Meryl Streep

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.

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Known For

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest

The Graham Norton Show

Self

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Self

The Daily Show

Self

60 Minutes

Self

King of the Hill

Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)

The Simpsons

Jessica Lovejoy (voice)

Saturday Night Live

Self

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2026	The Magicians Nephew	Aslan (voice)
2026	The Devil Wears Prada 2	Miranda Priestly
2025	Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music	Self
2025	SNL50: The Homecoming Concert	Self
2024	Escape from Extinction: Rewilding	Narrator (voice)
2024	Schindler Space Architect	Narrator (voice)
2021	Stanislavski: Lust for Life	Self
2021	Don't Look Up	President Orlean
2021	Dear Elizabeth	Elizabeth Bishop
2020	The Prom	Dee Dee Allen
2020	Let Them All Talk	Alice Hughes
2020	Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth	Narrator (voice)
2020	Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis	Self - Actress (archive footage)
2020	In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover	Meryl Streep
2019	Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage	Self (archive footage)
2019	The Laundromat	Ellen Martin / Elena
2019	Little Women	Aunt March
2019	This Changes Everything	Self
2019	Museum Town	Narrator (voice)
2019	Alan Pakula: Going for Truth	Self
2018	Mary Poppins Returns	Cousin Topsy
2018	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again	Donna Sheridan-Carmichael
2018	Every Act of Life	Maurine McElroy (voice)
2018	We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World	Self
2018	Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary	Narrator (voice)
2018	Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal	Self (archive footage)
2017	100 Years	Narrator (voice)
2017	The Post	Kay Graham
2017	The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits	Self
2017	Five Came Back	Narrator (voice)
2017	The Words That Built America	Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2016	Florence Foster Jenkins	Florence Foster Jenkins
2016	Mike Nichols: An American Master	Self
2016	Starring Austin Pendleton	Self
2016	Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray	Elizabeth Murray (voice)
2015	Suffragette	Emmeline Pankhurst
2015	Ricki and the Flash	Ricki Rendazzo
2015	Auschwitz	Narrator (voice)
2015	Shout Gladi Gladi	Narrator (voice)
2015	Everything Is Copy	Self
2015	Emotional Uncertainties	Self
2014	Into the Woods	Witch
2014	The Giver	Chief Elder
2014	The Homesman	Altha Carter
2014	The Concert for Valor	Self
2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)
2013	A Fierce Green Fire	Narrator (voice)
2013	August: Osage County	Violet Weston
2013	Girl Rising	Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
2013	Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story	Self
2012	Close Up	Self (archive footage)
2012	Hope Springs	Kay
2012	To the Arctic 3D	Narrator
2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)
2012	Joe Papp in Five Acts	Self
2012	Radioman	Self
2011	The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher
2011	Wings of Life	Narrator (voice)
2010	Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life	Jennie
2010	Sky Island	(voice)
2009	Doubt: Stage to Screen	Self
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Felicity Fox (voice)
2009	It's Complicated	Jane Adler
2009	Julie & Julia	Julia Child
2009	I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale	Self
2008	Mamma Mia!	Donna Sheridan
2008	Doubt	Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2008	Dark Matter	Joanna Silver
2008	Ribbon of Sand	Narrator (voice)
2008	Theater of War	Self
2008	Birthing Mamma Mia!	Self
2008	An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'	Self
2007	Lions for Lambs	Janine Roth
2007	Rendition	Corrine Whitman
2007	Evening	Lila Ross
2006	A Prairie Home Companion	Yolanda Johnson
2006	The Ant Bully	Queen (voice)
2006	Hurricane on the Bayou	Narrator (voice)
2006	The Devil Wears Prada	Miranda Priestly
2006	Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner	Self
2006	The Music of Regret	The Woman
2005	Prime	Lisa Metzger
2005	Stolen Childhoods	Narrator (voice)
2005	Karen Blixen: Out of This World	Self - Host
