Meryl Streep on screen and stage
Film

Meryl Streep on screen and stage

Section Title: Film
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Title	Year	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.

Julia	1977	Anne Marie	Fred Zinnemann

The Deer Hunter	1978	Linda	Michael Cimino

Manhattan	1979	Jill	Woody Allen

The Seduction of Joe Tynan	1979	Karen Traynor	Jerry Schatzberg

Kramer vs. Kramer	1979	Joanna Kramer	Robert Benton

The French Lieutenant's Woman	1981	Sarah / Anna	Karel Reisz

Still of the Night	1982	Brooke Reynolds	Robert Benton

Sophie's Choice	1982	Sophie Zawistowski	Alan J. Pakula

Silkwood	1983	Karen Silkwood	Mike Nichols

Falling in Love	1984	Molly Gilmore	Ulu Grosbard

Plenty	1985	Susan Traherne	Fred Schepisi

Out of Africa	1985	Karen Blixen	Sydney Pollack

Heartburn	1986	Rachel Samstat	Mike Nichols

Ironweed	1987	Helen Archer	Hector Babenco

A Cry in the Dark	1988	Lindy Chamberlain	Fred Schepisi

She-Devil	1989	Mary Fisher	Susan Seidelman

Postcards from the Edge	1990	Suzanne Vale	Mike Nichols

Defending Your Life	1991	Julia	Albert Brooks

Age 7 in America	1991	Narrator	Phil Joanou	Documentary

Death Becomes Her	1992	Madeline Ashton	Robert Zemeckis

The House of the Spirits	1993	Clara del Valle Trueba	Bille August

The River Wild	1994	Gail Hartman	Curtis Hanson

The Living Sea	1995	Narrator	Greg MacGillivray	Documentary

The Bridges of Madison County	1995	Francesca Johnson	Clint Eastwood

Before and After	1996	Dr. Carolyn Ryan	Barbet Schroeder

Marvin's Room	1996	Lee	Jerry Zaks

Dancing at Lughnasa	1998	Kate Mundy	Pat O'Connor

One True Thing	1998	Kate Gulden	Carl Franklin

Music of the Heart	1999	Roberta Guaspari	Wes Craven

Ginevra's Story	1999	Narrator	Christopher Swann	Documentary

A.I. Artificial Intelligence	2001	Blue Mecha	Steven Spielberg	Voice

Adaptation.	2002	Susan Orlean	Spike Jonze

The Hours	2002	Clarissa Vaughan	Stephen Daldry

Stuck on You	2003	Herself	Farrelly brothers	Uncredited cameo

The Manchurian Candidate	2004	Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw	Jonathan Demme

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	2004	Aunt Josephine	Brad Silberling

Prime	2005	Lisa Metzger	Ben Younger

Stolen Childhoods	2005	Narrator	Len Morris	Documentary

A Prairie Home Companion	2006	Yolanda Johnson	Robert Altman

The Music of Regret	2006	The Woman	Laurie Simmons	Short film

The Devil Wears Prada	2006	Miranda Priestly	David Frankel

The Ant Bully	2006	Queen Ant	John A. Davis	Voice

Dark Matter	2007	Joanna Silver	Chen Shi-Zheng

Evening	2007	Lila Ross	Lajos Koltai

Rendition	2007	Corrine Whitman	Gavin Hood

Lions for Lambs	2007	Janine Roth	Robert Redford

Mamma Mia!	2008	Donna Sheridan	Phyllida Lloyd

Doubt	2008	Sister Aloysius Beauvier	John Patrick Shanley

Julie & Julia	2009	Julia Child	Nora Ephron

Fantastic Mr. Fox	2009	Felicity Fox	Wes Anderson	Voice

It's Complicated	2009	Jane Adler	Nancy Meyers

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life	2010	Jennie	Chris Lavis/ Maciek Szczerbowski	Voice; short film

The Iron Lady	2011	Margaret Thatcher	Phyllida Lloyd

To the Arctic 3D	2012	Narrator	Greg MacGillivray	Documentary

Hope Springs	2012	Kay Soames	David Frankel

Wings of Life	2013	Narrator	Louie Schwartzberg	Documentary

Girl Rising	2013	Narrator	Richard E. Robbins	Documentary

A Fierce Green Fire	2013	Narrator	Mark Kitchell	Documentary

Out of Print	2013	Narrator	Vivienne Roumani	Documentary

August: Osage County	2013	Violet Weston	John Wells

The Giver	2014	Chief Elder	Phillip Noyce

The Homesman	2014	Altha Carter	Tommy Lee Jones

Into the Woods	2014	The Witch	Rob Marshall

Ricki and the Flash	2015	Ricki	Jonathan Demme

Suffragette	2015	Emmeline Pankhurst	Sarah Gavron

Shout Gladi Gladi	2015	Narrator	Adam Friedman / Iain Kennedy	Documentary

Florence Foster Jenkins	2016	Florence Foster Jenkins	Stephen Frears

We Rise	2017	Narrator	Donna Lawrence	Documentary

The Guardian Brothers	2017	Narrator	Gary Wang	Voice (English version)

The Post	2017	Kay Graham	Steven Spielberg

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again	2018	Donna Sheridan	Ol Parker

Mary Poppins Returns	2018	Topsy	Rob Marshall

Little Women	2019	Aunt March	Greta Gerwig	Post-production

The Laundromat	TBA	Ellen Martin	Steven Soderbergh	Post-production

Sentence(s)

Streep portrayed as Silkwood in Mike Nichols' Silkwood (1983) and as Karen Blixen in Out of Africa (1985).

final_sentence: Streep portrayed as Silkwood in Mike Nichols' Silkwood (1983) and as Karen Blixen in Out of Africa (1985).