The iron lady

Two-time Oscar-winner Meryl Streep steps into the role of English prime minister Margaret Thatcher in this biopic from director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!)

Meryl Streep has been nominated for more Academy Awards – 21! – than anyone else in history. A look back at her remarkable acting career thus far.

With 62 roles and 18 Oscar nominations (not to mention three wins) throughout her nearly 40-year career, Streep is considered our greatest living actress — but which of those performances should be considered her best? UPDATED through Into The Woods.

Pin for Later: Meryl Streep's Award History Is So Crazy, You May Not Believe It The Iron Lady, 2011

Ha Ha Ha... I wonder if the "Iron Lady" of India would just keep working.... It is Hard not to remember Ayn Rand and her novels here!!!!

Was The Iron Lady A Feminist?

The Iron Lady In The Iron Lady the central figure is no fiction. She's the most famous, most controversial living Englishwoman, a reclusive widow now known to be in poor health and not entirely in command of her mental faculties, but who still hovers over all our lives. Virtually everything and everybody in the movie is shown through her distorted vision as her faulty memory calls up her past during a period of 24 hours or so in the past couple of years (it's not clear precisely which…

Former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher. Died April 8, 2013

Margaret Thatcher