Meryl Streep
Highest Rated: 100% Everything Is Copy (2015)
Lowest Rated: 27% Lions for Lambs (2007)
Birthday: Jun 22, 1949
Birthplace: Summit, New Jersey, USA
Meryl Streep began her acting career with a level of worship typically reserved for seasoned veterans. From her early work in "The Deer Hunter" (1978) and "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), it quickly became apparent to the sharpest of critics - even the most casual of moviegoers - that the chameleon-like Streep was an unparalleled master of character, accents and genres. The benchmark was set for every working actress with Streep's work as a Polish Nazi camp survivor, damaged by the unthinkable decision she was once forced to make in her Oscar-winning performance in "Sophie's Choice" (1982). Through "Silkwood" (1983), "Out of Africa" (1985) and "A Cry in the Dark" (1988) Streep continued to set a standard few could hope to achieve, primarily with her mastery of accents that included Polish, Danish and Australian, among others. After her peak in the early 1980s, the multi-Oscar winner spent the subsequent decades maintaining her brilliance, showcasing yet another of her talents - singing competently - in "Postcards from the Edge" (1990) and "Mamma Mia" (2008), capturing the aching desire of an aging woman in "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995), and proving she could draw laughter as well as tears in "The Devil Wears Prada (2006), a bravura comic turn as Julia Child in "Julie and Julia" (2009) and middle-age romantic comedy "Hope Springs" (2012). Streep continued working steadily, appearing in several films per year ranging from lavish musical fantasy "Into the Woods" (2014) and comic biopic "Florence Foster Jenkins" (2016) to historical dramas "The Iron Lady" (2011) and "Suffragette" (2015). Simply put, Streep could do it all, and generations of actresses coming up behind her often cited her work as the reason they pursued the craft in the first place.
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Meryl Streep
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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90% | No Score Yet | Escape from Extinction Rewilding | Narrator | - | 2024 |
71% |
|
Sell/Buy/Date | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
55% |
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Don't Look Up | President Orlean (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Meryl Streep: The Winner Takes it All | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self | - | 2021 |
54% |
|
The Prom | Dee Dee Allen (Character) | - | 2020 |
87% |
|
Let Them All Talk | Alice (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet |
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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth | Narrator (Voice) | - | 2020 |
95% |
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Little Women | Aunt March (Character) | $108.1M | 2019 |
41% |
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The Laundromat | Ellen Martin (Character) | - | 2019 |
86% | No Score Yet | Museum Town | Narrator | - | 2019 |
88% |
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This Changes Everything | Self | - | 2018 |
79% |
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Mary Poppins Returns | Topsy (Character) | $172.0M | 2018 |
79% |
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Donna Sheridan (Character) | $120.6M | 2018 |
88% |
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The Post | Katharine Graham (Character) | $81.4M | 2017 |
100% |
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Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray | Self | - | 2016 |
88% |
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Florence Foster Jenkins | Florence Foster Jenkins (Character) | $27.4M | 2016 |
100% |
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Everything Is Copy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
73% |
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Suffragette | Emmeline Pankhurst (Character) | $4.7M | 2015 |
No Score Yet |
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Shout Gladi Gladi | Narrator | $5.7K | 2015 |
65% |
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Ricki and the Flash | Ricki Rendazzo (Character) | $26.8M | 2015 |
71% |
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Into the Woods | The Witch (Character) | $128.0M | 2014 |
81% |
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The Homesman | Altha Carter (Character) | $2.4M | 2014 |
35% |
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The Giver | Chief Elder (Character) | $45.1M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Out of Print | Narrator | - | 2013 |
80% |
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Girl Rising | Narrator | - | 2013 |
67% |
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August: Osage County | Violet Weston (Character) | $37.7M | 2013 |
70% |
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A Fierce Green Fire | Narrator | $29.6K | 2012 |
75% |
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Hope Springs | Kay (Character) | $63.5M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To the Arctic | Narrator | - | 2012 |
64% |
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To the Arctic | Narrator | $14.6M | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Hidden Beauty: A Love Story That Feeds the Earth | Narrator | - | 2011 |
52% |
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The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher (Character) | $30.0M | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life | Jennie (Voice) | - | 2010 |
59% |
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It's Complicated | Jane (Character) | $112.7M | 2009 |
93% |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox | Mrs. Fox (Voice) | $21.0M | 2009 |
77% |
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Julie & Julia | Julia Child (Character) | $94.1M | 2009 |
72% |
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Theater of War | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
79% |
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Doubt | Sister Aloysius (Character) | $33.4M | 2008 |
55% |
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Mamma Mia! | Donna (Character) | $143.7M | 2008 |
41% |
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Dark Matter | Joanna Silver (Character) | $30.0K | 2007 |
27% |
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Lions for Lambs | Janine Roth (Character) | $15.0M | 2007 |
48% |
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Rendition | Corrine Whitman (Character) | $9.7M | 2007 |
27% |
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Evening | Lila Wittenborn (Character) | $12.4M | 2007 |
62% |
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The Ant Bully | Queen Ant (Voice) | $28.1M | 2006 |
