Meryl Streep Cast as Joni Mitchell in Crowe Biopic

Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep will portray legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in an upcoming biopic directed by Cameron Crowe, a project long in development that received official confirmation this weekend.

Record executive Clive Davis announced the casting during his annual pre-Grammy Awards party on Saturday at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. While introducing Mitchell, who attended the event, Davis revealed that Streep would take on the role in Crowe's untitled film exploring the musician's life and career. The news caps years of speculation about the project, which Crowe has been developing with Mitchell's close involvement since around 2020.

Crowe, a filmmaker and former music journalist who first interviewed Mitchell for Rolling Stone in 1979, described the biopic as an intimate endeavor during a 2025 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. "We've been working on it for about four years," Crowe said. "We have regular meetings where I can ask her anything and she speaks with her heart about all kinds of stuff. It's a movie that will be not from a distance. This is from her perspective, her life, looking out." He noted Mitchell's preservation...