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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Meryl Streep On Screen And Stage
Meryl Streep is an American actress who has had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. She made her stage debut in 1975 with The Public Theater production of Trelawny of the 'Wells'. She went on to perform several roles on stage in the 1970s, gaining a Tony Award nomination for her role in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1976). In 1977, Streep made her film debut with a brief role alongside Jane Fonda in Julia. A supporting role in the war drama The Deer Hunter (1978) proved to be a breakthrough for Streep; she received her first Academy Award nomination for it. She won the award the following year for playing a troubled wife in the top-grossing drama Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). In 1978, Streep played a German, "Aryan" woman married to a Jewish man in Nazi Germany in the television miniseries Holocaust, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award.

Streep established herself as a leading Hollywood actress in the 1980s. She played dual roles in the period drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), and starred as a Polish Holocaust survivor in Sophie's Choice (1982). She was awarded the Best Actress Oscar for the latter. Streep portrayed the real-life character of Karen Silkwood in Mike Nichols' drama Silkwood (1983), 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. With intermittent successes, Streep's career went through a period of relative decline post-1985, with several commentators criticizing her inclination towards melodramatic roles, despite her attempt at playing against-type in the comedies She-Devil (1989) and Death Becomes Her (1992).

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. Although her dramas of the late 1990s received a mixed reception overall, she was praised for her role as a cancer patient in One True Thing (1998). 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. Greater success returned to Streep in 2006, with an Academy Award-nominated role as a ruthless fashion magazine editor in the comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada. This 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. These roles re-established Streep's stardom. Her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the biopic The Iron Lady (2011) earned her another Academy Award for Best Actress. Further Oscar nominations came for her starring roles in August: Osage County (2013), Into the Woods (2014), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and The Post (2017), setting a record for more nominations than any actor or actress in history.

Film

Streep at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1977 Julia Anne Marie
1978 The Deer Hunter Linda
1979 Manhattan Jill Davis
The Seduction of Joe Tynan Karen Traynor
Kramer vs. Kramer Joanna Kramer
1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman Sarah / Anna
1982 Still of the Night Brooke Reynolds
Sophie's Choice Sophie Zawistowski
1983 Silkwood Karen Silkwood
1984 Falling in Love Molly Gilmore
1985 Plenty Susan Traherne
Out of Africa Karen Blixen
1986 Heartburn Rachel Samstat
1987 Ironweed Helen Archer
1988 Evil Angels Lindy Chamberlain aka A Cry in the Dark
1989 She-Devil Mary Fisher
1990 Postcards from the Edge Suzanne Vale
1991 Defending Your Life Julia
Age 7 in America Narrator Documentary
1992 Death Becomes Her Madeline Ashton
1993 The House of the Spirits Clara del Valle Trueba
1994 The River Wild Gail Hartman
1995 The Living Sea Narrator Documentary
The Bridges of Madison County Francesca Johnson
1996 Before and After Dr. Carolyn Ryan
Marvin's Room Lee
1998 One True Thing Kate Gulden
Dancing at Lughnasa Kate Mundy
1999 Music of the Heart Roberta Guaspari
Ginevra's Story Narrator Documentary
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence Blue Mecha Voice
2002 Adaptation. Susan Orlean
The Hours Clarissa Vaughan
2003 Stuck on You Herself Uncredited cameo
2004 The Manchurian Candidate Sen. Eleanor Prentiss Shaw
Lemony Snicket's
A Series of Unfortunate Events 		Aunt Josephine
2005 Prime Lisa Metzger
Stolen Childhoods Narrator Documentary
2006 A Prairie Home Companion Yolanda Johnson
The Music of Regret The Woman Short film
Hurricane on the Bayou Narrator Documentary short film
The Devil Wears Prada Miranda Priestly
The Ant Bully Queen Ant Voice; animated film
2007 Dark Matter Joanna Silver
Evening Lila Ross
Rendition Corrine Whitman
Lions for Lambs Janine Roth
2008 Mamma Mia! Donna Sheridan
Doubt Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2009 Julie & Julia Julia Child
Fantastic Mr. Fox Felicity Fox Voice; animated film
It's Complicated Jane Adler
2010 Higglety Pigglety Pop!
or There Must Be More to Life 		Jennie Voice; short film
2011 The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher
2012 To the Arctic 3D Narrator Documentary
Hope Springs Kay Soames
2013 Wings of Life Narrator Documentary
Girl Rising Narrator Documentary
A Fierce Green Fire Narrator Documentary
Out of Print Narrator Documentary
August: Osage County Violet Weston
2014 The Giver Chief Elder
The Homesman Altha Carter
Into the Woods The Witch
2015 Ricki and the Flash Ricki Rendazzo
Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst
Shout Gladi Gladi Narrator Documentary
2016 Florence Foster Jenkins Florence Foster Jenkins
2017 We Rise Narrator Documentary
Little Door Gods Narrator Voice (English dub); animated film; aka The Guardian Brothers
The Post Kay Graham
2018 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Donna Sheridan
This Changes Everything Herself Documentary
Mary Poppins Returns Cousin Topsy
2019 The Laundromat Ellen Martin / Elena / Herself
Little Women Aunt March
2020 Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth Narrator Voice; animated short film
The Prom Dee Dee Allen
Let Them All Talk Alice Hughes
2021 Don't Look Up President Janie Orlean
2022 Sell/Buy/Date — Executive producer

