The Corrections (1 episode)
Mamma Mia! 3 as Donna Sheridan
2024
Escape from Extinction Rewilding as Narrator (voice)
2024
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? as Narrator (voice) (8 episodes)
2023
Extrapolations as Eve (1 episode)
2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust as Eleanor Roosevelt (3 episodes)
2021
Don't Look Up as President Orlean
2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self (9 episodes)
2021
Only Murders in the Building as Loretta Durkin (9 episodes)
2021
Dear Elizabeth as Elizabeth Bishop
2021
Hemingway as Martha Gellhorn (voice) (1 episode)
2021
Stanislavski: Lust for Life as Self
2020
Let Them All Talk as Alice Hughes
2020
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Meryl Streep
2020
Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2020
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration as Self - Performer
2020
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth as Narrator (voice)
2019
Little Women as Aunt March
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
2019
The Laundromat as Ellen Martin / Elena
2019
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage as Self (archive footage)
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2019
This Changes Everything as Self
2019
Museum Town as Narrator (voice)
2018
Mary Poppins Returns as Cousin Topsy
2018
We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World as Self
2018
Paul McCartney | Live at Grand Central Station as Self (Cameo)
2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Donna Sheridan-Carmichael
2018
Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary as Narrator (voice)
2017
The Post as Kay Graham
2017
The Words That Built America as Self - Reader - Declaration of Independence
2017
Five Came Back as Self - Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
2017
Five Came Back as Narrator (voice)
2017
The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits as Self
2017
Big Little Lies as Mary Louise Wright (7 episodes)
2017
100 Years as Narrator (voice)
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
2016
Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
2016
Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
2015
Suffragette as Emmeline Pankhurst
2015
Shout Gladi Gladi as Narrator (voice)
2015
Everything Is Copy as Self
2015
Emotional Uncertainties as Self
2015
Ricki and the Flash as Ricki Rendazzo
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self (1 episode)
2015
Auschwitz as Narrator (voice)
2014
Into the Woods as Witch
2014
The Concert for Valor as Self
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) (7 episodes)
2014
The Giver as Chief Elder
2014
The Homesman as Altha Carter
2014
And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013
August: Osage County as Violet Weston
2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
2013
Girl Rising as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
2013
A Fierce Green Fire as Narrator (voice)
2013
Makers: Women Who Make America as Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)
2012
Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2012
Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self
2012
To the Arctic 3D as Narrator (voice)
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011
The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
2011
Web Therapy as Camilla Bowner (2 episodes)
2011
Wings of Life as Narrator (voice)
2010
America: The Story of Us as Self (2 episodes)
2010
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life as Jennie
2010
Sky Island as (voice)
2009
It's Complicated as Jane Adler
2009
Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia as Self
2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox as Felicity Fox (voice)
2009
Julie & Julia as Julia Child
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2009
Doubt: Stage to Screen as Self
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
2008
Birthing Mamma Mia! as Self
2008
Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2008
Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan
2008
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' as Self
2008
Theater of War as Self
2008
Dark Matter as Joanna Silver
2008
Ribbon of Sand as Narrator (voice)
2007
Lions for Lambs as Janine Roth
2007
Rendition as Corrine Whitman
2007
Evening as Lila Ross
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self (3 episodes)
2006
Hurricane on the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
2006
The Ant Bully as Queen (voice)
2006
The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly
2006
A Prairie Home Companion as Yolanda Johnson
2006
The Music of Regret as The Woman
2006
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
2005
Stolen Childhoods as Narrator (voice)
2005
The Colbert Report (1 episode)
2005
Karen Blixen: Out of This World as Self - Host
2005
Prime as Lisa Metzger
2005
Unscripted as Self (3 episodes)
2004
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Josephine Anwhistle
2004
The Manchurian Candidate as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
2004
Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen as Self
2003
Stuck on You as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
2003
Angels in America as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia (6 episodes)
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self (2 episodes)
2002
Adaptation. as Susan Orlean
2002
New York at the Movies as Narrator (voice)
2002
There's Only One Paul McCartney as Self
2001
Vermeer Master of Light as Narrator (voice)
2001
School: The Story of American Public Education as Narrator (voice) (4 episodes)
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Blue Mecha (voice)
2001
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' as Self
2000
A Song of Africa as Self
1999
Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait as Narrator (voice)
1999
Music of the Heart as Roberta
1999
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic as Self
1999
Chrysanthemum as Narrator (voice)
1998
Vivement dimanche as Self (1 episode)
1998
One True Thing as Kate Gulden
1998
Dancing at Lughnasa as Kate Mundy
1997
The View as Self (3 episodes)
1997
Leute heute as Self (1 episode)
1997
...First Do No Harm as Lori Reimuller
1997
King of the Hill as Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice) (1 episode)
1996
Marvin's Room as Lee Wakefield Lacker
1996
The Daily Show as Self (1 episode)
1996
Before and After as Dr. Carolyn Ryan
1995
The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
1995
The Living Sea as Narrator (voice)
1994
The River Wild as Gail Hartman
1994
Inside the Actors Studio as Self (1 episode)
1994
An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet as Self - Host
1993
The House of the Spirits as Clara del Valle Trueba
1993
GMTV as Self (1 episode)
1992
Death Becomes Her as Madeline Ashton Menville
1991
Age 7 in America as Narrator (voice)
1991
Defending Your Life as Julia
1991
Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
1990
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT as Self
1990
Postcards from the Edge as Suzanne Vale
1990
The Earth Day Special as Concerned Citizen
1989
The Simpsons as Jessica Lovejoy (voice) (1 episode)
1989
She-Devil as Mary Fisher
1988
Evil Angels as Lindy Chamberlain
1988
This Morning as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
1987
Ironweed as Helen Archer
1985
Out of Africa as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
1985
Plenty as Susan Traherne
1984
Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
1984
Falling in Love as Molly Gilmore
1983
Silkwood as Karen Silkwood
1982
Sophie's Choice as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
1982
Still of the Night as Brooke Reynolds
1982
Alice at the Palace as Alice
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah / Anna
1981
Kiss Me, Petruchio as Katherine
1979
Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
1979
The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Karen Traynor
1979
Uncommon Women and Others as Leilah
1978
The Deer Hunter as Linda
1978
Holocaust as Inga Helms Weiss (4 episodes)
1977
The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller
1977
Secret Service as Edith Varney
1975
Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)
1974
Spécial cinéma as Self (1 episode)
1971
Great Performances (1 episode)
1971
Great Performances as Leilah (1 episode)
1971
Great Performances as Self - Host (1 episode)
1968
60 Minutes as Self (1 episode)
1967
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self (1 episode)
1966
Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self (1 episode)
1959
The Grammy Awards as Self (1 episode)
1953
The Oscars as Self (6 episodes)