How old was Meryl Streep in the movie The Manchurian Candidate?

Meryl Streep was 54 in The Manchurian Candidate when she played the character 'Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)'.

That was over 20 years ago in 2004.

Today she is 74, and has starred in 135 movies in total, 80 of those since The Manchurian Candidate was released.

How old do you think she looks in the movie?

In The Manchurian Candidate, I think Meryl Streep looks:

Did you know?

  • Director Jonathan Demme has worked with Meryl Streep a total of 3 times in her career.
  • Meryl Streep's first movie was as 'Stage 6 (voice)' in Everybody Rides the Carousel, released in 1975 when she was 24
  • The Manchurian Candidate scores 6.45 out of 10 on TMDB.

The cast of The Manchurian Candidate

Meryl Streep's other movies