Meryl Streep

American actress

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2025 Meryl Streep appears in the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special, playing herself and her recurring character Colleen Rafferty Sr.
2023 Reports indicated that Meryl Streep and Don Gummer had been separated for more than six years.
2023 Streep acted in the Apple TV+ anthology series Extrapolations and began playing Loretta Durkin in the third season of the Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building.
2023 For her role in Only Murders in the Building, Streep received a Golden Globe nomination, a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and won a Critics' Choice Television Award.
2023 Streep appears in the episode 'Whale Fall' as Eve Shearer in the series Extrapolations
June 2023 Streep was reported as one of many A-List members of the SAG-AFTRA who signed a letter threatening to strike.
2022 Meryl Streep served as an executive producer on the film Sell/Buy/Date, directed by Sarah Jones.
2021 Streep starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in Don't Look Up, directed by Adam McKay for Netflix, where she played a comical role as the fictional President of the United States.
2020 Streep reunited with director Steven Soderbergh for the HBO Max comedy film Let Them All Talk, starring alongside Dianne Wiest, Candice Bergen, Lucas Hedges, and Gemma Chan.
2020 Meryl Streep voiced a role in the Apple TV+ animated short film Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth. She also reunited with Nicole Kidman for Netflix's The Prom, a film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
2020 Meryl Streep recorded songs for 'The Prom'.
2020 Appears in 'Let Them All Talk' as Alice Hughes and 'The Prom' as Dee Dee Allen
2019 Streep starred in the Netflix biographical comedy The Laundromat, about the Panama Papers, and played Aunt March in Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women, receiving praise for her performance.
2019 Streep starred as Mary Louise Wright in the second season of HBO's Big Little Lies, earning an Emmy nomination for her performance.
2019 Stars in 'The Laundromat' and 'Little Women', playing Ellen Martin and Aunt March respectively
2018 Streep reprised her role in the musical sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and had a supporting role in Mary Poppins Returns.
2018 Meryl Streep and Don Gummer were publicly last seen together at the 90th Academy Awards.
2018 Meryl Streep recorded songs for both 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: The Movie Soundtrack' and 'Mary Poppins Returns'.
2018 Streep collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to set up the Time's Up initiative to protect women from harassment and discrimination.
2017 Streep played Katharine Graham in Steven Spielberg's The Post, a political drama centering on the publication of the Pentagon Papers, earning her 31st Golden Globe nomination and 21st Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
April 25 2017 Streep publicly backed the campaign to free Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was jailed in Siberia, during the PEN America Annual Literary Gala.
January 2017 Viola Davis presented Streep with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes, where Streep quoted Carrie Fisher in her acceptance speech.
January 2017 Streep was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, where she delivered a political speech criticizing President-elect Donald Trump.
2016 Streep starred in Florence Foster Jenkins, a biopic about a tone-deaf opera singer, receiving a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy and nominations for an Academy Award and Golden Globe.
July 2016 Meryl Streep gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention in support of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
March 2016 Streep signed a letter asking for gender equality in observance of International Women's Day.
2015 While promoting the film Suffragette, Streep accused Rotten Tomatoes of disproportionately representing male film critics, which she claimed negatively affected female-driven films.
2015 Streep sent letters to each member of the U.S. Congress supporting the Equal Rights Amendment, accompanied by a copy of the book 'Equal Means Equal'.
2015 Streep funded a screenwriters lab for female screenwriters over forty years old, called the Writers Lab, run by New York Women in Film & Television and the collective IRIS.
2015 Streep signed an open letter urged to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to focus on women in development funding priorities.
2015 Streep portrays Emmeline Pankhurst in the historical drama 'Suffragette', highlighting the women's suffrage movement
2014 Meryl Streep provided vocals for the soundtrack of 'Into the Woods'.
2014 Streep starred as a witch in the Disney film adaptation of Into the Woods, earning nominations for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, and Critic's Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress.
2014 In the period drama The Homesman, Streep took on a small role as a preacher's wife. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, garnering positive reviews.
2014 Streep played a community leader in the film adaptation of The Giver, which was set in a post-apocalyptic community. The film received mixed reviews upon its release.
2014 Streep established two scholarships at the University of Massachusetts Lowell: the Meryl Streep Endowed Scholarship for English majors and the Joan Hertzberg Endowed Scholarship for math majors.
2014 Streep voices Eleanor Roosevelt in the documentary series The Roosevelts, spanning 7 episodes
November 2014 President Barack Obama awarded Streep the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, recognizing her significant contributions to acting.
2013 Streep portrayed the strong-willed matriarch in August: Osage County, based on Tracy Letts's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, earning nominations for a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and Academy Award.
2013 Streep narrates the documentary series Makers: Women Who Make America across 3 episodes
2012 Streep co-starred in the romantic comedy-drama film Hope Springs, which showcased the performances of Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as a couple attending marriage counseling.
October 4 2012 Streep donated $1 million to The Public Theater in honor of its late founder, Joseph Papp, and her friend, author Nora Ephron.
2011 Meryl Streep starred in the biographical film The Iron Lady, portraying Margaret Thatcher. Her performance received critical acclaim, earning her the Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs, as well as her third Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards.
2011 Streep received the Kennedy Center Honor.
2010 President Barack Obama awarded Streep the National Medal of Arts.
2010 Meryl Streep begins guest starring in Web Therapy, appearing in 5 episodes through 2012

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