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Acting

Meryl Streep

Career: Active from 1976 to 2028, busiest in 2013 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 98
top three billing

Average score: 66/100

Highest rated: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 93 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Meryl Streep Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
2.9, average 4.8
Violence
2.4, average 4.1
Crime
2.1, average 3.6
Scare
1.3, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 14
Social Commentary 9
Thought-Provoking 8
Character Study 6
Historical Drama 5
Psychological Drama 4
Emotional Catharsis 4
Period Piece 4
Family Drama 4
Political Drama 4
Moral Dilemmas 4
Strong Performances 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

140

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

3 titles

as Diane Castle

The Corrections

TV show · Executive Producer

Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic

as Joni Mitchell

2020s

23 titles · average score 71

The Devil Wears Prada 2

68

as Miranda

Project Hail Mary

85

as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)

Hoppers

80

as Insect Queen (voice)

Henry David Thoreau

29

TV show · as Various Characters (voice)

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?

86

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Schindler Space Architect

as Narrator (voice)

Escape from Extinction: Rewilding

as Narrator (voice)

Don't Look Up

60

as President Orlean

Only Murders in the Building

85

TV show · as Loretta Durkin

Let Them All Talk

68

as Alice Hughes

The Prom

56

as Dee Dee Allen

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

77

as Narrator (voice)

2010s

38 titles · average score 68

The Laundromat

52

as Ellen Martin / Elena

The Post

78

as Kay Graham

Florence Foster Jenkins

73

as Florence Foster Jenkins

Ricki and the Flash

57

as Ricki Rendazzo

Suffragette

68

as Emmeline Pankhurst

Into the Woods

62

as Witch

The Giver

50

as Chief Elder

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

89

TV show · as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)

August: Osage County

66

as Violet Weston

Hope Springs

65

as Kay

To the Arctic 3D

61

as Narrator

The Iron Lady

55

as Margaret Thatcher

2000s

29 titles · average score 65

Fantastic Mr. Fox

85

as Mrs. Fox (voice)

Julie & Julia

70

as Julia Child

It's Complicated

60

as Jane Adler

Mamma Mia!

60

as Donna Sheridan

Doubt

75

as Sister Aloysius Beauvier

Rendition

57

as Corrine Whitman

The Devil Wears Prada

71

as Miranda Priestly

The Ant Bully

56

as Queen (voice)

Prime

56

as Lisa Metzger

The Manchurian Candidate

71

as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)

Adaptation.

82

as Susan Orlean

The Hours

78

as Clarissa Vaughan

1990s

18 titles · average score 65

Music of the Heart

64

as Roberta

One True Thing

72

as Kate Gulden

Dancing at Lughnasa

60

as Kate Mundy

...First Do No Harm

67

as Lori Reimuller

Marvin's Room

71

as Lee Wakefield Lacker

Before and After

44

as Carolyn Ryan

The Bridges of Madison County

79

as Francesca Johnson

The River Wild

63

as Gail Hartman

The House of the Spirits

50

as Clara del Valle Trueba

Death Becomes Her

63

as Madeline Ashton Menville

Defending Your Life

75

as Julia

Postcards from the Edge

73

as Suzanne Vale

1980s

17 titles · average score 65

She-Devil

51

as Mary Fisher

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Jessica Lovejoy (voice)

Evil Angels

82

as Lindy Chamberlain

Ironweed

58

as Helen Archer

Heartburn

53

as Rachel

Out of Africa

69

as Karen Blixen

Plenty

57

as Susan Traherne

Falling in Love

59

as Molly Gilmore

Silkwood

72

as Karen Silkwood

Sophie's Choice

74

as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski

Still of the Night

55

as Brooke Reynolds

The French Lieutenant's Woman

71

as Sarah / Anna

1970s

12 titles · average score 72

Kramer vs. Kramer

82

as Joanna Kramer

Manhattan

84

as Jill

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

54

as Karen Traynor

Friday Night, Saturday Morning

TV show

Uncommon Women and Others

74

as Leilah

The Deer Hunter

85

as Linda

Holocaust

76

TV show · as Inga Helms Weiss

Julia

67

as Anne Marie

The Deadliest Season

62

as Sharon Miller

Secret Service

as Edith Varney

Everybody Rides the Carousel

65

as Stage 6 (voice)

Great Performances

70

TV show · as Leilah / Self - Host