Tag: The Iron Lady

• Wednesday, April 10th 2013 - 07:55 UTC

  Lady Thatcher’s funeral with military honours will take place on April 17

  

  Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's ceremonial funeral with military honours will take place in London on Wednesday, April 17, David Cameron's office said. The service will be held in St Paul's Cathedral, Downing Street announced.

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 17:59 UTC

  UK first female prime minister and uncompromisingly conservative Iron Lady

  

  Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, liberator of the Falklands and uncompromisingly conservative “Iron Lady” of the 1980s died on Monday following a stroke at the age of 87.

• Monday, February 27th 2012 - 12:12 UTC

  Meryl Streep takes third Oscar portraying Lady Thatcher in “The Iron Lady”

  

  Meryl Streep, who holds the record with 17 for the most Academy Award nominations by any actor, won the Oscar for best lead actress on Sunday for her portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady”, hero of the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, February 13th 2012 - 20:15 UTC

  Baroness Meryl Thatcher wins Bafta best actress for “The Iron Lady”

  

  Meryl Streep won the best actress at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Bafta, for her performance in The Iron Lady, continuing a triumphant awards season that looks set to carry her all the way to Oscar glory.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 23:08 UTC

  Iron Lady, basically a mediocre film, according to the Argentine reviews

  

  Meryl Streep may have been nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” but Argentine critics reviewed the film as ‘mediocre’ during its premiere in Buenos Aires on Thursday.

• Monday, January 16th 2012 - 07:02 UTC

  Meryl Streep wins Best Actress Golden Globe for her role as “The Iron Lady”

  

  Meryl Streep has won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for her role as former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” who in Latin America is remembered for her fight against the unions, the Falklands conflict and her disgust with a ‘federation’ of Europe.

• Thursday, December 29th 2011 - 22:48 UTC

  The Iron Lady opens Friday in the US, “a Shakespearean story about power and loss”

  

  Making a film about an iconic politician like Britain's Margaret Thatcher is akin to walking into a movie minefield, and casting an American -- even one as revered as Meryl Streep -- is asking for more trouble.

• Saturday, December 17th 2011 - 04:26 UTC

  Meryl Streep in awe of Thatcher who she portrays in the “Iron Lady”

  

  Hollywood legend Meryl Streep concedes her own personality may bear more than a passing resemblance to Britain's steely former Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher, whom she portrays in the new movie “Iron Lady” based on the days leading to the Falkland Islands conflict in 1982

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 06:53 UTC

  “The Iron Lady” Meryl Streep makes it to the cover of the Vogue January edition

  

  Meryl Streep, the star of the new Margaret Thatcher film, “The Iron Lady” and considered one of the best living cinema actresses has made the cover of the Vogue’s January 2012 US issue.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 05:57 UTC

  Meryl Streep portraying ‘The Iron Lady’ named best actress by NY Film Critics Circle

  

  Meryl Streep has been named best actress for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in upcoming film The Iron Lady by the New York Film Critics Circle.