Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected actresses of the modern era. Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia. Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first win. She later won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Sophie's Choice (1982). Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations, winning two, and 25 Golden Globe nominations, winning seven, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, four New York Film Critics Circle Awards, five Grammy Award nominations, a BAFTA award, an Australian Film Institute Award and a Tony Award nomination, amongst others. She was awarded the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Description above from the Wikipedia article Meryl Streep, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jun 22, 1949 In Summit, New Jersey, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 153
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Mamma Mia! 3
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Devil Wears Prada 2 2026-04-29
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Devil Wears Prada 2 | Miranda Priestly | 2026-04-29 |
| Movie | Mamma Mia! 3 | Donna Sheridan | 2026 |
| Movie | SNL50: The Homecoming Concert | Self | 2025-02-14 |
| Movie | Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Self | 2025-01-27 |
| Series | Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? | Narrator (voice) | 2024-06-26 |
| Movie | Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep | 2024-01-01 | |
| Movie | Entergalactic | Self (archive footage) | 2022-09-28 |
| Movie | Stanislavski: Lust for Life | Self | 2021-02-27 |
| Movie | Don't Look Up | President Orlean | 2021-12-08 |
| Movie | We Are Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2021-12-16 |
| Movie | Let Them All Talk | Alice Hughes | 2020-12-10 |
| Movie | Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis | Self - Actress (archive footage) | 2020-08-16 |
| Movie | The Prom | Dee Dee Allen | 2020-12-02 |
| Movie | Museum Town | Narrator (voice) | 2019-03-10 |
| Movie | This Changes Everything | Self | 2019-06-28 |
| Movie | Rose McGowan: Being Brave | Self | 2019-04-09 |
| Movie | Little Women | Aunt March | 2019-12-25 |
| Movie | Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage | Self (archive footage) | 2019-09-13 |
| Movie | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | The Laundromat | Ellen Martin / Elena | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | Every Act of Life | Maurine McElroy (voice) | 2018-04-23 |
| Movie | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Donna Sheridan-Carmichael | 2018-07-18 |
| Movie | Mary Poppins Returns | Cousin Topsy | 2018-12-13 |
| Movie | Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 |
| Series | Big Little Lies | Mary Louise Wright | 2017-02-19 |
| Movie | 100 Years | Narrator (voice) | 2017-01-17 |
| Movie | The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits | Self | 2017-03-05 |
| Movie | Five Came Back | Narrator (voice) | 2017-03-31 |
| Series | Five Came Back | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2017-03-31 |
| Movie | The Post | Kay Graham | 2017-12-22 |
| Movie | The Words That Built America | Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence | 2017-07-04 |
| Movie | Mike Nichols: An American Master | Self | 2016-01-29 |
| Movie | Starring Austin Pendleton | Self | 2016-04-01 |
| Movie | Florence Foster Jenkins | Florence Foster Jenkins | 2016-05-06 |
| Series | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Herself | 2015-03-23 |
| Movie | Auschwitz | Narrator (voice) | 2015-01-27 |
| Movie | The Guardian Brothers | Narrator (voice) | 2015-06-25 |
| Movie | Suffragette | Emmeline Pankhurst | 2015-10-16 |
| Movie | Ricki and the Flash | Ricki Rendazzo | 2015-07-10 |
| Movie | Shout Gladi Gladi | Narrator (voice) | 2015-10-01 |
| Movie | Everything Is Copy | Self | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | The Homesman | Altha Carter | 2014-05-18 |
| Movie | The Giver | Chief Elder | 2014-08-13 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Series | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) | 2014-09-14 |
| Movie | The Concert for Valor | Self | 2014-11-11 |
| Movie | Into the Woods | Witch | 2014-12-24 |
| Series | Makers: Women Who Make America | Narrator | 2013-02-26 |
| Movie | A Fierce Green Fire | Narrator (voice) | 2013-03-01 |
| Movie | Girl Rising | Narrator - Ethiopia (voice) | 2013-03-07 |
| Movie | Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story | Self | 2013-04-27 |
| Movie | August: Osage County | Violet Weston | 2013-12-26 |
| Movie | Hope Springs | Kay | 2012-08-07 |
| Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
| Movie | To the Arctic 3D | Narrator | 2012-04-20 |
| Movie | Radioman | Self | 2012-12-07 |
| Movie | La Classe américaine | Self | 2012-10-05 |
| Movie | Close Up | Self (archive footage) | 2012-09-30 |
| Movie | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher | 2011-12-26 |
| Movie | Wings of Life | Narrator (voice) | 2011-03-16 |
| Movie | Sky Island | (voice) | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | America: The Story of Us | Herself | 2010-09-14 |
| Movie | Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life | Jennie | 2010-03-02 |
| Series | America: The Story of Us | Self | 2010-04-25 |
| Movie | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self | 2009-01-16 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Felicity Fox (voice) | 2009-10-14 |
| Movie | Julie & Julia | Julia Child | 2009-08-06 |
