Meryl Streep

Highest Rated:
98% Manhattan (1979)
Lowest Rated:
26% Lions for Lambs (2007)
Birthday:
Jun 22, 1949
Birthplace:
Summit, New Jersey
Bio:
Sydney Pollack -- one of Meryl Streep's collaborators time and again -- once proclaimed her the most gifted film actress of the late 20th century. Most insiders would concur with this assessment. To avid moviegoers, she represents the essence of onscreen dramatic art. Like Hoffman (and De Niro), she…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 26% - 98%
Number of Movies: 85
Box Office Since 2001: $1103.7M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 Mommy & Me
  • Actor
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2013 Out Of Print
  • Actor
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2013 65% A Fierce Green Fire
  • Actor
$28.5k
2013 August: Osage County
  • Actor
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2013 88% Girl Rising
  • Narrator
$0.8M
2013 Disneynature: Wings of Life
  • Actor
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2012 74% Hope Springs
  • Kay
$63.5M
2012 67% To the Arctic
  • Meryl Streep
$12.4M
2011 52% The Iron Lady
  • Margaret Thatcher
$30.0M
2010 Faces Of America
  • Actor
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2010 Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More To Life
  • Jennie
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2009 75% Julie & Julia
  • Julia Child
$94.1M
2009 I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
  • Actor
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2009 93% Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Mrs. Fox
$20.9M
2009 56% It's Complicated
  • Jane
$112.7M
2009 Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
  • Actor
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2008 78% Doubt
  • Sister Aloysius Beauvier
$33.4M
2008 54% Mamma Mia!
  • Donna
$143.7M
2008 67% Theater of War
  • Actor
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2007 39% Dark Matter
  • Joanna Silver
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2007 The Magic 7
  • Actor
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2007 47% Rendition
  • Corrinne Whitman
$9.7M
2007 27% Evening
  • Lila Ross
$12.4M
2007 Ocean Voyagers
  • Narrator
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2007 26% Lions for Lambs
  • Janine Roth
$15.0M
2006 76% The Devil Wears Prada
  • Miranda Priestly
$124.7M
2006 85% Hurricane on the Bayou
  • Narrator
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2006 81% A Prairie Home Companion
  • Yolanda Johnson
$20.2M
2006 63% The Ant Bully
  • Queen
$28.1M
2006 70% Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
  • Actor
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2005 50% Prime
  • Lisa Metzger
$22.7M
2004 72% Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Aunt Josephine
$118.5M
2004 81% The Manchurian Candidate
  • Eleanor Prentiss Shaw
$65.9M
2003 58% Stolen Childhoods
  • Narrator
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2003 60% Stuck On You
  • Actor
  • Director
$33.6M
2002 Secret Service
  • Actor
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2002 Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War
  • Narrator
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2002 91% Adaptation
  • Susan Orlean
$22.2M
2002 Chrysanthemum and More Kevin Henkes Stories
  • Actor
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2002 81% The Hours
  • Clarissa Vaughn
$41.5M
2001 Vermeer: Master of Light
  • Narrator
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2001 73% A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • Blue Mecha
$77.6M
2001 96% Defending Your Life
  • Julia
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2000 Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
  • Actor
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2000 Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso
  • Narrator
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1999 63% Music of the Heart
  • Roberta Tsavaras
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1998 65% Dancing at Lughnasa
  • Kate Mundy
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1998 Voices & Visions - William Styron
  • Actor
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1998 89% One True Thing
  • Kate Gulden
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1997 Assignment: Rescue
  • Host
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1997 ...First Do No Harm
  • Lori Reimuller
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1996 32% Before and After
  • Carolyn Ryan
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1996 80% Marvin's Room
  • Lee
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1996 Universal Story
  • Actor
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1995 The Living Sea
  • Narrator
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1995 90% The Bridges of Madison County
  • Francesca Johnson
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1994 55% The River Wild
  • Gail
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1993 44% The House of the Spirits
  • Clara
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1992 Rabbit Ears - The Night Before Christmas
  • Actor
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1992 43% Death Becomes Her
  • Madeline Ashton
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1990 90% Postcards from the Edge
  • Suzanne Vale
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1990 Audubon Video - Arctic Refuge: A Vanishing Wilderness
  • Narrator
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1989 41% She-Devil
  • Mary Fisher
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1988 92% Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark)
  • Lindy Chamberlain
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1988 Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester
  • Narrator
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1988 Harold Clurman - A Life of Theatre
  • Narrator
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1987 65% Ironweed
  • Helen Archer
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1986 46% Heartburn
  • Rachel
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1985 71% Plenty
  • Susan Traherne
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1985 57% Out of Africa
  • Karen Blixen-Finecke
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1984 60% Falling in Love
  • Molly Gilmore
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1984 Rabbit Ears - The Velveteen Rabbit
  • Actor
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1984 In Our Hands
  • Atomic bomb survivor
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1983 70% Silkwood
  • Karen Silkwood
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1982 67% Still of the Night
  • Brooke Reynolds
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1982 81% Sophie's Choice
  • Sophie Zawistowska
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1982 Alice at the Palace
  • Alice
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1981 80% The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • Sarah Woodruff/Anna
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1979 86% Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Joanna Kramer
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1979 The Seduction of Joe Tynan
  • Karen Traynor
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1979 98% Manhattan
  • Jill
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1978 Uncommon Women and Others
  • Actor
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1978 92% The Deer Hunter
  • Linda
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1977 Secret Service
  • Actor
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1977 74% Julia
  • Anne Marie
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Meryl Streep Trivia

In high school,Meryl died her hair blonde.
- submitted by Ronna T (2 years ago)
Meryl drives a Toyota Prius.
- submitted by Brittney W (2 years ago)

Quotes from Meryl Streep's Characters

    1. Margaret Thatcher: Gentlemen, shall we join the ladies?
    From The Iron Lady. Submitted by Rawballs B (22 days ago)
    1. Kay: You know, how you think you're always headed toward something? You think "when we get married" or "when we have kids" or "when the kids go and it's just us again." You know, there's always something to look forward to. And one day, I realized that we are not going toward anything anymore.
    From Hope Springs. Submitted by Hong Anh N (54 days ago)
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