Meryl Streep
Acting • Born 1949-06-22
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.
Filmography
196 credits
Doubt: Stage to Screen
Movie • 2009
Self
The Hours
Movie • 2002
Clarissa Vaughan
Out of Africa
Movie • 1985
Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Movie • 2001
Blue Mecha (voice)
The Bridges of Madison County
Movie • 1995
Francesca Johnson
Manhattan
Movie • 1979
Jill
The House of the Spirits
Movie • 1993
Clara del Valle Trueba
Prime
Movie • 2005
Lisa Metzger
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Movie • 2009
Felicity Fox (voice)
Adaptation.
Movie • 2002
Susan Orlean
Lions for Lambs
Movie • 2007
Janine Roth
Dancing at Lughnasa
Movie • 1998
Kate Mundy
She-Devil
Movie • 1989
Mary Fisher
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Movie • 2002
Self
Rendition
Movie • 2007
Corrine Whitman
It's Complicated
Movie • 2009
Jane Adler
Evening
Movie • 2007
Lila Ross
Postcards from the Edge
Movie • 1990
Suzanne Vale
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Movie • 2004
Josephine Anwhistle
The Deer Hunter
Movie • 1978
Linda
Mamma Mia!
Movie • 2008
Donna Sheridan
Julie & Julia
Movie • 2009
Julia Child
Kramer vs. Kramer
Movie • 1979
Joanna Kramer
Still of the Night
Movie • 1982
Brooke Reynolds
Defending Your Life
Movie • 1991
Julia
The River Wild
Movie • 1994
Gail Hartman
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Movie • 1981
Sarah / Anna
A Prairie Home Companion
Movie • 2006
Yolanda Johnson
Silkwood
Movie • 1983
Karen Silkwood
Death Becomes Her
Movie • 1992
Madeline Ashton Menville
Music of the Heart
Movie • 1999
Roberta
Marvin's Room
Movie • 1996
Lee Wakefield Lacker
...First Do No Harm
Movie • 1997
Lori Reimuller
The Ant Bully
Movie • 2006
Queen (voice)
Heartburn
Movie • 1986
Rachel
Evil Angels
Movie • 1988
Lindy Chamberlain
Ironweed
Movie • 1987
Helen Archer
Plenty
Movie • 1985
Susan Traherne
Julia
Movie • 1977
Anne Marie
The Manchurian Candidate
Movie • 2004
Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
Doubt
Movie • 2008
Sister Aloysius Beauvier
Before and After
Movie • 1996
Carolyn Ryan
Stanislavski: Lust for Life
Movie • 2021
Self
An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet
Movie • 1994
Self - Host
Sophie's Choice
Movie • 1982
Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
Hurricane on the Bayou
Movie • 2006
Narrator (voice)
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
Movie • 2010
Jennie
Voices That Care
Movie • 1991
Self - Choir Member
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Movie • 2009
Self
Close Up
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Movie • 1979
Karen Traynor
Stolen Childhoods
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)
Dark Matter
Movie • 2008
Joanna Silver
The Living Sea
Movie • 1995
Narrator (voice)
Falling in Love
Movie • 1984
Molly Gilmore
The Iron Lady
Movie • 2011
Margaret Thatcher
One True Thing
Movie • 1998
Kate Gulden
Hope Springs
Movie • 2012
Kay
Wings of Life
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
A Fierce Green Fire
Movie • 2013
Narrator (voice)
To the Arctic 3D
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Ribbon of Sand
Movie • 2008
Narrator (voice)
Theater of War
Movie • 2008
Self
August: Osage County
Movie • 2013
Violet Weston
Alice at the Palace
Movie • 1982
Alice
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Movie • 2012
Self
Girl Rising
Movie • 2013
Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
New York at the Movies
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Radioman
Movie • 2012
Self
Uncommon Women and Others
Movie • 1979
Leilah
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Movie • 2013
Self
Into the Woods
Movie • 2014
Witch
The Giver
Movie • 2014
Chief Elder
The Devil Wears Prada
Movie • 2006
Miranda Priestly
Suffragette
Movie • 2015
Emmeline Pankhurst
The Homesman
Movie • 2014
Altha Carter
Ricki and the Flash
Movie • 2015
Ricki Rendazzo
Everybody Rides the Carousel
Movie • 1976
Stage 6 (voice)
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Movie • 2006
Self
The Concert for Valor
Movie • 2014
Self
Florence Foster Jenkins
Movie • 2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit
Movie • 1984
Narrator (voice)
Auschwitz
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Kiss Me, Petruchio
Movie • 1981
Katherine
Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
Vermeer Master of Light
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice)
Secret Service
Movie • 1977
Edith Varney
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Movie • 2016
Self
Shout Gladi Gladi
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Everything Is Copy
Movie • 2015
Self
The Earth Day Special
Movie • 1990
Concerned Citizen
Stuck on You
Movie • 2003
Meryl Streep (uncredited)
Escape from Extinction: Rewilding
Movie • 2024
Narrator (voice)
100 Years
Movie • 2017
