Nisha Rathode (Editor)

Meryl Streep

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Meryl Streep


Website
  
merylstreeponline.net

Years active
  
1971–present

Spouse
  
Don Gummer (m. 1978)

Meryl Streep First Look Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins

Full Name
  
Mary Louise Streep

Born
  
June 22, 1949 (age 74) (
1949-06-22
)
Summit, New Jersey, U.S.

Alma mater
  
Vassar College Dartmouth College Yale University

Partner(s)
  
John Cazale (1976–78); his death

Children
  
Mamie Gummer, Grace Gummer, Louisa Gummer, Henry Wolfe

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Actress

Movies
  
Ricki and the Flash, The Devil Wears Prada, Into the Woods, The Iron Lady, August: Osage County

Similar People
  
Mamie Gummer, Don Gummer, Grace Gummer, Clint Eastwood, Louisa Gummer

Occupation
  
Actress, film producer

Meryl streep bio of hollywood s greatest living film actress


Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress and philanthropist. Cited in the media as the "best actress of her generation," Streep is particularly known for versatility in her roles and her accent adaptation. Nominated for 20 Academy Awards, Streep has more nominations than any other actor, and is one of the six actors to have won three or more competitive Oscars for acting. Streep has also received 30 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight - more nominations and more competitive wins than any other actor.

Contents

Meryl Streep Meryl Streep Marie Claire

Streep made her professional stage debut in Trelawny of the Wells in 1975. In 1976 she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made her screen debut in the 1977 television film The Deadliest Season, and made her film debut later that same year in Julia. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the miniseries Holocaust, and received her first Academy Award nomination for The Deer Hunter. She went on to win Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Best Actress for Sophie's Choice (1982), and The Iron Lady (2011).

Meryl Streep Meryl Streep Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Streep's other Oscar-nominated roles were in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), Evil Angels (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Adaptation (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), August: Osage County (2013), Into the Woods (2014), and Florence Foster Jenkins (2016). She returned to the stage for the first time in over 20 years in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of The Seagull, won a second Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 2004 for the HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003).

Meryl Streep Meryl Streep Funds Screenwriters Lab for Women Over 40

Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004, the Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2008, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2017, Streep was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Meryl Streep iamediaimdbcomimagesMMV5BMTU4Mjk5MDExOF5BMl5

Meryl streep mini biography


Early life

Meryl Streep Director Jonathan Demme And Oscar Winner Meryl Streep

Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary Wolf Wilkinson (1915–2001), a commercial artist and art editor; and Harry William Streep Jr. (1910–2003), a pharmaceutical executive. The eldest child, she has two younger brothers, Dana David and Harry William III.

Meryl Streep On Her Birthday A Tribute to Meryl Streep Best Movies

Streep's father Harry was of German and Swiss ancestry. Her father's lineage traces back to Loffenau, Germany, from where her second great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, immigrated to the United States, and where one of her ancestors served as mayor (the surname was later changed to "Streep"). Another line of her father's family was from Giswil, Switzerland. Her mother had English, German, and Irish ancestry. Some of Streep's maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, and were descended from 17th-century emigrants from England. Her eighth great-grandfather, Lawrence Wilkinson, was one of the first Europeans to settle in Rhode Island. Streep is also a distant relative of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania; records show that her family is among the first purchasers of land in the state. Streep's maternal great-great-grandparents, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, the namesake of Streep's second daughter, were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy, Ireland.

Meryl Streep Meryl Streep To Star In AntiNRA Movie The Senator39s Wife

Streep's mother, whom she has compared in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench, strongly encouraged her daughter and instilled confidence in her from a very young age. Streep has said: "She was a mentor because she said to me, 'Meryl, you're capable. You're so great.' She was saying, 'You can do whatever you put your mind to. If you're lazy, you're not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.' And I believed her." Although Streep was naturally more introverted than her mother, at times when she later needed an injection of confidence in adulthood, she would consult her mother, asking her for advice.

Streep was raised as a Presbyterian in Basking Ridge, New Jersey and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School, which was a Junior High school back then. In her Junior High debut, she starred as Lousie Heller in the play "The Family Upstairs". In 1963 the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School. Author Karina Longworth described her as a "gawky kid with glasses and frizzy hair", yet noted that she liked to show off in front of the camera in family home movies from a young age. At the age of 12, Streep was selected to sing at a school recital, leading to her having opera lessons from Estelle Liebling. However, despite her talent, she remarked that "I was singing something I didn't feel and understand. That was an important lesson—not to do that. To find the thing that I could feel through". She quit after four years. Streep had many Catholic school friends, and regularly attended mass.

Although in high school, Streep appeared in numerous school plays, she was uninterested in serious theater until acting in the play Miss Julie at Vassar College in 1969, in which she gained attention across the campus. Vassar drama professor Clinton J Atkinson noted, "I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting. She really taught herself". Streep demonstrated an early ability to mimic accents and to quickly memorize her lines. She received her BA cum laude from the college in 1971, before applying for an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, she supplemented her course fees by waitressing and typing, and appeared in over a dozen stage productions a year, to the point that she became overworked, developing ulcers. She contemplated quitting acting and switching to study law. Streep played a variety of roles on stage, from Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream to an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair in a comedy written by then-unknown playwrights Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato. One of her teachers was Robert Lewis, one of the co-founders of the Actors Studio. Streep disapproved of some of the acting exercises she was asked to do, remarking that the professors "delved into personal lives in a way I find obnoxious". She received her MFA from Yale in 1975. Streep also enrolled as a visiting student at Dartmouth College in the fall of 1970, and received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the college in 1981.

Theater and film debut

One of Meryl Streep’s first professional jobs in 1975, after Yale, was at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference during which she acted in five plays over six weeks. Streep moved to New York City in 1975, and was cast by Joseph Papp in a production of Trelawny of the Wells at the Public Theater, opposite Mandy Patinkin and John Lithgow. She went on to appear in five more roles in her first year in New York, including in Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew with Raúl Juliá, and Measure for Measure opposite Sam Waterston and John Cazale. She entered into a relationship with Cazale at this time, and resided with him until his death three years later. She starred in the musical Happy End on Broadway, and won an Obie for her performance in the off-Broadway play Alice at the Palace.

Although she had not set out to make her career in film, Robert De Niro's performance in Taxi Driver (1976) had a profound impact on young Streep, who said to herself, "that's the kind of actor I want to be when I grow up". Streep began auditioning for film roles, and underwent an unsuccessful audition for the lead role in Dino De Laurentiis's King Kong. Laurentiis stated in Italian to his son: "This is so ugly. Why did you bring me this". Unknown to Laurentiis, Streep understood Italian and she remarked, "I'm very sorry that I'm not as beautiful as I should be but, you know—this is it. This is what you get". She continued to work on Broadway, appearing in the 1976 double bill of Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. For the former, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Streep's other Broadway credits include Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical Happy End, in which she had originally appeared off-Broadway at the Chelsea Theater Center. She received Drama Desk Award nominations for both productions.

Streep's first feature film role came opposite Jane Fonda in the 1977 film Julia, in which she had a small role during a flashback sequence. Most of her scenes were edited out, but the brief time on screen horrified the actress: "I had a bad wig and they took the words from the scene I shot with Jane and put them in my mouth in a different scene. I thought, I've made a terrible mistake, no more movies. I hate this business". However, Streep cites Fonda as having a lasting influence on her as an actress, and has credited her as "open[ing] probably more doors than I probably even know about".

Breakthrough

Robert De Niro, who had spotted Streep in her stage production of The Cherry Orchard, suggested that she play the role of his girlfriend in the war film The Deer Hunter (1978). Cazale, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer, was also cast in the film, and Streep took on the role of a "vague, stock girlfriend" to remain with Cazale for the duration of filming. Longworth notes that Streep "made a case for female empowerment by playing a woman to whom empowerment was a foreign concept—a normal lady from an average American small town, for whom subservience was the only thing she knew". Pauline Kael, who would later become a strong critic of Streep, remarked that she was a "real beauty" who brought much freshness to the film with her performance. The film's success exposed Streep to a wider audience and earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In the 1978 miniseries Holocaust, Streep played the leading role of a German woman married to a Jewish artist in Nazi era Germany. She found the material to be "unrelentingly noble" and professed to have taken on the role for financial gain. Streep travelled to Germany and Austria for filming while Cazale remained in New York. Upon her return, Streep found that Cazale's illness had progressed, and she nursed him until his death on March 12, 1978. With an estimated audience of 109 million, Holocaust brought a wider degree of public recognition to Streep, who found herself "on the verge of national visibility". She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance. Despite the awards success, Streep was still not enthusiastic towards her film career and preferred acting on stage.

Hoping to divert herself from the grief of Cazale's death, Streep accepted a role in The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) as the chirpy love interest of Alan Alda, later commenting that she played it on "automatic pilot". She performed the role of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew for Shakespeare in the Park, and also played a supporting role in Manhattan (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script, giving her only the six pages of her own scenes, and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue. In the drama Kramer vs. Kramer, Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child. Streep thought that the script portrayed the female character as "too evil" and insisted that it was not representative of real women who faced marriage breakdown and child custody battles. The makers agreed with her, and the script was revised. In preparing for the part, Streep spoke to her own mother about her life as a wife with a career, and frequented the Upper East Side neighborhood in which the film was set, watching the interactions between parents and children. The director Robert Benton allowed Streep to write her own dialogue in two key scenes, despite some objection from Hoffman, who "hated her guts". Jaffee and Hoffman later spoke of Streep's tirelessness, with Hoffman commenting, "She's extraordinarily hardworking, to the extent that she's obsessive. I think that she thinks about nothing else but what she's doing." The film was controversial among feminists, but it was a role which film critic Stephen Farber believed displayed Streep's "own emotional intensity", writing that she was one of the "rare performers who can imbue the most routine moments with a hint of mystery".

For Kramer vs. Kramer, Streep won both the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, which she famously left in the ladies room after giving her speech. She was also awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in her three film releases of 1979. Both The Deer Hunter and Kramer vs. Kramer were major commercial successes and were consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Rise to stardom

In 1979, Streep began workshopping Alice in Concert, a musical version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with writer and composer Elizabeth Swados and director Joseph Papp; the show was put on at New York's Public Theater from December 1980. Frank Rich of The New York Times referred to Streep as the "one wonder" of the production, but questioned why she had devoted so much energy to it. By 1980, Streep had progressed to leading roles in films. She was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine with the headline "A Star for the 80s", with Jack Kroll commenting, "There's a sense of mystery in her acting; she doesn't simply imitate (although she's a great mimic in private). She transmits a sense of danger, a primal unease lying just below the surface of normal behavior". Streep denounced the fervent media coverage of her at this time as "excessive hype".

The story within a story drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) was Streep's first leading role. The film paired Streep with Jeremy Irons as contemporary actors, telling their modern story, as well as the Victorian era drama they were performing. Streep perfected an English accent for the part, but considered herself a misfit for the role: " I couldn't help wishing that I was more beautiful". A New York magazine article commented that, while many female stars of the past had cultivated a singular identity in their films, Streep was a "chameleon", willing to play any type of role. Streep was awarded a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work. The following year, she reunited with Robert Benton for the psychological thriller, Still of the Night (1982), co-starring Roy Scheider and Jessica Tandy. Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, noted that the film was an homage to the works of Alfred Hitchcock, but that one of its main weaknesses was a lack of chemistry between Streep and Scheider, concluding that Streep "is stunning, but she's not on screen anywhere near long enough".

