Filmography Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress and singer who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected actresses of the contemporary era. 
 
Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia. Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first win. She later won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Sophie's Choice (1982). 
 
Streep has received 17 Academy Award nominations, winning two, and 26 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, five Grammy Award nominations, two BAFTA awards, an Australian Film Institute Award, and a Tony Award nomination, amongst others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004.

Filmography Meryl Streep

Suffragette - Drama
November 2015

Suffragette

Drama Directed by: Sarah GavronWith: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff,...SUFFRAGETTE is a thrilling drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were... Read more...
The Homesman - Drama
June 2014

The Homesman

Drama Directed by: Tommy Lee JonesWith: Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Hilary SwankWhen three women are driven insane on the edges of the American frontier, the task of delivering them back east falls to a pious spinster named Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). The daunting challenge of driving a wagon loaded with madwomen four hundred miles compels her to employ a partner?a drifting... Read more...
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Comedy, Adventure, Animation (modern)
February 2010

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Comedy, Adventure, Animation (modern) Directed by: Wes AndersonFANTASTIC MR. FOX is visionary director Wes Anderson's first animated film, utilizing classic handmade stop motion techniques to tell the story of the best selling children's book by Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach). Mr and Mrs Fox (Clooney... Read more...
Doubt - Drama
February 2009

Doubt

Drama Directed by: John Patrick ShanleyWith: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Amy Adams,...It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman), is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved... Read more...
Mamma Mia ! - Musical comedy
September 2008

Mamma Mia !

Musical comedy Directed by: Phyllida LloydWith: Meryl Streep & Pierce BrosnanMeryl Streep will play the rebellious single mother of a bride-to-be who never met her father. The daughter invites three likely paternal candidates to her wedding, and the ensuing conflict triggers the performance of 22 Abba hits including "Dancing Queen," "Take a Chance on Me" and "The Winner... Read more...
Rendition - Thriller
January 2008

Rendition

Thriller Directed by: Gavin HoodWith: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep,...Gavin Hood, whose "Tsotsi" became the first film from the former Apartheid state to win an Academy Award, will make his Hollywood debut directing first-time screenwriter Kelley Sane's multi-layered story centering on a CIA analyst based in Cairo who finds his world spinning out of control after he... Read more...

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