Simply Streep is your premiere source on Meryl Streep's work on film, television and in the theatre - a career that has won her three Academy Awards and the praise to be one of the world's greatest working actresses. Created in 1999, we have built an extensive collection to discover Miss Streep's work through an archive of press articles, photos and video clips. Enjoy your stay.
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Apr
17
2021

A couple of new magazine scans have been added to the photo gallery, featuring four new cover stories. Meryl has graced the covers of the German EPD Film, the Polish Forbes Women, the Czech TV Star, as well as the latest issue of Closer, featuring a reader’s poll of America’s 25 favorite actresses of all time. For a complete list of new additions, check the previews below. Many thanks to Marci and Alvaro for submitting these great finds.


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Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2021 – Closer (USA, April 19, 2021)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2021 – TV Star (Czech Republic, March 29, 2021)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2021 – Forbes Women (Poland, March 2021)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2021 – The Sunday Mail TV Guide (Australia, February 21, 2021)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2021 – EPD Film (Germany, January 2021)

Dec
10
2020

A super big batch of magazines scans and reviews from around the globe have been added to the photo gallery – giving us a wonderful overview on how the world press has received this week’s releases of “The Prom” and “Let Them All Talk”. Among the additions are some fantastic cover stories from Variety, the Spanish SuperTele and the British Yours Magazine. A complete list of all aded scans can be found below the previews. Many thanks to Alvaro for sending them all in, very appreciated. Enjoy reading.


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Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Marie Claire (France, January 2021)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – SuperTele (Spain, December 18, 2020)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Star (USA, December 14, 2020)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – People (USA, December 14, 2020)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – OK! (USA, December 14, 2020)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Life & Style Weekly (USA, December 14, 2020)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Closer (USA, December 14, 2020)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – In Touch (USA, December 14, 2020)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Elle (Italy, December 12, 2020)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – The Week (USA, December 11, 2020)

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Nov
04
2020

The New York Times has an in-depth article on Hollywood’s recent revival of musicals, with a focus on the upcoming “The Prom”. The complete artcile can be read over at their website: On a sun-nuzzled February morning earlier this year, “The Prom,” Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of the Tony-nominated musical, prepared for a location shoot in a high school gym on the eastern edge of Hollywood. Basketball hoops kissed the ceiling. Rubber matting and webs of cables carpeted the floor. Beside the snack tables, James Corden, Kerry Washington and Meryl Streep, in a wig the red of a cocktail cherry, practiced a dance number, sashaying through the same steps at not quite the same time. The filmmaking, Corden said, once he had spun his final spin, had been amazing, joyous, nearly as much fun as “Cats,” particularly these song and dance rehearsals. “You feel like you might be in the greatest touring production of all time,” he said. The stage version of “The Prom,” a story of a young woman who wants to take her girlfriend to a school dance and the Broadway stars who debatably come to her aid, has scheduled an actual tour for January, Covid-19 permitting. That’s a little more than a month after Netflix releases Murphy’s film, which tells the same tale with a starrier cast, fancier sets, delirious wigs and an orchestra that includes four French horns, four more than the Broadway pit could afford.

Photo Gallery – Career Photography – The Prom – Production Stills

Oct
16
2020

Entertainment Tonight has a fantastic interview with Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest for Steven Soderbergh’s December-confirmed HBO Max film “Let Them All Talk”: Dianne Wiest sits demurely, a bookshelf behind her, broadcasting from her computer. Meryl Streep leans against a white brick wall, her iPhone at arm’s length. Candice Bergen reclines on her couch, holding her iPad over her head. For his latest film Let Them All Talk, director Steven Soderbergh put the three acting legends on a ship and, well, let them all talk. So it only made sense for EW to do the same — albeit over Zoom, rather than at sea. The ensuing conversation will mark their first extended discussion of the mysterious movie, which arrives on HBO Max in December. Scripted (sort of; more on that in a minute) by beloved short-story writer Deborah Eisenberg, Let Them All Talk stars Streep as an acclaimed novelist who’s summoned to the U.K. to receive an award. She invites two of her oldest friends (Bergen and Wiest) and her nephew (Lucas Hedges) to join her on a voyage aboard the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner, setting up a gabfest filled with reminiscence, regret, and repartee. As it happens, that also describes EW’s roundtable with the actresses. But at first, they’re just giddy to see each other again, discussing vacation spots and the California wildfires before Bergen gets things back on track. “You’re trying to get things started here,” she says with a chuckle. And so we do.

Meryl, how does playing, for lack of a better word, a regular person like this character differ from some of your more transformative roles?
I didn’t think she was so regular. I mean, to me, she was a rara avis. She’s a really weird bird. A real intellectual, which I am not. People like that sort of intimidate me, and so it’s great fun to imagine what it’d be like to have those standards of thought, and those aspirations, and to have a poetic soul, which I think she did, and the selfishness of real, true artists. People that don’t have kids and concerns that pull them into the real world. People that have been able to just live in the sort of miasma of their own imagination and anxieties and terrors. That’s her, and at this particular moment of her life, especially so. Her regrets and her desires to figure things out — it’s stuff you can relate to after 70, certainly, if you’re lucky enough to get there.

