
Meryl Streep
June 22, 1949 (76 years old) in Summit, New Jersey, USA
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep 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 · Narnia as Aslan (voice)
- 2026 · The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Miranda Priestly
- 2025 · SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- 2024 · Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep as
- 2022 · The U.S. and the Holocaust as Eleanor Roosevelt
- 2021 · Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
- 2021 · Dear Elizabeth as Elizabeth Bishop
- 2021 · Hemingway as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
- 2021 · Stanislavski: Lust for Life as Self
- 2018 · Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
- 2017 · Five Came Back as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Five Came Back as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Suffragette as Emmeline Pankhurst
- 2015 · Shout Gladi Gladi as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Everything Is Copy as Self
- 2014 · The Concert for Valor as Self
- 2014 · The Roosevelts: An Intimate History as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- 2013 · Out of Print as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · A Fierce Green Fire as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Makers: Women Who Make America as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Radioman as Self
- 2012 · Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2010 · America: The Story of Us as Self
- 2010 · Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life as Jennie
- 2008 · Dark Matter as Joanna Silver
- 2007 · Evening as Lila Ross
- 2006 · Hurricane on the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · A Prairie Home Companion as Yolanda Johnson
- 2006 · Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
- 2004 · Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen as Self
- 1998 · Dancing at Lughnasa as Kate Mundy
- 1997 · ...First Do No Harm as Lori Reimuller
- 1996 · Marvin's Room as Lee Wakefield Lacker
- 1996 · Before and After as Carolyn Ryan
- 1994 · The River Wild as Gail Hartman
- 1991 · Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
- 1988 · This Morning as Self - Guest
- 1987 · Ironweed as Helen Archer
- 1982 · Still of the Night as Brooke Reynolds
- 1982 · Alice at the Palace as Alice
- 1981 · Kiss Me, Petruchio as Katherine
- 1979 · The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Karen Traynor
- 1979 · Uncommon Women and Others as Leilah
- 1977 · The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller
- 1977 · Secret Service as Edith Varney
- 1967 · Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
- Future · Untitled Chronicles of Narnia Film #2 as Aslan
- 2025 · Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
- 2024 · Schindler Space Architect as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Escape from Extinction: Rewilding as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Extrapolations as Eve
- 2021 · Don't Look Up as President Orlean
- 2021 · Only Murders in the Building as Loretta Durkin
- 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 · Little Women as Aunt March
- 2019 · Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
- 2019 · The Laundromat as Ellen Martin / Elena
- 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 · 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 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 · 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 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
- 2013 · Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- 2013 · Girl Rising as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
- 2012 · Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Hope Springs as Kay
- 2012 · To the Arctic 3D as Narrator
- 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 Herself
- 2010 · Sky Island as (voice)
- 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
- 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 · Ribbon of Sand as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · Lions for Lambs as Janine Roth
- 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
- 2006 · The Music of Regret as The Woman
- 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)
- 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
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! 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 · Chrysanthemum as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · The Directors as Self
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1998 · One True Thing as Kate Gulden
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Leute heute as Self
- 1997 · King of the Hill as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
- 1995 · The Living Sea as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- 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 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1986 · Heartburn as Rachel
- 1985 · Out of Africa as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
- 1985 · Plenty as Susan Traherne
- 1976 · Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)
- Future · The Corrections as
- 1984 · Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
- 1984 · Falling in Love as Molly Gilmore
- 1984 · Goldene Kamera as Self
- 1983 · Silkwood as Karen Silkwood
- 1982 · Sophie's Choice as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
- 1981 · The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah / Anna
- 1979 · Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
- 1979 · Manhattan as Jill
- 1978 · The Deer Hunter as Linda
- 1978 · Holocaust as Inga Helms Weiss
- 1977 · Julia as Anne Marie
- 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
- 1959 · The Grammys as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Mamma Mia! 3 as Donna Sheridan