Actor
Don't Look Up
2021
as President Orlean
Let Them All Talk
2020
as Alice Hughes
The Prom
2020
as Dee Dee Allen
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Little Women
2019
as Aunt March
The Laundromat
2019
as Ellen Martin / Elena
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
as Cousin Topsy
Paul McCartney | Live at Grand Central Station
2018
as Self (Cameo)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
as Donna Sheridan-Carmichael
The Post
2017
as Kay Graham
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
as Florence Foster Jenkins
Suffragette
2015
as Emmeline Pankhurst
Ricki and the Flash
2015
as Ricki Rendazzo
Into the Woods
2014
as Witch
The Concert for Valor
2014
as Self
The Giver
2014
as Chief Elder
The Homesman
2014
as Altha Carter
August: Osage County
2013
as Violet Weston
Hope Springs
2012
as Kay
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
The Iron Lady
2011
as Margaret Thatcher
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
2010
as Jennie
It's Complicated
2009
as Jane Adler
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Felicity Fox (voice)
Julie & Julia
2009
as Julia Child
Doubt
2008
as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
Mamma Mia!
2008
as Donna Sheridan
Dark Matter
2008
as Joanna Silver
Lions for Lambs
2007
as Janine Roth
Rendition
2007
as Corrine Whitman
Evening
2007
as Lila Ross
The Ant Bully
2006
as Queen (voice)
The Devil Wears Prada
2006
as Miranda Priestly
A Prairie Home Companion
2006
as Yolanda Johnson
The Music of Regret
2006
as The Woman
Prime
2005
as Lisa Metzger
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Josephine Anwhistle
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
Stuck on You
2003
as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
The Hours
2002
as Clarissa Vaughan
Adaptation.
2002
as Susan Orlean
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
as Blue Mecha (voice)
Music of the Heart
1999
as Roberta
Chrysanthemum
1999
as Narrator (voice)
One True Thing
1998
as Kate Gulden
Dancing at Lughnasa
1998
as Kate Mundy
...First Do No Harm
1997
as Lori Reimuller
Marvin's Room
1996
as Lee Wakefield Lacker
Before and After
1996
as Dr. Carolyn Ryan
The Bridges of Madison County
1995
as Francesca Johnson
The River Wild
1994
as Gail Hartman
The House of the Spirits
1993
as Clara del Valle Trueba
Death Becomes Her
1992
as Madeline Ashton Menville
Defending Your Life
1991
as Julia
Postcards from the Edge
1990
as Suzanne Vale
She-Devil
1989
as Mary Fisher
Evil Angels
1988
as Lindy Chamberlain
Ironweed
1987
as Helen Archer
Heartburn
1986
as Rachel
Out of Africa
1985
as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
Plenty
1985
as Susan Traherne
Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit
1984
as Narrator (voice)
Falling in Love
1984
as Molly Gilmore
Silkwood
1983
as Karen Silkwood
Sophie's Choice
1982
as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
Still of the Night
1982
as Brooke Reynolds
Alice at the Palace
1982
as Alice
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
as Sarah / Anna
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979
as Joanna Kramer
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979
as Karen Traynor
Uncommon Women and Others
1979
as Leilah
Manhattan
1979
as Jill
The Deer Hunter
1978
as Linda
Julia
1977
as Anne Marie
The Deadliest Season
1977
as Sharon Miller
Secret Service
1977
as Edith Varney
Everybody Rides the Carousel
1975
as Stage 6 (voice)
Mamma Mia! 3
as Donna Sheridan