Greater success came later in the year when Streep starred in the drama Sophie's Choice (also 1982), portraying a Polish holocaust survivor caught in a love triangle between a young naïve writer (Peter MacNicol) and a Jewish intellectual (Kevin Kline). Streep's emotional dramatic performance and her apparent mastery of a Polish accent drew praise. William Styron wrote the novel with Ursula Andress in mind for the role of Sophie, but Streep was determined to get the role. Streep filmed the "choice" scene in one take and refused to do it again, finding it extremely painful and emotionally exhausting. The scene in which Streep is ordered by an SS guard at Auschwitz to choose which one of her two children would be gassed and which would proceed to the labor camp, is her most famous scene, according to Emma Brockes of The Guardian who wrote in 2006: "It's classic Streep, the kind of scene that makes your scalp tighten, but defter in a way is her handling of smaller, harder-to-grasp emotions". Among several acting awards, Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, and her characterization was voted the third greatest movie performance of all time by Premiere magazine. Roger Ebert said of her delivery, "Streep plays the Brooklyn scenes with an enchanting Polish-American accent (she has the first accent I've ever wanted to hug), and she plays the flashbacks in subtitled German and Polish. There is hardly an emotion that Streep doesn't touch in this movie, and yet we're never aware of her straining. This is one of the most astonishing and yet one of the most unaffected and natural performances I can imagine." Pauline Kael on the contrary called the film an "infuriatingly bad movie" and thought that Streep "decorporealizes" herself, which she believed explained why her movie heroines "don't seem to be full characters, and why there are no incidental joys to be had from watching her".

The year 1983 saw Streep play her first non-fictional character, the nuclear whistleblower and labor union activist Karen Silkwood who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant, in Mike Nichols's biographical film Silkwood. Streep felt a personal connection to Silkwood, and in preparation she met with people close to the woman, and in doing so realized that each person saw a different aspect of her personality. She said, "I didn't try to turn myself into Karen. I just tried to look at what she did. I put together every piece of information I could find about her... What I finally did was look at the events in her life, and try to understand her from the inside." Jack Kroll of Newsweek considered Streep's characterization to have been "brilliant", while Silkwood's boyfriend Drew Stephens expressed approval in that Streep had played Karen as a human being rather than a myth, despite Karen's father Bill thinking that Streep and the film had dumbed his daughter down. Pauline Kael believed that Streep had been miscast. Streep next played opposite Robert De Niro in the romance Falling in Love (1984), which was poorly received, and portrayed a fighter for the French Resistance during World War II in the British drama Plenty (1985), adapted from the play by David Hare. For the latter, Roger Ebert wrote that she conveyed "great subtlety; it is hard to play an unbalanced, neurotic, self-destructive woman, and do it with such gentleness and charm... Streep creates a whole character around a woman who could have simply been a catalogue of symptoms." In 2008, Molly Haskell praised Streep's performance in Plenty, believing it to be "one of Streep's most difficult and ambiguous" films and "most feminist" role.

Out of Africa and backlash

Longworth considers Streep's next release, Out of Africa (1985), to have established her as a Hollywood superstar. In the film, Streep starred as the Danish writer Karen Blixen opposite Robert Redford's Denys Finch Hatton. Director Sydney Pollack was initially dubious about Streep in the role as he did not think she was sexy enough, and had considered Jane Seymour for the part. Pollack recalls that Streep impressed him in a different way: "She was so direct, so honest, so without bullshit. There was no shielding between her and me." Streep and Pollack often clashed during the 101-day shoot in Kenya, particularly over Blixen's voice. Streep had spent much time listening to tapes of Blixen and began speaking in an old-fashioned and aristocratic fashion, which Pollack thought excessive. A significant commercial and critical success, the film earned Streep another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and won as the Best Picture. Critic Stanley Kaufmann wrote, "Meryl Streep is back in top form. This means her performance in Out of Africa is at the highest level of acting in film today".

Longworth notes that the dramatic success of Out of Africa led to a backlash of critical opinion against Streep in the years that followed, especially as she was now demanding $4 million a picture. Unlike other stars at the time such as Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise, Streep "never seemed to play herself", and certain critics felt her technical finesse led people to literally see her acting. Her next films did not appeal to a wide audience; she co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the dramas Heartburn (1986) and Ironweed (1987), in which she sang onscreen for the first time since the television movie Secret Service (1977). In Evil Angels (1988), she played Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman who had been convicted of the murder of her infant daughter despite claiming that the baby had been taken by a dingo. Filmed in Australia, Streep won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Streep has said of perfecting the Australian accent in the film: "I had to study a little bit for Australian because it's not dissimilar [to American], so it's like coming from Italian to Spanish. You get a little mixed up". Vincent Canby of The New York Times referred to her performance as "another stunning performance", played with "the kind of virtuosity that seems to redefine the possibilities of screen acting".

In 1989, Streep lobbied to play the lead role in Oliver Stone's adaption of the play Evita, but two months before filming was due to commence, she dropped out, citing "exhaustion" initially, although it was later revealed that there was a dispute over her salary. By the end of the decade, Streep actively looked to star in a comedy. She found the role in She-Devil (1989), a satire that parodied Hollywood's obsession with beauty and cosmetic surgery, in which she played a glamorous writer. Though not a success, Richard Corliss of Time wrote that Streep was the "one reason" to see the film and observed that it marked a departure from the dramatic roles she was known to play. Reacting to her string of poorly received films, Streep said: "Audiences are shrinking; as the marketing strategy defines more and more narrowly who they want to reach—males from 16 to 25—it's become a chicken-and-egg syndrome. Which came first? First they release all these summer movies, then do a demographic survey of who's going to see them".

Unsuccessful comedies and The Bridges of Madison County

Biographer Karen Hollinger described the early 1990s as a downturn in the popularity of Streep's films, attributing this partly to a critical perception that her comedies had been an attempt to convey a lighter image following several serious but commercially unsuccessful dramas, and more significantly to the lack of options available to an actress in her forties. Streep commented that she had limited her options by her preference to work in Los Angeles, close to her family, a situation that she had anticipated in a 1981 interview when she commented, "By the time an actress hits her mid-forties, no one's interested in her anymore. And if you want to fit a couple of babies into that schedule as well, you've got to pick your parts with great care." At the Screen Actor's Guild National Women's Conference in 1990, Streep keynoted the first national event, emphasizing the decline in women's work opportunities, pay parity, and role models within the film industry. She criticized the film industry for downplaying the importance of women both on screen and off.

After roles in the comedy-drama Postcards from the Edge (1990) and the comedy-fantasy Defending Your Life (1991), Streep starred with Goldie Hawn in farcical black comedy, Death Becomes Her (1992), with Bruce Willis as their co-star. Streep persuaded writer David Koepp to rewrite several of the scenes, particularly the one in which her character has an affair with a younger man, which she believed was "unrealistically male" in its conception. The seven-month shoot was the longest of Streep's career, during which she got into character by "thinking about being slightly pissed off all of the time". Due to Streep's allergies to numerous cosmetics, special prosthetics had to be designed to age her by ten years to look 54, although Streep believed that they made her look nearer 70. Longworth considers Death Becomes Her to have been "the most physical performance Streep had yet committed to screen, all broad weeping, smirking, and eye-rolling". Although it was a commercial success, earning $15.1 million in just five days, Streep's contribution to comedy was generally not taken well by critics. Time's Richard Corliss wrote approvingly of Streep's "wicked-witch routine" but dismissed the film as "She-Devil with a make-over" and one which "hates women".

Streep appeared with Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close and Winona Ryder in The House of the Spirits (1993), set during the military dictatorship of Chile. The film was not well received by critics. Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote: "This is really quite an achievement. It brings together Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, and Vanessa Redgrave and insures that, without exception, they all give their worst performances ever". The following year, Streep featured in The River Wild, as the mother of children on a whitewater rafting trip who encounter two violent criminals (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) in the wilderness. Though critical reaction was generally mixed, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone found her to be "strong, sassy and looser than she has ever been onscreen".

Streep's most successful film of the decade was the romance The Bridges of Madison County (1995) directed by Clint Eastwood, who adapted the film from Robert James Waller's novel of the same name. It relates the story of Robert Kincaid (Eastwood), a photographer working for National Geographic, who has a love affair with a middle-aged Italian farm wife in Iowa named Francesca (Streep). Though Streep disliked the novel it was based on, she found the script to be a special opportunity for an actress her age. She gained weight for the part, and dressed differently from the character in the book to emulate voluptuous Italian film stars such as Sophia Loren. Both Loren and Anna Magnani were an influence in her portrayal, and Streep viewed Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962) prior to filming. The film was a box office hit and grossed over $70 million in the United States. The film, unlike the novel, was warmly received by critics. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that Eastwood had managed to create "a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill", while Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal described it as "one of the most pleasurable films in recent memory". Longworth believes that Streep's performance was "crucial to transforming what could have been a weak soap opera into a vibrant work of historical fiction implicitly critiquing postwar America's stifling culture of domesticity". She considers it to have been the role in which Streep became "arguably the first middle-aged actress to be taken seriously by Hollywood as a romantic heroine".

Late 1990s

Streep played the estranged sister of Bessie (Diane Keaton), a woman battling leukemia, in Marvin's Room (1996), an adaptation of the play by Scott McPherson. Streep recommended Keaton for the role. The film also featured Leonardo DiCaprio as the rebellious son of Streep's character. Roger Ebert stated that "Streep and Keaton, in their different styles, find ways to make Lee and Bessie into much more than the expression of their problems." The film was well received, and Streep earned another Golden Globe nomination for her performance.

As an Irishwoman, Streep acted opposite Michael Gambon and Catherine McCormack in Pat O'Connor's Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), which was entered into the Venice Film Festival in its year of release. Janet Maslin of The New York Times remarked that "Meryl Streep has made many a grand acting gesture in her career, but the way she simply peers out a window in Dancing at Lughnasa ranks with the best. Everything the viewer need know about Kate Mundy, the woman she plays here, is written on that prim, lonely face and its flabbergasted gaze". Later that year, Streep played a cancer sufferer caught in a difficult family situation, playing the mother of Renée Zellweger and wife of William Hurt in One True Thing. The film gained positive reviews. Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle declared: "After 'One True Thing', critics who persist in the fiction that Streep is a cold and technical actress will need to get their heads examined. She is so instinctive and natural – so thoroughly in the moment and operating on flights of inspiration – that she's able to give us a woman who's at once wildly idiosyncratic and utterly believable." Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan noted that Streep's role "is one of the least self-consciously dramatic and surface showy of her career" but that she "adds a level of honesty and reality that makes [her performance] one of her most moving".

Streep portrayed Roberta Guaspari, a real-life New Yorker who found passion and enlightenment teaching violin to the inner-city kids of East Harlem, in the music drama Music of the Heart (1999). A departure from director Wes Craven's previous work in films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream series, Streep replaced singer Madonna, who left the project before filming began due to creative differences with Craven. Required to perform on the violin, Streep went through two months of intense training, five to six hours a day. Streep received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. Roger Ebert wrote that "Meryl Streep is known for her mastery of accents; she may be the most versatile speaker in the movies. Here you might think she has no accent, unless you've heard her real speaking voice; then you realize that Guaspari's speaking style is no less a particular achievement than Streep's other accents. This is not Streep's voice, but someone else's – with a certain flat quality, as if later education and refinement came after a somewhat unsophisticated childhood."

2000–05

Streep entered the 2000s with a voice cameo in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), a science fiction film about a childlike android, played by Haley Joel Osment. The same year, Streep co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert with Liam Neeson which was held in Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 2001, in honour of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the United Nations and Kofi Annan.

In 2001, Streep returned to the stage for the first time in more than twenty years, playing Arkadina in The Public Theater's revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The same year, she began work on Spike Jonze's comedy-drama Adaptation (2002), in which she portrayed real-life journalist Susan Orlean. Lauded by critics and viewers alike, the film won Streep her fourth Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category. A. O. Scott in The New York Times considered Streep's portrayal of Orlean to have been "played with impish composure", noting the contrast in her "wittily realized" character with love interest Chris Cooper's "lank-haired, toothless charisma" as the autodidact arrested for poaching rare orchids. Streep appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in Stephen Daldry's The Hours (2002), based on the 1999 novel by Michael Cunningham. Focusing on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, the film was generally well received and won all three leading actresses a Silver Bear for Best Actress.

Streep had a cameo as herself in the Farrelly brothers comedy Stuck on You (2003) and reunited with Mike Nichols to star with Al Pacino and Emma Thompson in the HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner's six-hour play Angels in America (2003), the story of two couples whose relationships dissolve amidst the backdrop of Reagan era politics. Streep, who was cast in four roles in the mini-series, received her second Emmy Award and fifth Golden Globe for her performance.

