The best actress of her generation and the best actress since the other two greats, Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn, did their finest work. In the future, Meryl Streep will be considered one the finest actors to ever perform in movies by people who never saw her in their lifetime, I feel. Her acting is high art!

Who care about her politics! I'm a conservative and I think she is the finest actress alive. For example, In HBO's Angels in America there was a scene with a little old rabbi giving a eulogy at a funeral. When I read the credits and saw that the little old rabbi was none other than Meryl Streep! Well you could have knocked me over with a feather. She was so convincing! She's the best bar none.

She should be a strong number 1 on this list. I'm totally baffled. What do people want? As far as the left wing thing goes almost all of these folks are to the left of Lenin. They're spoiled, pampered and sheep like when it comes to voicing their PC opinions. I rate them on their art and not their politics. Meryl Streep is a great actress.

My wife loves her, I hate her. Plus she is a left wing communist moron who follows the Hollywood elite. Can spit out words and even emotion but not capable of original thinking.

When we know she is in a movie we just run to the cinema without any hesitation. Great actress! If one loves movies and good actors one shouldn't take politics into consideration.

ONE OF THOSE PHONY PRINCETONITES I DETEST SO MUCH. SHE'S FULL OF HERSELF AND ARROGANT. A REAL DEMAGOGUE ON STILTS.

Can't stomach watching her now that I know her politics.

Great actress...i like her films

Loved most of her movies.

Meryl gets my respect first off as a lot of Actresses today feel that their value and worth in the industry comes from taking your clothes off to gain some recognition, particularly from the Oscars. If you look at the awards Meryl has won and how long shes been around shes never had to take her clothes off for any of them or lie about her age like most actors today and shes gained a lot of respect from her peers over the years for caring about her work and valuing herself.

The best actress of all time. Can absolutely break your heart.

She's always been overated, but her last two Academy Award nominations were completely undeserved and made a farce of the awards.

She overacts and plays the same role over and over. She's overrated. I think that people who are so political should know something about politics.

A chameleon of her craft.

Meryl Streep should be rated 5 stars just for her stunning performance in SILKWOOD, let alone anything else. Meryl Streep is definately an actress that belongs in the history books of Hollywood. Very few have topped her talent today or even in the past. I love her...

She is a great actress. I don't understand why people think she is overrated??? She must not be that bad, if she is the one getting Oscar nominations every other year. She holds the record for most Academy Award nominations ever!! She is a tremendous talent. Sophie's Choice is my favorite film of hers.

Greatest actress that ever lived ...and you know what ? I'd do her ...

She is so awesome and she is beautiful! She rocks and is a classic.. plus she is in the hrs with Nic! The best person ever!

She is soooo over.

I know it's cool to say how good she is....but I've never been cool!!!

My favorite actress. She's had such great roles in so many important movies. She should have won the Supporting Actress Oscar for Adaptation this year.

this woman is the acting GOd of today. She inspired most of these women to become actresses in the first place....should be higher on the list! Go Meryl!!

As an actor, she is simply the best.

Great actress and person! Lucky that she gets to work with Nic!

She should be the inspiration for any woman who wants to follow the carrer of an actress!

She may de-throne Hepburn one day. She is one of a dying bred of actors; serious about their craft. Did you see her interview / exchange with James Lipton on "Actor's Studio" on BRAVO? If not, try to catch it sometime. She is an actor's actor.

excessively overrated ever since sophie's choice. has played the same emotion for 20 years yets yells about limited acting opportunities for women of her age---uh, how come susan sarandon gets gigs, and diane keaton for that matter. all-time worst meryl performance HAS to be "house of the spirits" which was a bastardization of the allende book anyway.

Does nothing for me

overated, sorry, kinda hammy

Meryl is one of the classiest ladies in Hollywood, I mean class, not glamour! She is a great actor, secure with who she is, chooses her movies wisely and made the best "move," ) yes, m o v e, not m o v i e) in her life when she left Hollywood - she is too classy a lady for tinsel town. She is no phony and she is not a "groupie" or collective thinker so she can fit in with the "in-crowd" and whatever the latest cause is! She thinks for herself!

