Meryl Streep

Born

6/22/1949

Summit, New Jersey, USA

Meryl Streep

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 For125 Movies

Project Hail Mary
2026
★8.2
The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026
★6.4
Hoppers
2026
★7.4
The Devil Wears Prada
2006
★7.4
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
★7.1
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
★7.8
Don't Look Up
2021
★7.1
Little Women
2019
★7.8
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
★6.5
The Bridges of Madison County
1995
★7.7
Mamma Mia!
2008
★7.0
The Deer Hunter
1978
★8.0
Death Becomes Her
1992
★6.8
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
★7.1
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
★6.8
Into the Woods
2014
★5.8
The Giver
2014
★6.6
The Post
2017
★7.0
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
★6.5
Adaptation.
2002
★7.3
August: Osage County
2013
★6.9
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979
★7.6
The House of the Spirits
1993
★6.9
The Ant Bully
2006
★5.8
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
★6.7
The Laundromat
2019
★6.0
The Homesman
2014
★6.5
Out of Africa
1985
★7.2
It's Complicated
2009
★6.5
The Hours
2002
★7.2
Prime
2005
★6.0
Julie & Julia
2009
★6.7
She-Devil
1989
★6.0
Ricki and the Flash
2015
★5.8
Doubt
2008
★7.2
Rendition
2007
★6.4
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
2020
★7.6
Lions for Lambs
2007
★6.0
Manhattan
1979
★7.7
Postcards from the Edge
1990
★6.6
Marty, Life Is Short
2026
★7.9
Sophie's Choice
1982
★7.3
The Prom
2020
★6.1
Suffragette
2015
★7.2
The River Wild
1994
★6.5
The Iron Lady
2011
★6.4
Hope Springs
2012
★6.3
Defending Your Life
1991
★6.9
Before and After
1996
★5.9
Stuck on You
2003
★5.4
Marvin's Room
1996
★6.7
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
★6.9
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
★6.8
Let Them All Talk
2020
★5.6
Falling in Love
1984
★6.7
Heartburn
1986
★6.0
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
★6.3
Radioman
2012
★6.3
Silkwood
1983
★6.9
This Changes Everything
2019
★6.2
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
★7.5
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
★5.4
Evil Angels
1988
★6.8
One True Thing
1998
★6.5
Still of the Night
1982
★5.7
Ironweed
1987
★6.3
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
★7.7
Julia
1977
★6.5
Music of the Heart
1999
★6.7
Evening
2007
★5.8
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
★6.9
The Earth Day Special
1990
★6.1
Everything Is Copy
2015
★7.4
Henry David Thoreau
2026
★9.3
To the Arctic 3D
2012
★6.5
The Words That Built America
2017
★6.0
Wings of Life
2011
★7.2
Dancing at Lughnasa
1998
★6.0
Close Up
2012
★9.5
Girl Rising
2013
★7.0
Aktorka
2015
★10.0
Plenty
1985
★5.7
100 Years
2017
★6.0
Dark Matter
2008
★5.6
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2017
★7.5
Chrysanthemum
1999
★8.0
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002
★8.0
...First Do No Harm
1997
★6.9
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
★5.9
Five Came Back
2017
★7.9
Everybody Rides the Carousel
1976
★6.0
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
2010
★7.1
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
★6.1
Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen
2004
★2.0
Voices That Care
1991
★7.0
The Concert for Valor
2014
★8.6
Every Act of Life
2018
★6.4
The Deadliest Season
1977
★6.2
Hurricane on the Bayou
2006
★5.8
Alice at the Palace
1982
★6.2
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
2008
★8.4
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006
★5.0
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
★6.7
Theater of War
2008
★6.2
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
★7.1
Schindler Space Architect
2024
★10.0
The Music of Regret
2006
★6.0
A Song of Africa
2000
★8.5
America: The Story of Us
2010
★6.4
Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
2020
★6.5
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016
★6.3
The Living Sea
1995
★7.0
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
★6.5
Joe Papp in Five Acts
2012
★4.5
Kiss Me, Petruchio
1981
★6.0
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
2001
★5.0
Uncommon Women and Others
1979
★8.0
Doubt: Stage to Screen
2009
★6.5
A Fierce Green Fire
2013
★5.8
Secret Service
1977
★8.0
Auschwitz
2015
★7.4
Vermeer Master of Light
2001
★7.7
Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit
1984
★8.0
Out of Print
2013
★6.7
Escape from Extinction: Rewilding
2024
★7.0