She appeared in Jonathan Demme's moderately successful remake of The Manchurian Candidate (2004), co-starring Denzel Washington, playing the role of a woman who is both a U.S. senator and the manipulative, ruthless mother of a vice-presidential candidate. The same year, she played the supporting role of Aunt Josephine in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events alongside Jim Carrey, based on the first three novels in Snicket's book series. The black comedy received generally favorable reviews from critics, and won the Academy Award for Best Makeup. Inspired by her love of Giverny in France and Claude Monet, Streep did the narration for the film Monet's Palate, with Alice Waters, Steve Wynn, Daniel Boulud and Helen Rappel Bordman.

Streep was next cast in the comedy film Prime (2005), directed by Ben Younger. In the film, she played Lisa Metzger, the Jewish psychoanalyst of a divorced and lonesome business-woman, played by Uma Thurman, who enters a relationship with Metzger's 23-year-old son (Bryan Greenberg). A modest mainstream success, it eventually grossed US$67.9 million internationally. Roger Ebert noted how Streep had "that ability to cut through the solemnity of a scene with a zinger that reveals how all human effort is".

2006–09

In August and September 2006, Streep starred onstage at The Public Theater's production of Mother Courage and Her Children at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. The Public Theater production was a new translation by playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America), with songs in the Weill/Brecht style written by composer Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change); veteran director George C. Wolfe was at the helm. Streep starred alongside Kevin Kline and Austin Pendleton in this three-and-a-half-hour play. Around the same time, Streep, along with Lily Tomlin, portrayed the last two members of what was once a popular family country music act in Robert Altman's final film A Prairie Home Companion (2006). A comedic ensemble piece featuring Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline and Woody Harrelson, the film revolves around the behind-the-scenes activities at the long-running public radio show of the same name. The film grossed more than US$26 million, the majority of which came from domestic markets.

Commercially, Streep fared better with a role in The Devil Wears Prada (also 2006), a loose screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. Streep portrayed the powerful and demanding Miranda Priestly, fashion magazine editor (and boss of a recent college graduate played by Anne Hathaway). Though the overall film received mixed reviews, her portrayal, of what Ebert calls the "poised and imperious Miranda", drew rave reviews from critics and earned her many award nominations, including her record-setting 14th Oscar bid, as well as another Golden Globe. On its commercial release, the film became Streep's biggest commercial success to this point, grossing more than US$326.5 million worldwide.

She portrayed a wealthy university patron in Chen Shi-zheng's much-delayed feature drama Dark Matter, a film about a Chinese science graduate student who becomes violent after dealing with academic politics at a U.S. university. Inspired by the events of the 1991 University of Iowa shooting, and initially scheduled for a 2007 release, producers and investors decided to shelve Dark Matter out of respect for the Virginia Tech massacre in April 2007. The drama received negative to mixed reviews upon its limited 2008 release. Streep played a U.S. government official who investigates an Egyptian foreign national suspected of terrorism in the political thriller Rendition (2007), directed by Gavin Hood. Keen to get involved in a thriller film, Streep welcomed the opportunity to star in a film genre for which she was not usually offered scripts and immediately signed on to the project. Upon its release, Rendition was less commercially successful, and received mixed reviews.

In this period, Streep had a short role alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close and her eldest daughter Mamie Gummer in Lajos Koltai's drama film Evening (2007), based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Susan Minot. Switching between the present and the past, it tells the story of a bedridden woman, who remembers her tumultuous life in the mid-1950s. The film was released to a lukewarm reaction from critics, who called it "beautifully filmed, but decidedly dull [and] a colossal waste of a talented cast". She had a role in Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs (also 2007), a film about the connection between a platoon of United States soldiers in Afghanistan, a U.S. senator, a reporter, and a California college professor. Like Evening, critics felt that the talent of the cast was wasted and that it suffered from slow pacing, although one critic announced that Streep positively stood out, being "natural, unforced, quietly powerful", in comparison to Redford's forced performance.

Streep found major commercial success when she starred in Phyllida Lloyd's Mamma Mia! (2008), a film adaptation of the musical of the same name, based on the songs of Swedish pop group ABBA. Co-starring Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Julie Walters, Stellan Skarsgård and Colin Firth, Streep played a single mother and a former girl-group singer, whose daughter (Seyfried), a bride-to-be who never met her father, invites three likely paternal candidates to her wedding on an idyllic Greek island. An instant box office success, Mamma Mia! became Streep's highest-grossing film to date, with box office receipts of US$602.6 million, also ranking it first among the highest-grossing musical films. Nominated for another Golden Globe, Streep's performance was generally well received by critics, with Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe commenting "the greatest actor in American movies has finally become a movie star."

Doubt (also 2008) features Streep with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. A drama revolving around the stern principal nun (Streep) of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 who brings accusations of pedophilia against a popular priest (Hoffman), the film became a moderate box office success, and was hailed by many critics as one of the best films of 2008. The film received five Academy Awards nominations, for its four lead actors and for Shanley's script. Ebert, who awarded the film the full four stars, highlighted Streep's caricature of a nun, who "hates all inroads of the modern world", while Kelly Vance of The East Bay Express remarked: "It's thrilling to see a pro like Streep step into an already wildly exaggerated role and then ramp it up a few notches just for the sheer hell of it. Grim, red-eyed, deathly pale Sister Aloysius may be the scariest nun of all time."

In 2009, Streep played chef Julia Child in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia, co-starring with Stanley Tucci and again with Amy Adams. (Tucci and Streep had worked together earlier in Devil Wears Prada.) The first major motion picture based on a blog, Julie and Julia contrasts the life of Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell (Adams), who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child's cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Longworth believes her caricature of Julia Child was "quite possibly the biggest performance of her career while also drawing on her own experience to bring lived-in truth to the story of a late bloomer". In Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy It's Complicated (also 2009), Streep starred with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. She received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for both Julie & Julia and It's Complicated; she won the award for Julie & Julia and later received her 16th Oscar nomination for it. She also lent her voice to Mrs. Felicity Fox in the stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox.

2010s

Streep reteamed with Mamma Mia director Phyllida Lloyd on The Iron Lady (2011), a British biographical film about Margaret Thatcher, which takes a look at the Prime Minister during the Falklands War and her years in retirement. Streep, who attended a session of the House of Commons to see British MPs in action in preparation for her role as Thatcher, called her casting "a daunting and exciting challenge". While the film had a mixed reception, Streep's performance gained rave reviews, earning her Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs as well as her third win at the 84th Academy Awards. Former advisers, friends and family of Thatcher criticized Streep's portrayal of her as inaccurate and biased. The following year, after Thatcher's death, Streep issued a formal statement describing Thatcher's "hard-nosed fiscal measures" and "hands-off approach to financial regulation", while praising her "personal strength and grit".

Streep reunited with Prada director David Frankel on the set of the romantic comedy-drama film Hope Springs (2012), co-starring Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell. Streep and Jones play a middle-aged couple, who attend a week of intensive marriage counseling to try to bring back the intimacy missing in their relationship. Reviews for the film were mostly positive, with critics praising the "mesmerizing performances [...] which offer filmgoers some grown-up laughs – and a thoughtful look at mature relationships".

In 2013, Streep starred alongside Julia Roberts and Ewan McGregor in the black comedy drama August: Osage County (2013) about a dysfunctional family that reunites into the familial house when their patriarch suddenly disappears. Based on Tracy Letts's Pulitzer Prize-winning eponymous play, Streep received positive reviews for her portrayal of the family's strong-willed and contentious matriarch, who is suffering from oral cancer and an addiction to narcotics, and was subsequently nominated for another Golden Globe, SAG, and Academy Award. At the National Board of Review Awards in 2013, Streep labeled Walt Disney as "anti-semitic" and a "gender bigot". Former actors, employees and animators who knew Disney during his lifetime rebuffed the comments as misinformed and selective. The Walt Disney Family Museum issued a statement rebuking Streep's allegations indirectly, citing, among others, Disney's contributions to Jewish charities and his published letters stating that women "have the right to expect the same chances for advancement as men". However, Disney's grandniece, Abigail Disney, wholeheartedly agreed with Streep's statements, stating that he was an "anti-Semite" and "racist" who was also an exemplary filmmaker whose work "made billions of people happy".

In 2014's The Giver, a motion picture adaptation of the young adult novel, Streep played a community leader. Set in 2048, the social science fiction film recounts the story of a post-apocalyptic community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, where a young boy is chosen to learn the real world. Streep was aware of the book before being offered the role by co-star and producer Jeff Bridges. Upon its release, The Giver was met with generally mixed to negative reviews from critics. Streep also had a small role in the period drama film The Homesman (2014). Set in the 1850s midwest, the film stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones as an unusual pair who help three women driven to madness by the frontier to get back East. Streep does not appear until near the end of the film, playing a preacher's wife, who takes the women into care. The Homesman premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it garnered largely positive reviews from critics.

Directed by Rob Marshall, Into the Woods (also 2014) is a Disney film adaptation of the Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim in which Streep plays a witch. A fantasy genre crossover inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales, it centers on a childless couple who set out to end a curse placed on them by Streep's vengeful witch. Though the film was dismissed by some critics such as Mark Kermode as "irritating naffness", Streep's performance earned her Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, and Critic's Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In July 2014, it was announced that Streep would portray Maria Callas in Master Class, but the project was pulled after director Mike Nichols's death in November of the same year.

In 2015, Streep starred in Jonathan Demme's Ricki and the Flash, playing a grocery store checkout worker by day who is a rock musician at night, and who has one last chance to reconnect with her estranged family. Streep learned to play the guitar for the semi-autobiographical drama-comedy film, which again featured Streep with her eldest daughter Mamie Gummer. Reviews of the film were generally mixed. Streep's other film of this time was director Sarah Gavron's period drama Suffragette (also 2015), co-starring Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter. In the film, she played the small but pivotal role of Emmeline Pankhurst, a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. The film received mostly positive reviews, particularly for the performances of the cast, though its distributor earned criticism that Streep's prominent position within the marketing was misleading.

In February 2016, Streep was president of the main competition jury at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. Her only film that year was the Stephen Frears-directed comedy Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), an eponymous biopic about a blithely unaware tone-deaf opera singer who insists upon public performance. Other cast members were Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg. For her performance, Streep won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy, and received Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA nominations.

In February 2017, Streep again worked with Rob Marshall and Emily Blunt, in Mary Poppins Returns, playing the titular character's cousin Topsy. The film also reunites Streep with Colin Firth and Julie Walters. She will be portraying Kay Graham to Tom Hanks' Ben Bradlee in Steven Spielberg's drama The Post, which centers on The Washington Post's publication of the 1971 Pentagon Papers. Streep is set to reprise her role as Donna Sheridan in the 2018 sequel to Mamma Mia!, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!

Acting style and legacy

Vanity Fair commented that "it's hard to imagine that there was a time before Meryl Streep was the greatest-living actress". Emma Brockes of The Guardian notes that despite Streep's being "one of the most famous actresses in the world", it is "strangely hard to pin an image on Streep", in a career where she has "laboured to establish herself as an actor whose roots lie in ordinary life". Despite her success, Streep has always been modest about her own acting and achievements in cinema. She has stated that she has no particular method when it comes to acting, learning from the days of her early studies that she cannot articulate her practice. She said in 1987, "I have a smattering of things I've learned from different teachers, but nothing I can put into a valise and open it up and say, 'Now which one would you like?' Nothing I can count on and that makes it more dangerous. But then the danger makes it more exciting." She has stated that her ideal director is one who gives her complete artistic control, and allowing her a degree of improvisation and to learn from her own mistakes.

Karina Longworth notes how "external" Streep's performances are, "chameleonic" in her impersonation of characters, "subsuming herself into them, rather than personifying them". In her early roles such as Manhattan and Kramer vs. Kramer, she was compared to both Diane Keaton and Jill Clayburgh, in that her characters were unsympathetic, which Streep has attributed to the tendency to be drawn to playing women who are difficult to like and lack empathy. Streep has stated that many consider her to be a technical actor, but she professed that it comes down to her love of reading the initial script, adding, "I come ready and I don't want to screw around and waste the first 10 takes on adjusting lighting and everybody else getting comfortable".

