Meryl Streep
Department: Acting
Biography
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as "the best actress of her generation", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations (winning three) and a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations (winning eight). She has also received two British Academy Film Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and six Grammy Awards.
Known For
Doubt: Stage to Screen
2009
The Hours
2002
Out of Africa
1985
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
The Bridges of Madison County
1995
Manhattan
1979
The House of the Spirits
1993
Prime
2005
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
Adaptation.
2002
Lions for Lambs
2007
She-Devil
1989
Dancing at Lughnasa
1998
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002
Rendition
2007
It's Complicated
2009
Evening
2007
Postcards from the Edge
1990
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
The Deer Hunter
1978
Mamma Mia!
2008
Julie & Julia
2009
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979
Still of the Night
1982
Defending Your Life
1991
The River Wild
1994
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
Silkwood
1983
Death Becomes Her
1992
Marvin's Room
1996
Music of the Heart
1999
...First Do No Harm
1997
The Ant Bully
2006
Heartburn
1986
Evil Angels
1988
Ironweed
1987
Plenty
1985
Julia
1977
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
Doubt
2008
Before and After
1996
Stanislavski: Lust for Life
2021
An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet
1994
Sophie's Choice
1982
Hurricane on the Bayou
2006
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
2010
Voices That Care
1991
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Close Up
2012
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
Stolen Childhoods
2005
The Living Sea
1995
Dark Matter
2008
Falling in Love
1984
The Iron Lady
2011
One True Thing
1998
Hope Springs
2012
Wings of Life
2011
A Fierce Green Fire
2013
To the Arctic 3D
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Ribbon of Sand
2008
Theater of War
2008
August: Osage County
2013
Alice at the Palace
1982
Joe Papp in Five Acts
2012
Girl Rising
2013
New York at the Movies
2002
Radioman
2012
Uncommon Women and Others
1979
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
Into the Woods
2014
The Giver
2014
The Devil Wears Prada
2006
Suffragette
2015
The Homesman
2014
Ricki and the Flash
2015
Everybody Rides the Carousel
1976
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006
The Concert for Valor
2014
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit
1984
Auschwitz
2015
Kiss Me, Petruchio
1981
Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait
1999
Vermeer Master of Light
2001
Secret Service
1977
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016
Shout Gladi Gladi
2015
Everything Is Copy
2015
The Earth Day Special
1990
Stuck on You
2003
Escape from Extinction: Rewilding
2024
100 Years
2017
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
The Music of Regret
2006
The Post
2017
The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits
2017
Five Came Back
2017
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
The Words That Built America
2017
The Deadliest Season
1977
The Laundromat
2019
Little Women
2019
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
This Changes Everything
2019
Every Act of Life
2018
Age 7 in America
1991
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
2008
Museum Town
2019
The Prom
2020
Sky Island
2010
Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary
2018
Let Them All Talk
2020
A Song of Africa
2000
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
2020
Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen
2004
Emotional Uncertainties
2015
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
2001
Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
2016
Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
2020
Don't Look Up
2021
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
Chrysanthemum
1999
Dear Elizabeth
2021
Karen Blixen: Out of This World
2005
Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep
2024
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
Schindler Space Architect
2024
The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026
Out of Print
2013
America: The Story of Us
2010
Useful Idiots
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Hoppers
2026
Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester
1988
Rabbit Ears - The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher/The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1987
Paul McCartney: Live from NYC
2018
Aktorka
2015
Heart of the Festival
2002
A Sleigh of One's Own
2028
Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic
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The Halls of Vertebrate Evolution
—
10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada
2006
Narnia
2026
Project Hail Mary
2026
Henry David Thoreau
2026
This Morning
1988
The Simpsons
1989
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Daily Show
1996
King of the Hill
1997
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The View
1997
The Colbert Report
2005
60 Minutes
1968
Angels in America
2003
Holocaust
1978
The Oscars
1953
America: The Story of Us
2010
Extrapolations
2023
GMTV
1993
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
Hemingway
2021
Great Performances
1971
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Only Murders in the Building
2021
Five Came Back
2017
School: The Story of American Public Education
2001
Makers: Women Who Make America
2013
Leute heute
1997
Big Little Lies
2017
Web Therapy
2011
Spécial cinéma
1974
The Grammys
1959
Goldene Kamera
1984
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
2021
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
2024
Vivement dimanche
1998
Unscripted
2005
Great Performances
1971
Great Performances
1971
The Corrections
—
Saturday Night Live
1975
奥斯维辛集中营
2013
The Directors
1999
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The American Revolution
2025
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Henry David Thoreau
2026