Known for Costume & Make-Up
Born
January 28, 1943 (age 83)
Birthplace
Glendale, California, USA
Filmography
95 films


The Laundromat
2019 · 1h 36m · US
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.


The Post
2017 · 1h 56m · US
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.


Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 · 1h 50m · UK
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.


Suffragette
2015 · 1h 46m · FR
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.


Into the Woods
2014 · 2h 5m · US
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.


The Giver
2014 · 1h 37m · US
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.


Hope Springs
2012 · 1h 40m · US
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.


Doubt
2008 · 1h 44m · US
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.


Mamma Mia!
2008 · 1h 48m · DE
A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.


Dark Matter
2008 · 1h 30m · US
Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.


Rendition
2007 · 2h · US
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.


Evening
2007 · 1h 57m · DE
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.


A Prairie Home Companion
2006 · 1h 45m · US
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.


Prime
2005 · 1h 42m · US
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.


The Hours
2002 · 1h 54m · UK
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
New York at the Movies
New York at the Movies
2002 · 1h 30m · US
Meryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Century, and how its cultural importance and impact are important to viewers. With a comprehensive gathering of clips from films between 1910's and 1990's, the documentary presents the mandatory classic films that presented the city and its multiple cultural variations, situations and the great stories filmed there. Actors and directors also discuss how they view the city in reality and also through the pictures.


Music of the Heart
1999 · 2h 4m · US
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.


One True Thing
1998 · 2h 7m · US
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.


Dancing at Lughnasa
1998 · 1h 36m · IE
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.


...First Do No Harm
1997 · 1h 30m · US
When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and desperate, and so does her own research into the existing literature on treatments. When she decides to try an alternative treatment called the Ketogenic Diet, devised long ago by a doctor from Johns Hopkins, she is met with narrow-minded resistance from Robbie's doctor, who is prepared to take legal action to prevent Lori from removing him from the hospital.


Before and After
1996 · 1h 48m · US
Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.


The Bridges of Madison County
1995 · 2h 15m · US
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.


Death Becomes Her
1992 · 1h 44m · US
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.


Defending Your Life
1991 · 1h 51m · US
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.


She-Devil
1989 · 1h 39m · US
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.


Working Girl
1988 · 1h 54m · US
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she takes a risky chance to reclaim it by impersonating him and running the project from his position.


Evil Angels
1988 · 2h · AU
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.


Ironweed
1987 · 2h 23m · US
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.


Heartburn
1986 · 1h 48m · US
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.


Out of Africa
1985 · 2h 41m · US
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.


Sophie's Choice
1982 · 2h 31m · UK
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.


Alice at the Palace
1982 · 1h 12m · US
Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Based on the acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival production by Joseph Papp, Alice at the Palace follows Alice's surreal adventures with The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts, and The Cheshire Cat, among many others.