Mike Nichols, who directed Streep in Silkwood, Heartburn and Postcards from the Edge, praised Streep's ability to transform herself into her characters, remarking that "in every role she becomes a totally new human being. As she becomes the person she is portraying, the other performers begin to react to her as if she were that person". He said that directing her is "so much like falling in love that it has the characteristics of a time which you remember as magical but which is shrouded in mystery". He also noted that Streep's acting ability had a profound impact on her co-stars and that "one could improve by 1000% purely by watching her." Longworth believes that in nearly every film, Streep has "sly infused" a feminist point of view in her portrayals. However, film critic Molly Haskell has stated, "None of her heroines are feminist, strictly speaking. Yet they uncannily embody various crosscurrents of experience in the last twenty years, as women have redefined themselves against the background of the women's movement".

Streep is well known for her ability to imitate a wide range of accents, from Danish in Out of Africa (1985) to British received pronunciation in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Plenty (1985), and The Iron Lady (2011); Italian in The Bridges of Madison County (1995); a southern American accent in The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979); a Minnesota accent in A Prairie Home Companion (2006); Irish-American in Ironweed (1987); and a heavy Bronx accent in Doubt (2008). Streep has stated that she grew up listening to artists such as Barbra Streisand, The Beatles and Bob Dylan, and she learned a lot about how to use her voice, her "instrument", by listening to Barbra Streisand's albums. In the film Evil Angels (1988, released in the U.S. as A Cry in the Dark), in which she portrays a New Zealand transplant to Australia, Streep perfected a hybrid of Australian and New Zealand English. Her performance received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, as well as Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.

For her role in the film Sophie's Choice (1982), Streep spoke both English and German with a Polish accent, as well as Polish itself. In The Iron Lady, she reproduced the vocal style of Margaret Thatcher from the time before Thatcher became Britain's Prime Minister, and after she had taken elocution lessons to change her pitch, pronunciation, and delivery. Streep has commented that using accents as part of her acting is a technique she views as an obvious requirement in her portrayal of a character. When questioned in Belfast as to how she reproduces different accents, Streep replied in a perfect Belfast accent: "I listen."

In 2004, Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award by the board of directors of the American Film Institute.

Other work

After Streep appeared in Mamma Mia!, her rendition of the song "Mamma Mia" rose to popularity in the Portuguese music charts, where it peaked at No. 8 in October 2008. At the 35th People's Choice Awards, her version of "Mamma Mia" won an award for "Favorite Song From A Soundtrack". In 2008, Streep was nominated for a Grammy Award (her fifth nomination) for her work on the Mamma Mia! soundtrack. Streep has narrated numerous audio books, including three by children's book author William Steig: Brae Irene, Spinky Sulks, and The One and Only Shrek!.

Streep is the spokesperson for the National Women's History Museum, to which she has made significant donations (including her fee for The Iron Lady, which was $1 million), and hosted numerous events. On October 4, 2012, Streep donated $1 million to The Public Theater in honor of both its late founder, Joseph Papp, and her friend, the author Nora Ephron. She also supports Gucci's "Chime for Change" campaign that aims to spread female empowerment.

In 2014, Streep established two scholarships for students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell – the Meryl Streep Endowed Scholarship for English majors, and the Joan Hertzberg Endowed Scholarship (named for Streep's former classmate at Vassar College) for math majors.

In April 2015, it was announced that Streep had funded a screenwriters lab for female screenwriters over forty years old, called the Writers Lab, to be run by New York Women in Film & Television and the collective IRIS. The Lab was the only one of its kind in the world for female screenwriters over forty years old. In 2015, Streep signed an open letter for which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they served as heads of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa, respectively, in setting development funding priorities. Also in 2015, Streep sent each member of the U.S. Congress a letter supporting the Equal Rights Amendment. Each of her letters was sent with a copy of the book Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for the ERA is Now by Jessica Neuwirth, president of the ERA Coalition.

Streep, when asked in a 2015 interview by Time Out magazine if she was a feminist, answered, "I am a humanist; I am for nice easy balance." In March 2016, Streep, among others, signed a letter asking for gender equality throughout the world, in observance of International Women's Day; this was also organized by the ONE Campaign.

Streep on April 25, 2017 publicly backed the campaign to free Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker from Crimea who was subjected to a sham trial by Russia and jailed in Siberia for 20 years in August 2015. She was pictured alongside Ukrainian lawmaker Mustafa Nayyem with a “Free Sentsov” sign in a photograph taken during the PEN America Annual Literary Gala on April 25, at which Sentsov was honoured with a 2017 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write award.

Public image

Politically, Streep has described herself as part of the American Left. She gave a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in support of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

On January 8, 2017, Streep accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Golden Globes, during which she delivered a highly political speech that criticized then President-elect Donald Trump. She said that Trump had a very strong platform and was using it inappropriately. She said that he mocked a disabled reporter, Serge F. Kovaleski, whom in her words Trump "outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back", and that "When the powerful use their position to bully, we all lose." She also said "Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick us all out, you'll have nothing to watch except for football and mixed martial arts, which are not arts". Trump responded on Twitter by calling Streep "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood" and "a Hillary flunky who lost big". The White House press secretary at the time, Josh Earnest, defended Streep's comments, saying that she was exercising her First Amendment rights to freedom of speech.

Personal life

Author Karina Longworth notes that despite her "high level of stardom" for decades, Streep has managed to maintain a relatively normal personal life. Streep lived with actor John Cazale for three years until his death from lung cancer in March 1978. Streep said of his death, "I didn't get over it. I don't want to get over it. No matter what you do, the pain is always there in some recess of your mind, and it affects everything that happens afterwards. I think you can assimilate the pain and go on without making an obsession of it."

Streep married sculptor Don Gummer six months after Cazale's death. They have four children: musician Henry (born 1979), actresses Mamie (born 1983) and Grace (born 1986), and model Louisa (born 1991). In August 1985, the family moved into a $1.8-million private estate in Connecticut, with an extensive art studio to facilitate Streep's husband's work, and lived there until they bought a $3-million mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, in 1990. They eventually moved back to Connecticut. Streep is the godmother of fellow actress Billie Lourd, daughter of Carrie Fisher.

When asked if religion plays a part in her life in 2009, Streep replied: "I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram." In an interview in December 2008, she also alluded to her lack of religious belief when she said: "So I've always been really, deeply interested, because I think I can understand the solace that's available in the whole construct of religion. But I really don't believe in the power of prayer, or things would have been avoided that have happened, that are awful. So it's a horrible position as an intelligent, emotional, yearning human being to sit outside of the available comfort there. But I just can't go there."

When asked from where she draws consolation in the face of aging and death, Streep responded: "Consolation? I'm not sure I have it. I have a belief, I guess, in the power of the aggregate human attempt – the best of ourselves. In love and hope and optimism – you know, the magic things that seem inexplicable. Why we are the way we are. I do have a sense of trying to make things better. Where does that come from?"

