Acting · Summit, New Jersey, USA · Born June 22, 1949
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.
MovieA Sleigh of One's Own
2028
as Mrs. Claus
MovieNarnia: The Magician's Nephew
2027
MovieMarty, Life Is Short
2026
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Devil Wears Prada 2
2026
as Miranda Priestly
MovieDo We Know Each Other?
2026
as Miranda Priestly
MovieHenry David Thoreau
2026
as Various Voices (voice)
TVHenry David Thoreau
2026
as Various Characters (voice)
MovieProject Hail Mary
2026
as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
MovieHoppers
2026
as Insect Queen (voice)
TVThe American Revolution
2025
as Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
MovieSNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
as Self
MovieLadies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
as Self
MovieSchindler Space Architect
2024
as Narrator (voice)
MovieEscape from Extinction: Rewilding
2024
as Narrator (voice)
TVCorridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
2024
as Narrator (voice)
MovieRufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep
2024
as Self
TVExtrapolations
2023
as Eve
MovieDon't Look Up
2021
as President Orlean
TVClint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
as Self
TVOnly Murders in the Building
2021
as Loretta Durkin
MovieDear Elizabeth
2021
as Elizabeth Bishop
TVHemingway
2021
as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
MovieStanislavski: Lust for Life
2021
as Self
MovieLet Them All Talk
2020
as Alice Hughes
MovieThe Prom
2020
as Dee Dee Allen
MovieIn Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
as Meryl Streep
MovieMeryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
2020
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
MovieHere We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
2020
as Narrator (voice)
MovieLittle Women
2019
as Aunt March
MovieAlan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
as Self
MovieThe Laundromat
2019
as Ellen Martin / Elena
TVThe Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThis Changes Everything
2019
as Self
MovieMuseum Town
2019
as Narrator (voice)
MovieMary Poppins Returns
2018
as Cousin Topsy
MoviePaul McCartney: Live from NYC
2018
as Self
TVYou Quiz on the Block
2018
as Self
MovieBeyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
as Donna
MovieKeeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary
2018
as Narrator (voice)
MovieEvery Act of Life
2018
as Maurine McElroy (voice)
MovieThe Post
2017
as Kay Graham
MovieThe Words That Built America
2017
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
MovieFive Came Back
2017
as Narrator (voice)
TVFive Came Back
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits
2017
as Self
TVBig Little Lies
2017
as Mary Louise Wright
Movie100 Years
2017
as Narrator (voice)
MovieBright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2017
as Suzanne Vale, Self (archive footage, uncredited)
MovieMike Nichols: An American Master
2016
as Self
MovieFlorence Foster Jenkins
2016
as Florence Foster Jenkins
MovieEverybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
2016
as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
MovieStarring Austin Pendleton
2016
as Self
MovieAktorka
2015
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSuffragette
2015
as Emmeline Pankhurst
Shout Gladi Gladi
2015
as Narrator (voice)
MovieEverything Is Copy
2015
as Self
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Emotional Uncertainties
2015
as Self
MovieRicki and the Flash
2015
as Ricki Rendazzo
TVThe Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self
MovieAuschwitz
2015
as Narrator (voice)
MovieInto the Woods
2014
as Witch
MovieThe Concert for Valor
2014
as Self
TVThe Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
MovieThe Giver
2014
as Chief Elder
MovieThe Homesman
2014
as Altha Carter
MovieAugust: Osage County
2013
as Violet Weston
TV奥斯维辛集中营
2013
as 讲述
MovieEastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
as Self
MovieOut of Print
2013
as Narrator (voice)
MovieGirl Rising
2013
as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
MovieA Fierce Green Fire
2013
as Narrator (voice)
TVMakers: Women Who Make America
2013
as Narrator (voice)
MovieRadioman
2012
as Self
MovieClose Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHope Springs
2012
as Kay
MovieJoe Papp in Five Acts
2012
as Self
MovieTo the Arctic 3D
2012
as Narrator
MovieFinal Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
MovieThe Iron Lady
2011
as Margaret Thatcher
TVWeb Therapy
2011
as Camilla Bowner
MovieWings of Life
2011
as Narrator (voice)
MovieAmerica: The Story of Us
2010
as Herself
MovieThis Place Knows Us
2010
as Narrator
TVAmerica: The Story of Us
2010
as Self
MovieHigglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
2010
as Jennie
MovieSky Island
2010
as (voice)
MovieIt's Complicated
2009
as Jane Adler
MovieFantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Felicity Fox (voice)
MovieJulie & Julia
2009
as Julia Child
TVWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
TVThe Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009
as Self - Guest
MovieDoubt: Stage to Screen
2009
as Self
MovieI Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
as Self
MovieDoubt
2008
as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
MovieMamma Mia!
