- A Sleigh of One's Own
2028 Mrs. Claus
- Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
2027 Aslan (voice)
- The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026 Miranda
- Hoppers
2026 Insect Queen (voice)
- Project Hail Mary
2026 Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
- Henry David Thoreau
2026 Various Voices (voice)
- Do We Know Each Other?
2026 Miranda Priestly
- My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile
2026 Executive Producer
- Escape from Extinction: Rewilding
2024 Narrator (voice)
- Schindler Space Architect
2024 Narrator (voice)
- Sell/Buy/Date
2022 Executive Producer
- Don't Look Up
2021 President Orlean
- Dear Elizabeth
2021 Elizabeth Bishop
- The Prom
2020 Dee Dee Allen
- Let Them All Talk
2020 Alice Hughes
- Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
2020 Narrator (voice)
- In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020 Meryl Streep
- The Laundromat
2019 Ellen Martin / Elena
- Little Women
2019 Aunt March
- Museum Town
2019 Narrator (voice)
- Mary Poppins Returns
2018 Cousin Topsy
- Every Act of Life
2018 Maurine McElroy (voice)
- Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary
2018 Narrator (voice)
- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018 Donna
- 100 Years
2017 Narrator (voice)
- The Post
2017 Kay Graham
- Five Came Back
2017 Narrator (voice)
- Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 Florence Foster Jenkins
- Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
2016 Elizabeth Murray (voice)
- Suffragette
2015 Emmeline Pankhurst
- Ricki and the Flash
2015 Ricki Rendazzo
- Auschwitz
2015 Narrator (voice)
- Shout Gladi Gladi
2015 Narrator (voice)
- Emotional Uncertainties
2015 Thanks
- Aktorka
2015 Thanks
- Into the Woods
2014 Witch
- The Giver
2014 Chief Elder
- The Homesman
2014 Altha Carter
- A Fierce Green Fire
2013 Narrator (voice)
- August: Osage County
2013 Violet Weston
- Girl Rising
2013 Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
- Out of Print
2013 Narrator (voice)
- Hope Springs
2012 Kay
- To the Arctic 3D
2012 Narrator
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 (archive footage)
- The Iron Lady
2011 Margaret Thatcher
- Wings of Life
2011 Narrator (voice)
- Sky Island
2010 (voice)
- America: The Story of Us
2010 Herself
- This Place Knows Us
2010 Narrator
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 Mrs. Fox (voice)
- It's Complicated
2009 Jane Adler
- Julie & Julia
2009 Julia Child
- Mamma Mia!
2008 Donna Sheridan
- Doubt
2008 Sister Aloysius Beauvier
- Dark Matter
2008 Joanna Silver
- Ribbon of Sand
2008 Narrator (voice)
- Lions for Lambs
2007 Janine Roth
- Rendition
2007 Corrine Whitman
- Evening
2007 Lila Ross
- A Prairie Home Companion
2006 Yolanda Johnson
- The Ant Bully
2006 Queen (voice)
- Hurricane on the Bayou
2006 Narrator (voice)
- The Devil Wears Prada
2006 Miranda Priestly
- The Music of Regret
2006 The Woman
- Prime
2005 Lisa Metzger
- Stolen Childhoods
2005 Narrator (voice)
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004 Josephine Anwhistle
- The Manchurian Candidate
2004 Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
- Stuck on You
2003 Meryl Streep (uncredited)
- The Hours
2002 Clarissa Vaughan
- Adaptation.
2002 Susan Orlean
- New York at the Movies
2002 Narrator (voice)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 Blue Mecha (voice)
- Vermeer Master of Light
2001 Narrator (voice)
- Music of the Heart
1999 Roberta
- Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait
1999 Narrator (voice)
- Chrysanthemum
1999 Narrator (voice)
- Dancing at Lughnasa
1998 Kate Mundy
- One True Thing
1998 Kate Gulden
- ...First Do No Harm
1997 Executive Producer
- Marvin's Room
1996 Lee Wakefield Lacker
- Before and After
1996 Carolyn Ryan
- The Bridges of Madison County
1995 Francesca Johnson
- The Halls of Vertebrate Evolution
1995 Narrator
- The River Wild
1994 Gail Hartman
- The House of the Spirits
1993 Clara del Valle Trueba
- Death Becomes Her
1992 Madeline Ashton Menville
- Age 7 in America
1992 Narrator / Hostess
- Defending Your Life
1991 Julia
- Postcards from the Edge
1990 Suzanne Vale
- The Earth Day Special
1990 Concerned Citizen
- She-Devil
1989 Mary Fisher
- Evil Angels
1988 Lindy Chamberlain
- Rabbit Ears - The Tailor of Gloucester
1988 Narrator
- Ironweed
1987 Helen Archer
- Heartburn
1986 Rachel
- Out of Africa
1985 Karen Blixen
- Plenty
1985 Susan Traherne
- Falling in Love
1984 Molly Gilmore
- Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit
1984 Narrator (voice)
- Silkwood
1983 Karen Silkwood
- Still of the Night
1982 Brooke Reynolds
- Sophie's Choice
1982 Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
- Alice at the Palace
1982 Alice
- The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981 Sarah / Anna
- Kiss Me, Petruchio
1981 Katherine
- Manhattan
1979 Jill
- Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 Joanna Kramer
- The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979 Karen Traynor
- Uncommon Women and Others
1979 Leilah
- The Deer Hunter
1978 Linda
- Julia
1977 Anne Marie
- Secret Service
1977 Edith Varney
- The Deadliest Season
1977 Sharon Miller
- Everybody Rides the Carousel
1976 Stage 6 (voice)
- Useful Idiots
Diane Castle
- Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic
Joni Mitchell
- Mamma Mia! 3
Donna Sheridan
