Meryl Streep made a rare comment about her life as a grandma.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 star, 76, has six grandchildren under the age of 10, but she doesn’t necessarily identify as a “cool grandma,” she shared on the Thursday, April 30, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
“I don’t know,” Streep responded to host Jimmy Kimmel when he asked whether the kids think she is cool.
“I think I’m a little like Miranda Priestly as a grandma. Because I like the rules, dear,” the Oscar winner quipped, referring to her taciturn magazine editor character in the Devil Wears Prada franchise.
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Streep shares son Henry Wolfe Gummer, 46, and daughters Mamie Gummer, 42, Grace Gummer, 39, and Louisa Jacobson, 34, with estranged husband Don Gummer. Henry, Mamie and Grace all have two children each.
As for what the little ones call her, Meryl revealed the cute pet name her grandkids have for her.
“They call me Mimi. The first one came up with it,” she shared, referring to Mamie’s 6-year-old son.
While Streep may not describe herself as “cool,” she revealed that she often reads books to her grandchildren, complete with different voices for the various characters.
In fact, Streep said her Devil Wears Prada 2 costar B.J. Novak sent over a copy of his 2014 children’s book, The Book With No Pictures, for her to entertain her grandchildren.
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“I was really mad at him because we had to read it nine times in a row,” she joked.
“Have you done Harry Potter? Have you read that to the kids?” Kimmel, 58, then asked.
“Oh, sure. Yeah, I read that to Louisa, who is now 34. Not recently. I read it when she was in, like, the third grade or something,” Streep said, referring to her youngest daughter, who stars on HBO’s hit show The Gilded Age.
Streep recently gushed about her grandchildren in an interview with Barbie director Greta Gerwig for the May 2026 issue of Vogue.
Gerwig asked Streep, “How does being a grandmother balance with work?”
“It’s just grabbing seconds, just grabbing everything you can of them, with the knowledge of how completely fleeting it all is and how rapidly time goes,” Streep responded. “This is what my mother said to me, and I said, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ It’s the longest, shortest time. And you can’t get anything back. So take as much as you can.”
“I find it divine,” she added. “I have six grandchildren, six under 6. They’re 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1. I hope we’re not done, but we’ll see. I can’t even talk about how much it means to me that my kids give me as much time as they do with their kids. The only thing is that they’re on two coasts, so I’m in the airplane a lot.”