Narrator (voice)
Mary Poppins Returns
Movie • 2018
Cousin Topsy
The Music of Regret
Movie • 2006
The Woman
The Post
Movie • 2017
Kay Graham
The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits
Movie • 2017
Self
Five Came Back
Movie • 2017
Narrator (voice)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Movie • 2018
Donna Sheridan-Carmichael
The Words That Built America
Movie • 2017
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
The Deadliest Season
Movie • 1977
Sharon Miller
The Laundromat
Movie • 2019
Ellen Martin / Elena
Little Women
Movie • 2019
Aunt March
Starring Austin Pendleton
Movie • 2016
Self
This Changes Everything
Movie • 2019
Self
Every Act of Life
Movie • 2018
Maurine McElroy (voice)
Age 7 in America
Movie • 1991
Narrator / Hostess
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
Movie • 2008
Self
Museum Town
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
The Prom
Movie • 2020
Dee Dee Allen
Sky Island
Movie • 2010
(voice)
Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary
Movie • 2018
Narrator (voice)
Let Them All Talk
Movie • 2020
Alice Hughes
A Song of Africa
Movie • 2000
Self
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen
Movie • 2004
Self
Emotional Uncertainties
Movie • 2015
Self
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Movie • 2001
Self
Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
Movie • 2016
Elizabeth Murray (voice)
Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
Movie • 2020
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Don't Look Up
Movie • 2021
President Orlean
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Movie • 2019
Self
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Movie • 2020
Meryl Streep
Chrysanthemum
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
Dear Elizabeth
Movie • 2021
Elizabeth Bishop
Karen Blixen: Out of This World
Movie • 2005
Self - Host
Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep
Movie • 2024
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Movie • 2025
Self
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Movie • 2025
Self
Schindler Space Architect
Movie • 2024
Narrator (voice)
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Movie • 2026
Miranda Priestly
Out of Print
Movie • 2013
Narrator (voice)
America: The Story of Us
Movie • 2010
Herself
Useful Idiots
Movie
Diane Castle
Hoppers
Movie • 2026
Insect Queen (voice)
Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester
Movie • 1988
Narrator
Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Movie • 1987
Narrator (voice)
Paul McCartney: Live from NYC
Movie • 2018
Self
Aktorka
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Heart of the Festival
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
A Sleigh of One's Own
Movie • 2028
Mrs. Claus
Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic
Movie
Joni Mitchell
The Halls of Vertebrate Evolution
Movie
Narrator
10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada
Movie • 2006
Self
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
King of the Hill
TV • 1997
Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
60 Minutes
TV • 1968
Self
Angels in America
TV • 2003
Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
Holocaust
TV • 1978
Inga Helms Weiss
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
America: The Story of Us
TV • 2010
Self
Extrapolations
TV • 2023
Eve
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
The U.S. and the Holocaust
TV • 2022
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hemingway
TV • 2021
Martha Gellhorn (voice)
Great Performances
TV • 1971
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
TV • 2014
Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self
Only Murders in the Building
TV • 2021
Loretta Durkin
Five Came Back
TV • 2017
Self - Narrator (voice)
School: The Story of American Public Education
TV • 2001
Narrator (voice)
Makers: Women Who Make America
TV • 2013
Narrator (voice)
Leute heute
TV • 1997
Self
Big Little Lies
TV • 2017
Mary Louise Wright
Web Therapy
TV • 2011
Camilla Bowner
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
The Grammys
TV • 1959
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
TV • 1967
Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
TV • 2021
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
TV • 2024
Narrator (voice)
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Unscripted
TV • 2005
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Leilah
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self - Host
The Corrections
TV
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self
奥斯维辛集中营
TV • 2013
讲述
The Directors
TV • 1999
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Winner
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
The American Revolution
TV • 2025
Mercy Otis Warren (voice)