I have always admired Meryl Streep becasue she´s a truly actress. Perhaps there are other actresses (Julia, Jodie, Michelle Pf, G Paltrow...) which are more popular than she is.This doesn´t matter. Meryl has something they don´t: a masterful talent. Also she is one of the few survivors from the Hollywood Industy.

One of, if not the best, actresses alive today! Versital, believable, passionate, beautiful.

Certainly one of the greatest actors of our time. I will never forget her searing performance in "Sophie's Choice." Almost any film of hers is worth catching just for her part. Bravo!

Meryl Streep is terrible, because she left Hollywood, not giving any credit to the people that helped her give her the career that she had earned. That is so unforgiving and rude, that she doesn't even deserve the star. And she wasn't that good of an actress anyways.

Waaaayyyy over-rated. She acts the same in all her movies. It's like watching Meryl rather than the character she portrays.

SHES OLDER THAN MY MOTHER HOW COULD PEOPLE BE SO BLIND HOW OLD IS THIS SITE

I am not a fan of Meryl Streep but I must recognize her tremendous and powerful talent she has proven over the las 20 years. It seems that you, LYRICAL, have not seen some of her films; if you had, you wouldn't say (or write) so about the characters she's portrayed. I recommed you to watch Meryl on films such as Sophie's Choice, Out of Africa, Bridges of Madison County, Plenty, Ironweed, A cry in the dark, Silkwood, and French Lieutenat's Woman. And then LYRICAL, you will realize how excellent and versatile actress Streep is, and maybe, you will show more respect for her.

hi my name is Ringo(not the Beatle)and I know for a fact that MerylStreep is a great actress.I believe Meryl,and Susan Surandon are 2 of the best actress.

I think she has always been a wonderful actress. The way she makes her facial expressions-resentful, hurt, relieved. I think she's amazing. I also really like her choices of movies. I especially liked her in "Music of the Heart" (most likely because I'm a violinist).

Meryl Streep is one of the best actress of the last twenty years. Her performances in films like SILKWOOD, OUT OF AFRICA, SOPHIE'S CHOICE, ONE TRUE THING, A CRY IN THE DARK, PLENTY, KRAMER VS KRAMER, THE DEER HUNTER, BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, IRONWEED, FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN have proven her powerful talent and set her in the elite of the greatest actresses of all time.

If Meryl Streep isn't the top actress of the last 20 plus years she is certianly one of the top 2. In her many roles she has proven that she has a range that most performers just dream about. She can believably portray anyone from a working class heroine (Silkwood) to a disturbed victim of Nazi war crimes (Sophie's Choice) to an average woman struggling with her role as a parent(Kramer vs Kramer). Her ability to master dialects is almost supernatural. Even if you may be depressed by some of the subject matter in her movie choices, you can not deny that she was born to act and that she is very, very good at it.

Meryl has been the best american actress for the last 20 years. Twelve nominations (winning two of them) prove it.

Excellent actress. She can be beautiful with her ability than rather her physical traits. Ah, so we see mcke3634om be nice for a change!

She's OK. Not excellent, but okay.

There are so many good actress today but there a few of them who can be considered superstars. Meryl belongs to this last group of the elite.

I loved her in Sophie's Choice. The beauty is not important if you're good. And... YES, Drummer4Jesus, she can make everything she wants, cause she's a VERY good actress.

i definitely think she's one of the most deserving actors in hollywood. she's very passionate, talented, hardworking and unconventionally beautiful. she can pull off drama and comedy(death becomes her). plus she cares more about her craft than which designer dress to wear at the next awards ceremony. a legend in her own time.

I like her because she's not pretty and still, she can be gorgeous on screen. A real woman.

highly overrated...I don't feel she deserved an Oscar nod for her last movie...clout is clout, I guess

I hope to be as beautiful as her when I am her age.