1977
Meryl was
28
years old
Julia
as Anne Marie
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
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1978
Meryl was
29
years old
The Deer Hunter
as Linda
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the…
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1979
Meryl was
30
years old
Manhattan
as Jill
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's…
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1979
Meryl was
30
years old
Kramer vs. Kramer
as Joanna Kramer
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced…
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1981
Meryl was
32
years old
The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Sarah / Anna
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah…
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1982
Meryl was
33
years old
Still of the Night
as Brooke Reynolds
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then…
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1982
Meryl was
33
years old
Sophie's Choice
as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she…
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1983
Meryl was
34
years old
Silkwood
as Karen Silkwood
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose…
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1984
Meryl was
35
years old
Falling in Love
as Molly Gilmore
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other…
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1985
Meryl was
36
years old
Out of Africa
as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based…
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1986
Meryl was
37
years old
Heartburn
as Rachel
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that…
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1987
Meryl was
38
years old
Ironweed
as Helen Archer
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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1988
Meryl was
39
years old
Evil Angels
as Lindy Chamberlain
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby…
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1989
Meryl was
40
years old
She-Devil
as Mary Fisher
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
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1990
Meryl was
41
years old
Postcards from the Edge
as Suzanne Vale
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
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1991
Meryl was
42
years old
Defending Your Life
as Julia
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where…
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1992
Meryl was
43
years old
Death Becomes Her
as Madeline Ashton Menville
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back…
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1993
Meryl was
44
years old
The House of the Spirits
as Clara del Valle Trueba
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
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1994
Meryl was
45
years old
The River Wild
as Gail Hartman
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th…
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1995
Meryl was
46
years old
The Bridges of Madison County
as Francesca Johnson
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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1996
Meryl was
47
years old
Marvin's Room
as Lee Wakefield Lacker
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
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1996
Meryl was
47
years old
Before and After
as Carolyn Ryan
Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
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1998
Meryl was
49
years old
Dancing at Lughnasa
as Kate Mundy
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
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1998
Meryl was
49
years old
One True Thing
as Kate Gulden
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
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1999
Meryl was
50
years old
Music of the Heart
as Roberta
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East…
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2001
Meryl was
52
years old
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Blue Mecha (voice)
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes…
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2002
Meryl was
53
years old
The Hours
as Clarissa Vaughan
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their…
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2002
Meryl was
53
years old
Adaptation.
as Susan Orlean
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of…
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2003
Meryl was
54
years old
Stuck on You
as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt…
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2004
Meryl was
55
years old
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Josephine Anwhistle
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their…
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2004
Meryl was
55
years old
The Manchurian Candidate
as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate…
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2005
Meryl was
56
years old
Prime
as Lisa Metzger
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
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2006
Meryl was
57
years old
A Prairie Home Companion
as Yolanda Johnson
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music…
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2006
Meryl was
57
years old
The Ant Bully
as Queen (voice)
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects…
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2006
Meryl was
57
years old
The Devil Wears Prada
as Miranda Priestly
A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical,…
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2007
Meryl was
58
years old
Lions for Lambs
as Janine Roth
Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical…
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2007
Meryl was
58
years old
Rendition
as Corrine Whitman
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a…
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2007
Meryl was
58
years old
Evening
as Lila Ross
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that…
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2008
Meryl was
59
years old
Mamma Mia!
as Donna Sheridan
A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her…
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2008
Meryl was
59
years old
Doubt
as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
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2008
Meryl was
59
years old
Dark Matter
as Joanna Silver
Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology…
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2009
Meryl was
60
years old
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Mrs. Fox (voice)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly…
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2009
Meryl was
60
years old
It's Complicated
as Jane Adler
Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and…
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2009
Meryl was
60
years old
Julie & Julia
as Julia Child
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends...…
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2009
Meryl was
60
years old
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for…
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2011
Meryl was
62
years old
The Iron Lady
as Margaret Thatcher
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
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2012
Meryl was
63
years old
Hope Springs
as Kay
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
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2012
Meryl was
63
years old
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and…
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2013
Meryl was
64
years old
August: Osage County
as Violet Weston
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the…
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2014
Meryl was
65
years old
Into the Woods
as Witch
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
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2014
Meryl was
65
years old
The Giver
as Chief Elder
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain…
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2014
Meryl was
65
years old
The Homesman
as Altha Carter
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious,…
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2015
Meryl was
66
years old
Suffragette
as Emmeline Pankhurst
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with…
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2015
Meryl was
66
years old
Ricki and the Flash
as Ricki Rendazzo
Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki…
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2016
Meryl was
67
years old
Florence Foster Jenkins
as Florence Foster Jenkins
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
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2017
Meryl was
68
years old
The Post
as Kay Graham
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle…
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2017
Meryl was
68
years old
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
as Suzanne Vale, Self (archive footage, uncredited)
An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty featuring Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, and Carrie Fisher.
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2018
Meryl was
69
years old
Mary Poppins Returns
as Cousin Topsy
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
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2018
Meryl was
69
years old
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
as Donna
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be…
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2019
Meryl was
70
years old
The Laundromat
as Ellen Martin / Elena
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.
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2019
Meryl was
70
years old
Little Women
as Aunt March
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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2020
Meryl was
71
years old
The Prom
as Dee Dee Allen
After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try to boost…
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2020
Meryl was
71
years old
Let Them All Talk
as Alice Hughes
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself…
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2020
Meryl was
71
years old
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
as Narrator (voice)
On the eve of Earth Day, a precocious seven-year-old learns about the wonders of the planet from his parents—and a mysterious exhibit at the aptly named Museum…
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2021
Meryl was
72
years old
Don't Look Up
as President Orlean
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
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2026
Meryl was
77
years old
The Devil Wears Prada 2
as Miranda
Andy Sachs returns to Runway as Miranda Priestly navigates a new media landscape and Runway's position within. The duo reconnect with former assistant Emily…
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2026
Meryl was
77
years old
Hoppers
as Insect Queen (voice)
A 19-year-old animal lover uses technology that places her consciousness into a robotic beaver to uncover mysteries within the animal world beyond her…
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2026
Meryl was
77
years old
Project Hail Mary
as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he…
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