Meryl Streep Net Worth 2026: Her $12.5 Million Devil Wears Prada 2 Payday

Meryl Streep’s net worth is estimated at $105 million as of October 2026, built on five decades of film and television work, a record 21 Academy Award nominations and a 2026 return as Miranda Priestly that became one of the biggest hits of her career. The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened on May 1, 2026, grossed $693.5 million worldwide and paid her a reported $12.5 million upfront, with box office bonuses on top.

Published estimates for Streep run from $100 million to $160 million, and none of them shows how it treats the Prada sequel, which opened the day after the most recent estimate was updated. Because her bonus and recent TV pay have not been reported, our number is a model: we start from the April 2026 estimate and add what she most likely kept from this year’s work. The Radar Readout below shows each step, the range and how sure we are.

Meryl Streep Net Worth at a Glance

How Meryl Streep’s $105 Million Net Worth Is Built

The table matches the widget. The central values add up to $105 million, and the low and high columns add up to the published range.

We did not add a separate lane for Only Murders in the Building. Her three seasons on the Hulu series ran from 2023 to 2025, before the April 2026 estimate, so that pay should already sit inside the starting figure.

The Devil Wears Prada 2: Her Biggest Payday and Biggest Hit

Twenty years after the original, Streep returned as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada 2, directed again by David Frankel and written again by Aline Brosh McKenna. Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci came back alongside her, with Kenneth Branagh, Justin Theroux and Lucy Liu joining the cast. The film premiered at Lincoln Center on April 20, 2026, and opened in 4,150 US theaters on May 1.

Variety reported in May 2026 that Streep was paid $12.5 million upfront. The report also said Streep, Hathaway and Blunt negotiated a favored nations deal, which meant all three stars received the same $12.5 million. On top of the fee, the stars had box office bonuses tied to pre-agreed milestones, and two sources told Variety each star could earn over $20 million in total if the film kept selling tickets.

It did. The sequel opened to $76.7 million in the US and Canada, and Wikipedia’s box office figures, last checked in mid October 2026, put it at $220.6 million domestically and $693.5 million worldwide against a $100 million production budget. It is the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2026, it gave Streep the biggest global opening weekend of her career, and it pushed the two Prada films past $1 billion combined. That total also passes Mamma Mia!, which Wikipedia lists at about $609 million worldwide and which had been her highest-grossing film.

Because the bonus amounts have not been published, we count only $3.5 million kept from them, with a range of $1.5 million to $5 million. If the $20 million total that Variety’s sources described is close to what she earned, her figure sits toward the top of our range.

The Original Prada and a Long Run of Hits

The first Devil Wears Prada, released in 2006, cost $35 million to make and grossed about $326 million worldwide, according to Variety. Celebrity Net Worth’s career earnings table lists her pay for it at $5 million. The role earned her the 14th of her Oscar nominations, and Miranda Priestly became one of the best known characters of her career.

Two years later came Mamma Mia!, the musical that grossed more than $600 million and stood as her highest-grossing film until the Prada sequel. She returned briefly for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again in 2018. Her other commercial and critical successes include Out of Africa, her most successful release of the 1980s, Julie and Julia, Into the Woods, The Post, Little Women and the satire Don’t Look Up in 2021, where she played President Janie Orlean.

Celebrity Net Worth says she has been known to earn as much as $20 million for a film, or $10 million when a deal includes backend profits. Those are estimates rather than reported contracts, so we use them only as context, not in the model.

Only Murders in the Building and Television Work

Streep joined Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building in January 2023 for its third season, playing Loretta Durkin, a struggling actress who becomes the love interest and later the wife of Oliver and the star of his Broadway play. She appeared as a special guest in seasons 3 to 5, from 2023 to 2025, across 11 episodes, and the role earned her a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Her episode fee for the series has not been reported, so we do not put a number on it. Earlier television includes Holocaust in 1978, which won her a Primetime Emmy, the miniseries Angels in America, which won her another, and season 2 of Big Little Lies in 2019, which brought another Emmy nomination. Since 2023 she has also appeared in Extrapolations and voiced several documentary series, including The American Revolution in 2025.

Voice Work, Producing and Real Estate

Voice roles have become a steady side lane. In 2026 alone she had voice cameos in Hoppers, as the Insect Queen, and in Project Hail Mary, and she is credited as an executive producer on My Undesirable Friends: Part II, Exile. Her voice role as Aslan in Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is in post-production for 2027. None of these fees has been published, so we model them conservatively at about $500,000 kept.

Property has also added to her wealth. According to Celebrity Net Worth, she bought a New York City townhouse for $2.175 million in 1995 and sold it for $9.1 million in 2005. She paid $10.13 million for a Manhattan penthouse in 2006, listed it for $25 million in 2018 and sold it for $16 million in February 2020. The same site reports a $3.6 million Pasadena home bought in December 2017 and a 90 acre country property in Salisbury, Connecticut. These holdings are part of the starting figure rather than separate lanes in our model.

Awards and Career Standing

Streep’s 21 Academy Award nominations are a record for any performer. She won Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer, then Best Actress for Sophie’s Choice and The Iron Lady. She also holds a record 34 Golden Globe nominations with eight wins, three Primetime Emmys, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from 2014, the Kennedy Center Honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award and an Honorary Palme d’Or from Cannes.

Those honors do not show up directly in her bank balance, but they underpin her pay. The income we can trace in public sources comes from acting fees, box office bonuses and property sales rather than a large consumer brand or business.

Why Other Sites Say $160 Million

The $160 million figure does not match the current listing at the site it cites, and we could not find any source that shows how it was reached, so we treat it as an outlier. Our number sits just above $100 million because the Prada sequel added real money, but much of a $12.5 million fee goes to agents, managers, lawyers and tax.

How Meryl Streep Compares

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Frequently Asked Questions About Meryl Streep’s Net Worth

What is Meryl Streep’s net worth in 2026?

We estimate Meryl Streep’s net worth at $105 million as of October 2026, with a likely range of $95.5 million to $113.5 million. The figure is modeled from an April 2026 estimate plus what she most likely kept from The Devil Wears Prada 2.

How much did Meryl Streep get paid for The Devil Wears Prada 2?

Variety reported that she received $12.5 million upfront, the same as Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt under a favored nations deal. She also had box office bonuses, and sources told Variety each star could earn over $20 million in total.

How much did The Devil Wears Prada 2 make?

The sequel grossed $693.5 million worldwide, including $220.6 million in the US and Canada, against a $100 million budget. It is the highest-grossing film of Streep’s career.

How much was Meryl Streep paid for the original Devil Wears Prada?

Celebrity Net Worth lists her pay for the 2006 film at $5 million. Studio figures for that deal have not been published.

Is Meryl Streep still in Only Murders in the Building?

She played Loretta Durkin as a special guest in seasons 3 to 5, from 2023 to 2025. Season 6 premieres on December 8, 2026, and the sources we checked do not confirm whether she returns.

Is Meryl Streep still married?

She married sculptor Don Gummer in 1978, and they have four children. In October 2023 the couple said they had been living apart for more than six years, and Wikipedia lists their separation as 2017.