75% |
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The Devil Wears Prada | Miranda Priestly (Character) | $124.7M | 2006 |
81% |
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A Prairie Home Companion | Yolanda Johnson (Character) | $20.3M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Music of Regret | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
50% |
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Prime | Lisa Metzger (Character) | $22.7M | 2005 |
72% |
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Aunt Josephine (Character) | $118.6M | 2004 |
80% |
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The Manchurian Candidate | Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (Character) | $65.9M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Monet's Palate: A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny | Narrator | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Angels in America | Ethel Rosenberg (Character) | - | 2003 |
80% |
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The Hours | Clarissa Vaughan (Character) | $41.6M | 2002 |
90% |
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Adaptation | Susan Orlean (Character) | $22.2M | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Vermeer: Master of Light | Narrator | - | 2001 |
64% |
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Music of the Heart | Roberta Guaspari (Character) | $14.8M | 1999 |
87% |
|
One True Thing | Kate Gulden (Character) | $23.3M | 1998 |
60% |
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Dancing at Lughnasa | Kate 'Kit' Mundy (Character) | $2.3M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eternal Memory | Narrator | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
|
...First Do No Harm |
Lori Reimuller (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Assignment: Rescue | Unknown (Character) | - | 1997 |
32% |
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Before and After | Dr. Carolyn Ryan (Character) | $8.8M | 1996 |
84% |
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Marvin's Room | Lee (Character) | $12.8M | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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The Living Sea | Narrator | - | 1995 |
90% |
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The Bridges of Madison County | Francesca Johnson (Character) | $70.5M | 1995 |
63% |
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The River Wild | Gail Hartman (Character) | $46.5M | 1994 |
31% |
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The House of the Spirits | Clara del Valle Trueba (Character) | - | 1993 |
55% |
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Death Becomes Her | Madeline Ashton (Character) | $58.4M | 1992 |
98% |
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Defending Your Life | Julia (Character) | $16.2M | 1991 |
83% |
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Postcards From the Edge | Suzanne Vale (Character) | $36.9M | 1990 |
48% |
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She-Devil | Mary Fisher (Character) | $12.8M | 1989 |
94% |
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A Cry in the Dark | Lindy Chamberlain (Character) | $5.7M | 1988 |
60% |
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Ironweed | Helen Archer (Character) | $6.9M | 1987 |
48% |
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Heartburn | Rachel Samstat (Character) | $24.3M | 1986 |
59% |
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Plenty | Susan Traherne (Character) | $6.1M | 1985 |
62% |
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Out of Africa | Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen-Finecke (Character) | $83.1M | 1985 |
54% |
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Falling in Love | Molly Gilmore (Character) | - | 1984 |
77% |
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Silkwood | Karen Silkwood (Character) | - | 1983 |
63% |
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Still of the Night | Brooke Reynolds (Character) | - | 1982 |
74% |
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Sophie's Choice | Sophie (Character) | - | 1982 |
83% |
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The French Lieutenant's Woman |
Sarah/ |
- | 1981 |
89% |
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Kramer vs. Kramer | Joanna Kramer (Character) | - | 1979 |
93% |
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Manhattan | Jill (Character) | - | 1979 |
75% |
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Karen Traynor (Character) | - | 1979 |
86% |
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The Deer Hunter | Linda (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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Secret Service | Edith Varney (Character) | - | 1977 |
73% |
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Julia | Anne Marie (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deadliest Season | Sharon Miller (Character) | - | 1977 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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96% | 90% | Only Murders in the Building |
Loretta Durkin (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2023-2024 |
44% | 59% | Extrapolations |
Eve (Character), Unknown (Voice) |
2023 |
100% | 85% | The U.S. and the Holocaust | Eleanor Roosevelt (Voice) | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2020-2021 |
No Score Yet | 19% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2020 |
89% | 89% | Big Little Lies | Mary Louise Wright (Character) | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | American Masters |
Unknown (Voice), Narrator |
2014 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2012 2014 2018 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2012 2014 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doctors | Guest | 2017 |
98% | 87% | Five Came Back | Narrator | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2015-2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Celebrated | Self | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2015 |
100% | 90% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2014 |
100% | 94% | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | Unknown (Voice) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 59% | Web Therapy | Unknown (Character) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2009 |
90% | 93% | Angels in America | Unknown (Character) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 72% | King of the Hill | Aunt Esme Dauterive (Guest Voice) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Actors Studio | Guest | 1998 |
85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Jessica Lovejoy (Guest Voice) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Holocaust | Inga Helms Weiss (Character) | 1978 |