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'The Iron Lady' Trailer: Meryl Streep As Margaret Thatcher Teaser Trailer (VIDEO)

Nominated 13 times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, more than anyone else in history, Meryl Streep is taking her penchant for standout performances as strong, decisive women to new heights -- and, if all goes according to plan, a 14th nod from the Academy.

Streep plays former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the upcoming film, "The Iron Lady." Directed by "Mama Mia!" helmer Phyllida Lloyd, the film follows Thatcher's rise to power in the late seventies to become the first and only woman Prime Minister in Britain's history. An arch conservative Tory, her reign was a divisive one, drawing protests from the left and accolades from the right....

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