Iron Lady

Production Companies

• Film4(presents)
• UK Film Council (presents)
• Canal+ (with the participation of)
• CinéCinéma (with the participation of)
• Goldcrest Pictures (as Goldcrest Film Production LLC) (in association with)
• DJ Films (A DJ Films production)
• Pathé

Budget $13 million

Box office $60,194,000

Cast

The lead actress Meryl Streep is an american actress however the rest of the cast is are main british actors.

• Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher
• Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher
• Alexandra Roach as young Margaret Thatcher
• Harry Lloyd as young Denis Thatcher
• Olivia Colman as Carol Thatcher
• Anthony Head as Geoffrey Howe
• Nicholas Farrell as Airey Neave
• Richard E. Grant as Michael Heseltine
• Paul Bentley as Douglas Hurd
• Robin Kermode as John Major
• John Sessions as Edward Heath
• Roger Allam as Gordon Reece
• Michael Pennington as Michael Foot
• Angus Wright as John Nott
• Julian Wadham as Francis Pym
• Ronald Reagan as himself (archive footage)
• Reginald Green as Ronald Reagan

Distribution

20th Century Fox distributed the film in the UK. 20th century Fox is a large american corperation that is owned by hte News Coperation, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Fox has distributed many other large Films such as  Avatar, Star Wars, Ice Age, Garfield, Alvin and the Chipmunks, X-Men, Die Hard, Alien, Speed, Planet of the Apes

What makes this a UK film?

The film was directed by Phyllida Lloyd who is a British director and also had british producers and writers. It also had two british production companies with Film 4 and the UK film council. The cats are also all british apart from the lead actress Meryl Streep.