5 Meryl Streep Movies We’re Watching This Week

Happy birthday Ms Streep.

Nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, and winner of three, Meryl Streep is hailed as one of the best actors of our time. She doesn’t only reign the big screen – watch her in a series as pain-in-the-arse mother-in-law to Nicole Kidman's character in Big Little Lies – but there are so many movies to choose from. So this is our list to tick off in the coming weeks...

Death Becomes Her

A masterclass in nineties special effects, the movie won both an Oscar and a Bafta for best visual effects, as the all-star cast, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis, learn that anti-ageing miracle cures come at a price...

The Post

Meryl plays Katherine Graham, who led The Washington Post from 1963 to 1991, during which time the paper reported the Watergate scandal, which led to the resignation of President Nixon.

Little Women

She’s excellent as the girls’ opinionated Aunt March in Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Little Women. Watch it if only for the costumes.

Marvin’s Room

See 1996 Meryl play mother to a troubled young Leonardo DiCaprio, alongside ‘sister’ Diane Keaton and her doctor, played by Robert DeNiro.

The Devil Wears Prada

Meryl’s 2006 portrayal of Miranda Priestly feels timely to revisit today, while the editor she’s thought to be based on, Vogue’s Anna Wintour, comes under scrutiny with the recent release of André Leon Talley’s memoir of his time at the masthead.

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