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

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2012
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2026
The Simpsons
1994
The Daily Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
2025
The View
2004
The Graham Norton Show
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Colbert Report
2009
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2018
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
2007

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
212
Producing
4
Crew
2
2028
A Sleigh of One's Own
as Mrs. Claus · unreleased
2027
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
as Aslan (voice) · unreleased
2026
The Devil Wears Prada 2
as Miranda
2026
Hoppers
as Insect Queen (voice)
2026
Project Hail Mary
as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
2026
Henry David Thoreau
as Various Voices (voice)
2026
Do We Know Each Other?
as Miranda Priestly
2026
Marty, Life Is Short
as Self (archive footage)
2026
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2026
Henry David Thoreau
as Various Characters (voice)
2026
You Quiz on the Block
as Self
2026
Only Murders in the Building
· unreleased
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self
2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
2025
Saturday Night Live
as Self
2025
The American Revolution
as Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
2024
Escape from Extinction: Rewilding
as Narrator (voice)
2024
Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep
as Self
2024
Schindler Space Architect
as Narrator (voice)
2024
The Meryl Streep Project
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Grammys
as Self
2024
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
as Narrator (voice)
2023
Extrapolations
as Eve
2023
Only Murders in the Building
as Loretta Durkin
2021
Stanislavski: Lust for Life
as Self
2021
Don't Look Up
as President Orlean
2021
Dear Elizabeth
as Elizabeth Bishop
2021
Die Tom Hanks Story
as Self
2021
Hemingway
as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
as Self
2020
The Prom
as Dee Dee Allen
2020
Let Them All Talk
as Alice Hughes
2020
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
as Narrator (voice)
2020
Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2020
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
as Meryl Streep
2020
Leute heute
as Self
2019
The Laundromat
as Ellen Martin / Elena
2019
Little Women
as Aunt March
2019
This Changes Everything
as Self
2019
Museum Town
as Narrator (voice)
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
2019
Big Little Lies
as Mary Louise Wright
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Mary Poppins Returns
as Cousin Topsy
2018
Every Act of Life
as Maurine McElroy (voice)
2018
Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary
as Narrator (voice)
2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Paul McCartney: Live from NYC
as Self
2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
as Donna
2018
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
as Self
2018
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2017
100 Years
as Narrator (voice)
2017
The Post
as Kay Graham
2017
The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits
as Self
2017
Five Came Back
as Narrator (voice)
2017
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2017
Five Came Back
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
as Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
Mike Nichols: An American Master
as Self
2016
Starring Austin Pendleton
as Self
2016
Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
2015
Suffragette
as Emmeline Pankhurst
2015
Ricki and the Flash
as Ricki Rendazzo
2015
Auschwitz
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Shout Gladi Gladi
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Everything Is Copy
as Self
2015
Emotional Uncertainties
as Self
2015
Aktorka
as Self (archive footage)
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
2015
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2014
Into the Woods
as Witch
2014
The Giver
as Chief Elder
2014
The Homesman
as Altha Carter
2014
The Concert for Valor
as Self
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
2013
A Fierce Green Fire
as Narrator (voice)
2013
August: Osage County
as Violet Weston
2013
Girl Rising
as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
as Self
2013
Out of Print
as Narrator (voice)
2013
Makers: Women Who Make America
as Narrator (voice)
2013
奥斯维辛集中营
as 讲述
2012
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Hope Springs
as Kay
2012
To the Arctic 3D
as Narrator
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
Joe Papp in Five Acts
as Self
2012
Radioman
as Self
2012
Web Therapy
as Camilla Bowner
2012
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2012
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2011
The Iron Lady
as Margaret Thatcher
2011
Wings of Life
as Narrator (voice)
2011
60 Minutes
as Self
2010
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
as Jennie
2010
Sky Island
as (voice)
2010
America: The Story of Us
as Herself
2010
This Place Knows Us
as Narrator
2010
America: The Story of Us
as Self
2009
Doubt: Stage to Screen
as Self
2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Mrs. Fox (voice)
2009
It's Complicated
as Jane Adler
2009
Julie & Julia
as Julia Child
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self
2009
This Morning
as Self - Guest
2009
The Colbert Report
2009
Goldene Kamera
as Self
2009
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
2008
Mamma Mia!
