With the recently announced actor’s strike, we’re not going to see any promotional appearances in the coming weeks or months, which will definately affect next month’s premiere of “Only Murders in the Building”. We’ll see how this turns out. So in the meantime, let’s get used to our “From the Archives” category, which is keeping the site active throughout the year. A great big batch of additional public appearances pictures from 2001-2003 have been added – covering the timespan of Meryl’s “comeback” in the early 2000s with both “Adaptation” and “The Hours”. Can’t believe this is already more than 20 years ago. Enjoy the new additions and have a wonderful weekend.

We’re exactly one month away from the premiere of “Only Murders in the Building”‘s third season, so fingers crossed there’ll be some new promotion ahead of us. In the meantime, a couple of past television appearances and promotional interviews have been updated with better resolution screencaptures, including most of her visits to “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. There are also screencaptures from her early appearances on “The View” – in various degrees of quality. They all came from compilations to celebrate the show’s recent anniversary, I’m afraid we’ll never be able to see those interviews in full. Some great finds to complete the archives nevertheless. A complete list of updates can be found below. Enjoy your weekend.

Meryl Streep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jennifer Lawrence and hundreds of other high-profile actors have signed on to a pointed letter telling SAG-AFTRA leadership that they are prepared to strike in order to achieve a “transformative deal.” In the message sent to union leadership and its negotiating committee, the A-lister coalition — also including Lena Waithe, Laura Linney, Sarah Polley and Quinta Brunson — said that “a strike brings incredible hardships to so many, and no one wants it. But we are prepared to strike if it comes to that.” Calling 2023 an “unprecedented inflection point in our industry,” the group said, “what might be considered good in any other years is simply not enough.” Rolling Stone was the first to report on the letter. The letter, which made the rounds Tuesday, aired concerns that “SAG-AFTRA members may be ready to make sacrifices that leadership is not.” The group added, “We feel that our wages, our craft, our creative freedom, and the power of our union have all been undermined in the last decade. We need to reverse those trajectories.” The full article and letter can be read over at The Hollywood Reporter.

Many thanks to everybody for the lovely comments about the new layout, much appreciated. As not much else is happening, we continue with another “From the Archives” post, this time with some lovely public appearances additions from 1997’s “Marvin’s Room” promotion to 2000’s awards circuit for “Music of the Heart”. All updates can be found below. Enjoy your weekend.

Hello everybody and welcome to the latest version of Simply Streep. As this fansite enters its 24th anniversary this year, please bear with me for some personal words. The new look resembles what I most probably had in mind all these years ago – an online scrapbook with all information in one place. Of course, the internet has changed rapidly since then, and most of the action has moved to social media (which I’m not very good at, as you can tell by the accounts for this site). So, a fansite like Simply Streep feels very retro today, which, I think, only adds to its charm and effort in maintaining it. With the help and support of many friends and visitors, Simply Streep has become the titular archive that has exceeded my expectations time and again and of which I’m very proud of. Thanks to all of you, it means a lot. Meryl Streep’s work schedule has understandably decreased in recent years and there’s not much new to frequently report on, so we will continue to fill the archives and make it as complete as possible – while I will do my best to keep the site easy to browse and tidied up. I hope you enjoy your stay and check back soon.

Over the years, Simply Streep has amassed quite some pages of information, so it can be a little daunting finding exactly what you’re looking for. Or, on the flipside, you’ll probably find a lot of information you haven’t been aware of before. The sitemap will give you a good idea of the website’s structure. Alternatively, you can search for any keyword to browse all matching pages.

Home & Updates
On the main page, you will find all latest updates to the site and all latest news about recent and upcoming appearances.

The Archives
To learn more about Meryl Streep’s life off screen, you can browse the following subcategories. The chronology offers a year-by-year recount of Meryl Streep’s public life with film releases and appearances. In Conversation gives an more insight, quotes and videos on the many conversation panels and Q&A’s that Meryl has attended.