2004	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Josephine Anwhistle
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
2004	Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen	Self
2003	Stuck on You	Meryl Streep (uncredited)
2002	The Hours	Clarissa Vaughan
2002	Adaptation.	Susan Orlean
2002	There's Only One Paul McCartney	Self
2002	New York at the Movies	Narrator (voice)
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Blue Mecha (voice)
2001	Vermeer Master of Light	Narrator (voice)
2001	Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'	Self
2000	A Song of Africa	Self
1999	Music of the Heart	Roberta
1999	Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait	Narrator (voice)
1999	Chrysanthemum	Narrator (voice)
1998	Dancing at Lughnasa	Kate Mundy
1998	One True Thing	Kate Gulden
1997	...First Do No Harm	Lori Reimuller
1996	Marvin's Room	Lee Wakefield Lacker
1996	Before and After	Carolyn Ryan
1995	The Bridges of Madison County	Francesca Johnson
1995	The Living Sea	Narrator (voice)
1994	The River Wild	Gail Hartman
1994	An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet	Self - Host
1993	The House of the Spirits	Clara del Valle Trueba
1992	Death Becomes Her	Madeline Ashton Menville
1991	Defending Your Life	Julia
1991	Voices That Care	Self - Choir Member
1991	Age 7 in America	Narrator (voice)
1990	Postcards from the Edge	Suzanne Vale
1990	The Earth Day Special	Concerned Citizen
1989	She-Devil	Mary Fisher
1988	Evil Angels	Lindy Chamberlain
1987	Ironweed	Helen Archer
1986	Heartburn	Rachel
1985	Out of Africa	Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
1985	Plenty	Susan Traherne
1984	Falling in Love	Molly Gilmore
1984	Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit	Narrator (voice)
1983	Silkwood	Karen Silkwood
1982	Still of the Night	Brooke Reynolds
1982	Sophie's Choice	Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
1982	Alice at the Palace	Alice
1981	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Sarah / Anna
1981	Kiss Me, Petruchio	Katherine
1979	Manhattan	Jill
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Joanna Kramer
1979	The Seduction of Joe Tynan	Karen Traynor
1979	Uncommon Women and Others	Leilah
1978	The Deer Hunter	Linda
1977	Julia	Anne Marie
1977	Secret Service	Edith Varney
1977	The Deadliest Season	Sharon Miller
1975	Everybody Rides the Carousel	Stage 6 (voice)
	Mamma Mia! 3	Donna Sheridan
	Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?	Narrator (voice)
2023	Extrapolations	Eve
2022	The U.S. and the Holocaust	Eleanor Roosevelt
2021	Hemingway	Martha Gellhorn (voice)
2021	Only Murders in the Building	Loretta Durkin
2021	Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy	Self
2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self (archive footage)
2017	Five Came Back	Self - Narrator (voice)
2017	Big Little Lies	Mary Louise Wright
2015	The Late Late Show with James Corden	Self
2014	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History	Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
2013	Makers: Women Who Make America	Narrator (voice)
2013	奥斯维辛集中营	讲述
2011	Web Therapy	Camilla Bowner
2010	America: The Story of Us	Self
2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
2005	The Colbert Report
2005	Unscripted	Self
2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self
2003	Angels in America	Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
2001	School: The Story of American Public Education	Narrator (voice)
1999	The Directors	Self
1998	Vivement dimanche	Self
1997	King of the Hill	Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
1997	The View	Self
1997	Leute heute	Self
1997	The View
1996	The Daily Show	Self
1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self
1993	GMTV	Self
1989	The Simpsons	Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
1988	This Morning	Self - Guest
1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest
1984	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self
1978	Holocaust	Inga Helms Weiss
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self
1974	Spécial cinéma	Self
1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self
1971	Great Performances
1971	Great Performances	Leilah
1971	Great Performances	Self - Host
1968	60 Minutes	Self
1967	Titel, Thesen, Temperamente	Self
1959	The Grammys	Self
1953	The Oscars	Self
	The Corrections