as Donna Sheridan
2008
Doubt
as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2008
Dark Matter
as Joanna Silver
2008
Ribbon of Sand
as Narrator (voice)
2008
Theater of War
as Self
2008
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
as Self
2008
GMTV
as Self
2007
Lions for Lambs
as Janine Roth
2007
Rendition
as Corrine Whitman
2007
Evening
as Lila Ross
2007
The Daily Show
as Self
2007
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
2006
A Prairie Home Companion
as Yolanda Johnson
2006
The Ant Bully
as Queen (voice)
2006
Hurricane on the Bayou
as Narrator (voice)
2006
The Devil Wears Prada
as Miranda Priestly
2006
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
as Self
2006
The Music of Regret
as The Woman
2006
10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada
as Self
2006
Great Performances
2005
Prime
as Lisa Metzger
2005
Stolen Childhoods
as Narrator (voice)
2005
Karen Blixen: Out of This World
as Self - Host
2005
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2005
Unscripted
as Meryl Streep
2004
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Josephine Anwhistle
2004
The Manchurian Candidate
as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
2004
Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen
as Self
2004
The View
as Self
2003
Stuck on You
as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
2003
Angels in America
as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
2002
The Hours
as Clarissa Vaughan
2002
Adaptation.
as Susan Orlean
2002
There's Only One Paul McCartney
as Self
2002
New York at the Movies
as Narrator (voice)
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Blue Mecha (voice)
2001
Vermeer Master of Light
as Narrator (voice)
2001
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
as Self
2001
School: The Story of American Public Education
as Narrator (voice)
2000
A Song of Africa
as Self
1999
Music of the Heart
as Roberta
1999
Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait
as Narrator (voice)
1999
Chrysanthemum
as Narrator (voice)
1999
King of the Hill
as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
1999
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1999
The Directors
as Self
1998
Dancing at Lughnasa
as Kate Mundy
1998
One True Thing
as Kate Gulden
1998
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1997
...First Do No Harm
as Lori Reimuller
1996
Marvin's Room
as Lee Wakefield Lacker
1996
Before and After
as Carolyn Ryan
1996
The Oscars
as Self
1995
The Bridges of Madison County
as Francesca Johnson
1995
The Living Sea
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1995
The Halls of Vertebrate Evolution
as Narrator
1994
The River Wild
as Gail Hartman
1994
An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet
as Self - Host
1994
A Century of Cinema
as Self
1994
The Simpsons
as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
1993
The House of the Spirits
as Clara del Valle Trueba
1992
Death Becomes Her
as Madeline Ashton Menville
1992
Great Performances
as Self - Host
1991
Defending Your Life
as Julia
1991
Voices That Care
as Self - Choir Member
1991
Age 7 in America
as Narrator / Hostess
1990
Postcards from the Edge
as Suzanne Vale
1990
The Earth Day Special
as Concerned Citizen
1989
She-Devil
as Mary Fisher
1989
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1988
Evil Angels
as Lindy Chamberlain
1988
Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester
as Narrator
1987
Ironweed
as Helen Archer
1987
Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit
as Narrator
1986
Heartburn
as Rachel
1985
Out of Africa
as Karen 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
Still of the Night
as Brooke Reynolds
1982
Sophie's Choice
as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
1982
Alice at the Palace
as Alice
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Sarah / Anna
1981
Kiss Me, Petruchio
as Katherine
1981
Film '72
as Self
1980
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
1980
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1980
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1980
Ciné regards
as Self
1979
Manhattan
as Jill
1979
Kramer vs. Kramer
as Joanna Kramer
1979
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Karen Traynor
1979
Uncommon Women and Others
as Leilah
1979
Great Performances
as Leilah
1978
The Deer Hunter
as Linda
1978
Holocaust
as Inga Helms Weiss
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)
Useful Idiots
as Diane Castle
Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic
as Joni Mitchell
The Corrections