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

Self

Doubt: Stage to Screen

Clarissa Vaughan

The Hours

Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen

Out of Africa

Blue Mecha (voice)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Francesca Johnson

The Bridges of Madison County

Jill

Manhattan

Clara del Valle Trueba

The House of the Spirits

Lisa Metzger

Prime

Felicity Fox (voice)

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Susan Orlean

Adaptation.

Janine Roth

Lions for Lambs

Mary Fisher

She-Devil

Kate Mundy

Dancing at Lughnasa

Self

There's Only One Paul McCartney

Corrine Whitman

Rendition

Jane Adler

It's Complicated

Lila Ross

Evening

Suzanne Vale

Postcards from the Edge

Josephine Anwhistle

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Linda

The Deer Hunter

Donna Sheridan

Mamma Mia!

Julia Child

Julie & Julia

Joanna Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer

Brooke Reynolds

Still of the Night

Julia

Defending Your Life

Gail Hartman

The River Wild

Sarah / Anna

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Yolanda Johnson

A Prairie Home Companion

Karen Silkwood

Silkwood

Madeline Ashton Menville

Death Becomes Her

Lee Wakefield Lacker

Marvin's Room

Roberta

Music of the Heart

Lori Reimuller

...First Do No Harm

Queen (voice)

The Ant Bully

Rachel

Heartburn

Lindy Chamberlain

Evil Angels

Helen Archer

Ironweed

Susan Traherne

Plenty

Anne Marie

Julia

Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)

The Manchurian Candidate

Sister Aloysius Beauvier

Doubt

Carolyn Ryan

Before and After

Self

Станиславский. Жажда жизни

Self - Host

An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet

Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski

Sophie's Choice

Narrator (voice)

Hurricane on the Bayou

Jennie

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Self - Choir Member

Voices That Care

Self

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Self (archive footage)

Close Up

Karen Traynor

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

Narrator (voice)

Stolen Childhoods

Narrator (voice)

The Living Sea

Joanna Silver

Dark Matter

Molly Gilmore

Falling in Love

Margaret Thatcher

The Iron Lady

Kate Gulden

One True Thing

Kay

Hope Springs

Narrator (voice)

Wings of Life

Narrator (voice)

A Fierce Green Fire

Narrator

To the Arctic 3D

(archive footage)

Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim

Narrator (voice)

Ribbon of Sand

Self

Theater of War

Violet Weston

August: Osage County

Alice

Alice at the Palace

Self

Joe Papp in Five Acts

Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)

Girl Rising

Narrator (voice)

New York at the Movies

Self

Radioman

Leilah

Uncommon Women and Others

Self

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

Witch

Into the Woods

Chief Elder

The Giver

Miranda Priestly

The Devil Wears Prada

Emmeline Pankhurst

Suffragette

Altha Carter

The Homesman

Ricki Rendazzo

Ricki and the Flash

Self

Birthing Mamma Mia!

Stage 6 (voice)

Everybody Rides the Carousel

Self

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Self

The Concert for Valor

Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins

Narrator (voice)

Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit

Narrator (voice)

Auschwitz

Katherine

Kiss Me, Petruchio

Narrator (voice)

Ginevra's Story: Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait

Narrator (voice)

Vermeer Master of Light

Edith Varney

Secret Service

Self

Mike Nichols: An American Master

Narrator (voice)

Shout Gladi Gladi

Self

Everything Is Copy

Concerned Citizen

The Earth Day Special

Meryl Streep (uncredited)

Stuck on You

Narrator (voice)

Escape from Extinction: Rewilding

Narrator (voice)

100 Years

Cousin Topsy

Mary Poppins Returns

The Woman

The Music of Regret

Kay Graham

The Post

Self

The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits

Narrator (voice)

Five Came Back

Donna Sheridan-Carmichael

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence

The Words That Built America

Sharon Miller

The Deadliest Season

Ellen Martin / Elena

The Laundromat

Aunt March

Little Women

Self

Starring Austin Pendleton

Self

This Changes Everything

Maurine McElroy (voice)

Every Act of Life

Narrator (voice)

Age 7 in America

Self

An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'

Narrator (voice)

Museum Town

Dee Dee Allen

The Prom

(voice)

Sky Island

Narrator (voice)

Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary

Alice Hughes

Let Them All Talk

Self

A Song of Africa

Self (archive footage)

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

Narrator (voice)

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

Self

Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen

Self

Emotional Uncertainties

Self

Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'

Elizabeth Murray (voice)

Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Meryl Streep : mystères et métamorphoses

President Orlean

Don't Look Up

Self

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

Meryl Streep

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

Narrator (voice)

Chrysanthemum

Elizabeth Bishop

Dear Elizabeth

Self - Host

Karen Blixen - En Fantastisk Skæbne

Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep

Self

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Self

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Narrator (voice)

Schindler Space Architect

Miranda Priestly

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Narrator (voice)

Out of Print

Herself

America: The Story of Us

Diane Castle

Useful Idiots

Insect Queen (voice)

Hoppers

Mamma Mia! 3

Narrator

Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester

Narrator (voice)

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

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

142

Gender

Female

Birthday

1949-06-22

Place of Birth

Summit, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As

ميريل ستريب