Meryl Streep on screen and stage

Meryl Streep is an American actress who has had an extensive career in film, television, and stage.[1][2] She made her stage debut in 1975 with The Public Theater production of Trelawny of the Wells.[3] She went on to perform several roles on stage in the 1970s, garnering a Tony Award nomination for her role in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1976).[4] In 1977, Streep starred in the television movie The Deadliest Season, and made her film debut with a brief role alongside Jane Fonda in Julia.[5] A supporting role in the war drama The Deer Hunter(1978) proved to be a breakthrough for Streep and she received her first Academy Award nomination for it.[6] She won the award the following year for playing a troubled wife in the top-grossing drama Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).[7]Also in 1978, Streep played a German married to a Jew in Nazi Germany in the television miniseries Holocaust, which earned her the Emmy Award for Best Actress.[8]
Streep established herself as a leading Hollywood actress in the 1980s.[9][10]She played dual roles in the period drama The French Lieutenant's Woman(1981),[10] and starred as a Polish Holocaust survivor in Sophie's Choice(1982).[11] She was awarded the Best Actress Oscar for the latter.[8] Streep portrayed the real-life character of Karen Silkwood in Mike Nichols' drama Silkwood (1983),[12] before starring in her most financially successful release of the decade, the romantic drama Out of Africa (1985), in which she played the Danish writer Karen Blixen.[13][14] Despite intermittent successes, Streep's career went through a period of decline post-1985, with several commentators criticizing her for her inclination towards melodramatic roles.[15] The criticism continued despite her attempts to actively star in commercial comedies, films that parodied women's beauty and aging, She-Devil (1989) and Death Becomes Her (1992).[16]
In 1995, Streep starred opposite Clint Eastwood as an unhappily married woman in The Bridges of Madison County, her biggest critical and commercial success of the decade.[14][17] Although her dramas of the late 1990s received a mixed reception overall,[18][19] she was praised for her role as a cancer patient in One True Thing (1998).[20] She had acclaimed roles in the 2002 films Adaptation. and The Hours, and won a second Emmy Award for the television miniseries Angels in America a year later, though she failed to replicate her earlier success.[21][22]This changed in 2006, with an Academy Award-nominated role as a ruthless fashion magazine editor in the comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada.[23] This late-period success led to starring roles in several high-profile films, including the US$609 million-grossing romantic comedy Mamma Mia! (2008), her highest-grossing release, and the comedy-drama Julie & Julia (2009), in which she played Julia Child.[24][25] These roles re-established Streep's stardom in Hollywood.[26] Her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the biopic The Iron Lady(2011) earned her another Academy Award for Best Actress.[27] The starring role of Katharine Graham in the 2017 drama The Post garnered Streep her 21st Oscar nomination, more than any actor or actress in history.[28]
== Film ==
Title 	Year	Role 	Director(s) 	Notes 	Ref.
Julia 	1977	Anne Marie 	Fred Zinnemann 	 	[29]
The Deer Hunter 	1978	Linda 	Michael Cimino 	 	[30]
Manhattan 	1979	Jill 	Woody Allen 	 	[31]
The Seduction of Joe Tynan 	1979	Karen Traynor 	Jerry Schatzberg 	 	[32]
Kramer vs. Kramer 	1979	Joanna Kramer 	Robert Benton 	 	[33]
The French Lieutenant's Woman 	1981	Sarah / Anna[a] 	Karel Reisz 	 	[34]
Still of the Night 	1982	Brooke Reynolds 	Robert Benton 	 	[35]
Sophie's Choice 	1982	Sophie Zawistowski 	Alan J. Pakula 	 	[36]
Silkwood 	1983	Karen Silkwood 	Mike Nichols 	 	[37]
Falling in Love 	1984	Molly Gilmore 	Ulu Grosbard 	 	[38]
Plenty 	1985	Susan Traherne 	Fred Schepisi 	 	[39]
Out of Africa 	1985	Karen Blixen 	Sydney Pollack 	 	[40]
Heartburn 	1986	Rachel Samstat 	Mike Nichols 	 	[41]
Ironweed 	1987	Helen Archer 	Hector Babenco 	 	[42]
A Cry in the Dark 	1988	Lindy Chamberlain 	Fred Schepisi 	 	[43]
She-Devil 	1989	Mary Fisher 	Susan Seidelman 	 	[44]
Postcards from the Edge 	1990	Suzanne Vale 	Mike Nichols 	 	[45]
Defending Your Life 	1991	Julia 	Albert Brooks 	 	[46]
Age 7 in America 	1991	Narrator 	Phil Joanou 	Documentary 	[47]
Death Becomes Her 	1992	Madeline Ashton 	Robert Zemeckis 	 	[48]
The House of the Spirits 	1993	Clara del Valle Trueba 	Bille August 	 	[49]
The River Wild 	1994	Gail Hartman 	Curtis Hanson 	 	[50]
