Meryl Streep

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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 Devil Wears Prada

Miranda Priestly

The Simpsons

Jessica Lovejoy (voice)

Don't Look Up

President Orlean

Mamma Mia!

Donna Sheridan

Little Women

Aunt March

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Blue Mecha (voice)

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Felicity Fox (voice)

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Josephine Anwhistle

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2028	A Sleigh of One's Own MOVIE	Mrs. Claus
2026	Narnia MOVIE	Aslan (voice)
2026	The Devil Wears Prada 2 MOVIE	Miranda Priestly
2026	Henry David Thoreau MOVIE	Various Voices (voice)
2026	Henry David Thoreau TV	Various Characters (voice)
2026	Project Hail Mary MOVIE	Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
2026	Hoppers MOVIE	Insect Queen (voice)
2025	The American Revolution TV	Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
2025	SNL50: The Homecoming Concert MOVIE	Self
2025	Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music MOVIE	Self
2024	Schindler Space Architect MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2024	Escape from Extinction: Rewilding MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2024	Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? TV	Narrator (voice)
2024	Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep MOVIE	Self
2023	Extrapolations TV	Eve
2022	The U.S. and the Holocaust TV	Eleanor Roosevelt
2021	Don't Look Up MOVIE	President Orlean
2021	Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy TV	Self
2021	Only Murders in the Building TV	Loretta Durkin
2021	Dear Elizabeth MOVIE	Elizabeth Bishop
2021	Hemingway TV	Martha Gellhorn (voice)
2021	Stanislavski: Lust for Life MOVIE	Self
2020	Let Them All Talk MOVIE	Alice Hughes
2020	The Prom MOVIE	Dee Dee Allen
2020	In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover MOVIE	Meryl Streep
2020	Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis MOVIE	Self - Actress (archive footage)
2020	Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2019	Little Women MOVIE	Aunt March
2019	Alan Pakula: Going for Truth MOVIE	Self
2019	The Laundromat MOVIE	Ellen Martin / Elena
2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show TV	Self (archive footage)
2019	This Changes Everything MOVIE	Self
2019	Museum Town MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2018	Mary Poppins Returns MOVIE	Cousin Topsy
2018	Paul McCartney: Live from NYC MOVIE	Self
2018	Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again MOVIE	Donna Sheridan-Carmichael
2018	Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2018	Every Act of Life MOVIE	Maurine McElroy (voice)
2017	The Post MOVIE	Kay Graham
2017	The Words That Built America MOVIE	Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2017	Five Came Back MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2017	Five Came Back TV	Self - Narrator (voice)
2017	The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits MOVIE	Self
2017	Big Little Lies TV	Mary Louise Wright
2017	100 Years MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2016	Florence Foster Jenkins MOVIE	Florence Foster Jenkins
2016	Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray MOVIE	Elizabeth Murray (voice)
2016	Starring Austin Pendleton MOVIE	Self
2016	Mike Nichols: An American Master MOVIE	Self
2015	Aktorka MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2015	Suffragette MOVIE	Emmeline Pankhurst
2015	Shout Gladi Gladi MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2015	Everything Is Copy MOVIE	Self
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV	Self - Guest
2015	Emotional Uncertainties MOVIE	Self
2015	Ricki and the Flash MOVIE	Ricki Rendazzo
2015	The Late Late Show with James Corden TV	Self
2015	Auschwitz MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2014	Into the Woods MOVIE	Witch
2014	The Concert for Valor MOVIE	Self
2014	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History TV	Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
2014	The Giver MOVIE	Chief Elder
2014	The Homesman MOVIE	Altha Carter
2013	August: Osage County MOVIE	Violet Weston
2013	奥斯维辛集中营 TV	讲述
2013	Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story MOVIE	Self
2013	Out of Print MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2013	Girl Rising MOVIE	Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
2013	A Fierce Green Fire MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2013	Makers: Women Who Make America TV	Narrator (voice)
2012	Radioman MOVIE	Self
2012	Close Up MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	Hope Springs MOVIE	Kay
2012	Joe Papp in Five Acts MOVIE	Self
2012	To the Arctic 3D MOVIE	Narrator
2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen MOVIE	(archive footage)
2011	The Iron Lady MOVIE	Margaret Thatcher
2011	Web Therapy TV	Camilla Bowner
2011	Wings of Life MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2010	America: The Story of Us MOVIE	Herself
2010	America: The Story of Us TV	Self
2010	Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life MOVIE	Jennie
2010	Sky Island MOVIE	(voice)
2009	It's Complicated MOVIE	Jane Adler
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox MOVIE	Felicity Fox (voice)
2009	Julie & Julia MOVIE	Julia Child
2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen TV	Self - Guest
2009	The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien TV	Self - Guest
2009	Doubt: Stage to Screen MOVIE	Self
