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Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected actresses of the modern era. Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia. Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first win. She later won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Sophie's Choice (1982). Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations, winning two, and 25 Golden Globe nominations, winning seven, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, four New York Film Critics Circle Awards, five Grammy Award nominations, a BAFTA award, an Australian Film Institute Award and a Tony Award nomination, amongst others. She was awarded the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Description above from the Wikipedia article Meryl Streep, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Jun 22, 1949 In Summit, New Jersey, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
126
First Appeared:
In the movie Everybody Rides the Carousel 1975-06-08
Latest Project:
Movie Entergalactic 2022-09-28
Known For
Filmography
Movie Entergalactic Self (archive footage) 2022-09-28
Series Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy Self 2021-09-09
Movie Don't Look Up President Orlean 2021-12-08
Movie We Are Cinema Self (archive footage) 2021-12-16
Movie Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis Self - Actress (archive footage) 2020-08-16
Movie In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover Meryl Streep 2020-10-30
Movie Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration Self - Performer 2020-04-26
Movie The Prom Dee Dee Allen 2020-12-02
Movie Let Them All Talk Alice Hughes 2020-12-10
Movie Rose McGowan: Being Brave Self 2019-04-09
Movie Museum Town Narrator (voice) 2019-03-10
Movie This Changes Everything Self 2019-06-28
Movie Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage Self (archive footage) 2019-09-13
Movie The Laundromat Ellen Martin / Elena 2019-09-27
Movie Little Women Aunt March 2019-12-25
Movie Every Act of Life Maurine McElroy (voice) 2018-04-23
Movie Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Donna Sheridan-Carmichael 2018-07-09
Movie Mary Poppins Returns Cousin Topsy 2018-12-13
Movie Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal Self (archive footage) 2018-08-21
Movie Paul McCartney | Live at Grand Central Station Self (Cameo) 2018-09-07
Series Five Came Back Self - Narrator (voice) 2017-03-31
Movie 100 Years Narrator (voice) 2017-01-17
Series Big Little Lies Mary Louise Wright 2017-02-19
Movie The Post Kay Graham 2017-12-22
Movie The Words That Built America Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence 2017-07-04
Movie Five Came Back Narrator (voice) 2017-03-31
Movie Mike Nichols: An American Master Self 2016-01-29
Movie Starring Austin Pendleton Self 2016-04-01
Movie Florence Foster Jenkins Florence Foster Jenkins 2016-05-06
Movie The Guardian Brothers Narrator (voice) 2015-06-25
Movie Auschwitz Narrator (voice) 2015-01-27
Movie Ricki and the Flash Ricki Rendazzo 2015-07-10
Movie Shout Gladi Gladi Narrator (voice) 2015-10-01
Movie Everything Is Copy Self 2015-09-29
Movie Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst 2015-10-16
Movie The Giver Chief Elder 2014-08-13
Movie And the Oscar Goes To... Self (archive footage) 2014-02-01
Movie The Homesman Altha Carter 2014-05-18
Series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) 2014-09-14
Movie Into the Woods Witch 2014-12-24
Movie The Concert for Valor Self 2014-11-11
Movie A Fierce Green Fire Narrator (voice) 2013-03-01
Movie Girl Rising Narrator - Ethiopia (voice) 2013-03-07
Movie Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story Self 2013-04-27
Movie August: Osage County Violet Weston 2013-12-26
Movie Hope Springs Kay 2012-08-07
Movie Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (archive footage) 2012-02-04
Movie Close Up Self (archive footage) 2012-09-30
Movie La Classe américaine Self 2012-10-05
Movie Radioman Self 2012-12-07
Movie The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher 2011-12-26