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1976 Everybody Rides the Carousel Lover Voice; animated film
1977 The Deadliest Season Sharon Miller TV film
1977–1979 Great Performances Edith Varney Episode: "Secret Service"
Leilah Episode: "Uncommon Women and Others"
1978 Holocaust Inga Helms Weiss Miniseries; 4 episodes
1981 Kiss Me, Petruchio Katherine TV documentary
1982 Alice at the Palace Alice TV film
1990 The Earth Day Special Concerned Citizen TV special
1994 The Simpsons Jessica Lovejoy Voice; Episode: "Bart's Girlfriend"
1997 ...First Do No Harm Lori Reimuller TV film; also producer
1999 King of the Hill Aunt Esme Dauterive Voice; Episode: "A Beer Can Named Desire"
2003 Angels in America Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg /
The Rabbi / The Angel Australia 		Miniseries; 6 episodes
Freedom: A History of US Abigail Adams / Mary Eastey /
Mother Jones / Margaret Chase Smith 		Documentary; 4 episodes
2007 Ocean Voyagers Narrator Documentary
2010–2012 Web Therapy Camilla Bowner 5 episodes
2013 Makers: Women Who Make America Narrator Documentary; 3 episodes
2014 The Roosevelts Eleanor Roosevelt Voice; documentary; 7 episodes
2017 Five Came Back Narrator Documentary; 3 episodes
2019 Big Little Lies Mary Louise Wright Main role (season 2)
2023 Extrapolations Eve Shearer Episode: "2046: Whale Fall"
2023–present Only Murders in the Building Loretta Durkin Recurring role (seasons 3–4)
Key
† Denotes series that have not yet been released

Stage

Year Title Role Venue Ref.
1975 Trelawny of the 'Wells' Miss Imogen Parrott Vivian Beaumont Theater
1976 A Memory of Two Mondays
27 Wagons Full of Cotton 		Patricia
Flora Meighan 		Playhouse Theatre
1976 Secret Service Edith Varney
Henry V Catherine Delacorte Theater
Measure for Measure Isabella

1977 The Cherry Orchard Dunyasha Vivian Beaumont Theater
Happy End Lt. Lillian Holiday Martin Beck Theatre
1978 The Taming of the Shrew Katharina Delacorte Theater
1979 Taken in Marriage Andrea Joseph Papp Public Theater & Newman Theater
1980–1981 Alice in Concert Alice Joseph Papp Public Theater & Anspacher Theater
2001 The Seagull Arkadina Delacorte Theater
2004 Bridge and Tunnel — Producer;
Theatres at 45 Bleecker & Bleecker Street Theatre
2006 Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage Delacorte Theater

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Streep played dual roles in the film.
  2. ^ Streep played quadruple roles in the miniseries.
  3. ^ Streep played separate characters in each episode.
  4. ^ The two plays were part of a double-bill production.