2009	I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale MOVIE	Self
2008	Doubt MOVIE	Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2008	Mamma Mia! MOVIE	Donna Sheridan
2008	An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' MOVIE	Self
2008	Theater of War MOVIE	Self
2008	Dark Matter MOVIE	Joanna Silver
2008	Ribbon of Sand MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2007	Lions for Lambs MOVIE	Janine Roth
2007	Rendition MOVIE	Corrine Whitman
2007	Evening MOVIE	Lila Ross
2007	The Graham Norton Show TV	Self
2006	Hurricane on the Bayou MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2006	The Ant Bully MOVIE	Queen (voice)
2006	The Devil Wears Prada MOVIE	Miranda Priestly
2006	10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada MOVIE	Self
2006	A Prairie Home Companion MOVIE	Yolanda Johnson
2006	The Music of Regret MOVIE	The Woman
2006	Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner MOVIE	Self
2005	Stolen Childhoods MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2005	The Colbert Report TV	Self
2005	Karen Blixen: Out of This World MOVIE	Self - Host
2005	Prime MOVIE	Lisa Metzger
2005	Unscripted TV	Meryl Streep
2004	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events MOVIE	Josephine Anwhistle
2004	The Manchurian Candidate MOVIE	Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
2004	Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen MOVIE	Self
2003	Stuck on You MOVIE	Meryl Streep (uncredited)
2003	Angels in America TV	Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show TV	Self
2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live! TV	Self
2002	The Hours MOVIE	Clarissa Vaughan
2002	Adaptation. MOVIE	Susan Orlean
2002	New York at the Movies MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2002	There's Only One Paul McCartney MOVIE	Self
2002	Heart of the Festival MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2001	Vermeer Master of Light MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2001	School: The Story of American Public Education TV	Narrator (voice)
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence MOVIE	Blue Mecha (voice)
2001	Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' MOVIE	Self
2000	A Song of Africa MOVIE	Self
1999	Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1999	Music of the Heart MOVIE	Roberta
1999	Chrysanthemum MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1999	The Directors TV	Self
1998	Vivement dimanche TV	Self
1998	One True Thing MOVIE	Kate Gulden
1998	Dancing at Lughnasa MOVIE	Kate Mundy
1997	The View TV	Self
1997	Leute heute TV	Self
1997	...First Do No Harm MOVIE	Lori Reimuller
1997	King of the Hill TV	Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
1996	Marvin's Room MOVIE	Lee Wakefield Lacker
1996	The Daily Show TV	Self
1996	Before and After MOVIE	Carolyn Ryan
1995	The Bridges of Madison County MOVIE	Francesca Johnson
1995	The Living Sea MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1994	The River Wild MOVIE	Gail Hartman
1994	Inside the Actors Studio TV	Self
1994	An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet MOVIE	Self - Host
1993	The House of the Spirits MOVIE	Clara del Valle Trueba
1993	GMTV TV	Self
1992	Death Becomes Her MOVIE	Madeline Ashton Menville
1991	Age 7 in America MOVIE	Narrator / Hostess
1991	Defending Your Life MOVIE	Julia
1991	Voices That Care MOVIE	Self - Choir Member
1990	Postcards from the Edge MOVIE	Suzanne Vale
1990	The Earth Day Special MOVIE	Concerned Citizen
1989	The Simpsons TV	Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
1989	She-Devil MOVIE	Mary Fisher
1988	Evil Angels MOVIE	Lindy Chamberlain
1988	This Morning TV	Self - Guest
1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark TV	Self - Guest
1988	Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester MOVIE	Narrator
1987	Ironweed MOVIE	Helen Archer
1987	Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1986	Heartburn MOVIE	Rachel
1985	Out of Africa MOVIE	Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
1985	Plenty MOVIE	Susan Traherne
1984	Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1984	Falling in Love MOVIE	Molly Gilmore
1984	Goldene Kamera TV	Self
1983	Silkwood MOVIE	Karen Silkwood
1982	Sophie's Choice MOVIE	Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
1982	Still of the Night MOVIE	Brooke Reynolds
1982	Alice at the Palace MOVIE	Alice
1981	The French Lieutenant's Woman MOVIE	Sarah / Anna
1981	Kiss Me, Petruchio MOVIE	Katherine
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer MOVIE	Joanna Kramer
1979	Friday Night, Saturday Morning TV	Self
1979	The Seduction of Joe Tynan MOVIE	Karen Traynor
1979	Uncommon Women and Others MOVIE	Leilah
1979	Manhattan MOVIE	Jill
1978	The Deer Hunter MOVIE	Linda
1978	Holocaust TV	Inga Helms Weiss
1977	Julia MOVIE	Anne Marie
1977	The Deadliest Season MOVIE	Sharon Miller
1977	Secret Service MOVIE	Edith Varney
1976	Everybody Rides the Carousel MOVIE	Stage 6 (voice)
1975	Saturday Night Live TV	Self
1974	Spécial cinéma TV	Self
1971	Great Performances TV	Self
1971	Great Performances TV	Leilah
1971	Great Performances TV	Self - Host
1968	60 Minutes TV	Self
1967	Titel, Thesen, Temperamente TV	Self
1962	The Merv Griffin Show TV	Self
1959	The Grammys TV	Self
1953	The Oscars TV	Self
1944	Golden Globe Awards TV	Self - Winner
	Useful Idiots MOVIE	Diane Castle
	Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic MOVIE	Joni Mitchell
	The Halls of Vertebrate Evolution MOVIE	Narrator
	The Corrections TV	Self

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