Filmography

Actress
2023
Only Murders in the Building (TV Series)
- Episode #3.1 (2023)
2023
Extrapolations (TV Series) as
Eve
- 2046: Whale Fall (2023) - Eve
2021
Don't Look Up as
President Orlean
2020
Let Them All Talk as
Alice
2020
The Prom as
Dee Dee Allen
2020
James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends (TV Mini Series) as
Aunt Sponge
- Meryl Streep & Benedict Cumberbatch join Taika Waititi to read James & the Giant Peach (2020) - Aunt Sponge
2020
Heads Will Roll (Podcast Series) as
Catherine Staunch
- What a Life (2020) - Catherine Staunch (voice)
- Alumni Weekend (2020) - Catherine Staunch (voice)
- Road Trip (2020) - Catherine Staunch (voice)
- The Mole (2020) - Catherine Staunch (voice)
- Sirens (2020) - Catherine Staunch (voice)
- Sh*thead (2020) - Catherine Staunch (voice)
- Ranunculus (2020) - Catherine Staunch (voice)
- Queen's Day (2020) - Catherine Staunch (voice)
- Burn the Town (2020) - Catherine Staunch (voice)
- The Prophecy (2020) - Catherine Staunch (voice)
2020
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (Short) as
Narrator (voice)
2019
Little Women as
Aunt March
2019
The Laundromat as
Ellen Martin
2019
Big Little Lies (TV Series) as
Mary Louise Wright
- I Want to Know (2019) - Mary Louise Wright
- The Bad Mother (2019) - Mary Louise Wright
- Kill Me (2019) - Mary Louise Wright
- She Knows (2019) - Mary Louise Wright
- The End of the World (2019) - Mary Louise Wright
- Tell-Tale Hearts (2019) - Mary Louise Wright
- What Have They Done? (2019) - Mary Louise Wright
2018
Mary Poppins Returns as
Cousin Topsy
2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as
Donna
2017
The Post as
Kay Graham
2016
Shoulders (TV Short) as
Narrator (voice)
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins as
Florence Foster Jenkins
2015
The Guardian Brothers as
Narrator (English version, voice)
2015
Suffragette as
Emmeline Pankhurst
2015
Ricki and the Flash as
Ricki
2014
Into the Woods as
Witch
2014
The Giver as
Chief Elder
2014
The Homesman as
Altha Carter
2013
Paul McCartney: Queenie Eye (Music Video short) as
Meryl Streep (uncredited)
2013
August: Osage County as
Violet Weston
2012
Hope Springs as
Kay
2012
Web Therapy (TV Series) as
Camilla Bowner
- Blindsides and Backslides (2012) - Camilla Bowner
- Getting It Straight (2012) - Camilla Bowner
2011
The Iron Lady as
Margaret Thatcher
2010
Web Therapy (TV Series) as
Camilla Bowner
- Reverse Psychology (2010) - Camilla Bowner
- Healing Touch (2010) - Camilla Bowner
- Aversion Therapy (2010) - Camilla Bowner
2010
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (Video short) as
Jennie (voice)
2009
It's Complicated as
Jane Adler
2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox as
Mrs. Fox (voice)
2009
Julie & Julia as
Julia Child
2008
Doubt as
Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2008
Mamma Mia! as
Donna
2007
Lions for Lambs as
Janine Roth
2007
Rendition as
Corrine Whitman
2007
Evening as
Lila Ross
2007
Dark Matter as
Joanna Silver
2006
The Ant Bully as
Queen (voice)
2006
The Devil Wears Prada as
Miranda Priestly
2006
The Music of Regret (Short) as
The Woman
2006
A Prairie Home Companion as
Yolanda Johnson
2005
Prime as
Lisa Metzger
2004
A Series of Unfortunate Events as
Aunt Josephine
2004
The Manchurian Candidate as
Eleanor Shaw
2004
Gilda's Club: A Special Place (Short) as
Narrator (voice)
2003
Freedom: A History of US (TV Series documentary) as
Margaret Chase Smith / Mother Jones / Mary Easty / ...
- Democracy and Struggles (2003) - Margaret Chase Smith
- Yearning to Breathe Free (2003) - Mother Jones
- Liberty for All (2003) - Mary Easty
- Independence (2003) - Abigail Adams
2003
Angels in America (TV Mini Series) as
Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / ...
- Perestroika: Beyond Nelly (2003) - Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi
- Perestroika: Stop Moving! (2003) - Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi
- Perestroika: Heaven, I'm in Heaven (2003) - Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Angel Australia
- Millennium Approaches: The Messenger (2003) - Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg
- Millennium Approaches: In Vitro (2003) - Hannah Pitt
- Millennium Approaches: Bad News (2003) - The Rabbi
2003
Stuck on You as
Meryl Streep (uncredited)
2002
The Hours as
Clarissa Vaughan
2002
Adaptation. as
Susan Orlean
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence as
Blue Mecha (voice)
1999
King of the Hill (TV Series) as
Aunt Esme Dauterive
- A Beer Can Named Desire (1999) - Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)
1999
Music of the Heart as
Roberta
1999
Chrysanthemum (Short) as
Narrator (voice)
1998
One True Thing as
Kate Gulden
1998
Dancing at Lughnasa as
Kate Mundy
1997
...First Do No Harm (TV Movie) as
Lori Reimuller
1996
Marvin's Room as
Lee
1996
Before and After as
Carolyn Ryan
1995
The Bridges of Madison County as
Francesca Johnson
1994
The Simpsons (TV Series) as
Jessica Lovejoy
- Bart's Girlfriend (1994) - Jessica Lovejoy (voice)
1994
The River Wild as
Gail Hartman
1993
The House of the Spirits as
Clara
1992
Death Becomes Her as
Madeline Ashton Menville
1991
Defending Your Life as
Julia
1990
Postcards from the Edge as
Suzanne Vale
1990
The Earth Day Special (TV Special) as
Concerned Citizen
1989
She-Devil as
Mary Fisher
1989
Rabbit Ears: The Fisherman and His Wife (Video short) as
Storyteller (voice)
1989
American Masters (TV Series documentary) as
Narrator
- Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre (1989) - Narrator
1988
The Tailor of Gloucester (Video) as
Narrator (voice)
1988
A Cry in the Dark as
Lindy
1987
Ironweed as
Helen
1987
Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (Video short) as
Storyteller (voice)
1987
Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Video short) as
Storyteller (voice)
1986
Heartburn as
Rachel
1985
Out of Africa as
Karen
1985
Plenty as
Susan
1984
Falling in Love as
Molly Gilmore
1984
Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit (Video short) as
Narrator (voice)
1983
Silkwood as
Karen Silkwood
1982
Sophie's Choice as
Sophie Zawistowski
1982
Still of the Night as
Brooke Reynolds
1982
Alice at the Palace (TV Movie) as
Alice
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman as
Sarah and Anna
1979
Kramer vs. Kramer as
Joanna Kramer
1979
The Seduction of Joe Tynan as
Karen Traynor
1977
Great Performances (TV Series) as
Leilah / Edith Varney
- Uncommon Women- and Others (1979) - Leilah
- Secret Service (1977) - Edith Varney
1979
Manhattan as
Jill
1978
The Deer Hunter as
Linda
1978
Holocaust (TV Mini Series) as
Inga Helms Weiss
- Part 4: 1944-1945 (1978) - Inga Helms Weiss
- Part 2: 1941-1942 (1978) - Inga Helms Weiss
- Part 1: 1935-1940 (1978) - Inga Helms Weiss
1977
Julia as
Anne Marie
1977
The Deadliest Season (TV Movie) as
Sharon Miller
1976
Everybody Rides the Carousel as
Stage 6 (voice)
Producer
2022
Sell/Buy/Date (executive producer)
1997
...First Do No Harm (TV Movie) (executive producer)
Miscellaneous
1983
In Our Hands (Documentary) (voice-over)
Soundtrack
2020
Let Them All Talk (performer: "Ash Grove")
2020
The Prom (performer: "Changing Lives", "Changing Lives (Reprise)", "It's Not About Me", "The Lady's Improving", "It's Time to Dance", "Wear Your Crown")
2020
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration (TV Special) (performer: "The Ladies Who Lunch")
2015
Nostalgia Critic (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Mary Poppins Returns (2019) - (performer: "Turning Turtle")
- Mamma Mia! (2015) - (performer: "Money, Money, Money", "Mamma Mia", "Dancing Queen", "SOS", "The Winner Takes It All")
2015
Everything Wrong with... (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes)
- Everything Wrong With Mary Poppins Returns (2019) - (performer: "Turning Turtle")
- Everything Wrong with Mamma Mia in 15 Minutes or Less (2018) - (performer: "Money, Money, Money", "Mamma Mia", "Chiquitita", "Dancing Queen", "Our Last Summer", "SOS", "Slipping Through My Fingers", "The Winner Takes It All")
- Everything Wrong with Into the Woods in Fairy Tale Minutes (2015) - (performer: "Prologue:Into The Woods", "Stay with Me", "Your Fault", "Last Midnight')
2018
Mary Poppins Returns (performer: "Turning Turtle")
2018
Diminishing Returns (Podcast Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Mamma Mia! (2018) - (performer: "Money, Money, Money", "Stay with Me", "The Winner Takes It All", "Super Trouper")
2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (performer: "My Love, My Life", "Super Trouper")
2018
Twoja twarz brzmi znajomo (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #9.5 (2018) - (writer: "Queen of the Night")
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins (performer: "Lakmé - Bell Song", "The Musical Snuff Box", "Biassy", "Adele's Laughing Song (Mein Herr Marquis)", "Like a Bird", "Valse Caressante", "Prelude in E Minor", "Der Hölle Rache Kocht in Meinem Herzen (Queen of the Night's Aria)", "When I Have Sung My Songs to You")
2015
Everything Is Copy (Documentary) (performer: "Pretty Little Horses Lullabye")
2015
Ricki and the Flash (performer: "American Girl", "Bad Romance", "Cold One", "Keep Playin' That Rock N Roll", "Get the Party Started", "Let's Work Together", "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", "Wooly Bully", "Drift Away", "My Love Will Not Let You Down")
2014
Into the Woods (performer: "Prologue: Into the Woods", "Stay with Me", "Witch's Lament", "Your Fault", "Last Midnight", "Finale: Children Will Listen (Part 1)", "She'll Be Back" (uncredited))
2010
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special) (performer: "I Am What I Am", "A Song and Dance for Bill T Jones")
2008
Premio Donostia a Meryl Streep (TV Special) (performer: "I'm Checkin' Out", "The Winner Takes It All")
2008
Mamma Mia! (performer: "Money, Money, Money", "Mamma Mia", "Chiquitita", "Super Trouper", "Dancing Queen", "Our Last Summer", "SOS", "Slipping Through My Fingers", "The Winner Takes It All", "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", "When All Is Said And Done", "Waterloo", "Dancing Queen" (Film Version), "Dancing Queen" (End Credits Version), "SOS" (Film Version), "Mamma Mia" (Film Version), "Super Trouper" (Film Version))
2006
A Prairie Home Companion (performer: "Go Tell Aunt Gladys", "Softly And Tenderly", "My Minnesota Home", "Beboparebop Rhubarb Pie", "Gold Watch & Chain", "Goodbye To My Mama")
2003
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special) (performer: "That's Pure Mike Nichols", "That's Pure Mike Nichols (Reprise Credits Version)")
2003
Angels in America (TV Mini Series) (performer: "Shall We Gather At The River?")
1997
Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson (Video documentary short) (performer: "Syllable", "Goal", "Few get enough", "Heart not so heavy as mine", "In vain", "Longing", "I had a guinea golden", "Hunger", "I many times thought peace had come", "Too much", "I've got an arrow here", "Our share of night to bear", "Presentiment", "Others Poems of Emily Dickinson")
1996
Marvin's Room (performer: "Two Little Sisters" (1996))
1994
Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers (Video) (performer: "I've Got an Arrow Here", "I Cannot Live with You")
1994
The River Wild (performer: "Happy Birthday to You" - uncredited)
1992
Death Becomes Her (performer: "Me", "Me" (Reprise))
1991
The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "I'm Checkin' Out")
1991
Voices That Care (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Voices That Care")
1990
An Evening with Friends of the Environment (TV Movie) (performer: "What a Wonderful World")
1990
Postcards from the Edge (performer: "I'm Checkin' Out", "You Don't Know Me")
1987
Ironweed (performer: "He's Me Pal")
1986
Heartburn (performer: "Yes Sir, That's My Baby", "Baby, It's Cold Outside", "Itsy Bitsy Spider" (uncredited))
1983
Silkwood (performer: "Pretty Little Horses Lullaby", "Amazing Grace")
1982
Alice at the Palace (TV Movie) (performer: "Alice's Dinner Party", "Drink Me, Goodbye Feet", "Beautiful Soup", "Eating Mushrooms", "Starting Out", "The Mad Tea Party")
Thanks
2018
Larry the Dream Stealer (special thanks)
2018
Film Journeys (TV Series) (special thanks - 1 episode)
- Meryl Streep (2018) - (special thanks)
2016
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem (Documentary short) (special thanks)
2016
Inside Suffragette (Video short) (special thanks)
2015
Aktorka (Documentary) (special thanks)
2008
Valentino: The Last Emperor (Documentary) (thanks: un grazie gigantesco)
2008
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'the Bridges of Madison County' (Video documentary) (special thanks)
2004
Monet's Palate: A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny (Documentary) (thanks)
2003
Stuck on You (special thanks)
2000
American Masters (TV Series documentary) (thanks - 1 episode)
- Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000) - (thanks)
Self
2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust A Film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Eleanor Roosevelt
- The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022) - Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942) (2022) - Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
2022
The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee & Presenter
2019
Hollywood Insider (TV Series) as
Self
- A Tribute to Joseph Gordon-Levitt: A Versatile Actor and Creative Visionary (2022) - Self
- The Rise and Journey of Jonah Hill - Actor, Writer, Director (2022) - Self
- The Rise and Fall of Young Adult Dystopian Adaptation Franchises: 'Hunger Games', 'Harry Potter' (2021) - Self
- The Rise and Journey of Anne Hathaway: From Genovian Royalty to Oscar Winner (2021) - Self
- Venice Film Festival is the Protector of Cinema - CEO Pritan Ambroase's Love Letter to Venice (2021) - Self
- A Tribute to Meryl Streep: An American Icon, The Greatest Actress, Hollywood Powerhouse (2021) - Self
- A Tribute to Jack Nicholson: One of the Greatest Actors of Any Generation (2021) - Self
- The Rise of Minimalist Filmmaking, and Analysis of Best Picture Oscar Winner 'Nomadland' (2021) - Self
- The Rise of Chris Pine: Examining the Journey of One of Hollywood's Most Versatile Stars (2021) - Self
- Myers-Briggs Goes Hollywood: Which Movie & TV Characters Are the Same As Your Personality Type? (2021) - Self
- A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman: The Master Artist, Unrivaled and Irreplaceable Filmography (2021) - Self
- 10 Female Winners Who Made History At Award Shows in Hollywood (2021) - Self
- Hero Or Villain?: When You're Young, You Love The Hero, When You're Old, You Understand The Villain (2021) - Self
- Food and Asian Cinema: In-Depth Look at How Asian Storytellers Use Cuisine to Tell Stories (2021) - Self
- A Tribute to Julianne Moore: Our Favorite Down-to-Earth Superstar - Oscar Winner (2021) - Self
- 10 Must-Watch Tearjerker Movies for Both Women and Men (2021) - Self
- Florence Pugh: The Journey of Hollywood's Next Superstar (2021) - Self
- EVOLUTION: Every Tom Hanks Role From 1980 to 2021, All Performances Exceptionally Poignant (2020) - Self
- Oscar Snubs: The Top 10 Actors Ignored By Oscars for Best Actor & Best Actress Awards (2020) - Self
- EVOLUTION: Every Tom Cruise Role From 1981 to 2021, All Performances Exceptionally Poignant (2020) - Self
- Come Behind the Scenes of 'Little Women' Part 3 (2019) - Self
- Come Behind the Scenes of 'Little Women' Part 2 (2019) - Self
- Come Behind the Scenes of 'Little Women' (2019) - Self