• Chronology
• Awards & Nominations
• Activism & Causes
• Bibliography
• In Conversation
• Real-Life Characters

Career
With over 300 projects to date, Meryl Streep’s career has been split into the following categories:

• Feature Films
• Television Films & Series
• Theatre Productions
• Theatre Readings
• Audio – Film, TV & Documentaries
• Audio – CDs, Podcasts, Radio
• Documentaries
• TV Presentations
• Online & Educational Videos

Press Library
Over 2.000 articles from around the world have been digitized over the years. They can be browsed by year, country, related film promotion and by cover stories.

• Browse by country
• Cover Stories 1970s
• Cover Stories 1980s
• Cover Stories 1990s
• Cover Stories 2000s
• Cover Stories 2010s
• Cover Stories 2020s

Photo Gallery
In the photo gallery, images are sorted in categories:

• Public Appearances
• Articles & Scans
• Feature Films
• Television Films & Series
• Theatre Productions
• Miscellaneous
• Editorial Photography
• TV & Online Appearances

You can also browse pictures by the following sorting options:

• Last uploaded pictures
• Last updated albums
• Most viewed pictures
• Top rated pictures

Video Archive
In the video archive, clips are sorted in categories:

• Career Videos
• Award Shows
• Talkshows
• Public Appearances
• Television Specials
• News Segments
• Miscellaneous

You can also browse pictures by the following sorting options:

• Most recent videos
• Most watched videos
• Random videos

Following two very quiet years, career-wise, 2023 brought two exciting new projects. AppleTV+’s “Extrapolations”, which was first announced in October of 2021, premiered on the streamer in March of 2023. While Meryl Streep received top-billing in the series’ rather odd marketing campaign (in which she didn’t participate), her role as Sienna Miller’s mother – and the voice of the Earth’s last humpback whale – was not more than a cameo in the series’ second episode. The series drew in dismal reviews and didn’t make a splash. In August, Meryl joined Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez for the third season of the highly popular “Only Murders in the Building” as a potential murder suspect – and Short’s love interest – Loretta Durkin. But Hollywood had other plans: A moth before the season’s premiere, actors went on strike over a labor dispute with the AMPTP, resulting in the longest strike in SAG-AFTRA history – and zero appearances, interviews or promotion of any kind during that time.

Meryl Streep recorded two audiobooks in 2023 – Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake: A Novel” and Brian Selznick’s “Big Tree”, for which she received a Grammy nomination for Best Narration. In October, Streep traveled to Spain to accept the Princess of Asturias Award, presented by Leonor and the Princess of Asturias and the Princess of Asturias Foundation to individuals, entities or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, and public affairs. In December, Streep was honored at the Academy Museum Gala, by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. She received the Icon Award, which celebrates an artist whose career has had a significant global cultural impact.

A vital mix of critical acclaim and heated debate among its polarized viewers led “Don’t Look Up” way into the early months o 2021. The film received 4 Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, and was nominated for the Outstanding Performance by a cast in a Motion Picture by the Screen Actors Guild (going home empty-handed at both ceremonies). It would remain the last feature film that Meryl Streep would take on and there was no additional project for the year, except a narration job for PBS’ “The U.S. and the Holocaust” by frequent collaborator Ken Burns.

In October, Streep accepted the Distinguished Achievement Award Ceremony by Vassar College and did a round of public appearances, including an honor to longtime colleague Robert De Niro by Austin’s Ransom Center Anniversary.

Here comes another “From the Archives” post to fill the gap until something new happens :-) We’re leaving the 1980s with public appearances pictures from the early to mid-1990s, including some fantastic addtions from the pomotional tour for “The River Wild”, several charity events and some great additions for the 1996 Academy Awards. As always, a complete list of updates can be found below. Also, make sure to check back on Sunday, as we will be launching a new layout for Simply Streep.