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Birthdate: June 22, 1949
Meryl Streep
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1970s
2.9804
5
1980s
2.7757
12
1990s
3.2013
13
2000s
2.9084
17
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.9256
3.9256
Meryl Streep Movie Rankings
1
3.5666This movie focuses on the life of 42-year-old Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) who is going through a midlife crisis. His wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), leaves him for another woman which provokes a relationship with Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a 17-year-old high school student who falls in love with him. ...more about Manhattan
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $5.69
(14 sellers)
2
3.2260Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who get drafted to fight in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela and their wedding-party is also the men's farewell party. ...more about Deer Hunter
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- American Movie Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $7.35
(18 sellers)
3
3.1321An account of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's (Cage) attempt to adapt Susan Orlean's (Streep) non-fiction book The Orchid Thief, which is the story of John Laroche (Cooper), a plant dealer who clones rare orchids then sells them to collectors. ...more about Adaptation.
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical
- Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $3.95
(12 sellers)
4
3.0573
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 fears. ...more about Hours
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- L.A. Outfest - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $2.10
(16 sellers)
5
2.9967
When a tough New Yorker's (Renee Zellweger) mother (Meryl Streep) is stricken with a serious illness, she is forced to quit her job and her relationship with her boyfriend to take care of her, finding out a lot of things she didn't know about her mother ...more about One True Thing
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $4.99
(14 sellers)
6
2.9608
Estranged since their father's first stroke some 17 years earlier, Lee and Bessie lead separate lives in separate states. Lee's son, Hank, finds himself committed to a mental institution after setting fire to his mother's house. ...more about Marvin's Room
Actor Awards
- Chlotrudis Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $4.49
(7 sellers)
7
2.9351
As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it -- a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself. ...more about Manchurian Candidate
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
DVD from $2.10
(18 sellers)
8
2.9133
For more than 30 years 'A Prairie Home Companion' radio show has been a staple of American radio history. Tomorrow the building will be demolished. The film shows each character as they prepare for their last broadcast. ...more about Prairie Home Companion
DVD from $7.99
(11 sellers)
9
2.9015
Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband. ...more about Out of Africa
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera)
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $5.26
(14 sellers)
10
2.8718
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain: during a camping trip to Ayer's Rock in outback Australia, she claims she witnessed a dingo stealing her baby daughter Azaria from the family tent. Azaria's body is never found. ...more about Cry in the Dark
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Australian Film Institute - Best Actress in a Lead Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $3.99
(10 sellers)
11
2.8606
Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, a waiting room for the afterlife. ...more about Defending Your Life
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
DVD from $8.63
(9 sellers)
12
2.8567
The best-selling novel about a young woman who stumbles into the hectic worlds of high fashion and publishing comes to the big screen. ...more about Devil Wears Prada
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress
- Satellite Awards - Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $4.99
(19 sellers)
13
2.8258
Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate. ...more about Silkwood
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $6.99
(11 sellers)
14
2.8200
From "Pentimento," the memoirs of late playwright Lillian Hellman, JULIA covers those years in the 1930s when Lillian attained fame with the production of her first play "The Childrens' Hour" on Broadway. ...more about Julia
DVD from $3.41
(10 sellers)
15
2.7851
A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her leave him after a short, but passionate affair. ...more about French Lieutenant's Woman
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $6.20
(9 sellers)
16
2.7812
The true story of a young teacher who fights against the board of education in her bid to teach underprivileged kids in a Harlem school the beauty of music through the violin. ...more about Music of the Heart
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $7.34
(11 sellers)
17
2.7664
Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. ...more about Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
DVD from $3.94
(21 sellers)
18
2.7476
The path of Francesca Johnson's future seems destined when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. ...more about Bridges of Madison County