- Reactions from Stars & Full Commentary on 'Little Women' (2019) - Self
2007
Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) as
Self / Self - Into the Woods
- ET Blockbuster Holiday Movie Rundown! (2019) - Self
- Country Music's Biggest Stars! #2 (2019) - Self
- ET From Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge (2019) - Self
- Robin Williams, in His Own Words - Recap (2014) - Self
- Robin Williams, in His Own Words (2014) - Self
1980
Today (TV Series) as
Self - Guest / Self
2012
CBS News Sunday Morning (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #43.49 (2021) - Self - Guest
- Episode #42.49 (2020) - Self - Guest
- Episode #38.43 (2016) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 12 August 2012 (2012) - Self - Guest
2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Triple Threat (2021) - Self
- An Actor's Director (2021) - Self
- A Director's Vision (2021) - Self
2021
Hemingway (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Martha Gellhorn
- The Avatar (1929-1944) (2021) - Martha Gellhorn (voice)
2020
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- George Clooney/Tom Hanks/Meryl Streep/The Mountain Goats (2021) - Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Chris Stapleton (2020) - Self - Guest
2017
Access Hollywood (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #25.82 (2020) - Self
- Feel Good Friday (2020) - Self
- Episode #22.266 (2018) - Self
- Episode #22.265 (2018) - Self
- Episode #22.263 (2018) - Self
- Episode #21.196 (2017) - Self
2014
Extra (TV Series) as
Self / Self - Into the Woods
- Episode #27.82 (2020) - Self
- Episode #27.77 (2020) - Self
- Episode #25.232 (2019) - Self
- Episode #24.111 (2018) - Self
- Episode #24.95 (2017) - Self
- Episode #22.241 (2016) - Self
- Episode #21.237 (2015) - Self
- Episode #21.67 (2014) - Self - Into the Woods
- Episode dated 16 August 2014 (2014) - Self
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden (TV Series) as
Self - Guest / Self - Hosting Trainer
- Meryl Streep/Billy Eichner (2020) - Self - Guest
- Tom Hanks/Mila Kunis (2015) - Self - Hosting Trainer
1990
Good Morning America (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 3 December 2020 (2020) - Self - Guest
- Episode #44.108 (2019) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 9 August 2016 (2016) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 2 December 2014 (2014) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 20 December 2013 (2013) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 7 August 2012 (2012) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 20 April 1990 (1990) - Self - Guest
2011
60 Minutes (TV Series documentary) as
Self / Self - Actress (segment "The Many Meryls")
- Chris Krebs/Descendants of Last Slave Ship/James Corden (2020) - Self
- There Goes the Neighborhood/The Gardens of the Queen/The Many Meryls (2011) - Self - Actress (segment "The Many Meryls")
2020
International Press Freedom Awards (TV Special) as
Self
2020
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover (TV Special) as
Meryl Streep
2020
The United Nations Association 2020 Global Citizen Awards & 13th Annual 2020 West Coast Global Forum (TV Special) as
Self
2020
Served: Harvey Weinstein (Documentary) as
Self
2020
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration (TV Special) as
Performer
2020
The 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self
2020
2020 Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2019
Film Önü / Arkasi (TV Series) as
Self - Subject
- The Iron Lady (2019) - Self - Subject
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (Documentary) as
Self
2019
The United Nations Association 2019 Global Citizen Awards & 12th Annual West Coast Global Forum (TV Special) as
Self
2019
CTV News at Noon Toronto (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 10 September 2019 (2019) - Self
2019
CTV News at 11:30 Toronto (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 9 September 2019 (2019) - Self
2019
CTV News at Six Toronto (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 9 September 2019 (2019) - Self
2019
Rose McGowan: Being Brave (Documentary) as
Self
2019
Museum Town (Documentary) as
Self - Narrator
2019
D'Astrain No Cinema: Burning Questions (Video short) as
Self
2018
Good Morning Britain (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 13 December 2018 (2018) - Self (uncredited)
- Episode dated 11 January 2018 (2018) - Self
2018
The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Guest
- Tracey Ullman (2018) - Self - Guest
2018
This Changes Everything (Documentary) as
Self
2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal (Documentary) as
Self - Interviewee / Actress
2017
Ok! TV (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #3.226 (2018) - Self
- Episode #3.223 (2018) - Self
- Episode #3.79 (2017) - Self
2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: HBO First Look (TV Short documentary) as
Self
2018
Every Act of Life (Documentary) as
Maurine McElroy (voice)
2018
The Post: Stop the Presses - Filming the Post (Documentary short) as
Self
2018
The Post: The Style Section - Re-Creating an Era (Documentary short) as
Self
2018
The Dream Still Lives (Video documentary short) as
Self
2018
The Oscars (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2018
C à vous (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 15 January 2018 (2018) - Self
2016
Lorraine (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 15 January 2018 (2018) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 27 April 2016 (2016) - Self - Guest
2018
Che tempo che fa (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 14 January 2018 (2018) - Self - Guest
2018
Sunday AM (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 14 January 2018 (2018) - Self
2005
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Tom Hanks/Meryl Streep (2018) - Self - Guest
- Ellen's Favorite Games with Celebrities (2015) - Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick & Emily Blunt/Craig Wayne Boyd (2014) - Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Vanessa Hudgens (2014) - Self - Guest
- Episode #9.77 (2012) - Self - Guest
- Episode #3.32 (2005) - Self - Guest
- Episode #3.14 (2005) - Self - Guest
2012
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Jason Ritter/Blake Shelton (2018) - Self - Guest
- After the Oscars 2014 (2014) - Self - Guest
- Kenneth Branagh (2014) - Self - Guest
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards (2012) - Self - Guest
- Episode #10.103 (2012) - Self - Guest
2018
75th Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2018
E! Live from the Red Carpet (TV Series) as
Self
- The 2018 Golden Globe Awards (2018) - Self
2018
Dish Nation (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #6.90 (2018) - Self
2017
The 40th Annual Kennedy Center Honors (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
2015
CBS This Morning (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep; Tom Hanks; Mark Weinberg (2017) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 12 December 2017 (2017) - Self - Guest
- Episode #5.191 (2016) - Self - Guest
- Episode #4.186 (2015) - Self - Guest
2017
Amy Adams: An American Cinematheque Tribute (TV Special) as
Self
2017
When Meryl Met Anna (Short) as
Self
2017
The Words That Built America (TV Movie documentary) as
Reader - Declaration of Independence
1994
AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) as
Self / Self - Presenter / Self - Host / ...
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Diane Keaton (2017) - Self - Presenter
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Steve Martin (2015) - Self
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jane Fonda (2014) - Self - Host
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Shirley MacLaine (2012) - Self
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mike Nichols (2010) - Self
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Al Pacino (2007) - Self
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Meryl Streep (2004) - Self - Honoree
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Nicholson (1994) - Self
2017
Five Came Back (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Narrator
- The Price of Victory (2017) - Narrator (voice)
- Combat Zones (2017) - Narrator (voice)
- The Mission Begins (2017) - Narrator (voice)
2017
Ken Burns: America's Storyteller (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Actor
2017
The Oscars (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee & Presenter
2017
The Oscars Opening Ceremony: Live from the Red Carpet (TV Special) as
Self
2017
The EE British Academy Film Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2017
The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2017
100 Years (Documentary short) as
Narrator (voice)
2017
The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2017 (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
2016
We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World (TV Special documentary) as
Self
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins: Behind the Scenes (Video short) as
Self / Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
Made in Hollywood (TV Series) as
Self
- Pete's Dragon/Florence Foster Jenkins/Hell or High Water/Anthropoid (2016) - Self
2014
The Insider (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #12.283 (2016) - Self
- Episode #12.33 (2015) - Self
- Episode dated 18 February 2015 (2015) - Self
- Episode dated 25 November 2014 (2014) - Self
2000
Reel Pieces with Annette Insdorf (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg on Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) - Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep on Postcards from the Edge (2000) - Self - Guest
2016
Starring Austin Pendleton (Documentary short) as
Self
2016
Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray (Documentary) as
Journals Performed by
2015
The Graham Norton Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Hugh Grant/Keeley Hawes/Joe and Jake (2016) - Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Carey Mulligan/Nicole Kidman/Nigella Lawson/Gabrielle Aplin (2015) - Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/James McAvoy/Mark Ruffalo/Hozier (2015) - Self - Guest
2016
Inside Suffragette (Video short) as
Self / Emmeline Pankhurst
2016
Suffragette: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Video short) as
Self / Emmeline Pankhurst
2000
American Masters (TV Series documentary) as
Self / Self - Actor / Self - Narrator
- Mike Nichols (2016) - Self
- Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000) - Self - Actor
- Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso (2000) - Self - Narrator
2015
The British Academy Britannia Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Honoree
2015
Shout Gladi Gladi (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2015
Everything Is Copy (Documentary) as
Self
2015
Le Conversazioni, Close Up (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
2015
Access Daily (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 3 August 2015 (2015) - Self
2006
Live with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Michael B. Jordan (2015) - Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Laura Dern/Lawrence Zarian (2014) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 16 July 2008 (2008) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 27 June 2006 (2006) - Self - Guest
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Jerrod Carmichael/Albert Hammond Jr. (2015) - Self - Guest
2015
Caring for Mom & Dad (TV Movie) as
Self - Narrator
2015
The Oscars (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee & Presenter
2015
Breakfast (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 7 February 2015 (2015) - Self - Guest
2015
Auschwitz (Documentary short) as
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2015
Inside Edition (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- 72th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2015) - Self
2015
72nd Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2014
The 37th Annual Kennedy Center Honors (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
1999
Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Rebel Wilson/J. Cole (2014) - Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Jessye Norman (2014) - Self - Guest
- Episode #16.58 (2008) - Self - Guest
- Episode #15.145 (2008) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 22 June 2006 (2006) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 29 October 1999 (1999) - Self - Guest
2014
24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
2014
The Concert for Valor (TV Special) as
Self
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Eleanor Roosevelt
- A Strong and Active Faith (1944-1962) (2014) - Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- The Common Cause (1939-1944) (2014) - Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- The Rising Road (1933-1939) (2014) - Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- The Storm (1920-1933) (2014) - Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- The Fire of Life (1910-1919) (2014) - Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- In the Arena (1901-1910) (2014) - Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
- Get Action (1858-1901) (2014) - Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
2014
The Oscars (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2014
20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee & Presenter
2014
19th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee & Presenter
2014
71st Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee (uncredited)
2013
The 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors (TV Special) as
Self - Singer
2004
The View (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Guest Co-Host Mario Cantone/Meryl Streep/Judy Gold/Jax Taylor (2013) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 12 December 2008 (2008) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 18 July 2008 (2008) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 21 December 2004 (2004) - Self - Guest
2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (Documentary) as
Self
2013
Celebrity Style Story (TV Series) as
Self
- Meryl Streep (2013) - Self
2013
Girl Rising (Documentary) as
Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
2013
Makers: Women Who Make America (TV Series documentary) as
Narrator
- Charting a New Course (2013) - Narrator (voice)
- Changing the World (2013) - Narrator (voice)
- Awakening (2013) - Narrator (voice)
2013
The Oscars (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
2012
Hope Springs: An Expert's Guide to Everlasting Passion (Video Game documentary) as
Self
2012
La classe américaine (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2012
100 Years of Universal - The Lot (Video documentary short) as
Self
2012
Janela Indiscreta (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.133 (2012) - Self
- Episode #1.102 (2012) - Self
2012
Teachers Rock 2012 (TV Special) as
Self
2012
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep (2012) - Self - Guest
1999
Charlie Rose (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 6 August 2012 (2012) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 7 August 2009 (2009) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 12 December 2008 (2008) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 4 December 2002 (2002) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 5 November 1999 (1999) - Self - Guest
