Meryl Streep
Acting Born Jun 22, 1949 Summit, New Jersey, USA 214 credits
Biography
Mary Louise Meryl Streep is an American actress born on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey. Widely regarded by critics and peers as the greatest actress of her generation, she is recognized for her technical precision, nuanced performances, and versatility. Streep is particularly noted for her expertise with dialects and her ability to adapt to various roles. Throughout a career spanning over five decades, she has established herself as one of the most accomplished performers in cinema history. Her professional background includes work in both film and television, earning her significant industry recognition and a reputation for masterly technique and expressive acting. She is the daughter of commercial artist Mary Wolf Wilkinson and Harry William Streep, Jr.
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Career overview
Meryl Streep has achieved an unprecedented level of recognition for her acting work, holding the record for the most Academy Award nominations with 21 total nods. She has won three Academy Awards for her performances in Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, and The Iron Lady. In addition to her film success, she holds a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations, resulting in eight wins. Her extensive list of accolades includes three Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has also received nominations for a Tony Award and six Grammy Awards.
Her filmography includes a wide variety of projects, such as Falling in Love, The Bridges of Madison County, The House of Spirits, and The Devil Wears Prada. Known for her masterly technique and ability to portray diverse characters, Streep has maintained a consistent presence in the entertainment industry for more than 50 years. Her career is defined by a commitment to technical precision and a subtle, expressive acting style that has garnered her status as one of the most celebrated performers of all time. With 207 known credits, she continues to be a prominent figure in film and television.
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Career timeline
A Sleigh of One's Own
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
The Devil Wears Prada 2Project Hail MaryHoppersMarty, Life Is ShortHenry David Thoreau
The American RevolutionSNL50: The Homecoming ConcertLadies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl StreepSchindler Space ArchitectEscape from Extinction: Rewilding
Extrapolations
Sell/Buy/Date · Executive Producer
Only Murders in the BuildingDon't Look UpClint Eastwood: A Cinematic LegacyHemingwayDear Elizabeth
The PromMeryl Streep: Mystery and MetamorphosisLet Them All TalkHere We Are: Notes for Living on Planet EarthIn Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
The Kelly Clarkson ShowLittle WomenThe LaundromatThis Changes EverythingAlan Pakula: Going for Truth
You Quiz on the BlockMamma Mia! Here We Go AgainMary Poppins ReturnsEvery Act of LifeBeyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
The PostBig Little LiesFive Came BackBright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds100 Years
Florence Foster JenkinsMike Nichols: An American MasterStarring Austin PendletonEverybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
The Late Show with Stephen ColbertThe Late Late Show with James CordenSuffragetteAktorkaAktorka · Thanks
Into the WoodsThe GiverThe HomesmanThe Roosevelts: An Intimate HistoryThe Concert for Valor
August: Osage CountyGirl RisingMakers: Women Who Make AmericaEastwood Directs: The Untold StoryA Fierce Green Fire
Hope SpringsRadiomanFinal Cut: Ladies and GentlemenTo the Arctic 3DJoe Papp in Five Acts
Web TherapyThe Iron LadyWings of Life
America: The Story of UsSky IslandHigglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to LifeAmerica: The Story of UsThis Place Knows Us
Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenThe Tonight Show with Conan O'BrienFantastic Mr. FoxJulie & JuliaIt's Complicated
Mamma Mia!DoubtTheater of WarDark MatterRibbon of Sand
The Graham Norton ShowLions for LambsRenditionEvening
The Devil Wears PradaThe Ant BullyA Prairie Home CompanionThe Music of RegretHurricane on the Bayou
The Colbert ReportPrimeUnscriptedKaren Blixen: Out of This WorldStolen Childhoods
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate EventsThe Manchurian CandidateStuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen
Jimmy Kimmel Live!Jimmy Kimmel Live!The Ellen DeGeneres ShowAngels in AmericaStuck on You
The HoursAdaptation.There's Only One Paul McCartneyNew York at the Movies
A.I. Artificial IntelligenceSchool: The Story of American Public EducationVermeer Master of LightFinding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
A Song of Africa
The DirectorsMusic of the HeartChrysanthemumSolving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait
Full Filmography
214 titles- A Sleigh of One's Own (2028) as Mrs. Claus
- Narnia: The Magician's Nephew (2027)
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) as Miranda Priestly
- Project Hail Mary (2026) as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
- Hoppers (2026) as Insect Queen (voice)
- Marty, Life Is Short (2026) as Self (archive footage)
- Henry David Thoreau (2026) as Various Voices (voice)
- Henry David Thoreau (2026) as Various Characters (voice)
- Do We Know Each Other? (2026) as Miranda Priestly
- The American Revolution (2025) as Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (2025) as Self
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025) as Self
- Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? (2024) as Narrator (voice)
- Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep (2024) as Self
- Schindler Space Architect (2024) as Narrator (voice)
- Escape from Extinction: Rewilding (2024) as Narrator (voice)
- Extrapolations (2023) as Eve
- Sell/Buy/Date (2022) Executive Producer
- Only Murders in the Building (2021) as Loretta Durkin
- Don't Look Up (2021) as President Orlean
- Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy (2021) as Self
- Hemingway (2021) as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
- Dear Elizabeth (2021) as Elizabeth Bishop
- Stanislavski: Lust for Life (2021) as Self
- The Prom (2020) as Dee Dee Allen
- Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis (2020) as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- Let Them All Talk (2020) as Alice Hughes
- Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (2020) as Narrator (voice)
- In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover (2020) as Meryl Streep
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) as Self (archive footage)
- Little Women (2019) as Aunt March
- The Laundromat (2019) as Ellen Martin / Elena
- This Changes Everything (2019) as Self
- Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019) as Self
- Museum Town (2019) as Narrator (voice)
- You Quiz on the Block (2018) as Self
- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) as Donna
- Mary Poppins Returns (2018) as Cousin Topsy
- Every Act of Life (2018) as Maurine McElroy (voice)
- Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal (2018) as Self (archive footage)
- Paul McCartney: Live from NYC (2018) as Self
- Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary (2018) as Narrator (voice)
- The Post (2017) as Kay Graham
- Big Little Lies (2017) as Mary Louise Wright
- Five Came Back (2017) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017) as Suzanne Vale, Self (archive footage, uncredited)
- 100 Years (2017) as Narrator (voice)
- The Words That Built America (2017) as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
- Five Came Back (2017) as Narrator (voice)
- The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits (2017) as Self
- Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) as Florence Foster Jenkins
- Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016) as Self
- Starring Austin Pendleton (2016) as Self
- Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray (2016) as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self - Guest
- The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015) as Self
- Suffragette (2015) as Emmeline Pankhurst
- Aktorka (2015) as Self (archive footage)
- Aktorka (2015) Thanks
- Ricki and the Flash (2015) as Ricki Rendazzo
- Everything Is Copy (2015) as Self
- Shout Gladi Gladi (2015) as Narrator (voice)
- Emotional Uncertainties (2015) as Self
- Emotional Uncertainties (2015) Thanks
- Auschwitz (2015) as Narrator (voice)
- Into the Woods (2014) as Witch
- The Giver (2014) as Chief Elder
- The Homesman (2014) as Altha Carter
- The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014) as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- The Concert for Valor (2014) as Self
- August: Osage County (2013) as Violet Weston
- Girl Rising (2013) as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
- Makers: Women Who Make America (2013) as Narrator (voice)
- Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013) as Self
- A Fierce Green Fire (2013) as Narrator (voice)
- 奥斯维辛集中营 (2013) as 讲述
- Out of Print (2013) as Narrator (voice)
- Hope Springs (2012) as Kay
- Radioman (2012) as Self
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) as (archive footage)
- To the Arctic 3D (2012) as Narrator
- Joe Papp in Five Acts (2012) as Self
- Close Up (2012) as Self (archive footage)
- Web Therapy (2011) as Camilla Bowner
- The Iron Lady (2011) as Margaret Thatcher
- Wings of Life (2011) as Narrator (voice)
- America: The Story of Us (2010) as Self
- Sky Island (2010) as (voice)
- Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (2010) as Jennie
- America: The Story of Us (2010) as Herself
- This Place Knows Us (2010) as Narrator
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) as Self - Guest
- The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009) as Self - Guest
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) as Felicity Fox (voice)
- Julie & Julia (2009) as Julia Child
- It's Complicated (2009) as Jane Adler
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009) as Self
- Doubt: Stage to Screen (2009) as Self
- Mamma Mia! (2008) as Donna Sheridan
- Doubt (2008) as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
- Theater of War (2008) as Self
- Dark Matter (2008) as Joanna Silver
- Ribbon of Sand (2008) as Narrator (voice)
- An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' (2008) as Self
- The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self
- Lions for Lambs (2007) as Janine Roth
- Rendition (2007) as Corrine Whitman
- Evening (2007) as Lila Ross
- The Devil Wears Prada (2006) as Miranda Priestly
- The Ant Bully (2006) as Queen (voice)
- A Prairie Home Companion (2006) as Yolanda Johnson
- The Music of Regret (2006) as The Woman
- Hurricane on the Bayou (2006) as Narrator (voice)
- 10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada (2006) as Self
- Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006) as Self
- The Colbert Report (2005)
- Prime (2005) as Lisa Metzger
- Unscripted (2005) as Meryl Streep