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $9.99
(9 sellers)
19
2.7142
New in town, friendless and tormented by a neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle has been taking out his frustration on the innocent ant hill in his yard. But one day the ants retaliate. ...more about Ant Bully
DVD from $2.71
(18 sellers)
20
2.6758
The very essence of the relationship between co-joined twins Bob (Damon) and Walt (Kinear) is tested when Walt convinces them to move to L.A. so he can become an actor. ...more about Stuck On You
DVD from $6.88
(15 sellers)
21
2.6742
A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland. ...more about Dancing at Lughnasa
DVD from $20.16
(9 sellers)
22
2.6716
Prime is a sophisticated, character comedy set in New York City about Rafi (Uma Thurman), a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan and what happens when Dave (Bryan Greenberg), a talented 23-year-old painter from the upper West Side of ...more about Prime
DVD from $4.50
(14 sellers)
23
2.6594
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. ...more about Postcards from the Edge
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- American Comedy Awards, USA - Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $3.92
(11 sellers)
24
2.5778
Helen and Madeline hate each other. Madeline is married to Ernest, who is having an affair with Helen. Both women rely on Ernest for plastic surgery for their continued good looks, so when Madeline finds a cure for aging, Helen gets it, too. ...more about Death Becomes Her
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $5.95
(11 sellers)
25
2.5454
When teenage son Jacob is being accused of murdering his girlfriend, the well-respected and close-knit Ryan family is in turmoil. ...more about Before and After
DVD from $7.02
(10 sellers)
26
2.5432
Gail, an expert at white water rafting, takes her family on a trip down the river to their family's house. Along the way, the family encounters two men who are unexperienced rafters that need to find their friends down river. ...more about River Wild
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $5.99
(15 sellers)
27
2.5239
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 with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. ...more about Kramer vs. Kramer
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $10.23
(10 sellers)
28
2.4025
South America before the second world war. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca. Esteban works hard and eventually gets money to buy a hacienda and become a local patriarch. ...more about House of the Spirits
DVD from $9.99
(1 sellers)
29
2.3827
Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world. ...more about Mamma Mia!
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.2741
Michael Cunningham (author of THE HOURS) lends his screenwriting skills to Lajos Koltai's EVENING. This time, Cunningham adapts a book by Susan Minot for the big screen. ...more about Evening
DVD from $7.95
(14 sellers)
31
2.2081
Oscar winner Robert Redford directs Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep in this political drama about the war on terror. ...more about Lions for Lambs
- Not Available on DVD
32
2.1678
Rachel and Mark are both Washington journalists. They meet at a wedding and not long after they get married themselves. Very soon they have a daughter, Annie. But one day Rachel learns that Mark was having an affair during her pregnancy. ...more about Heartburn
DVD from $3.90
(10 sellers)
33
2.1383
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. ...more about Sophie's Choice
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actress
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $4.02
(12 sellers)
34
2.0464
Susan Traherne has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants, no matter who is hurt, or how. ...more about Plenty
DVD from $7.99
(10 sellers)
35
2.0089
Ruth is a wife and mother who tries to please her husband, even though she is fat. But when her husband falls into an affair with a certain romance novelist, Ruth goes bezerk and demands revenge. ...more about She-Devil
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $4.02
(10 sellers)
36
1.8733
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 months later in the train home and have a good time together. ...more about Falling in Love
Actor Awards
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera)
DVD from $3.90
(10 sellers)
38
1.7496
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. ...more about Seduction of Joe Tynan
Actor Awards
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actress
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Not Available on DVD
39
1.7236
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. ...more about Ironweed
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
41
0.8219
In this film based on a true story, Liu Ye (THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER) plays Liu Xing, a Chinese student attending college in the United States. ...more about Dark Matter
- Not Available on DVD
43
A description of Josef Stalin's purges in Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s. ...more about Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror
- Not Available on DVD
46
Monet's Palate is a documentary which examines the connection between fine art and fine cuisine as seen through the eyes of Claude Monet. ...more about Monet's Palate: A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny
- Not Available on DVD
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