Meryl Streep

Biography: Meryl Streep is considered by many film critics to be the best living actress of all time and her fourteen Academy Award nominations (2 wins), 21 Golden Globe nominations (6 wins) and 3 Primetime Emmy nominations (2 wins) certainly credit this.

Born as Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey, USA, Meryl's first role was in the Academy Award winning movie Julia in 1977, playing a small yet pivotal part. Her next film role was alongside Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (1978). Meryl won critical acclaim for her role and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her first Academy Award win however followed the next year for Kramer vs. Kramer in the form of a Supporting Actress. She continued to receive critical acclaim and in 1982 won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her heart-wrenching portrayal of a Holocaust survivor torn between two lovers in Sophie's Choice.

In 2003, with an Academy Award nomination for Adaptation, s
he surpassed Katherine Hepburn, who ironically despised her, as the most nominated ever Academy Award actress. The box-office hit, The Devil Wears Prada is the highest grossing film of her career. It also earned Meryl the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical in a Motion Picture and her 14th Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

Meryl has had an equally successful career in the medium of television and has won two Primetime Emmy awards for Holocaust and Angels in America, in which she played the roles of four people.

Meryl is the sister of Harry Streep and has been married to Don Gummer, a sculptor, since September, 1978. They have four children - Henry (Harry) Gummer (born 1979), Mary Willa (Mamie) Gummer (1983), Grace Jane Gummer (1986), and Louisa Jacobson Gummer (1991).
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Meryl Streep's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average career score: 63
Highest Metascore:
Metascore: 83
Lowest Metascore:
Metascore: 45
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 33
  2. Negative: 0 out of 33
33 movie reviews
Title: Year: Credit: User score:
Metascore: 83
Adaptation.
Dec 6, 2002 Susan Orlean 7.8
Metascore: 83
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Nov 13, 2009 Mrs. Fox 8.1
Metascore: 82
Manhattan
Mar 14, 1979 Jill 8.8
Metascore: 81
The Hours
Dec 27, 2002 Clarissa Vaughan 8.6
Metascore: 77
Kramer vs. Kramer
Dec 19, 1979 Joanna Kramer 8.8
Metascore: 75
A Prairie Home Companion
Jun 9, 2006 Yolanda Johnson 6.3
Metascore: 73
The Deer Hunter
Dec 8, 1978 Linda 8.1
Metascore: 71
Postcards from the Edge
Sep 12, 1990 Suzanne Vale 7.5
Metascore: 68
Doubt
Dec 12, 2008 Sister Aloysius Beauvier 7.7
Metascore: tbd
Hurricane on the Bayou
Sep 8, 2006 Narrator 6.7
Metascore: 68
Theater of War
Dec 24, 2008 Herself 8.0
Metascore: 68
Marvin's Room
Dec 18, 1996 Lee 8.0
Metascore: 67
Sophie's Choice
Dec 8, 1982 Sophie / Sophie Zawistowski 7.5
Metascore: 66
Julie & Julia
Aug 7, 2009 Julia Child 7.3
Metascore: 66
The Bridges of Madison County
Jun 2, 1995 Francesca Johnson 8.3
Metascore: 65
Hope Springs
Aug 8, 2012 Maeve Soames / Kay / Kay Soames 6.6
Metascore: 64
Silkwood
Dec 14, 1983 Karen Silkwood 8.2
Metascore: 63
One True Thing
Sep 18, 1998 Kate Gulden 8.3
Metascore: 62
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dec 17, 2004 Aunt Josephine 6.7
Metascore: 62
Stolen Childhoods
May 20, 2005 Herself - Narrator 10
Metascore: 62
The Devil Wears Prada
Jun 30, 2006 Miranda Priestly 7.4
Metascore: 59
Girl Rising
Mar 7, 2013 Narration / Narrator tbd
Metascore: 59
The Ant Bully
Jul 28, 2006 Queen 5.6
Metascore: 58
Prime
Oct 28, 2005 Lisa Metzger 6.3
Metascore: 57
It's Complicated
Dec 25, 2009 Jane / Jane Adler 5.3
Metascore: 55
Rendition
Oct 19, 2007 Corrine Whitman 7.2
Metascore: 54
The Iron Lady
Dec 30, 2011 Margaret Thatcher 6.1
Metascore: 54
Music of the Heart
Oct 29, 1999 Roberta Guaspari 8.2
Metascore: 52
A Fierce Green Fire
Mar 1, 2013 Narrator tbd
Metascore: 51
Mamma Mia!
Jul 18, 2008 Donna Sheridan 7.1

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