2012
The 36th Annual Women in Film Crystal & Lucy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
2012
Joe Papp in Five Acts (Documentary)
2012
Radioman (Documentary) as
Self
2012
To the Arctic 3D (Documentary short) as
Narrator (voice)
2012
Tetsuko no heya (TV Series) as
Self
- Meryl Streep (2012) - Self
2012
To the Contrary (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 2 March 2012 (2012) - Self
2012
The 84th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter & Winner
2012
Días de cine (TV Series) as
Self - Interviewee
- Episode dated 16 February 2012 (2012) - Self - Interviewee
2012
La boîte à questions (TV Series short) as
Self
- Episode dated 14 February 2012 (2012) - Self
2012
The Orange British Academy Film Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
2012
Entertainers with Byron Allen (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 11 February 2012 (2012) - Self - Guest
2012
ES.TV HD (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 8 February 2012 (2012) - Self - Guest
2012
Huckabee (TV Series) as
Self
- Meryl Streep (2012) - Self
2012
18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
2012
A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for A Living Planet (Documentary) as
Narrator
2012
The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
2012
17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (TV Special) as
Self
2009
Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 10 January 2012 (2012) - Self
- Episode dated 4 September 2009 (2009) - Self
- Episode dated 5 February 2009 (2009) - Self
2011
The Iron Lady: Colours, Costume and Character (Video documentary short) as
Self / Margaret Thatcher (uncredited)
2011
The Iron Lady: Creating Margaret Thatcher (Video documentary short) as
Self / Margaret Thatcher (uncredited)
2011
The Iron Lady: Downing Street (Video documentary short) as
Self / Margaret Thatcher
2011
The Iron Lady: House of Commons (Video documentary short) as
Self / Margaret Thatcher
2011
The Iron Lady: Love Denis (Video documentary short) as
Self / Margaret Thatcher
2011
The Iron Lady: Young Margaret (Video documentary short) as
Self / Margaret Thatcher
2011
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special) as
Self - Honoree
2011
West Wing Week (TV Series) as
Self
- The Obamas of Osawatomie (2011) - Self
2011
The Hours: The Lives of Mrs. Dalloway (Video short) as
Self / Clarissa Vaughan (uncredited)
2011
The Hours: Three Women (Video short) as
Self / Clarissa Vaughan
2011
Close Up (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Interviewee
- Meryl Streep (2011) - Self - Interviewee
2011
Wings of Life (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2010
Sky Island (Documentary short)(voice)
2010
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special) as
Self
2010
America: The Story of the US (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Millennium (2010) - Self
- WWII (2010) - Self
- Cities (2010) - Self
2010
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2010
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Know Thyself (2010) - Self
- Making America (2010) - Self
- Becoming American (2010) - Self
- Our American Stories (2010) - Self
2010
16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2010
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief (TV Special documentary) as
Self
2010
The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
2010
15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (TV Special) as
Self
2010
The Project (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.115 (2010) - Self
2009
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special) as
Self
2003
HBO First Look (TV Series documentary short) as
Self
- It's Complicated (2009) - Self
- Two Sides of a Story: The Making of 'Rendition' (2007) - Self
- The Making of 'A Prairie Home Companion' (2006) - Self
- Stuck on You (2003) - Self
2009
Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia (Video short) as
Self / Julia Child
2008
Cinema 3 (TV Series) as
Self - Interviewee
- Episode dated 7 November 2009 (2009) - Self - Interviewee
- Episode dated 31 January 2009 (2009) - Self - Interviewee
- Episode dated 4 October 2008 (2008) - Self - Interviewee
2009
RTL Boulevard (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #10.40 (2009) - Self
2009
Vivement dimanche prochain (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 13 September 2009 (2009) - Self
2009
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2009
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Judd Apatow/The Fray (2009) - Self - Guest
2009
The Magic 7 (TV Movie) as
Self
2009
Doubt: Stage to Screen (Video documentary short) as
Self
2009
Doubt: The Cast of Doubt (Video short) as
Self
2009
Scoring 'Doubt' (Video documentary short) as
Self
2009
The Sisters of Charity (Video documentary short) as
Self
2009
Star Movies: Live from the Red Carpet (TV Special) as
Self
2009
The 81st Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2009
The 6th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
2009
Fantastic (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 8 February 2009 (2009) - Self
2009
The Orange British Academy Film Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2009
This Morning (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 3 February 2009 (2009) - Self - Guest
2009
Van der Vorst ziet sterren (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.3 (2009) - Self
2009
15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
2009
The Movie Loft (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 20 January 2009 (2009) - Self
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (Documentary short) as
Self
2009
Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2008
Mamma Mia: Outtakes (Video short) as
Self / Donna (uncredited)
2008
VTV Interviews (TV Series) as
Self
- Vtv Mamma Mia (2008) - Self
2008
Mama Mia!: A Look Inside 'Mama Mia! The Movie' (Video documentary short) as
Self
2008
Mama Mia!: Anatomy of a Musical Number - Lay All Your Love on Me (Video documentary short) as
Self
2008
Mama Mia!: Becoming a Singer (Video documentary short) as
Self
2008
Mama Mia!: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Music Video (Video documentary short) as
Self
2008
Mamma Mia: The Making of Mamma Mia (Video documentary short) as
Self / Donna
2008
Premio Donostia a Meryl Streep (TV Special) as
Self - Honoree
2008
Resumen - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (TV Special) as
Self
2008
Stand Up to Cancer (TV Special) as
Self
2005
Getaway (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Celebrity Traveller / Self
- Holidays in the Sun (2008) - Self - Celebrity Traveller
- Episode #14.41 (2005) - Self
2008
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep/Russell Brand/Eugene Mirman (2008) - Self - Guest
2008
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #14.24 (2008) - Self - Guest
2008
Intersections: The Making of 'Rendition' (Video documentary short) as
Self
2008
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'the Bridges of Madison County' (Video documentary) as
Self / Francesca Johnson
2008
Theater of War (Documentary) as
Self
2008
Ribbon of Sand (Documentary short) as
Rachel Carson
2007
Famous (TV Series) as
Self
- Meryl Streep (2007) - Self
2007
Meryl Streep on Bette Davis (Video short) as
Self (voice)
2007
History in Focus (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Rendition (2007) - Self
2007
The Daily Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep (2007) - Self - Guest
2007
In the Company of Actors (Documentary) as
Self
2007
Ocean Voyagers (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2007
A Prairie Home Companion: Cast Interviews (Video short) as
Self
2007
The 79th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2007
The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
2006
A Prairie Home Companion: Exclusive Sneak Peek (Video documentary short) as
Self
1981
Film '72 (TV Series) as
Self
- Films of the Year (2006) - Self
- Episode dated 2 October 2006 (2006) - Self
- Episode dated 1 November 2004 (2004) - Self
- Episode dated 30 November 1992 (1992) - Self
- Episode #15.24 (1986) - Self
- Episode #14.22 (1985) - Self
- Episode #11.1 (1981) - Self
2006
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special) as
Self - Singer
2005
Corazón de... (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 6 December 2006 (2006) - Self
- Episode dated 24 October 2005 (2005) - Self
2006
A Prairie Home Companion: Come Play with Us - A Feature Companion (Video documentary) as
Self
2006
A Prairie Home Companion: Onstage at the Fitzgerald - A Music Companion (Video documentary short) as
Self
2006
At the Movies (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #3.33 (2006) - Self
2006
L'hebdo cinéma (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 23 September 2006 (2006) - Self
2006
Hurricane on the Bayou (Documentary short) as
Narrator (voice)
2006
10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada (TV Movie) as
Self
2006
Canada A.M. (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 9 June 2006 (2006) - Self
2006
The 78th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
2006
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (Documentary) as
Self
2006
Al Pacino: An American Cinematheque Tribute (TV Movie) as
Self
2005
Magacine (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 21 October 2005 (2005) - Self
2005
Karen Blixen: Out of This World (Documentary) as
Self - Host
2005
Live from Lincoln Center (TV Series) as
Self
- Jazz at Lincoln Center: 'Higher Ground' Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert (2005) - Self
2005
Stolen Childhoods (Documentary) as
Self - Narrator (voice)
1999
The Directors (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- The Films of Carl Franklin (2005) - Self
- The Films of Sydney Pollack (2000) - Self
- The Films of Wes Craven (1999) - Self
- The Films of Clint Eastwood - Self
2005
Unscripted (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.10 (2005) - Self
- Episode #1.9 (2005) - Self
- Episode #1.8 (2005) - Self
2005
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Bruce Willis (2005) - Self
2005
The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2005 (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee & Presenter
2004
A Terrible Tragedy: Alarming Evidence from the Making of the Film - Costumes and Other Suspicious Disguises (Documentary short) as
Self / Aunt Josephine
2004
The Cast of 'the Manchurian Candidate' (Video short) as
Self
2004
The Enemy Within: Inside 'the Manchurian Candidate' (Video short) as
Self
2004
Monet's Palate: A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2004
Jonathan Demme and the Making of 'the Manchurian Candidate' (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2004
The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
2004
Hollywood Greats (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Dustin Hoffman (2004) - Self
2004
10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
2004
The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter & Winner
2003
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special) as
Self
2003
Nicole Kidman: An American Cinematheque Tribute (TV Special) as
Self
2003
Tinseltown TV (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 20 September 2003 (2003) - Self
2003
What Not to Wear on the Red Carpet (TV Special documentary) as
Self - Interviewee
2003
The 75th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee / Presenter / Past Winner
2003
9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1983
La nuit des Césars (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Winner / Self - Presenter
- 28ème nuit des Césars (2003) - Self - Winner
- 8ème nuit des Césars (1983) - Self - Presenter
2003
Cartaz Cultural (TV Series) as
Self (2008)
2003
The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
2002
The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 8 November 2002 (2002) - Self - Guest
2002
There's Only One Paul McCartney (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2002
A Quiet Revolution (TV Movie documentary) as
Narrator
2002
New York at the Movies (TV Movie documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2001
School: The Story of American Public Education (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Narrator
- The Common School: 1770-1890 (2001) - Narrator (voice)
- The Bottom Line: 1980 - The Present (2001) - Narrator (voice)
- Equality: 1950-1980 (2001) - Narrator (voice)
- As American as Public School: 1900-1950 (2001) - Narrator (voice)
2001
The Papp Project (Documentary) as
Self
2001
Nobel Peace Prize Concert (TV Special documentary) as
Self - Host
2001
Vermeer: Master of Light (TV Movie documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2001
Intimate Portrait (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Diane Keaton (2001) - Self
2001
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (Video documentary) as
Self
2000
Arena (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Clint Eastwood - Part 2: American Filmmaker (2000) - Self
2000
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2000
A Song of Africa (Video documentary) as
Self
2000
The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
1999
Ginevra's Story: Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
1999
The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 26 October 1999 (1999) - Self - Guest
1999
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1999
Vivement dimanche (TV Series) as
Self
- Estelle Hallyday (1999) - Self
1999
The 71st Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1999
5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1999
The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1998
Dancing at Lughnasa: Interviews (Video documentary short) as
Self (uncredited)
1998
Dancing at Lughnasa: On Location (Video documentary short) as
Self (uncredited)
1998
Defending Our Daughters: The Rights of Women in the World (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Host
1998
Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror (Documentary) as
Narrator
1998
Spotlight on Location: One True Thing (Video documentary short) as
Self / Kate Gulden
1998
Inside the Actors Studio (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Meryl Streep (1998) - Self - Guest
1998
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #6.165 (1998) - Self - Guest
1998
Christopher Reeve: A Celebration of Hope (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1997
Assignment: Rescue (Documentary short) as
Narrator (voice)
1997
Death Dreams of Mourning (Video documentary) as
Self / Sophie
1997
Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson (Video documentary short) as
Self - Reader (voice)
1997
The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special) as
Self
1997
Moving Image Salutes Goldie Hawn (TV Special) as
Self - Speaker
1996
The 3th Annual Women in Hollywood Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
1996
The Siskel & Ebert Interviews (TV Special) as
Self - Interviewee
1996
The 68th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1988
