🎬 50 Meryl Streep Movies – Pick Your Top 3

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“Acting is not about being someone different.
It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different…”
— Meryl Streep

Across five decades, Meryl has dazzled us in dramas, comedies, musicals, thrillers and more. Feast your eyes on all 50 posters below—each one capturing an unforgettable Meryl Streep performance.. Scroll through the eras, then drop your three all-time faves in the comments! ⬇️

50 Meryl Streep Movies
50 Meryl Streep Movies – 3 Choice…

🗽 Late ’70s & ’80s – The Breakthrough Years

  • Manhattan (1979)
  • Defending Your Life (1991) — OK, technically a ’90s frame, but she was honing her craft!
  • The Devil Wears Prada (2006) — another slight cheat, but it’s the perfect mash-up of eras
  • The Prom (2020)

(…whoops, you can already feel the range! 😉)

🎞 ’90s – Exploring Range & Recognition

  • Lions for Lambs (2007… again, a time-warp!)
  • The Homesman (2014)
  • Prime (2005)
  • Julia (1977)
  • Marvin’s Room (1996)
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
  • Little Women (2019)
  • The River Wild (1994)

🎭 Early 2000s – Comedy, Drama & Musicals

  • Hope Springs (2012)
  • Music of the Heart (1999)
  • Julie & Julia (2009)
  • August: Osage County (2013)
  • Falling in Love (1984)
  • Out of Africa (1985)
  • Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
  • Death Becomes Her (1992)

😂 Mid-2000s to 2010s – Awards Season Powerhouse

  • It’s Complicated (2009)
  • Doubt (2008)
  • A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
  • The House of the Spirits (1993)
  • One True Thing (1998)
  • Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  • A Thousand Acres (1997)
  • Suffragette (2015)

🚀 Late 2010s – Thrillers & True Stories

  • Don’t Look Up (2021)
  • Ironweed (1987)
  • The Deer Hunter (1978)
  • The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
  • Sophie’s Choice (1982)
  • The Giver (2014)
  • The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
  • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

📰 2000s & Beyond – Impactful Indies & Biopics

  • Rendition (2007)
  • The Hours (2002)
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  • Mamma Mia! (2008)
  • Postcards from the Edge (1990)
  • The Laundromat (2019)
  • The Post (2017)
  • The Iron Lady (2011)

🎻 Musicals & Late-Career Gems

  • Into the Woods (2014)
  • Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
  • Silkwood (1983)
  • Heartburn (1986)
  • A Cry in the Dark (1988)
  • Adaptation. (2002)

🙏 Now it’s your turn! Which three of these 50 legendary Meryl Streep performances are unforgettable to you? Drop them below and let’s celebrate Hollywood’s greatest chameleon! 👑✨

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