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| rdfs:comment | - Cast List Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher Susan Brown as June Alice da Cunha as Cleaner Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Susie Iain Glen as Alfred Roberts Alexandra Roach as Young Margaret Thatcher
- The Iron Lady is a 2011 British biography written by Abi Morgan and directed by Phyllida Lloyd about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, portrayed by Oscar favorite Meryl Streep.
- The Iron Lady is a 2011 Biopic about Margaret Thatcher starring Meryl Streep in an Oscar-winning performance as the eponymous character. The film uses the framework of Thatcher's dementia to look back on the fragments of her life through her increasingly-feeble grip on reality and memory. For the trope, click here.
- Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, she studied Chemistry at Somerville University, Oxford before qualifying as a barrister. In the 1959 election she became MP for Finchley. Edward Heath appointed Thatcher Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975 she became leader of the Conservative party, the first women to head a major UK political party. Following the 1979 general election she became Britain's first female Prime Minister.
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| Starring | - Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Anthony Head
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| Cast | - Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant
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| abstract | - Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, she studied Chemistry at Somerville University, Oxford before qualifying as a barrister. In the 1959 election she became MP for Finchley. Edward Heath appointed Thatcher Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975 she became leader of the Conservative party, the first women to head a major UK political party. Following the 1979 general election she became Britain's first female Prime Minister. She entered 10 Downing Street determined to reverse what she perceived as a precipitous national decline. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation, particularly of the financial sector, flexible labour markets, and the sale or closure of state-owned companies and withdrawal of subsidies of others. Thatcher's popularity sank amid recession and high unemployment, although economic recovery and the 1982 Falklands War brought a resurgence of support and was re-elected in 1983. She survived an assassination attempt in 1984, and her hard line against trade unions and rhetoric opposition to the Soviet Union earned her the nickname of the 'Iron Lady'. Thatcher was again re-elected in 1987 and 1992 due to the popularity on her stance towards the European Union and the introduction of the new, more equal, Community Charge. She resigned as Prime Minister, Party Leader and Member of Parliament just before the 2001 election due to ill health and old age. The consequence of her resignation was the downfall of the Conservative government and establishment of a Labour government headed by leader Tony Blair.
- Cast List Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher Susan Brown as June Alice da Cunha as Cleaner Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Susie Iain Glen as Alfred Roberts Alexandra Roach as Young Margaret Thatcher
- The Iron Lady is a 2011 British biography written by Abi Morgan and directed by Phyllida Lloyd about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, portrayed by Oscar favorite Meryl Streep.
- The Iron Lady is a 2011 Biopic about Margaret Thatcher starring Meryl Streep in an Oscar-winning performance as the eponymous character. The film uses the framework of Thatcher's dementia to look back on the fragments of her life through her increasingly-feeble grip on reality and memory. For the trope, click here.
* Cloudcuckoolander: In her old age, Thatcher is getting a bit loopy. Mostly manifested through Denis (who, we should recall, is in Maggie's head).
* Did Not Do the Research: Grantham, which is featured for less than five minutes, does not look like a Coronation Street set, and is not populated with people speaking with thick northern accents.
* Fake Memories: It's implied that what we're seeing is somewhat coloured through Maggie's rosy lenses.
* Foreshadowing: In the scene where Denis proposes to Margaret, she exclaims, "I donʻt want to end life washing up a teacup!" Sheʻs doing exactly that in the movieʻs final scene.
* Ghost Memory: Denis.
* Imaginary Friend: In the present-day segments, Thatcher is accompanied by the delusory figure of her late husband. Jim Broadbent is clearly having the time of his life playing Denis.
* Important Haircut: As part of Margaret's New Look.
* Never Trust a Trailer: The fact that Thatcher even has dementia isn't even mentioned, despite being one of the film's most central themes.
* Selective Memory: Maggie's are definitely slanted in her favor.
* Unreliable Narrator: There are hints that the flashbacks are an example of this--the film (i.e. Thatcher) conveniently glosses over the negative aspects of her rule. And also, young Denis is a Hollywood heartthrob.
* The Falklands War: Exactly what it says on the tin.
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