A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.
Acting
Andrea Riseborough's terrifyingly precise Thatcher voice.
Writing
Sharp dialogue that roasts the old boys' club.
Director
Niall MacCormick
Andrea Riseborough
Margaret Thatcher
Samuel West
Ted Heath
Rory Kinnear
Denis Thatcher
Geoffrey Palmer
Sir John Crowder
Oliver Ford Davies
Sir Donald Kaberry
Philip Jackson
Alfred Roberts
Michael Cochrane
Sir Waldron Smithers
Jonathan Aris
Stanley Soward
Michael Gould
John Miller
Lydia Leonard
Joyce
Marcia Warren
Old Dear
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Patricia Hornsby-Smith
Christian Rodska
Lieutenant Colonel Digby
Robert Whitelock
Bert
Geoffrey McGivern
Dartford Returning Officer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andrea Riseborough spent months studying Thatcher's voice but deliberately avoided the iconic helmet hair—the film stops before that era.
Screenwriter Tony Saint based several scenes on real letters Thatcher wrote; her actual campaign strategies were reportedly even more ruthless.
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