Meryl Streep
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1949-06-22 (76 years old)
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.
Known For
Acting
Mamma Mia! 3
as Donna Sheridan
(2026)
Narnia
as Aslan (voice)
(2026)
The Devil Wears Prada 2
as Miranda Priestly
(2025)
(2025)
(2024)
(2024)
Escape from Extinction: Rewilding
as Narrator (voice)
(2024)
Schindler Space Architect
as Narrator (voice)
(2021)
Don't Look Up
as President Orlean
(2021)
Stanislavski: Lust for Life
as Self
(2021)
Dear Elizabeth
as Elizabeth Bishop
(2020)
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
The Prom
as Dee Dee Allen
(2020)
Let Them All Talk
as Alice Hughes
(2020)
Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
(2020)
(2019)
Little Women
as Aunt March
(2019)
The Laundromat
as Ellen Martin / Elena
(2019)
This Changes Everything
as Self
(2019)
Museum Town
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
(2018)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
as Donna Sheridan-Carmichael
(2018)
Mary Poppins Returns
as Cousin Topsy
(2018)
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
Every Act of Life
as Maurine McElroy (voice)
(2018)
Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
The Post
as Kay Graham
(2017)
Five Came Back
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
(2017)
100 Years
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
(2016)
Florence Foster Jenkins
as Florence Foster Jenkins
(2016)
Starring Austin Pendleton
as Self
(2016)
(2016)
Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
(2015)
Emotional Uncertainties
as Self
(2015)
Ricki and the Flash
as Ricki Rendazzo
(2015)
Everything Is Copy
as Self
(2015)
Suffragette
as Emmeline Pankhurst
(2015)
Shout Gladi Gladi
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Auschwitz
as Narrator (voice)
(2014)
The Giver
as Chief Elder
(2014)
Into the Woods
as Witch
(2014)
The Homesman
as Altha Carter
(2014)
The Concert for Valor
as Self
(2013)
Girl Rising
as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
(2013)
(2013)
August: Osage County
as Violet Weston
(2013)
Out of Print
as Narrator (voice)
(2013)
A Fierce Green Fire
as Narrator (voice)
(2012)
Hope Springs
as Kay
(2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
(2012)
Radioman
as Self
(2012)
Joe Papp in Five Acts
as Self
(2012)
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
(2012)
To the Arctic 3D
as Narrator
(2011)
Wings of Life
as Narrator (voice)
(2011)
The Iron Lady
as Margaret Thatcher
(2010)
America: The Story of Us
as Herself
(2010)
(2010)
Sky Island
as (voice)
(2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Felicity Fox (voice)
(2009)
It's Complicated
as Jane Adler
(2009)
Julie & Julia
as Julia Child
(2009)
(2009)
Doubt: Stage to Screen
as Self
(2008)
Mamma Mia!
as Donna Sheridan
(2008)
Dark Matter
as Joanna Silver
(2008)
Doubt
as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
(2008)
Theater of War
as Self
(2008)
Birthing Mamma Mia!
as Self
(2008)
(2008)
Ribbon of Sand
as Narrator (voice)
(2007)
Lions for Lambs
as Janine Roth
(2007)
Rendition
as Corrine Whitman
(2007)
Evening
as Lila Ross
(2006)
The Devil Wears Prada
as Miranda Priestly
(2006)
The Ant Bully
as Queen (voice)
(2006)
Hurricane on the Bayou
as Narrator (voice)
(2006)
A Prairie Home Companion
as Yolanda Johnson
(2006)
(2006)
The Music of Regret
as The Woman
(2005)
Prime
as Lisa Metzger
(2005)
Stolen Childhoods
as Narrator (voice)
(2005)
Karen Blixen: Out of This World
as Self - Host
(2004)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Josephine Anwhistle
(2004)
The Manchurian Candidate
as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
(2004)
(2003)
Stuck on You
as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
(2002)
Adaptation.
as Susan Orlean
(2002)
The Hours
as Clarissa Vaughan
(2002)
New York at the Movies
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
(2001)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Blue Mecha (voice)
(2001)
(2001)
Vermeer Master of Light
as Narrator (voice)
(2000)
A Song of Africa
as Self
(1999)
Music of the Heart
as Roberta
(1999)
Chrysanthemum
as Narrator (voice)
(1999)
Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
One True Thing
as Kate Gulden
(1998)
Dancing at Lughnasa
as Kate Mundy
(1997)
...First Do No Harm
as Lori Reimuller
(1996)
Before and After
as Carolyn Ryan
(1996)
Marvin's Room
as Lee Wakefield Lacker
(1995)
The Bridges of Madison County
as Francesca Johnson
(1995)
The Living Sea
as Narrator (voice)
(1994)
The River Wild
as Gail Hartman
(1994)
An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet
as Self - Host
(1993)
The House of the Spirits
as Clara del Valle Trueba
(1992)
Death Becomes Her
as Madeline Ashton Menville
(1991)
Defending Your Life
as Julia
(1991)
Voices That Care
as Self - Choir Member
(1991)
Age 7 in America
as Narrator (voice)
(1990)
The Earth Day Special
as Concerned Citizen
(1990)
Postcards from the Edge
as Suzanne Vale
(1989)
She-Devil
as Mary Fisher
(1988)
Evil Angels
as Lindy Chamberlain
(1987)
Ironweed
as Helen Archer
(1986)
Heartburn
as Rachel
(1985)
Out of Africa
as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
(1985)
Plenty
as Susan Traherne
(1984)
Falling in Love
as Molly Gilmore
(1984)
Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit
as Narrator (voice)
(1983)
Silkwood
as Karen Silkwood
(1982)
Sophie's Choice
as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
(1982)
Still of the Night
as Brooke Reynolds
(1982)
Alice at the Palace
as Alice
(1981)
The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Sarah / Anna
(1981)
Kiss Me, Petruchio
as Katherine
(1979)
Kramer vs. Kramer
as Joanna Kramer
(1979)
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Karen Traynor
(1979)
Manhattan
as Jill
(1979)
Uncommon Women and Others
as Leilah
(1978)
The Deer Hunter
as Linda
(1977)
Julia
as Anne Marie
(1977)
Secret Service
as Edith Varney
(1977)
The Deadliest Season
as Sharon Miller
(1976)
Everybody Rides the Carousel
as Stage 6 (voice)
Crew
(2022)
Sell/Buy/Date
Executive Producer
(2015)
Emotional Uncertainties
Thanks
(1997)
...First Do No Harm
Executive Producer