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.

Known For

The Simpsons

Project Hail Mary

Hoppers

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Daily Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

King of the Hill

The Kelly Clarkson Show

All Movies (153)

• A Sleigh of One's Own2028 · as Mrs. Claus
• Narnia: The Magician's Nephew2027
• Marty, Life Is Short2026 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Devil Wears Prada 22026 · as Miranda Priestly
• Do We Know Each Other?2026 · as Miranda Priestly
• Henry David Thoreau2026 · as Various Voices (voice)
• Project Hail Mary2026 · as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
• Hoppers2026 · as Insect Queen (voice)
• SNL50: The Homecoming Concert2025 · as Self
• Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music2025 · as Self
• Schindler Space Architect2024 · as Narrator (voice)
• Escape from Extinction: Rewilding2024 · as Narrator (voice)
• Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep2024 · as Self
• Don't Look Up2021 · as President Orlean
• Dear Elizabeth2021 · as Elizabeth Bishop
• Stanislavski: Lust for Life2021 · as Self
• Let Them All Talk2020 · as Alice Hughes
• The Prom2020 · as Dee Dee Allen
• In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover2020 · as Meryl Streep
• Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis2020 · as Self - Actress (archive footage)
• Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth2020 · as Narrator (voice)
• Little Women2019 · as Aunt March
• Alan Pakula: Going for Truth2019 · as Self
• The Laundromat2019 · as Ellen Martin / Elena
• This Changes Everything2019 · as Self
• Museum Town2019 · as Narrator (voice)
• Mary Poppins Returns2018 · as Cousin Topsy
• Paul McCartney: Live from NYC2018 · as Self
• Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again2018 · as Donna
• Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary2018 · as Narrator (voice)
• Every Act of Life2018 · as Maurine McElroy (voice)
• The Post2017 · as Kay Graham
• The Words That Built America2017 · as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
• Five Came Back2017 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits2017 · as Self
• 100 Years2017 · as Narrator (voice)
• Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds2017 · as Suzanne Vale, Self (archive footage, uncredited)
• Mike Nichols: An American Master2016 · as Self
• Florence Foster Jenkins2016 · as Florence Foster Jenkins
• Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray2016 · as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
• Starring Austin Pendleton2016 · as Self
• Aktorka2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Suffragette2015 · as Emmeline Pankhurst
• Shout Gladi Gladi2015 · as Narrator (voice)
• Everything Is Copy2015 · as Self
• Emotional Uncertainties2015 · as Self
• Ricki and the Flash2015 · as Ricki Rendazzo
• Auschwitz2015 · as Narrator (voice)
• Into the Woods2014 · as Witch
• The Concert for Valor2014 · as Self
• The Giver2014 · as Chief Elder
• The Homesman2014 · as Altha Carter
• August: Osage County2013 · as Violet Weston
• Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story2013 · as Self
• Out of Print2013 · as Narrator (voice)
• Girl Rising2013 · as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
• A Fierce Green Fire2013 · as Narrator (voice)
• Radioman2012 · as Self
• Close Up2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hope Springs2012 · as Kay
• Joe Papp in Five Acts2012 · as Self
• To the Arctic 3D2012 · as Narrator
• Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen2012 · as (archive footage)
• The Iron Lady2011 · as Margaret Thatcher
• Wings of Life2011 · as Narrator (voice)
• America: The Story of Us2010 · as Herself
• This Place Knows Us2010 · as Narrator
• Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life2010 · as Jennie
• Sky Island2010 · as (voice)
• It's Complicated2009 · as Jane Adler
• Fantastic Mr. Fox2009 · as Felicity Fox (voice)
• Julie & Julia2009 · as Julia Child
• Doubt: Stage to Screen2009 · as Self
• I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale2009 · as Self
• Doubt2008 · as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
• Mamma Mia!2008 · as Donna Sheridan
• An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'2008 · as Self
• Theater of War2008 · as Self
• Dark Matter2008 · as Joanna Silver
• Ribbon of Sand2008 · as Narrator (voice)
• Lions for Lambs2007 · as Janine Roth
• Rendition2007 · as Corrine Whitman
• Evening2007 · as Lila Ross
• Hurricane on the Bayou2006 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Ant Bully2006 · as Queen (voice)
• The Devil Wears Prada2006 · as Miranda Priestly
• 10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada2006 · as Self
• A Prairie Home Companion2006 · as Yolanda Johnson
• The Music of Regret2006 · as The Woman
• Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner2006 · as Self
• Stolen Childhoods2005 · as Narrator (voice)
• Karen Blixen: Out of This World2005 · as Self - Host
• Prime2005 · as Lisa Metzger
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events2004 · as Josephine Anwhistle
• The Manchurian Candidate2004 · as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
• Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen2004 · as Self
• Stuck on You2003 · as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
• The Hours2002 · as Clarissa Vaughan
• Adaptation.2002 · as Susan Orlean
• New York at the Movies2002 · as Narrator (voice)
• There's Only One Paul McCartney2002 · as Self
• Vermeer Master of Light2001 · as Narrator (voice)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence2001 · as Blue Mecha (voice)
• Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'2001 · as Self
• A Song of Africa2000 · as Self
• Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait1999 · as Narrator (voice)
• Music of the Heart1999 · as Roberta
• Chrysanthemum1999 · as Narrator (voice)
• One True Thing1998 · as Kate Gulden
• Dancing at Lughnasa1998 · as Kate Mundy
• ...First Do No Harm1997 · as Lori Reimuller
• Marvin's Room1996 · as Lee Wakefield Lacker
• Before and After1996 · as Carolyn Ryan
• The Bridges of Madison County1995 · as Francesca Johnson
• The Living Sea1995 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The River Wild1994 · as Gail Hartman
• An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet1994 · as Self - Host
• The House of the Spirits1993 · as Clara del Valle Trueba
• Death Becomes Her1992 · as Madeline Ashton Menville
• Age 7 in America1991 · as Narrator / Hostess
• Defending Your Life1991 · as Julia
• Voices That Care1991 · as Self - Choir Member
• Postcards from the Edge1990 · as Suzanne Vale
• The Earth Day Special1990 · as Concerned Citizen
• She-Devil1989 · as Mary Fisher
• Evil Angels1988 · as Lindy Chamberlain
• Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester1988 · as Narrator
• Ironweed1987 · as Helen Archer
• Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit1987 · as Narrator
• Heartburn1986 · as Rachel
• Out of Africa1985 · as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
• Plenty1985 · as Susan Traherne
• Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit1984 · as Narrator (voice)
• Falling in Love1984 · as Molly Gilmore
• Silkwood1983 · as Karen Silkwood
• Sophie's Choice1982 · as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
• Still of the Night1982 · as Brooke Reynolds
• Alice at the Palace1982 · as Alice
• The French Lieutenant's Woman1981 · as Sarah / Anna
• Kiss Me, Petruchio1981 · as Katherine
• Kramer vs. Kramer1979 · as Joanna Kramer
• The Seduction of Joe Tynan1979 · as Karen Traynor
• Uncommon Women and Others1979 · as Leilah
• Manhattan1979 · as Jill
• The Deer Hunter1978 · as Linda
• Julia1977 · as Anne Marie
• The Deadliest Season1977 · as Sharon Miller
• Secret Service1977 · as Edith Varney
• Everybody Rides the Carousel1976 · as Stage 6 (voice)
• Useful Idiots— · as Diane Castle
• Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic— · as Joni Mitchell
• The Halls of Vertebrate Evolution— · as Narrator

