PHOTO FLASH: Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady Film
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Meryl Streep is playing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the new movie The Iron Lady. Phyllida Lloyd is directing the project, which has a screenplay by Abi Morgan and is currently filming in the U.K.
The movie is a biography of the woman who was British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. The cast also features Jim Broadbent as Jim Thatcher. The younger incarnations of the Thatchers will be played by Alexandra Roach and Harry Lloyd. Also in the cast are Olivia Colman, Nicholas Farrell, Susan Brown, Roger Allam, Anthony Head, Julian Wadham, Pip Torrens, Nick Dunning, Richard E Grant, David Westhead, Angus Wright and John Sessions.
Streep is a two-time Oscar winner for Kramer Vs. Kramer and Sophie’s Choice, In addition, she won the Emmy Award for HBO’s film version of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Her stage credits include Trelawny of the Wells, Secret Service, The Cherry Orchard, Happy End, The Seagull, and Mother Courage and Her Children.
