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Meryl Streep

Film Actress / Stage Actress / Television Actress / Voice Actress / Actress / Film Producer / Television Producer | * 06/22/1949 (75) | Summit, New Jersey (United States of America (USA))
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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Known for her versatility and adept accent work, she has been described as "the best actress of her generation". She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and a record 34 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning nine. Streep made her stage debut in 1975 in Trelawny of the Wells, and the following year she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for a double-bill production of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays. She made her feature film debut in Julia (1977) and received her first Oscar nomination for The Deer Hunter (1978). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a troubled wife in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), followed by the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as a Holocaust survivor in ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Comedies

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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 reve ...

Sophie's Choice

R

1982 | 3.7/5 | 2h 31min
Drama, Romance / Love, War
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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. ...

The Devil Wears Prada

PG-13

2006 | 3.7/5 | 1h 49min
Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
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A look at the lives of the strong-willed women 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 wom ...

August: Osage County

R

2013 | 3.4/5 | 2h 1min
Comedy, Drama
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Out of Africa tells the story of the life 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 the autobiograph ...

Out of Africa

PG

1985 | 3.6/5 | 2h 41min
History, Romance / Love, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Meryl Streep

2x Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress National Medal of Arts Donostia Award 2x Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actress of the Year Theatre World Award Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award New Jersey Hall of Fame Presidential Medal of Freedom Kennedy Center Honors AFI Life Achievement Award Rungstedlund Award Honorary Doctorate From Princeton University Commandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres‎ 2x Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Awards 2x Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Honorary César Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress Silver Bear for Best Actress Crystal Award Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Honorary Doctor of Harvard University MTV Movie Award for Best Villain 2x BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film 3x Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Princess of AsturIAS Award for The Arts Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 4x Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 17x Academy Award for Best Actress 4x Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play MTV Movie Award for Best Villain European Film Academy Lux Award
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Movies with Meryl Streep as Actress(129)

as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)2022 Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2021 Stanislavski: Lust for Life
as herself2021 Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
as President Orlean2021 Don't Look Up
as Self - Actress (archive footage)2020 Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
as herself2020 In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
as Performer2020 Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
as Narrator2020 Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
as Dee Dee Allen2020 The Prom
as Alice Hughes2020 Let Them All Talk
as Aunt Josephine March2019 Little Women
as Narrator2019 Museum Town
as Ellen Martin / Elena2019 The Laundromat
as herself2019 Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as herself2019 This Changes Everything
2018 Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary
as herself2018 We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World
as Donna2018 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
as Tatiana "Topsy" Topotrepolovsky2018 Mary Poppins Returns
as Self (archive footage)2018 Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Maurine McElroy (voice)2018 Every Act of Life
as Kay Graham2017 The Post
as Narrator (voice)2017 100 Years
as Reader - Declaration of Independence2017 The Words That Built America
as Narrator2017 Five Came Back
2016 Mike Nichols: An American Master
as Elizabeth Murray (voice)2016 Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
as Florence Foster Jenkins2016 Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 Starring Austin Pendleton
as Ricki Rendazzo2015 Ricki and the Flash
as Narrator (voice)2015 Auschwitz
as Emmeline Pankhurst2015 Suffragette
as Narrator2015 Shout Gladi Gladi
2015 Everything Is Copy
as Witch2014 Into the Woods
as herself2014 The Concert for Valor
as Altha Carter2014 The Homesman
as Self (archive footage)2014 And the Oscar Goes To...
as Chief Elder2014 The Giver
as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)2013 Girl Rising
as Violet Weston2013 August: Osage County
as Narrator2013 Out of Print
as Narrator (voice)2013 A Fierce Green Fire
as herself2013 Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
as Narrator (voice)2012 To the Arctic
as herself2012 La Classe américaine
as Kay2012 Hope Springs
as Narrator2011 Wings of Life
as Margaret Thatcher2011 The Iron Lady
as Jennie2010 Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
2010 Sky Island
as Felicity Fox (voice)2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox
as herself2009 Doubt: Stage to Screen
as herself2009 I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Jane Adler2009 It's Complicated
as Julia Child2009 Julie & Julia
2009 Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia
as herself2008 An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
as Sister Aloysius Beauvier2008 Doubt
as Donna Sheridan2008 Mamma Mia!
as herself2008 Birthing Mamma Mia!
as herself2008 Theater of War
as Joanna Silver2008 Dark Matter
as Lila Ross2007 Evening
as Janine Roth2007 Lions for Lambs
as Corrine Whitman2007 Rendition
as Narrator2006 Hurricane on the Bayou
as Miranda Priestly2006 The Devil Wears Prada
as The Woman2006 The Music of Regret
as herself2006 Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
as Yolanda Johnson2006 A Prairie Home Companion
as Queen (voice)2006 The Ant Bully
as Lisa Metzger2005 Prime
as Self - Host2005 Karen Blixen: Out of This World
as Narrator2005 Stolen Childhoods
as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)2004 The Manchurian Candidate
as Josephine Anwhistle2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Self (uncredited)2003 Stuck on You
as Susan Orlean2002 Adaptation.
2002 There's Only One Paul McCartney
as Clarissa Vaughan2002 The Hours
as Narrator2001 Vermeer Master of Light
as Blue Mecha (voice)2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as herself2001 Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
as herself2000 Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as herself2000 A Song of Africa
as Roberta Guaspari1999 Music of the Heart
as Narrator1999 Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait
as Narrator1999 Chrysanthemum
as herself1999 From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
as Kate Gulden1998 One True Thing
as Kate Mundy1998 Dancing at Lughnasa
as Lori Reimuller1997 ...First Do No Harm
as Lee Wakefield Lacker1996 Marvin's Room
as Dr. Carolyn Ryan1996 Before and After
as Narrator (voice)1995 The Living Sea
as Francesca Johnson1995 The Bridges of Madison County
as Self - Host1994 An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet
as Gail Hartman1994 The River Wild
as Clara del Valle Trueba1993 The House of the Spirits
as Madeline Ashton Menville1992 Death Becomes Her
as Narrator (voice)1991 Age 7 in America
as Julia1991 Defending Your Life
as Suzanne Vale1990 Postcards from the Edge
as Self - Choir Member1990 Voices That Care
as Concerned Citizen1990 The Earth Day Special
as Mary Fisher1989 She-Devil
as Lindy Chamberlain1988 Evil Angels
as Helen Archer1987 Ironweed
as Rachel1986 Heartburn
as Susan Traherne1985 Plenty
as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen1985 Out of Africa
as Molly Gilmore1984 Falling in Love
as Narrator (voice)1984 Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit
as Karen Silkwood1983 Silkwood
as Brooke Reynolds1982 Still of the Night
as Alice1982 Alice at the Palace
as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski1982 Sophie's Choice
as Katherine1981 Kiss Me, Petruchio
as Sarah / Anna1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Karen Traynor1979 The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Jill1979 Manhattan
as Joanna Kramer1979 Kramer vs. Kramer
as Leilah1979 Uncommon Women and Others
as Linda1978 The Deer Hunter
as Anne Marie1977 Julia
as Edith Varney1977 Secret Service
as Sharon Miller1977 The Deadliest Season
as Stage 6 (voice)1975 Everybody Rides the Carousel

