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
- 2027 · Narnia: The Magician's Nephew as
- 2026 · Marty, Life Is Short as Self (archive footage)
- 2026 · The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Miranda Priestly
- 2026 · Henry David Thoreau as Various Voices (voice)
- 2026 · Henry David Thoreau as Various Characters (voice)
- 2025 · Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
- 2024 · Schindler Space Architect as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Let Them All Talk as Alice Hughes
- 2020 · In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Meryl Streep
- 2020 · Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
- 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)
- 2016 · Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
- 2015 · Aktorka as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Everything Is Copy as Self
- 2013 · Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- 2013 · Girl Rising as Narrator - Ethiopia (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 · Doubt: Stage to Screen as Self
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 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
- 2006 · A Prairie Home Companion as Yolanda Johnson
- 2006 · Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
- 2001 · School: The Story of American Public Education as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' as Self
- 1999 · Music of the Heart as Roberta
- 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 Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1990 · Postcards from the Edge as Suzanne Vale
- 1990 · The Earth Day Special as Concerned Citizen
- 1988 · Evil Angels as Lindy Chamberlain
- 1987 · Ironweed as Helen Archer
- 1987 · Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit as Narrator
- 1982 · Still of the Night as Brooke Reynolds
- 1982 · Alice at the Palace as Alice
- 1979 · Friday Night, Saturday Morning as
- 1979 · The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Karen Traynor
- 1977 · Julia as Anne Marie
- 1977 · Secret Service as Edith Varney
- 1976 · Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)
- 1959 · The Grammys as Self
- Future · Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic as Joni Mitchell
- 2028 · A Sleigh of One's Own as Mrs. Claus
- 2026 · Do We Know Each Other? as Miranda Priestly
- 2026 · Project Hail Mary as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
- 2026 · Hoppers as Insect Queen (voice)
- 2025 · The American Revolution as Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
- 2025 · SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- 2024 · Escape from Extinction: Rewilding as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep as
- 2023 · Extrapolations as Eve
- 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 · The Prom as Dee Dee Allen
- 2020 · Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 2019 · Little Women as Aunt March
- 2019 · The Laundromat as Ellen Martin / Elena
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Museum Town as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Mary Poppins Returns as Cousin Topsy
- 2018 · Paul McCartney: Live from NYC as Self
- 2018 · You Quiz on the Block as Self
- 2018 · Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Donna
- 2018 · Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · The Post as Kay Graham
- 2017 · Five Came Back as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits as Self
- 2017 · Big Little Lies as Mary Louise Wright
- 2016 · Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
- 2016 · Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins
- 2016 · Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
- 2015 · Suffragette as Emmeline Pankhurst
- 2015 · Shout Gladi Gladi as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- 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
- 2013 · August: Osage County as Violet Weston
- 2013 · 奥斯维辛集中营 as 讲述
- 2013 · Out of Print as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · A Fierce Green Fire as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Radioman as Self
- 2012 · Hope Springs as Kay
- 2012 · Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self
- 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 Herself
- 2010 · This Place Knows Us as Narrator
- 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 · 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 · The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 2008 · Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
- 2008 · Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan
- 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 · 10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada as Self
- 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 Meryl Streep
- 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
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- 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 · A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Blue Mecha (voice)
- 1999 · Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 · An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet as Self - Host
- 1991 · Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
- 1984 · Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
- Future · The Corrections as
- 2000 · A Song of Africa as Self
- 1999 · Chrysanthemum as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · The Directors as Self
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 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
- 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 / Hostess
- 1991 · Defending Your Life as Julia
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
- 1989 · She-Devil as Mary Fisher
- 1988 · This Morning as Self - Guest
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1988 · Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester as Narrator
- 1986 · Heartburn as Rachel
- 1985 · Out of Africa as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
- 1985 · Plenty as Susan Traherne
- 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
- 1981 · Kiss Me, Petruchio as Katherine
- 1979 · Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
- 1979 · Uncommon Women and Others as Leilah
- 1979 · Manhattan as Jill
- 1978 · The Deer Hunter as Linda
- 1978 · Holocaust as Inga Helms Weiss
- 1977 · The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller
- 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
- 1967 · Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
- Future · Useful Idiots as Diane Castle
- Future · The Halls of Vertebrate Evolution as Narrator