Movie Sky Island (voice) 2010-01-01
Series America: The Story of Us Self 2010-04-25
Movie Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life Jennie 2010-03-02
Movie I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale Self 2009-01-16
Movie Julie & Julia Julia Child 2009-08-06
Movie It's Complicated Jane Adler 2009-12-23
Movie Fantastic Mr. Fox Felicity Fox (voice) 2009-10-23
Movie Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia Self 2009-12-08
Movie Theater of War Self 2008-04-28
Movie Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Self (archive footage) 2008-01-18
Movie Dark Matter Joanna Silver 2008-04-24
Movie An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' Self 2008-05-06
Movie Mamma Mia! Donna Sheridan 2008-07-03
Movie Birthing Mamma Mia! Self 2008-12-31
Movie Doubt Sister Aloysius Beauvier 2008-12-12
Movie Evening Lila Ross 2007-06-09
Movie Rendition Corrine Whitman 2007-09-07
Movie Lions for Lambs Janine Roth 2007-10-22
Movie The Music of Regret The Woman 2006-05-24
Movie Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner Self 2006-01-15
Movie A Prairie Home Companion Yolanda Johnson 2006-06-01
Movie The Ant Bully Queen (voice) 2006-07-28
Movie The Devil Wears Prada Miranda Priestly 2006-06-29
Movie Hurricane on the Bayou Narrator (voice) 2006-07-29
Movie Prime Lisa Metzger 2005-09-21
Movie Stolen Childhoods Narrator (voice) 2005-12-31
Movie Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen Self 2004-04-20
Movie Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Josephine Anwhistle 2004-12-16
Movie The Manchurian Candidate Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA) 2004-07-30
Series Angels in America Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia 2003-12-07
Movie Stuck on You Meryl Streep (uncredited) 2003-12-10
Movie New York at the Movies Narrator (voice) 2002-07-07
Movie The Hours Clarissa Vaughan 2002-12-27
Movie Adaptation. Susan Orlean 2002-12-06
Movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence Blue Mecha (voice) 2001-06-29
Movie Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows Self 2000-09-27
Movie From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic Self 1999-06-15
Movie Music of the Heart Roberta 1999-10-29
Movie Dancing at Lughnasa Kate Mundy 1998-09-04
Movie One True Thing Kate Gulden 1998-09-18
Movie ...First Do No Harm Lori Reimuller 1997-02-16
Movie Eastwood on Eastwood Herself (archive footage) 1997-11-01
Movie Before and After Dr. Carolyn Ryan 1996-02-23
Movie Marvin's Room Lee Wakefield Lacker 1996-12-18
Movie The Bridges of Madison County Francesca Johnson 1995-06-02
Movie The River Wild Gail Hartman 1994-09-30
Movie The House of the Spirits Clara del Valle Trueba 1993-10-21
Movie Death Becomes Her Madeline Ashton Menville 1992-07-30
Movie Voices That Care Self - Choir Member 1991-02-28
Movie Defending Your Life Julia 1991-03-22
Movie The Earth Day Special Concerned Citizen 1990-04-22
Movie Postcards from the Edge Suzanne Vale 1990-09-14
Movie She-Devil Mary Fisher 1989-12-08
Movie Evil Angels Lindy Chamberlain 1988-11-03
Movie Ironweed Helen Archer 1987-12-18
Movie Heartburn Rachel 1986-07-25
Movie Plenty Susan Traherne 1985-09-20
Movie Out of Africa Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen 1985-12-20
Movie Falling in Love Molly Gilmore 1984-11-21
Movie Silkwood Karen Silkwood 1983-12-14
Movie Still of the Night Brooke Reynolds 1982-11-19
Movie Alice at the Palace Alice 1982-01-16
Movie Sophie's Choice Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski 1982-12-08
Movie Kiss Me, Petruchio Katherine 1981-01-07
Movie The French Lieutenant's Woman Sarah / Anna 1981-08-28
Movie Manhattan Jill 1979-04-25
Movie Uncommon Women and Others Leilah 1979-06-20
Movie The Seduction of Joe Tynan Karen Traynor 1979-08-17
Movie Kramer vs. Kramer Joanna Kramer 1979-12-07
Series Holocaust Inga Helms Weiss 1978-04-16
Movie The Deer Hunter Linda 1978-12-08
Movie Secret Service Edith Varney 1977-01-12
Movie Julia Anne Marie 1977-10-01
Movie The Deadliest Season Sharon Miller 1977-03-16
Movie Everybody Rides the Carousel Stage 6 (voice) 1975-06-08