First Image Of Meryl Streep As Margaret Thatcher In ‘The Iron Lady’

The debut image of Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Iron Lady’ has been released online by the good people at Pathe.

Meryl Street will be supported in ‘The Iron Lady’ by Jim Broadbent who will star as the Thatcher’s husband Denis Thatcher, while Alexandra Roach and Harry Lloyd will portray the Thatchers in their younger years. 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 are also among the bumper supporting cast for the biopic.

Opinion of the former Prime Minister is incredibly divided, my personal opinion is that she was the mean spirited, milk snatching, evil empress of Great Britain between 1979 – 1990. I’m almost certain her nickname actually came about after the Russians found out she was a Borg…..but hey that’s my opinion.

The films synopsis is as follows: THE IRON LADY tells the compelling story of Margaret Thatcher, a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and intimate portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman. The movie will  be directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) from a script by Abi Morgan (Sex Traffic). Shooting began on location in the UK on 31st January 2011