TV Shows/Series with Meryl Streep as Actress(27)

as Eve2023 Extrapolations
as Eleanor Roosevelt2022 The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Martha Gellhorn (voice)2021 Hemingway
as Herself (archive footage)2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Mary Louise Wright2017 Big Little Lies
as herself2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)2014 The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as Narrator2013 Makers: Women Who Make America
as Camilla Bowner2011 Web Therapy
as herself2007 The Graham Norton Show
2005 The Colbert Report
as herself2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as herself1998 Vivement dimanche
as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)1997 King of the Hill
as herself1997 The View
as herself1996 The Daily Show
as herself1994 Inside the Actors Studio
as herself1993 GMTV
as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)1989 The Simpsons
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest1988 This Morning
as Inga Helms Weiss1978 Holocaust
as Leilah1971 Great Performances
as Self - Host1971 Great Performances
1971 Great Performances
as herself1968 60 Minutes
as herself1966 Goldene Kamera Verleihung

Movies with Meryl Streep as Crew(2)

Production/Executive Producer2022 Sell/Buy/Date
Production/Executive Producer1997 ...First Do No Harm

Additional Information

Official websites:
www.merylstreeponline.net
Full Name: Mary Louise Meryl Streep
Born: Wednesday, 06/22 1949 (June) in Summit, New Jersey (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 75 years + 104 days)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Vassar College, Yale University, Yale School of Drama, Bernards High School
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, SAG-AFTRA, Screen Actors Guild
Spouses (current/former): Don Gummer
Children: Mamie Gummer, Henry Wolfe Gummer, Grace Gummer, Louisa Gummer
Mother: Mary Wilkinson Streep
Related to: Brooke Shields
Student of: Jean Arthur, Carmen De Lavallade, Robert Lewis, Estelle Liebling
Other names for Meryl Streep (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"ميريل ستريب"
"Мэрил Стрип"
"메릴 스트립"
"メリル・ストリープ"
"เมอรีล สตรีป"
"梅麗·史翠普"
"მერილ სტრიპი"
"Μέριλ Στριπ"
"梅丽尔·斯特里普"
"Mary Louise Streep"
Meryl Streep frequently works together with these people:
David Herman (90x, Actor)
J. Roy Helland (38x, Crew)
Tress MacNeille (36x, Actress)
Pamela Hayden (23x, Actress)
Phil Hendrie (19x, Actor)
Kevin Michael Richardson (17x, Actor)
Maggie Roswell (17x, Actress)
Scott Klace (17x, Actor)
Steven Spielberg (15x, Crew)
Phil LaMarr (15x, Actor)
Daniel Radcliffe (13x, Actor)
Susan Sarandon (13x, Actress)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:622, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 10/02/2024