2008
as Donna Sheridan
MovieAn Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
2008
as Self
MovieTheater of War
2008
as Self
MovieDark Matter
2008
as Joanna Silver
MovieRibbon of Sand
2008
as Narrator (voice)
MovieLions for Lambs
2007
as Janine Roth
MovieRendition
2007
as Corrine Whitman
MovieEvening
2007
as Lila Ross
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
MovieHurricane on the Bayou
2006
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Ant Bully
2006
as Queen (voice)
MovieThe Devil Wears Prada
2006
as Miranda Priestly
Movie10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada
2006
as Self
MovieA Prairie Home Companion
2006
as Yolanda Johnson
MovieThe Music of Regret
2006
as The Woman
MovieWrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006
as Self
Stolen Childhoods
2005
as Narrator (voice)
TVThe Colbert Report
2005
MovieKaren Blixen: Out of This World
2005
as Self - Host
MoviePrime
2005
as Lisa Metzger
TVUnscripted
2005
as Meryl Streep
MovieLemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Josephine Anwhistle
MovieThe Manchurian Candidate
2004
as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
MovieStuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen
2004
as Self
MovieStuck on You
2003
as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
TVAngels in America
2003
as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
TVThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
TVJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
MovieThe Hours
2002
as Clarissa Vaughan
MovieAdaptation.
2002
as Susan Orlean
New York at the Movies
2002
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThere's Only One Paul McCartney
2002
as Self
MovieVermeer Master of Light
2001
as Narrator (voice)
TVSchool: The Story of American Public Education
2001
as Narrator (voice)
MovieA.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
as Blue Mecha (voice)
MovieFinding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
2001
as Self
MovieA Song of Africa
2000
as Self
Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait
1999
as Narrator (voice)
MovieMusic of the Heart
1999
as Roberta
MovieChrysanthemum
1999
as Narrator (voice)
TVThe Directors
1999
as Self
TVVivement dimanche
1998
as Self
MovieOne True Thing
1998
as Kate Gulden
MovieDancing at Lughnasa
1998
as Kate Mundy
TVThe View
1997
as Self
TVLeute heute
1997
as Self
Movie...First Do No Harm
1997
as Lori Reimuller
TVKing of the Hill
1997
as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
MovieMarvin's Room
1996
as Lee Wakefield Lacker
TVThe Daily Show
1996
as Self
MovieBefore and After
1996
as Carolyn Ryan
MovieThe Bridges of Madison County
1995
as Francesca Johnson
MovieThe Halls of Vertebrate Evolution
1995
as Narrator
MovieThe Living Sea
1995
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieThe River Wild
1994
as Gail Hartman
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet
1994
as Self - Host
MovieThe House of the Spirits
1993
as Clara del Valle Trueba
TVGMTV
1993
as Self
MovieDeath Becomes Her
1992
as Madeline Ashton Menville
Age 7 in America
1991
as Narrator / Hostess
MovieDefending Your Life
1991
as Julia
MovieVoices That Care
1991
as Self - Choir Member
MoviePostcards from the Edge
1990
as Suzanne Vale
MovieThe Earth Day Special
1990
as Concerned Citizen
TVThe Simpsons
1989
as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
MovieShe-Devil
1989
as Mary Fisher
MovieEvil Angels
1988
as Lindy Chamberlain
TVThis Morning
1988
as Self - Guest
TVLIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester
1988
as Narrator
MovieIronweed
1987
as Helen Archer
MovieRabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1987
as Narrator
MovieHeartburn
1986
as Rachel
MovieOut of Africa
1985
as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
MoviePlenty
1985
as Susan Traherne
MovieLittle Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit
1984
as Narrator (voice)
MovieFalling in Love
1984
as Molly Gilmore
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
MovieSilkwood
1983
as Karen Silkwood
MovieSophie's Choice
1982
as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
MovieStill of the Night
1982
as Brooke Reynolds
MovieAlice at the Palace
1982
as Alice
MovieThe French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
as Sarah / Anna
MovieKiss Me, Petruchio
1981
as Katherine
MovieKramer vs. Kramer
1979
as Joanna Kramer
TVFriday Night, Saturday Morning
1979
MovieThe Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
as Karen Traynor
MovieUncommon Women and Others
1979
as Leilah
MovieManhattan
1979
as Jill
MovieThe Deer Hunter
1978
as Linda
TVHolocaust
1978
as Inga Helms Weiss
TVCiné regards
1978
as Self
MovieJulia
1977
as Anne Marie
MovieThe Deadliest Season
1977
as Sharon Miller
MovieSecret Service
1977
as Edith Varney
MovieEverybody Rides the Carousel
1976
as Stage 6 (voice)
TVSaturday Night Live
1975
as Self
TVSpécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
TVGreat Performances
1971
TV60 Minutes
1968
as Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
as Self
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
TVThe Grammys
1959
as Self
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Winner
Useful Idiots
as Diane Castle
MovieUntitled Joni Mitchell Biopic
as Joni Mitchell
The Corrections
