Meryl Streep

74 · Born: Jun 22, 1949

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Born Jun 22, 1949 Summit, New Jersey, USA

Parents

Harry William Streep Jr.
Mary Wolf Wilkinson

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Meryl Streep, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Career

acting

2023

Extrapolations as Eve

2022

The U.S. and the Holocaust A Film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein

The U.S. and the Holocaust A Film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein as Eleanor Roosevelt

2021

Don't Look Up as President Orlean

2020

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth as Narrator

Let Them All Talk

Let Them All Talk as Alice Hughes

The Prom as Dee Dee Allen

2019

Museum Town as Narrator

The Laundromat as Ellen Martin / Elena

Little Women as Aunt Josephine March

Big Little Lies

Big Little Lies as Mary Louise Wright

2018

Keeping the Promise

Keeping the Promise

Mary Poppins Returns

Mary Poppins Returns as Tatiana "Topsy" Topotrepolovsky

2017

Five Came Back as Narrator (voice)

The Post as Kay Graham

Five Came Back as Narrator (voice)

2016

Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins

American Masters

American Masters

Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray

Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray as Elizabeth Murray (voice)

2015

Ricki and the Flash

Ricki and the Flash as Ricki Rendazzo

Everything Is Copy

Everything Is Copy

Shout Gladi Gladi

Shout Gladi Gladi as Narrator

Suffragette as Emmeline Pankhurst

2014

The Giver as Chief Elder

Into the Woods as Witch

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)

2013

Out of Print as Narrator

August: Osage County

August: Osage County as Violet Weston

A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for A Living Planet

A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for A Living Planet as Narrator (voice)

Girl Rising as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)

Makers: Women Who Make America

Makers: Women Who Make America as Narrator (voice)

2012

Hope Springs as Kay

To the Arctic 3D

To the Arctic 3D as Narrator (voice)

Web Therapy as Camilla Bowner

2011

Wings of Life as Narrator

The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher

2010

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life as Jennie

2009

Julie & Julia as Julia Child

It's Complicated

It's Complicated as Jane Adler

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fantastic Mr. Fox as Felicity Fox (voice)

2008

Dark Matter as Joanna Silver

Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier

Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan

2007

Evening as Lila Ross

Lions for Lambs

Lions for Lambs as Janine Roth

Rendition as Corrine Whitman

Ocean Voyagers as Narrator

2006

Hurricane on the Bayou

Hurricane on the Bayou as Narrator

The Music of Regret

The Music of Regret as The Woman

A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion as Yolanda Johnson

The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly

The Ant Bully as Queen (voice)

2005

Prime as Lisa Metzger

Stolen Childhoods

Stolen Childhoods as Narrator

2004

A Series of Unfortunate Events

A Series of Unfortunate Events as Josephine Anwhistle

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)

2003

Angels in America

Angels in America as Hannah Pitt

2002

Adaptation. as Susan Orlean

There's Only One Paul McCartney

There's Only One Paul McCartney

The Hours as Clarissa Vaughan

2001

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Blue Mecha (voice)

Vermeer: Master of Light

Vermeer: Master of Light as Narrator

1999

Music of the Heart

Music of the Heart as Roberta

Chrysanthemum as Narrator

Ginevra's Story: Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait

Ginevra's Story: Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait as Narrator

King of the Hill

King of the Hill as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)

1998

One True Thing as Kate Gulden

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa as Kate Mundy

1997

...First Do No Harm

...First Do No Harm as Lori Reimuller

1996

Before and After

Before and After as Dr. Carolyn Ryan

Marvin's Room as Lee Wakefield Lacker

1995

The Bridges of Madison County

The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson

The Living Sea as Narrator (voice)

1994

The River Wild as Gail Hartman

The Simpsons as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)

1993

The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits as Clara del Valle Trueba

1992

Death Becomes Her

Death Becomes Her as Madeline Ashton Menville

1991

Defending Your Life

Defending Your Life as Julia

Age 7 in America

Age 7 in America as Narrator (voice)

1990

Postcards from the Edge

Postcards from the Edge as Suzanne Vale

1989

She-Devil as Mary Fisher

1988

A Cry in the Dark

A Cry in the Dark as Lindy Chamberlain

1987

Ironweed as Helen Archer

1986

Heartburn as Rachel

1985

Out of Africa as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen

Plenty as Susan Traherne

1984

Falling in Love

Falling in Love as Molly Gilmore

1983

Silkwood as Karen Silkwood

1982

Still of the Night

Still of the Night as Brooke Reynolds

Sophie's Choice

Sophie's Choice as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski

Alice at the Palace

Alice at the Palace as Alice

1981

Kiss Me, Petruchio

Kiss Me, Petruchio as Katherine

The French Lieutenant's Woman

The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah / Anna

1979

Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer

Great Performances

Great Performances as Leilah

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Karen Traynor

Manhattan as Jill

Great Performances

Great Performances as Leilah

1978

The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter as Linda

Holocaust as Inga Helms Weiss

1977

Julia as Anne Marie

Great Performances

Great Performances as Edith Varney

The Deadliest Season

The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller

1975

Everybody Rides the Carousel

Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)

appearances

2019

This Changes Everything

This Changes Everything

Rose McGowan: Being Brave

Rose McGowan: Being Brave

2018

We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World

We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World

2017

Ken Burns: America's Storyteller

Ken Burns: America's Storyteller

2015

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Late Late Show with James Corden

2014

The Graham Norton Show

The Graham Norton Show

2013

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

2009

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

Doubt: Stage to Screen

Doubt: Stage to Screen

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2008

An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'the Bridges of Madison County'

An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'the Bridges of Madison County'

2005

Karen Blixen: Out of This World

Karen Blixen: Out of This World

2001

Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'

Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'

2000

American Masters

American Masters