Meryl Streep (1949)

94.2 TOPICAL actor score · #12 of 1,977 actors

Meryl Streep (1949) has a TOPICAL actor score of 94.2 - one of the 100 best actors of all time by TOPICAL's score. Their strongest parts are acting honours and career standing. They've won 16 acting honours from 16 nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. Their best ten-year run was 1977-1986. Best films: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Adaptation. (2002).

Why this score

Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.

Acting honours100

Prime96

Their movies83

Credits86

Career standing98

Acting honours16 wins, 16 nominations - incl. Academy Award for Best Actress; Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; AFI Life Achievement Award
Prime1977-1986
Credits90 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 42 scored films (34 as a lead)
Known inWikipedia articles in 134 languages

“Widely regarded by peers and critics as the greatest actress of her generation, and by many with the affectionate epitaph "Greatest of All Time", she is recognized as one of the most versatile performers in cinema, noted for her technical precision, nuanced emotional depth, command of dialects, and professional longevity.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10

Meryl Streep's scored films

TOPICAL rank	Film	Year	Billed
45	The Deer Hunter	1978	5
184	Kramer vs. Kramer	1979	2
243	Manhattan	1979	5
270	Adaptation.	2002	2
273	Fantastic Mr. Fox	2009	2
344	The Hours	2002	3
475	Out of Africa	1985	2
647	Doubt	2008	1
823	The Post	2017	1
844	Don't Look Up	2021	3
894	The Devil Wears Prada	2006	1
906	Sophie's Choice	1982	1
987	Julia	1977	7
1,127	The Bridges of Madison County	1995	1
1,338	Silkwood	1983	1
1,425	Marvin's Room	1996	1
1,612	The French Lieutenant's Woman	1981	1
1,672	Evil Angels	1988	1
1,829	Death Becomes Her	1992	1
1,874	Florence Foster Jenkins	2016	1
1,879	Julie & Julia	2009	1
1,912	The Iron Lady	2011	1
1,928	Postcards from the Edge	1990	1
2,001	August: Osage County	2013	1
2,037	The Devil Wears Prada 2	2026	2
2,143	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	2004	8
2,443	One True Thing	1998	1
2,502	Mamma Mia!	2008	2
2,593	The Manchurian Candidate	2004	2
2,799	Into the Woods	2014	2
2,832	Music of the Heart	1999	1
2,897	Ironweed	1987	2
3,339	The River Wild	1994	1
3,649	The House of the Spirits	1993	1
3,835	It's Complicated	2009	1
3,836	Rendition	2007	3
4,093	The Ant Bully	2006	3
4,204	Lions for Lambs	2007	1
4,314	The Giver	2014	2
4,431	Heartburn	1986	1
4,600	The Prom	2020	1
5,336	She-Devil	1989	1

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