CBS This Morning (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 23 February 1996 (1996) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 3 October 1994 (1994) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 28 November 1988 (1988) - Self - Guest
- Episode dated 16 November 1988 (1988) - Self - Guest
1995
The Living Sea (Documentary short) as
Narrator (voice)
1994
A Century of Women (TV Mini Series documentary)
- Episode #1.2 (1994) - (voice)
- Episode #1.1 (1994) - (voice)
1994
An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet (Video documentary) as
Self - Host
1994
A Century of Cinema (Documentary) as
Self
1994
The Making of 'the River Wild' (TV Movie) as
Self
1993
Gente de Expressão (TV Series) as
Self
- Meryl Streep (1993) - Self
1993
Right Said Fred: Fred Schepisi Film Director (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1993
Besser als mein Haus je war (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1992
Repórteres (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 29 December 1992 (1992) - Self
1992
Great Performances (TV Series) as
Self - Host
- Great Performances 20th Anniversary (1992) - Self - Host
1992
Rabbit Ears: The Night Before Christmas (Video short) as
Self - Narrator
1992
The Making of 'Death Becomes Her' (Short) as
Self
1992
Oprah: Behind the Scenes (TV Special) as
Self
1991
Age 7 in America (TV Movie documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
1991
Maury (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 24 September 1991 (1991) - Self - Guest
1991
Voices That Care (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Choir Member
1990
An Evening with Friends of the Environment (TV Movie) as
Self (as Meryl)
1990
Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1990
Race to Save the Planet (TV Series) as
Self - Host
- Save the World, Feed the People (1990) - Self - Host
- Only One Atmosphere (1990) - Self - Host
1990
Arctic Refuge: A Vanishing Wilderness? (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Host
1990
The 16th Annual People's Choice Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
1990
The 32nd Annual Grammy Awards (TV Special) as
Self
1989
Cilla's Goodbye to the '80s (TV Movie)
1989
The 61st Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1989
The 46th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1988
The 60th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1987
The 13th Annual People's Choice Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Accepting Award for Favourite Actress in Motion Picture
1986
The 58th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1986
De película (TV Series) as
Self - Interviewee
- En busca del Oscar (1986) - Self - Interviewee
- Panorama de actualidad II (1986) - Self - Interviewee
1986
Showbiz Today (TV Series) as
Self - Actress
- Dated 12 March 1986 (1986) - Self - Actress
1986
The 12th Annual People's Choice Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
1986
Valkokangas (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #6.6 (1986) - Self
1985
Power Struggle (Documentary) as
Self - Narrator
1984
The 56th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special documentary) as
Self - Nominee
1983
The Best of Everything (TV Special) as
Self
1983
In Our Hands (Documentary) as
Self
1983
The 55th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
1983
Étoiles et toiles (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 19 March 1983 (1983) - Self
1982
The 54th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1981
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special documentary) as
Self
1981
Parkinson (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #11.4 (1981) - Self - Guest
1981
The 35th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
1981
Kiss Me, Petruchio (TV Movie documentary) as
Katherine
1980
Omnibus (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 15 June 1980 (1980) - Self
1980
The 52nd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
1980
Ciné regards (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 1 March 1980 (1980) - Self
1980
Friday Night, Saturday Morning (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #2.3 (1980) - Self - Guest
1980
The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
1979
The 51st Annual Academy Awards (TV Special documentary) as
Self - Nominee
1976
The 30th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
Archive Footage
2008
Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) as
Self / Self - Into the Woods
- ET Weekend! (2020) - Self
- Denise Richards Drama (2020) - Self
- Jon Gosselin Exclusive (2020) - Self
- Golden Globes Weekend (2020) - Self
- Britney Spears' Boyfriend! (2019) - Self
- ET's New Year's Revolution! (2019) - Self
- March (2015) - Self
2023
Dr. Steve Turley (TV Series) as
Self
- Why WOKE Hollywood Is IMPLODING!!! (2023) - Self
2022
Nerdrotic (TV Series) as
Self
- Why Woke Hollywood is FAILING (2023) - Self
- A Woke Hollywood Revolution (2023) - Self
- Woke Hollywood is FAILING, and That's a Good Thing (2022) - Self
2015
Inside Edition (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode #35.93 (2023) - Self
- Episode #26.94 (2015) - Self
2022
Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Interviewee
2022
Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self - Miranda Priestly, The Devil Seats Prada
- Inventing Victoria (2022) - Self - Miranda Priestly, The Devil Seats Prada
2022
Talking Pictures (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Meryl Streep (2022) - Self
2022
POPlitics (TV Series) as
Self
- Is Tinx Conservative?! + Caila Quinn Accused Of Animal Abuse (2022) - Self
2022
The Critical Drinker (TV Series) as
Self
- The Slap Heard Around The World (2022) - Self
2021
Daniel Day-Lewis - L'héritier (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2021
20/20 (TV Series documentary)
- The Sinfluencer of Soho (2021)
2021
Moments Within Moments as
Self
2021
Hollywood maudit (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- La porte du paradis (2021) - Self
2012
60 Minutes (TV Series documentary) as
Self (segment "The Many Meryls") / Self - Co-Star, 'Doubt' (segment "Viola") / Self - Actress
- The Oath Keepers/Race & Health/Viola Davis (2021) - Self - Co-Star, 'Doubt' (segment "Viola")
- Ballot counting in Pennsylvania/Operation Warp Speed/Ken Burns on America (2020)
- Morley Safer: A Reporter's Life (2016) - Self - Actress
- Final Resting Place/Tel Aviv/The Many Meryls (2012) - Self (segment "The Many Meryls")
- Three Remarkable Women: Dolly/Vogue, Anna Wintour/The Many Meryls (2012) - Self (segment "The Many Meryls")
2020
Tatum Report (TV Series) as
Self
- The Death Of Hollywood: It Died Of Terminal Wokeness (2020) - Self
2020
The Hollywood Moment at Home Edition (TV Series) as
Self
- S1 E10 BJ Korros/Eric Martsolf Mamma Mia Drive-In Concert (2020) - Self
2020
Discovering Film (TV Series) as
Various
- Meryl Streep (2020) - Various
2020
Viaje al centro de la tele (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Sesión continua (2020) - Self
2020
Meryl Streep - Mystères et métamorphoses (TV Movie documentary)
2020
Have I Got News for You (TV Series) as
Self
- Martin Clunes, Janet Street-Porter, Fin Taylor (2020) - Self (uncredited)
2020
Im Reich der Filme (Documentary) as
Self
2020
60 Minutes (TV Series) as
Self
- Inside The Harvey Weinstein Trial (2020) - Self (uncredited)
2020
70 Jahre Berlinale (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Stars (2020) - Self
2018
Ok! TV (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #5.84 (2019) - Self
- Episode #4.193 (2019) - Self
- Episode #3.157 (2018) - Self
2012
American Masters (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Actor / Self
- Raul Julia: The World's a Stage (2019) - Self - Actor
- Johnny Carson: King of Late Night (2012) - Self (uncredited)
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV Series) as
Self
- Jennifer Garner/Meryl Streep/Matt Iseman/Sandy Zimmerman (2019) - Self
2019
Robert Redford: The Golden Look (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2019
The Movies (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Sophie / Linda / Miranda Priestly / ...
- The Seventies (2019) - Linda
- The 2000s to Today (2019) - Miranda Priestly / Donna / Jane Adler / -
- The Eighties (2019) - Sarah / Anna / Sophie / -
2014
Extra (TV Series) as
Self / Self - Into the Woods
2019
Untouchable (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2018
Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Top 5 musical Meryl Streep (2018) - Self
2018
Frontline (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Weinstein (2018) - Self
2018
Panorama (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Weinstein: The Inside Story (2018) - Self (uncredited)
2018
Six Sides of Katharine Hepburn (Documentary short) as
Self
2018
The War on Men (Video short) as
Self
2017
Media Buzz (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 17 December 2017 (2017) - Self
2017
Meryl Streep: Shut the F*ck Up (Video short) as
Self - Actress
2017
The Insider (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #13.282 (2017) - Self
- Episode #13.120 (2017) - Self
2017
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life (TV Series documentary) as
Lindy
2017
Good Morning Britain (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 27 February 2017 (2017) - Self (uncredited)
- Episode dated 25 January 2017 (2017) - Self
- Episode dated 10 January 2017 (2017) - Self
- Episode dated 9 January 2017 (2017) - Self
2017
Lorraine (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 27 February 2017 (2017) - Self (uncredited)
2017
Access Hollywood (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #21.126 (2017) - Self
2017
ABL (TV Series) as
Self
- Meryl Streep Gives a Wack And Pretentious Anti Donald Trump Speech At the Golden Globes (REACTION) (2017) - Self
2017
Hollywood Today Live (TV Series) as
Self
- Slay or Nay: Golden Globe Awards Edition (2017) - Self
- Slay or Nay with Audrina Patridge (2017) - Self
2016
Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV Series) as
Self - Democratic Convention
- New Year's Eve Special (2016) - Self - Democratic Convention
- Amy Sedaris/John Cho/Bleached/Matt Cameron (2016) - Self - Democratic Convention
2016
President Trump: Can He Really Win? (TV Movie documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2016
Telenoche (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 11 August 2016 (2016) - Self
2016
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (TV Movie documentary) as
Suzanne Vale / Self (uncredited)
2016
Becoming Mike Nichols (Documentary) as
Suzanne Vale
2015
The Seventies (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Television Gets Real (2015) - Self
2015
Pinewood: 80 Years of Movie Magic (TV Movie documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2015
Aktorka (Documentary) as
Self - Actress
2014
Screenwipe (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- 2014 Wipe (2014) - Self
2014
Retro Report (TV Series) as
Self
- "A Dingo's Got My Baby": Trial by Media (2014) - Self
2014
Tu cara me suena - Argentina (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #2.30 (2014) - Self
2014
And the Oscar Goes to... (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2013
Secret Voices of Hollywood (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2013
Jonathan Creek (TV Series) as
Self
- The Clue of the Savant's Thumb (2013) - Self (uncredited)
2012
Close Up (Documentary) as
Self
2012
Encontro com Fátima Bernardes (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 19 September 2012 (2012) - Self
2008
Banda sonora (TV Series) as
Karen
- Episode #8.10 (2012) - Karen
- Episode #4.1 (2008) - Karen
2012
Gente (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 8 February 2012 (2012) - Self
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2011
Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories (TV Series) as
Self - Award Winning Actress
- Silkwood (2012) - Self - Award Winning Actress
- Whistleblowers (2011) - Self - Award Winning Actress
2011
The Iron Lady: From Script to Screen (Video documentary short) as
Margaret Thatcher (uncredited)
2011
The Iron Lady: John Campbell on Thatcher (Video documentary short) as
Self / Margaret Thatcher (uncredited)
2011
The Iron Lady: Meet the Politicians (Video documentary short) as
Self / Margaret Thatcher (uncredited)
2011
Flash Moda: Thierry Mugler, escultor de sueños (TV Special) as
Self
2010
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (TV Movie documentary) as
Suzanne Vale (uncredited)
2010
Live from Studio Five (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.106 (2010) - Self
2009
Charlie Rose (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 24 August 2009 (2009) - Self
2009
Buscando a Penélope (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2009
This Morning (TV Series) as
Joanna Kramer
- Episode dated 6 February 2009 (2009) - Joanna Kramer
2008
Mamma Mia: Deleted Scenes (Video short) as
Donna
2008
Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (TV Special) as
Self
2008
Valentino: The Last Emperor (Documentary) as
Self
2008
Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo (TV Movie documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2008
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Documentary) as
Self
2008
Irak-Afganistán, la guerra llega al cine (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2007
The Factor (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 14 December 2007 (2007) - Self
- Episode dated 13 December 2007 (2007) - Self
2007
Rove Live (TV Series) as
Lila Ross
- Rove: L.A. (2007) - Lila Ross (uncredited)
2007
A Prairie Home Companion: Deleted Scenes (Video short) as
Self
2007
Manufacturing Dissent (Documentary) as
Self - 75th Annual Academy Awards (uncredited)
2007
Canada A.M. (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 21 February 2007 (2007) - Self
- Episode dated 16 January 2007 (2007) - Self
2007
Penélope, camino a los Oscar (TV Movie documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (Documentary) as
Karen (uncredited)
2005
Sexes (TV Series) as
Francesca Johnson
- Guerra de sexes (2005) - Francesca Johnson
2005
80s (TV Series documentary) as
Joanna Kramer / Karen
- Episode #1.6 (2005) - Joanna Kramer
- Episode #1.3 (2005) - Karen
2005
El oficio de actor (TV Movie documentary) as
Francesca Johnson
2005
Ban the Sadist Videos! (Video documentary) as
Self
2004
Corazón de... (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 20 September 2004 (2004) - Self
2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (Documentary)
2004
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Julianne Moore: Seeing Red (2004) - Self
2003
Sendung ohne Namen (TV Series) as
Clarissa Vaughan
- Freunde? Haben Sie welche? (2003) - Clarissa Vaughan
2002
Plenty: Days of Plenty - A Conversation with Director Fred Schepisi (Video short) as
Susan Traherne
2002
Heart of the Festival (TV Movie) as
Self
2000
Oscar 2000 (TV Special) as
Self
1999
Omnibus (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Our Julie (1999) - Self (uncredited)
1996
The Universal Story (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1995
50 Years of Funny Females (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1992
Oscar's Greatest Moments (Video documentary) as
Self
1991
The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Suzanne Vale
1981
Sixty Years of Seduction (TV Movie documentary)
1980
An Interview with Dustin Hoffman: The Making Moments of Kramer vs. Kramer (Video) as
Self

References

Meryl Streep Wikipedia