| Movie | It's Complicated | Jane Adler | 2009-12-23 |
| Movie | Dark Matter | Joanna Silver | 2008-04-24 |
| Movie | Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired | Self (archive footage) | 2008-01-18 |
| Movie | Theater of War | Self | 2008-04-28 |
| Movie | An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' | Self | 2008-05-06 |
| Movie | Birthing Mamma Mia! | Self | 2008-12-31 |
| Movie | Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier | 2008-12-12 |
| Movie | Mamma Mia! | Donna Sheridan | 2008-07-03 |
| Movie | Evening | Lila Ross | 2007-06-09 |
| Movie | Rendition | Corrine Whitman | 2007-09-07 |
| Movie | Lions for Lambs | Janine Roth | 2007-10-22 |
| Movie | Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner | Self | 2006-01-15 |
| Movie | The Music of Regret | The Woman | 2006-05-24 |
| Movie | A Prairie Home Companion | Yolanda Johnson | 2006-06-01 |
| Movie | Hurricane on the Bayou | Narrator (voice) | 2006-07-29 |
| Movie | The Ant Bully | Queen (voice) | 2006-07-28 |
| Movie | The Devil Wears Prada | Miranda Priestly | 2006-06-29 |
| Movie | Prime | Lisa Metzger | 2005-09-21 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | Stolen Childhoods | Narrator (voice) | 2005-12-31 |
| Movie | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Josephine Anwhistle | 2004-12-16 |
| Movie | Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen | Self | 2004-04-20 |
| Movie | The Manchurian Candidate | Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA) | 2004-07-30 |
| Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Unknown | 2003-09-08 |
| Movie | Stuck on You | Meryl Streep (uncredited) | 2003-12-10 |
| Series | Angels in America | Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia | 2003-12-07 |
| Movie | Heart of the Festival | 2002-04-16 | |
| Movie | There's Only One Paul McCartney | Self | 2002-06-02 |
| Movie | The Hours | Clarissa Vaughan | 2002-12-27 |
| Movie | Adaptation. | Susan Orlean | 2002-12-06 |
| Movie | New York at the Movies | Narrator (voice) | 2002-07-07 |
| Movie | Vermeer Master of Light | Narrator (voice) | 2001-11-11 |
| Movie | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Blue Mecha (voice) | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Self | 2000-09-27 |
| Movie | Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait | Narrator (voice) | 1999-12-01 |
| Movie | From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic | Self | 1999-06-15 |
| Movie | Music of the Heart | Roberta | 1999-10-29 |
| Movie | Dancing at Lughnasa | Kate Mundy | 1998-09-04 |
| Movie | One True Thing | Kate Gulden | 1998-09-18 |
| Movie | Eastwood on Eastwood | Herself (archive footage) | 1997-11-01 |
| Series | King of the Hill | Unknown | 1997-01-12 |
| Movie | ...First Do No Harm | Lori Reimuller | 1997-02-16 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Before and After | Carolyn Ryan | 1996-02-23 |
| Movie | Marvin's Room | Lee Wakefield Lacker | 1996-12-18 |
| Series | The Daily Show | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | The Living Sea | Narrator (voice) | 1995-02-01 |
| Movie | The Bridges of Madison County | Francesca Johnson | 1995-06-02 |
| Movie | The River Wild | Gail Hartman | 1994-09-30 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-08-14 |
| Movie | The House of the Spirits | Clara del Valle Trueba | 1993-10-21 |
| Series | GMTV | Unknown | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | Death Becomes Her | Madeline Ashton Menville | 1992-07-30 |
| Movie | Voices That Care | Self - Choir Member | 1991-02-28 |
| Movie | Defending Your Life | Julia | 1991-03-22 |
| Movie | The Earth Day Special | Concerned Citizen | 1990-04-22 |
| Movie | Postcards from the Edge | Suzanne Vale | 1990-09-14 |
| Movie | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Herself | 1989-06-26 |
| Movie | She-Devil | Mary Fisher | 1989-12-08 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
| Movie | Evil Angels | Lindy Chamberlain | 1988-11-03 |
| Series | This Morning | Unknown | 1988-10-03 |
| Series | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |
| Movie | Ironweed | Helen Archer | 1987-12-18 |
| Movie | Heartburn | Rachel | 1986-07-25 |
| Movie | Plenty | Susan Traherne | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | Out of Africa | Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen | 1985-12-20 |
| Movie | Falling in Love | Molly Gilmore | 1984-11-21 |
| Movie | Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit | Narrator (voice) | 1984-12-31 |
| Movie | Silkwood | Karen Silkwood | 1983-12-14 |
| Movie | Alice at the Palace | Alice | 1982-01-16 |
| Movie | Sophie's Choice | Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski | 1982-12-08 |
| Movie | Still of the Night | Brooke Reynolds | 1982-11-19 |
| Movie | Kiss Me, Petruchio | Katherine | 1981-01-07 |
| Movie | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Sarah / Anna | 1981-08-28 |
| Movie | Manhattan | Jill | 1979-04-25 |
| Movie | Uncommon Women and Others | Leilah | 1979-06-20 |
| Movie | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Karen Traynor | 1979-08-17 |
| Movie | Kramer vs. Kramer | Joanna Kramer | 1979-12-07 |
| Series | Holocaust | Inga Helms Weiss | 1978-04-16 |
| Movie | The Deer Hunter | Linda | 1978-12-08 |
| Movie | Secret Service | Edith Varney | 1977-01-12 |
| Movie | The Deadliest Season | Sharon Miller | 1977-03-16 |
| Movie | Julia | Anne Marie | 1977-10-01 |
| Movie | Everybody Rides the Carousel | Stage 6 (voice) | 1976-09-10 |
| Series | The Oscars | Meryl Streep | 1953-03-19 |