Actor
Meryl StreepFollow
39 films•1978–2026•Drama · Comedy · Romance
Avg critics72%
Avg audience69%
Avg domestic$59.9M
Domestic
$2.217B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$4.513B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$10.5M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Devil Wears Prada 2 | 2026 | $76.7M | $220.6M | 2.90x | $693.5M | A- | 78% | #8 |
 Mamma Mia! | 2008 | $27.8M | $144.0M | 5.20x | $610.0M | A- | 55% | #13 |
 Into the Woods | 2014 | $31.1M | $128.0M | 4.12x | $212.4M | B | 71% | #23 |
 The Devil Wears Prada | 2006 | $27.5M | $125.0M | 4.53x | $327.0M | B | 75% | #17 |
 A Series of Unfortunate Events | 2004 | $30.1M | $119.0M | 3.95x | $211.0M | B+ | 72% | #18 |
 It's Complicated | 2009 | $22.1M | $113.0M | 5.10x | $219.0M | A | 58% | #28 |
 Little Women | 2019 | $16.8M | $108.1M | 6.45x | $218.8M | A- | 95% | #28 |
 Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | — | $106.3M | — | — | — | 90% | — |
 Julie & Julia | 2009 | $20.0M | $94.1M | 4.70x | $130.0M | — | 76% | #34 |
 The Post | 2017 | $526K | $81.9M | 4.20x | $179.8M | A | 88% | #39 |
 Out of Africa | 1985 | $3.6M | $79.1M | 21.7x | $258.2M | — | 62% | — |
 The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 | $10.5M | $71.5M | 6.80x | $175.5M | — | 90% | — |
 The Manchurian Candidate | 2004 | $20.0M | $66.0M | 3.29x | $96.1M | B+ | 79% | #44 |
 Hope Springs | 2012 | $14.7M | $63.5M | 4.34x | $133.0M | — | 75% | #50 |
 Death Becomes Her | 1992 | $12.1M | $58.4M | 4.80x | $149.0M | — | 58% | — |
 The Deer Hunter | 1978 | — | $50.0M | — | — | — | 86% | — |
 The River Wild | 1994 | $10.2M | $46.8M | 4.60x | $94.2M | A- | 65% | — |
 The Giver | 2014 | $12.3M | $45.1M | 3.70x | $66.5M | — | 34% | — |
 The Hours | 2002 | $339K | $41.7M | 9.00x | $97.0M | — | 79% | — |
 Manhattan | 1979 | $486K | $39.9M | 82.2x | — | — | 93% | — |
 Postcards from the Edge | 1990 | $7.9M | $38.0M | 4.80x | — | — | 83% | — |
 August: Osage County | 2013 | $179K | $37.7M | 5.30x | $50.7M | A- | 67% | — |
 Silkwood | 1983 | $1.2M | $35.6M | 10.0x | $37.8M | — | 78% | — |
 Doubt | 2008 | $507K | $33.4M | 6.30x | $53.2M | — | 79% | — |
 The Iron Lady | 2011 | $220K | $30.0M | 5.50x | $115.6M | — | 51% | — |
 The Ant Bully | 2006 | $8.4M | $28.1M | 3.30x | $49.6M | — | 61% | — |
 Florence Foster Jenkins | 2016 | $6.6M | $27.4M | 4.10x | $56.0M | A- | 87% | — |
 Ricki and the Flash | 2015 | $6.6M | $26.8M | 4.10x | $41.2M | — | 64% | — |
 Sophie's Choice | 1982 | $202K | $25.2M | 11.6x | — | — | 75% | — |
 Prime | 2005 | $6.2M | $22.8M | 3.70x | $67.5M | — | 50% | — |
 The French Lieutenant's Woman | 1981 | $124K | $22.6M | 13.3x | — | — | 83% | — |
 Adaptation | 2002 | $2.6M | $22.5M | 8.50x | $32.8M | — | 90% | — |
 Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | $266K | $21.0M | 3.00x | $45.9M | — | 93% | — |
 Lions for Lambs | 2007 | $6.7M | $15.0M | 2.20x | $63.2M | — | 28% | — |
 Marvin's Room | 1996 | $60K | $12.8M | — | — | — | 83% | — |
 Rendition | 2007 | $4.1M | $9.7M | 2.40x | $26.9M | — | 46% | — |
 A Cry in the Dark | 1988 | $1.6M | $6.9M | — | — | — | 94% | — |
 Don't Look Up | 2021 | — | — | — | $1.2M | — | 56% | — |
 The Laundromat | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | 42% | — |
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Film by film
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DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.3 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.7x
$4.406B worldwide on $1.201B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.857BInternational $2.549B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven11.7x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records1 placing across 1 all-time chart. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full scheduleNo upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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