Meryl Streep

Born:June 22, 1949

Place of Birth:Summit, New Jersey, USA

Known For:Acting

Biography

Meryl Streep, born Mary Louise Streep on June 22, 1949, is an iconic figure in the world of cinema. With a career that has spanned over five decades, she has solidified her reputation as one of the greatest actresses of all time. Streep's ability to seamlessly transform into a wide range of characters has earned her the title of "the best actress of her generation."

Throughout her illustrious career, Streep has garnered an impressive collection of accolades, including a record-breaking 21 Academy Award nominations. Her talent and dedication to her craft have not only been recognized by the Academy but also by the Golden Globe Awards, where she has received a record 32 nominations and won eight times. Additionally, Streep has been honored with two British Academy Film Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards.

Beyond her numerous wins and nominations, Streep's versatility as an actress is unparalleled. She has showcased her ability to adapt accents and mannerisms with such precision that she immerses herself completely in every role she takes on. From portraying historical figures to complex fictional characters, Streep's performances are always captivating and authentic.

In addition to her success in film, Streep has also made a mark on the stage, earning a Tony Award nomination for her work in theater. Her talent transcends mediums, as evidenced by her six Grammy Award nominations for her contributions to the world of music and spoken word.

Off-screen, Streep is known for her dedication to various social and humanitarian causes. She uses her platform to advocate for gender equality, environmental conservation, and the arts. Streep's influence extends far beyond the silver screen, making her not only a celebrated actress but also a respected voice for positive change in the world.

With her unparalleled talent, unwavering commitment to her craft, and passion for making a difference, Meryl Streep has left an indelible mark on the world of entertainment. Her legacy as a versatile and transformative actress continues to inspire generations of performers and audiences alike.

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Filmography

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The Devil Wears Prada

Miranda Priestly

2006

Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.

Little Women

Aunt March

2019

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Mamma Mia!

Donna Sheridan

2008

A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.

Don't Look Up

President Orlean

2021

Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Felicity Fox (voice)

2009

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Blue Mecha (voice)

2001

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

The Giver

Chief Elder

2014

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Josephine Anwhistle

2004

Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.

Death Becomes Her

Madeline Ashton Menville

1992

Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.

Julie & Julia

Julia Child

2009

Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

The Post

Kay Graham

2017

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

The Ant Bully

Queen (voice)

2006

Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and learning their ways.

The Bridges of Madison County

Francesca Johnson

1995

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Donna Sheridan-Carmichael

2018

Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.

The Deer Hunter

Linda

1978

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

The Hours

Clarissa Vaughan

2002

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Doubt

Sister Aloysius Beauvier

2008

In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.

Mary Poppins Returns

Cousin Topsy

2018

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

Out of Africa

Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen

1985

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

Kramer vs. Kramer

Joanna Kramer

1979

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Falling in Love

Molly Gilmore

1984

During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.

Into the Woods

Witch

2014

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

Adaptation.

Susan Orlean

2002

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.

The Manchurian Candidate

Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)

2004

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

She-Devil

Mary Fisher

1989

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.

Manhattan

Jill

1979

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

It's Complicated

Jane Adler

2009

Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out her life—just when she thought she had it all figured out.

The House of the Spirits

Clara del Valle Trueba

1993

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

Sophie's Choice

Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski

1982

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

Stuck on You

Meryl Streep (uncredited)

2003

In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to stay out of the spotlight. When a fading Hollywood actress, Cher, decides to get her show "Honey and the Beaze" cancelled, she hires Walt -- and his brotherly appendage -- as her costars. But their addition surprisingly achieves the opposite.

August: Osage County

Violet Weston

2013

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

The Laundromat

Ellen Martin / Elena

2019

When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.

The Homesman

Altha Carter

2014

When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.

The River Wild

Gail Hartman

1994

Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.

Lions for Lambs

Janine Roth

2007

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.

Suffragette

Emmeline Pankhurst

2015

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Self

2025

Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringing together legendary Saturday Night Live hall-of-famers, iconic guests and surprise musical performances.

The Iron Lady

Margaret Thatcher

2011

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

Marvin's Room

Lee Wakefield Lacker

1996

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Self

2025

Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

Prime

Lisa Metzger

2005

A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.

Ironweed

Helen Archer

1987

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

...First Do No Harm

Lori Reimuller

1997

When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and desperate, and so does her own research into the existing literature on treatments. When she decides to try an alternative treatment called the Ketogenic Diet, devised long ago by a doctor from Johns Hopkins, she is met with narrow-minded resistance from Robbie's doctor, who is prepared to take legal action to prevent Lori from removing him from the hospital.

One True Thing

Kate Gulden

1998

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.