 | The Magicians Nephew (2026)
Aslan (voice) |
 | The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)
Miranda Priestly |
 | SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (2025)
Self |
 | Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025)
Self |
 | Schindler Space Architect (2024)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Escape from Extinction: Rewilding (2024)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Don't Look Up (2021)
President Orlean |
 | Dear Elizabeth (2021)
Elizabeth Bishop |
 | Станиславский. Жажда жизни (2021)
Self |
 | Let Them All Talk (2020)
Alice Hughes |
 | The Prom (2020)
Dee Dee Allen |
 | In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover (2020)
Meryl Streep |
 | Meryl Streep : mystères et métamorphoses (2020)
Self - Actress (archive footage) |
 | Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (2020)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Little Women (2019)
Aunt March |
 | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019)
Self |
 | The Laundromat (2019)
Ellen Martin / Elena |
 | Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage (2019)
Self (archive footage) |
 | This Changes Everything (2019)
Self |
 | Museum Town (2019)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Cousin Topsy |
 | We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World (2018)
Self |
 | Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal (2018)
Self (archive footage) |
 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Donna Sheridan-Carmichael |
 | Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary (2018)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Every Act of Life (2018)
Maurine McElroy (voice) |
 | The Post (2017)
Kay Graham |
 | The Words That Built America (2017)
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence |
 | Five Came Back (2017)
Narrator (voice) |
 | The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits (2017)
Self |
 | 100 Years (2017)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Florence Foster Jenkins |
 | Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray (2016)
Elizabeth Murray (voice) |
 | Starring Austin Pendleton (2016)
Self |
 | Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016)
Self |
 | Suffragette (2015)
Emmeline Pankhurst |
| | Shout Gladi Gladi (2015)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Everything Is Copy (2015)
Self |
| | Emotional Uncertainties (2015)
Self |
 | Ricki and the Flash (2015)
Ricki Rendazzo |
 | Auschwitz (2015)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Into the Woods (2014)
Witch |
 | The Concert for Valor (2014)
Self |
 | The Giver (2014)
Chief Elder |
 | The Homesman (2014)
Altha Carter |
 | And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Self (archive footage) |
 | August: Osage County (2013)
Violet Weston |
 | Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)
Self |
 | Girl Rising (2013)
Narrator - Ethiopia (voice) |
 | A Fierce Green Fire (2013)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Radioman (2012)
Self |
 | Close Up (2012)
Self (archive footage) |
 | Hope Springs (2012)
Kay |
 | Joe Papp in Five Acts (2012)
Self |
 | To the Arctic 3D (2012)
Narrator |
 | Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim (2012)
(archive footage) |
 | The Iron Lady (2011)
Margaret Thatcher |
 | Wings of Life (2011)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (2010)
Jennie |
 | Sky Island (2010)
(voice) |
 | It's Complicated (2009)
Jane Adler |
 | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Felicity Fox (voice) |
 | Julie & Julia (2009)
Julia Child |
 | Doubt: Stage to Screen (2009)
Self |
 | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
Self |
| | Birthing Mamma Mia! (2008)
Self |
 | Doubt (2008)
Sister Aloysius Beauvier |
 | Mamma Mia! (2008)
Donna Sheridan |
 | An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' (2008)
Self |
 | Theater of War (2008)
Self |
 | Dark Matter (2008)
Joanna Silver |
 | Ribbon of Sand (2008)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Lions for Lambs (2007)
Janine Roth |
 | Rendition (2007)
Corrine Whitman |
 | Evening (2007)
Lila Ross |
 | Hurricane on the Bayou (2006)
Narrator (voice) |
 | The Ant Bully (2006)
Queen (voice) |
 | The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Miranda Priestly |
 | A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Yolanda Johnson |
 | The Music of Regret (2006)
The Woman |
 | Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)
Self |
| | Stolen Childhoods (2005)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Karen Blixen - En Fantastisk Skæbne (2005)
Self - Host |
 | Prime (2005)
Lisa Metzger |
 | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Josephine Anwhistle |
 | The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA) |
 | Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen (2004)
Self |
 | Stuck on You (2003)
Meryl Streep (uncredited) |
 | The Hours (2002)
Clarissa Vaughan |
 | Adaptation. (2002)
Susan Orlean |
| | New York at the Movies (2002)
Narrator (voice) |
 | There's Only One Paul McCartney (2002)
Self |
 | Vermeer Master of Light (2001)
Narrator (voice) |
 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Blue Mecha (voice) |
 | Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (2001)
Self |
 | A Song of Africa (2000)
Self |
| | Ginevra's Story: Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait (1999)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Music of the Heart (1999)
Roberta |
 | Chrysanthemum (1999)
Narrator (voice) |
 | One True Thing (1998)
Kate Gulden |
 | Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
Kate Mundy |
 | ...First Do No Harm (1997)
Lori Reimuller |
 | Marvin's Room (1996)
Lee Wakefield Lacker |
 | Before and After (1996)
Carolyn Ryan |
 | The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Francesca Johnson |
 | The Living Sea (1995)
Narrator (voice) |
 | The River Wild (1994)
Gail Hartman |
| | An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet (1994)
Self - Host |
 | The House of the Spirits (1993)
Clara del Valle Trueba |
 | Death Becomes Her (1992)
Madeline Ashton Menville |
 | Age 7 in America (1991)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Defending Your Life (1991)
Julia |
 | Voices That Care (1991)
Self - Choir Member |
 | Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Suzanne Vale |
 | The Earth Day Special (1990)
Concerned Citizen |
 | She-Devil (1989)
Mary Fisher |
 | Evil Angels (1988)
Lindy Chamberlain |
 | Ironweed (1987)
Helen Archer |
 | Heartburn (1986)
Rachel |
 | Out of Africa (1985)
Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen |
 | Plenty (1985)
Susan Traherne |
 | Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit (1984)
Narrator (voice) |
 | Falling in Love (1984)
Molly Gilmore |
 | Silkwood (1983)
Karen Silkwood |
 | Sophie's Choice (1982)
Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski |
 | Still of the Night (1982)
Brooke Reynolds |
 | Alice at the Palace (1982)
Alice |
 | The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Sarah / Anna |
 | Kiss Me, Petruchio (1981)
Katherine |
 | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Joanna Kramer |
 | The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
Karen Traynor |
 | Uncommon Women and Others (1979)
Leilah |
 | Manhattan (1979)
Jill |
 | The Deer Hunter (1978)
Linda |
 | Julia (1977)
Anne Marie |
 | The Deadliest Season (1977)
Sharon Miller |
 | Secret Service (1977)
Edith Varney |
 | Everybody Rides the Carousel (1975)
Stage 6 (voice) |
| | Mamma Mia! 3
Donna Sheridan |
 | Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep
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