All TV Shows (55)

• Henry David Thoreau2026 · as Various Characters (voice)
• The American Revolution2025 · as Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
• Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?2024 · as Narrator (voice)
• Extrapolations2023 · as Eve
• Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy2021 · as Self
• Only Murders in the Building2021 · as Loretta Durkin
• Hemingway2021 · as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
• The Kelly Clarkson Show2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• You Quiz on the Block2018 · as Self
• Five Came Back2017 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Big Little Lies2017 · as Mary Louise Wright
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• The Late Late Show with James Corden2015 · as Self
• The Roosevelts: An Intimate History2014 · as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
• 奥斯维辛集中营2013 · as 讲述
• Makers: Women Who Make America2013 · as Narrator (voice)
• Web Therapy2011 · as Camilla Bowner
• America: The Story of Us2010 · as Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien2009 · as Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• The Colbert Report2005
• Unscripted2005 · as Meryl Streep
• Angels in America2003 · as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003 · as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
• School: The Story of American Public Education2001 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Directors1999 · as Self
• Vivement dimanche1998 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self
• Leute heute1997 · as Self
• King of the Hill1997 · as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• GMTV1993 · as Self
• The Simpsons1989 · as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
• This Morning1988 · as Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988 · as Self - Guest
• Goldene Kamera1984 · as Self
• Friday Night, Saturday Morning1979
• Holocaust1978 · as Inga Helms Weiss
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self
• Film '721971 · as Self
• Great Performances1971
• Great Performances1971 · as Leilah
• Great Performances1971 · as Self - Host
• 60 Minutes1968 · as Self
• Titel, Thesen, Temperamente1967 · as Self
• The Merv Griffin Show1962 · as Self
• The Grammys1959 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Winner
• The Corrections—