The Living Sea 	1995	Narrator 	Greg MacGillivray 	Documentary 	[51]
The Bridges of Madison County 	1995	Francesca Johnson 	Clint Eastwood 	 	[17]
Before and After 	1996	Dr. Carolyn Ryan 	Barbet Schroeder 	 	[49]
Marvin's Room 	1996	Lee 	Jerry Zaks 	 	[52]
Dancing at Lughnasa 	1998	Kate Mundy 	Pat O'Connor 	 	[53]
One True Thing 	1998	Kate Gulden 	Carl Franklin 	 	[54]
Music of the Heart 	1999	Roberta Guaspari 	Wes Craven 	 	[55]
Ginevra's Story 	1999	Narrator 	Christopher Swann 	Documentary 	[56]
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 	2001	Blue Mecha 	Steven Spielberg 	Voice 	[57]
Adaptation. 	2002	Susan Orlean 	Spike Jonze 	 	[58]
The Hours 	2002	Clarissa Vaughan 	Stephen Daldry 	 	[59]
Stuck on You 	2003	Herself 	Farrelly brothers 	Uncredited cameo 	[60]
The Manchurian Candidate 	2004	Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw	Jonathan Demme 	 	[61]
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 	2004	Aunt Josephine 	Brad Silberling 	 	[62]
Prime 	2005	Lisa Metzger 	Ben Younger 	 	[63]
Stolen Childhoods 	2005	Narrator 	Len Morris 	Documentary 	[64]
A Prairie Home Companion 	2006	Yolanda Johnson 	Robert Altman 	 	[65]
The Music of Regret 	2006	The Woman 	Laurie Simmons 	Short film 	[66]
The Devil Wears Prada 	2006	Miranda Priestly 	David Frankel 	 	[67]
The Ant Bully 	2006	Queen Ant 	John A. Davis 	Voice 	[68]
Dark Matter 	2007	Joanna Silver 	Chen Shi-Zheng 	 	[69]
Evening 	2007	Lila Ross 	Lajos Koltai 	 	[70]
Rendition 	2007	Corrine Whitman 	Gavin Hood 	 	[71]
Lions for Lambs 	2007	Janine Roth 	Robert Redford 	 	[72]
Mamma Mia! 	2008	Donna Sheridan 	Phyllida Lloyd 	 	[73]
Doubt 	2008	Sister Aloysius Beauvier 	John Patrick Shanley	 	[74]
Julie & Julia 	2009	Julia Child 	Nora Ephron 	 	[75]
Fantastic Mr. Fox 	2009	Felicity Fox 	Wes Anderson 	Voice 	[76]
It's Complicated 	2009	Jane Adler 	Nancy Meyers 	 	[77]
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life	2010	Jennie 	Chris Lavis/
Maciek Szczerbowski	Voice; short film 	[78]
The Iron Lady 	2011	Margaret Thatcher 	Phyllida Lloyd 	 	[79]
To the Arctic 3D 	2012	Narrator 	Greg MacGillivray 	Documentary 	[80]
Hope Springs 	2012	Kay Soames 	David Frankel 	 	[81]
Wings of Life 	2013	Narrator 	Louie Schwartzberg 	Documentary 	[82]
Girl Rising 	2013	Narrator 	Richard E. Robbins 	Documentary 	[83]
A Fierce Green Fire 	2013	Narrator 	Mark Kitchell 	Documentary 	[84]
Out of Print 	2013	Narrator 	Vivienne Roumani 	Documentary 	[85]
August: Osage County 	2013	Violet Weston 	John Wells 	 	[86]
The Giver 	2014	Chief Elder 	Phillip Noyce 	 	[87]
The Homesman 	2014	Altha Carter 	Tommy Lee Jones 	 	[88]
Into the Woods 	2014	The Witch 	Rob Marshall 	 	[89]
Ricki and the Flash 	2015	Ricki 	Jonathan Demme 	 	[90]
Suffragette 	2015	Emmeline Pankhurst 	Sarah Gavron 	 	[91]
Shout Gladi Gladi 	2015	Narrator 	Adam Friedman / 
Iain Kennedy	Documentary 	[92]
Florence Foster Jenkins 	2016	Florence Foster Jenkins 	Stephen Frears 	 	[93]
We Rise 	2017	Narrator 	Donna Lawrence 	Documentary 	[94]
The Guardian Brothers 	2017	Narrator 	Gary Wang 	Voice (English version)	[95]
The Post 	2017	Kay Graham 	Steven Spielberg 	 	[96]
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 	2018	Donna Sheridan 	Ol Parker 	 	[97]
Mary Poppins Returns 	2018	Topsy 	Rob Marshall 	 	[98]
== Television ==
Title 	Year 	Role 	Notes 	Ref(s)
Everybody Rides the Carousel 	1976 	Lover 	Voice; television film 	[101]
The Deadliest Season 	1977 	Sharon Miller 	Television film 	[102]
Secret Service 	1977 	Edith Varney 	1 episode 	[102]
Holocaust 	1978 	Inga Helms Weiss 	Television miniseries 	[102]
Uncommon Women and Others 	1979 	Leilah 	Television film 	[102]
Kiss Me, Petruchio 	1981 	Katherine 	Television documentary 	[102]
Alice at the Palace 	1982 	Alice 	Television film 	[103]
The Earth Day Special 	1990 	Concerned Citizen 	Television special 	[104]
The Simpsons 	1994 	Jessica Lovejoy 	Voice; episode: "Bart's Girlfriend" 	[105]
...First Do No Harm 	1997 	Lori Reimuller 	Television film 	[49]
King of the Hill 	1999 	Aunt Esme Dauterive	Voice; episode: "A Beer Can Named Desire"	[106]
Angels in America 	2003 	Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg /
The Rabbi[b]	Television miniseries 	[107]
Freedom: A History of US 	2003 	Abigail Adams / Mary Eastey /
Mother Jones / Margaret Chase Smith[c]	Television miniseries (4 episodes) 	[107][108]
Ocean Voyagers 	2007 	Narrator 	Documentary 	[109]
Web Therapy 	2010–12	Camilla Bowner 	5 episodes 	[77]
Makers: Women Who Make America	2013 	Narrator 	Documentary 	[110]
The Roosevelts 	2014 	Eleanor Roosevelt 	Voice; documentary 	[111]
Five Came Back 	2017 	Narrator 	Documentary 	[112]