommon Women and Others as Leilah
- 1979 · Manhattan as Jill
- 1977 · The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller
- 1977 · Secret Service as Edith Varney
- 1967 · Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep as