Meryl Streep

Born 1949 • 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.

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Sophie's Choice

9.5/10

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Filmography

9.5

1982

11 critics rated

Sophie's Choice

as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski

N/A

2026

The Devil Wears Prada 2

as Miranda Priestly

N/A

2025

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

as Self

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

N/A

2025

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

as Self

N/A

2024

Schindler Space Architect

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2024

Escape from Extinction: Rewilding

as Narrator (voice)

Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep

N/A

2024

Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep

as —

N/A

2021

Dear Elizabeth

as Elizabeth Bishop

N/A

2021

Stanislavski: Lust for Life

as Self

N/A

2021

Don't Look Up

as President Orlean

N/A

2020

The Prom

as Dee Dee Allen

N/A

2020

Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

N/A

2020

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2020

Let Them All Talk

as Alice Hughes

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

N/A

2020

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

as Meryl Streep

N/A

2019

Little Women

as Aunt March

N/A

2019

Museum Town

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2019

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

as Self

N/A

2019

The Laundromat

as Ellen Martin / Elena

N/A

2019

This Changes Everything

as Self

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

N/A

2018

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

as Self (archive footage)

N/A

2018

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

as Donna Sheridan-Carmichael

N/A

2018

Every Act of Life

as Maurine McElroy (voice)

Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary

N/A

2018

Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2018

Mary Poppins Returns

as Cousin Topsy

N/A

2017

The Words That Built America

as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence

N/A

2017

Five Came Back

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2017

100 Years

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2017

The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits

as Self

N/A

2017

The Post

as Kay Graham

N/A

2016

Mike Nichols: An American Master

as Self

N/A

2016

Florence Foster Jenkins

as Florence Foster Jenkins

N/A

2016

Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray

as Elizabeth Murray (voice)

N/A

2016

Starring Austin Pendleton

as Self

N/A

2015

Auschwitz

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2015

Everything Is Copy

as Self

N/A

2015

Emotional Uncertainties

as Self

N/A

2015

Ricki and the Flash

as Ricki Rendazzo

N/A

2015

Shout Gladi Gladi

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2015

Suffragette

as Emmeline Pankhurst

N/A

2014

Into the Woods

as Witch

N/A

2014

The Homesman

as Altha Carter

N/A

2014

The Giver

as Chief Elder

N/A

2014

The Concert for Valor

as Self

N/A

2013

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

as Self

N/A

2013

Out of Print

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2013

A Fierce Green Fire

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2013

Girl Rising

as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)

N/A

2013

August: Osage County

as Violet Weston

N/A

2012

Joe Papp in Five Acts

as Self

N/A

2012

Hope Springs

as Kay

N/A

2012

Radioman

as Self

N/A

2012

Close Up

as Self (archive footage)

N/A

2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

N/A

2012

To the Arctic 3D

as Narrator

N/A

2011

Wings of Life

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2011

The Iron Lady

as Margaret Thatcher

N/A

2010

Sky Island

as (voice)

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

N/A

2010

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

as Jennie

N/A

2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox

as Felicity Fox (voice)

N/A

2009

Doubt: Stage to Screen

as Self

N/A

2009

Julie & Julia

as Julia Child

N/A

2009

It's Complicated

as Jane Adler

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

N/A

2009

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

as Self

N/A

2008

Dark Matter

as Joanna Silver

N/A

2008

Ribbon of Sand

as Narrator (voice)

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

N/A

2008

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

as Self

N/A

2008

Birthing Mamma Mia!

as Self

N/A

2008

Doubt

as Sister Aloysius Beauvier

N/A

2008

Theater of War

as Self

N/A

2008

Mamma Mia!

as Donna Sheridan

N/A

2007

Evening

as Lila Ross

N/A

2007

Rendition

as Corrine Whitman

N/A

2007

Lions for Lambs

as Janine Roth

N/A

2006

Hurricane on the Bayou

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2006

The Devil Wears Prada

as Miranda Priestly

N/A

2006

The Music of Regret

as The Woman

N/A

2006

A Prairie Home Companion

as Yolanda Johnson

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

N/A

2006

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

as Self

N/A

2006

The Ant Bully

as Queen (voice)

N/A

2005

Stolen Childhoods

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2005

Karen Blixen: Out of This World

as Self - Host

N/A

2005

Prime

as Lisa Metzger

Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen

N/A

2004

Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen

as Self

N/A

2004

The Manchurian Candidate

as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

N/A

2004

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

as Josephine Anwhistle

N/A

2002

Adaptation.

as Susan Orlean

N/A

2002

New York at the Movies

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2002

There's Only One Paul McCartney

as Self

N/A

2002

Heart of the Festival

Directed by Gilles Jacob

as Self (archive footage)

N/A

2002

The Hours

as Clarissa Vaughan

N/A

2001

Vermeer Master of Light

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

2001

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

as Blue Mecha (voice)

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

N/A

2001

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

as Self

N/A

2000

A Song of Africa

as Self

N/A

1999

Music of the Heart

as Roberta

N/A

1999

Chrysanthemum

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

1999

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

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

1998

One True Thing

as Kate Gulden

N/A

1998

Dancing at Lughnasa

as Kate Mundy

N/A

1997

...First Do No Harm

as Lori Reimuller

N/A

1996

Marvin's Room

as Lee Wakefield Lacker

N/A

1996

Before and After

as Carolyn Ryan

N/A

1995

The Living Sea

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

1995

The Bridges of Madison County

as Francesca Johnson

N/A

1994

An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet

as Self - Host

N/A

1994

The River Wild

as Gail Hartman

N/A

1993

The House of the Spirits

as Clara del Valle Trueba

N/A

1992

Death Becomes Her

as Madeline Ashton Menville

N/A

1991

Defending Your Life

as Julia

N/A

1991

Age 7 in America

as Narrator / Hostess

N/A

1991

Voices That Care

as Self - Choir Member

N/A

1990

Postcards from the Edge

as Suzanne Vale

N/A

1990

The Earth Day Special

as Concerned Citizen

N/A

1989

She-Devil

as Mary Fisher

N/A

1988

Evil Angels

as Lindy Chamberlain

N/A

1987

Ironweed

as Helen Archer

N/A

1986

Heartburn

as Rachel

N/A

1985

Plenty

as Susan Traherne

N/A

1985

Out of Africa

as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen

N/A

1984

Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit

as Narrator (voice)

N/A

1984

Falling in Love

as Molly Gilmore

N/A

1983

Silkwood

as Karen Silkwood

N/A

1982

Still of the Night

as Brooke Reynolds

N/A

1982

Alice at the Palace

as Alice

N/A

1981

The French Lieutenant's Woman

as Sarah / Anna

N/A

1981

Kiss Me, Petruchio

as Katherine

N/A

1979

Kramer vs. Kramer

as Joanna Kramer

N/A

1979

Manhattan

as Jill

N/A

1979

Uncommon Women and Others

as Leilah

N/A

1979

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

as Karen Traynor

N/A

1978

The Deer Hunter

as Linda

N/A

1977

The Deadliest Season

as Sharon Miller

N/A

1977

Julia

as Anne Marie

N/A

1977

Secret Service

as Edith Varney

N/A

1976

Everybody Rides the Carousel

as Stage 6 (voice)

About Meryl Streep

The ActorRating community has rated 1 of Meryl Streep's performances, with 11 total ratings from critics worldwide. Their highest-rated performance is Sophie's Choice.