The complete interview can be read over at Entertainment Weekly and in our press archive.

Photo Gallery – Career – Let Them All Talk – Production Stills

Oct
11
2020

The Hollywood Reporter has put “The Prom” stars Meryl Streep, Kerry Washington, James Corden, Jo Ellen Pellman, Keegan-Michael Key and Nicole Kidman on their cover with a lenghty interview inside their October 07 issue: “Should I just drop Meryl?” Keegan-Michael Key is cradling Meryl Streep in a dip as the 21-time Oscar nominee, wearing a pink-sequin pantsuit and heels, gazes admiringly up at him. The two are dancing underneath the basketball hoops in the Helen Bernstein High School gym in Los Angeles, which is decorated with beaded curtains, white balloons, twinkly lights and vases of flowers. It’s March 6, 2020, and the let’s-put-on-a-show! energy is palpable on the set of the Ryan Murphy movie The Prom, where Murphy is shooting his dance number finale, an anthem of acceptance featuring some 300 young LGBTQ extras in formal wear. The real high school is still in session around the production, and occasionally the school PA crackles with an announcement, briefly puncturing the glamour of the moment. Inside the gym, Streep, Key, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Kerry Washington, Andrew Rannells, Tracey Ullman and newcomers Jo Ellen Pellman and Ariana DeBose are dressed in coordinated shades of turquoise, pink and purple and gathered under bright lights to dance and lip-sync to the track they have already recorded of the film’s capper, “It’s Time to Dance.” The complete article can be read over at The Hollywood Reporter.


Photo Gallery – Magazines & Scans – The Hollywood Reporter (USA, October 07, 2020)
Photo Gallery – Editorial Photography – 2020 – Session 01

Jul
31
2020

The German/French tv channel ARTE celebrates the “Summer of Dreams” with films and documentaries, but for us it will be the “Summer of Streep” in August. On August 23, 2020 at 22:50pm, the broadcaster will air a brand new documentary on Meryl Streep titled “Meryl Streep: Die unverstellte Göttin” (the genuine goddess), right after a broadcast of “Out of Africa” at 20:15pm. The documentary will be featured on the ARTE website starting August 21 and will be available on-demand for a month. On Sunday, August 30, there will be a broadcast of “Julie & Julia” at 20:15pm. Their special on Streep is accompanied by a lovely cover story and article in the August issue of ARTE Magazin, which you can find in the photo gallery. Many thanks to Katrin for the heads-up.

Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2020 – ARTE Magazin (Germany, August 2020)
Press Library – 2020 – ARTE Magazin (Germany, August 2020)

May
10
2020

Just when I finished adding newfound magazine articles to the archvie a couple of weeks ago, I realised that I forgot to add half of them :-) So, sooner than expected, here comes a second magazine update. Most are coming from Brasilian magazines, including Manchete, with some fantastic full-length articles on her breakthrough with “Holocaust” and her road to stardom with “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and “Sophie’s Choice”. There are also a couple of scans from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. For a complete list, have a look at the previews below. Many thanks to Alvaro for finding most of these rare articles. Much appreciated!



Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, March 09, 1991)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Elle Magazine (Brasil, August 1989)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, September 12, 1987)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, April 19, 1986)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Premium Channels (USA, December 1984)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, March 31, 1984)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, May 01, 1983)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, April 30, 1983)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, March 27, 1982)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – The Daily Mirror (United Kingdom, October 1981)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Macleans (Canada, September 21, 1981)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, April 28, 1980)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Revista de Domingo (Brasil, January 27, 1980)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, January 13, 1980)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, September 22, 1979)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Lancaster TV Week (USA, September 02, 1979)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Manchete (Brasil, December 02, 1978)

Apr
19
2020

If your looking for something to read on your quarantine Sunday, have a look at the 50+ new magazine scans that have been added to the archives! There are some great old finds from the 1980s as well as many more recent interviews on articles from Austria and Switzerland, Brazil and Peru, Poland and the United Kingdom. So, there’s something for everybody. Huge thanks to my friend Alvaro for compiling all these new finds and sending them my way. Much appreciated. Enjoy your Sunday!



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Oct
24
2019

Many thanks to my friend Simona for contributing this wonderful cover story from the Italian Il Venerdi di Repubblica, dated October 04, 2019. Scans can be found in the photo gallery.


Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Il Venerdi di Repubblica (Italy, October 04, 2019)

Aug
22
2019

A batch of new cover stories and articles on Meryl Streep, collected from around the world, have been added to the photo gallery. The most recent addition is a cover story from Closer Weekly (United States, September 02, 2019), which is a rather generic late-happy-birthday article. Then, there’s a cover from the Hungarian magazine >Ridikül (Hungary, August 2019), a cover story from You (South Africa, July 04, 2019) and a Chilean article on Meryl’s birthday from La Estrella (Chile, June 22, 2019) with many thanks to its author, Marcelo, for submitting it. A full list can be found below, enjoy the new additions!


Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2019 – Closer Weekly (United States, September 02, 2019)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2019 – Ridikül (Hungary, August 2019)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2019 – You (South Africa, July 04, 2019)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – 2019 – La Estrella (Chile, June 22, 2019)