- Karen Blixen: Out of This World (2005) as Self - Host
- Stolen Childhoods (2005) as Narrator (voice)
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) as Josephine Anwhistle
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004) as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
- Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen (2004) as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) as Self
- Angels in America (2003) as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
- Stuck on You (2003) as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
- The Hours (2002) as Clarissa Vaughan
- Adaptation. (2002) as Susan Orlean
- There's Only One Paul McCartney (2002) as Self
- New York at the Movies (2002) as Narrator (voice)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) as Blue Mecha (voice)
- School: The Story of American Public Education (2001) as Narrator (voice)
- Vermeer Master of Light (2001) as Narrator (voice)
- Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (2001) as Self
- A Song of Africa (2000) as Self
- The Directors (1999) as Self
- Music of the Heart (1999) as Roberta
- Chrysanthemum (1999) as Narrator (voice)
- Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait (1999) as Narrator (voice)
- Vivement dimanche (1998) as Self
- One True Thing (1998) as Kate Gulden
- Dancing at Lughnasa (1998) as Kate Mundy
- King of the Hill (1997) as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
- The View (1997) as Self
- Leute heute (1997) as Self
- ...First Do No Harm (1997) as Lori Reimuller
- ...First Do No Harm (1997) Executive Producer
- The Daily Show (1996) as Self
- Marvin's Room (1996) as Lee Wakefield Lacker
- Before and After (1996) as Carolyn Ryan
- The Bridges of Madison County (1995) as Francesca Johnson
- The Living Sea (1995) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Halls of Vertebrate Evolution (1995) as Narrator
- The River Wild (1994) as Gail Hartman
- Inside the Actors Studio (1994) as Self
- An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet (1994) as Self - Host
- GMTV (1993) as Self
- The House of the Spirits (1993) as Clara del Valle Trueba
- Death Becomes Her (1992) as Madeline Ashton Menville
- Defending Your Life (1991) as Julia
- Voices That Care (1991) as Self - Choir Member
- Age 7 in America (1991) as Narrator / Hostess
- The Earth Day Special (1990) as Concerned Citizen
- Postcards from the Edge (1990) as Suzanne Vale
- The Simpsons (1989) as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
- She-Devil (1989) as Mary Fisher
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988) as Self - Guest
- This Morning (1988) as Self - Guest
- Evil Angels (1988) as Lindy Chamberlain
- Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester (1988) as Narrator
- Ironweed (1987) as Helen Archer
- Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1987) as Narrator
- Heartburn (1986) as Rachel
- Out of Africa (1985) as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
- Plenty (1985) as Susan Traherne
- Goldene Kamera (1984) as Self
- Falling in Love (1984) as Molly Gilmore
- Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit (1984) as Narrator (voice)
- Silkwood (1983) as Karen Silkwood
- Sophie's Choice (1982) as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
- Still of the Night (1982) as Brooke Reynolds
- Alice at the Palace (1982) as Alice
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) as Sarah / Anna
- Kiss Me, Petruchio (1981) as Katherine
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) as Joanna Kramer
- Manhattan (1979) as Jill
- Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1979)
- The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) as Karen Traynor
- Uncommon Women and Others (1979) as Leilah
- Ciné regards (1978) as Self
- The Deer Hunter (1978) as Linda
- Holocaust (1978) as Inga Helms Weiss
- Julia (1977) as Anne Marie
- The Deadliest Season (1977) as Sharon Miller
- Secret Service (1977) as Edith Varney
- Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976) as Stage 6 (voice)
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self
- Spécial cinéma (1974) as Self
- Great Performances (1971)
- Great Performances (1971) as Leilah
- Great Performances (1971) as Self - Host
- Film '72 (1971) as Self
- 60 Minutes (1968) as Self
- Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (1967) as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
- The Grammys (1959) as Self
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Winner
- The Corrections
- The Corrections Executive Producer
- Useful Idiots as Diane Castle
- Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic as Joni Mitchell
Frequently Asked Questions
What movies or TV shows is Meryl Streep best known for?
Meryl Streep is widely recognized for notable roles and projects including Narnia: The Magician's Nephew (2027), The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Hoppers (2026).
When and where was Meryl Streep born?
Meryl Streep was born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, USA.
How many credits does Meryl Streep have?
Meryl Streep has accumulated over 214 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1944 to 2028.
What is Meryl Streep's background in cinema and television?
Mary Louise Meryl Streep is an American actress born on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey. Widely regarded by critics and peers as the greatest actress of her generation, she is recognized for her technical precision, nuanced performances, and versatility. Streep is particularly noted for her expertise with dialects...