Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthday

1949-06-22

Place of birth

Summit, New Jersey, USA

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.

Career

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2028

A Sleigh of One's Own

Mrs. Claus

2027

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

Aslan (voice)

2026

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Miranda Priestly

2026

Hoppers

Insect Queen (voice)

2026

Project Hail Mary

Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)

2026

Henry David Thoreau

Various Voices (voice)

2026

Do We Know Each Other?

Miranda Priestly

2026

Henry David Thoreau

Various Characters (voice)

2025

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Self

2025

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Self

2025

The American Revolution

Mercy Otis Warren (voice)

2024

Escape from Extinction: Rewilding

Narrator (voice)

2024

Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep

2024

Schindler Space Architect

Narrator (voice)

2024

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?

Narrator (voice)

2023

Extrapolations

Eve

2022

The U.S. and the Holocaust

Eleanor Roosevelt

2021

Stanislavski: Lust for Life

Self

2021

Don't Look Up

President Orlean

2021

Dear Elizabeth

Elizabeth Bishop

2021

Hemingway

Martha Gellhorn (voice)

2021

Only Murders in the Building

Loretta Durkin

2021

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

Self

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

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

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Self (archive footage)

2018

Mary Poppins Returns

Cousin Topsy

2018

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Donna Sheridan

2018

Every Act of Life

Maurine McElroy (voice)

2018

Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary

Narrator (voice)

2018

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

Self (archive footage)

2018

Paul McCartney: Live from NYC

Self

2018

유 퀴즈 온 더 블럭

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

2017

Five Came Back

Self - Narrator (voice)

2017

Big Little Lies

Mary Louise Wright

2016

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

2015

Aktorka

Self (archive footage)

2015

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Self

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self - Guest

2014

Into the Woods

Witch

2014

The Giver

Chief Elder

2014

The Homesman

Altha Carter

2014

The Concert for Valor

Self

2014

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)

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

2013

Out of Print

Narrator (voice)

2013

Makers: Women Who Make America

Narrator (voice)

2013

奥斯维辛集中营

讲述

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)

2011

Web Therapy

Camilla Bowner

2010

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Jennie

2010

Sky Island

(voice)

2010

America: The Story of Us

Herself

2010

America: The Story of Us

Self

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

2009

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest

2009

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest

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

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

2007

The Graham Norton Show

Self

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

2006

10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada

Self

2005

Prime

Lisa Metzger

2005

Stolen Childhoods

Narrator (voice)

2005

Karen Blixen: Out of This World

Self - Host

2005

The Colbert Report

2005

Unscripted

Meryl Streep

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)

2003

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Self

2003

Angels in America

Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self - Guest

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

2001

School: The Story of American Public Education

Narrator (voice)

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)

1999

The Directors

Self

1998

Dancing at Lughnasa

Kate Mundy

1998

One True Thing

Kate Gulden

1998

Vivement dimanche

Self

1997

...First Do No Harm

Lori Reimuller

1997

King of the Hill

Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)

1997

The View

Self

1997

Leute heute

Self

1996

Marvin's Room

Lee Wakefield Lacker

1996

Before and After

Carolyn Ryan

1996

The Daily Show

Self

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

1994

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

1993

The House of the Spirits

Clara del Valle Trueba

1993

GMTV

Self

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 / Hostess

1990

Postcards from the Edge

Suzanne Vale

1990

The Earth Day Special

Concerned Citizen

1989

She-Devil

Mary Fisher

1989

The Simpsons

Jessica Lovejoy (voice)

1988

Evil Angels

Lindy Chamberlain

1988

Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester

Narrator

1988

This Morning

Self - Guest

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Self - Guest

1987

Ironweed

Helen Archer

1987

Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Narrator

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)

1984

Goldene Kamera

Self

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

1979

Friday Night, Saturday Morning

1978

The Deer Hunter

Linda

1978

Holocaust

Inga Helms Weiss

1977

Julia

Anne Marie

1977

Secret Service

Edith Varney

1977

The Deadliest Season

Sharon Miller

1976

Everybody Rides the Carousel

Stage 6 (voice)

1975

Saturday Night Live

Self

1974

Spécial cinéma

Self

1971

Great Performances

1971

Great Performances

Leilah

1971

Great Performances

Self - Host

1968

60 Minutes

Self

1967

Titel, Thesen, Temperamente

Self

1962

The Merv Griffin Show

Self

1959

The Grammys

Self

1953

The Oscars

Self

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Winner

Useful Idiots

Diane Castle

Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic

Joni Mitchell

The Halls of Vertebrate Evolution

Narrator

The Corrections