Margaret Thatcher
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 13, 1925
- Died
- April 8, 2013 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Biography
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented economic policies known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist before becoming a barrister. She was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her secretary of state for education and science in his 1970–1974 government. In 1975, she defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become leader of the opposition, the first woman to lead a major political party in the UK. On becoming prime minister after winning the 1979 general election, Thatcher introduced a series of economic policies intended to reverse high inflation and Britain's struggles in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and an oncoming recession. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised greater individual liberty, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Her popularity in her first years in office waned amid recession and rising unemployment. Victory in the 1982 Falklands War and the recovering economy brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her landslide re-election in 1983. She survived an assassination attempt by the Provisional IRA in the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing and achieved a political victory against the National Union of Mineworkers in the 1984–85 miners' strike. In 1986, Thatcher oversaw the deregulation of UK financial markets, leading to an economic boom, in what came to be known as the Big Bang. Thatcher was re-elected for a third term with another landslide in 1987, but her subsequent support for the Community Charge (also known as the "poll tax") was widely unpopular, and her increasingly Eurosceptic views on the European Community were not shared by others in her cabinet. She resigned as prime minister and party leader in 1990, after a challenge was launched to her leadership, and was succeeded by John Major, her chancellor of the Exchequer. After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher (of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire) which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords. In 2013, she died of a stroke at the Ritz Hotel, London, at the age of 87. A polarising figure in British politics, Thatcher is nonetheless viewed favourably in historical rankings and public opinion of British prime ministers. Her tenure constituted a realignment towards neoliberal policies in Britain; the complex legacy attributed to this shift continues to be debated into the 21st century.
Known For
Filmography
Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Kenny Dalglish
Movie · as Self (archive footage) - Former British PM
A Very British Sex Scandal: The Love Child & the Secretary
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Strike: An Uncivil War
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 3 eps
Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain
TV · 1 ep
In the Grip of Gazprom
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Lockerbie
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 4 eps
Ice Under His Feet
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Thatcher's Not Dead
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
McEnroe
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nazi Hunters: The Real Walk-In
Movie · as Self (archive Footage)
Prelúdio
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher: Serving the Crown
Movie · as Self
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Real Spies Among Friends
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Endgame in Ireland
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 4 eps
Influence
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
History 101
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Rise Up: Protests that Changed the World
TV · 1 ep
Laboratory Greece
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Meeting Gorbachev
Movie · as Self (archive Footage)
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
England 79
Movie
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 5 eps
The Troubles: A Secret History
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 8 eps
I, Dolours
Movie · as Self (Archive Footage)
Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
紫荆花开
TV · 5 eps
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hillsborough
Movie · as Self (archive Footage)
Shadow World
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Swap
Movie · as Self (voice)
How to Win the US Presidency
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Laissez-faire
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Emperor's New Clothes
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Soul Boys of the Western World
Movie
Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain
Movie · as Self
Maggie and Me
Movie · as Self (Archive Footage)
Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary
Movie · as Self
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister
Movie · as Self
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady
Movie · as Herself
Palme
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Lady is Not for Turning: An Unauthorized Story on Margaret Thatcher
Movie
Reagan
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
How to Win the TV Debate
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Shock Doctrine
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Portillo on Thatcher
Movie · as Self (Archive Footage)
The New Ten Commandments
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
Movie · as Self
Margaret Thatcher, l'enfance d'un chef
Movie · as Self
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 3 eps
The Dark Side of Porn: The Real Animal Farm
Movie · as (archive footage)
Best Ever Spitting Image
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
In Search of Tony Blair
Movie · as Self (Archive Footage)
The Downing Street Patient
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Strike: When Britain Went to War
Movie
The Century of the Self
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 4 eps
Cabinet Confidential
Movie · as Self
The Pinochet Case
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Secret Rulers of the World
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Reagan
Movie · as Self
Degeneration Punk
Movie
How to Be Prime Minister
Movie · as Self
Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch Powell
Movie · as Self
Empire of the Censors
Movie · as Self
Westminster's Secret Service
Movie · as Self (Archive Footage)
Satans mördare
Movie · as Self
The Wilderness Years
TV · as Self (Archive Footage) · 4 eps
Wasted Windfall
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
TV · as Self · 4 eps
The Lowdown
TV · 1 ep
The Falklands War: The Untold Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Dispatches
TV · 3 eps
To Kill the Cabinet
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Rockin' Ronnie
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
Movie · as Self
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
Movie · as Self - Video Message
Informe especial
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Red and the Blue
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Let Poland Be Poland
Movie · as Self
Wogan
TV · as Self · 1 ep
40 Minutes
TV · 1 ep
Rude Boy
Movie · as Self
TV Eye
TV · 1 ep
Val Meets The VIPS
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Weekend World
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
World in Action
TV · 9 eps
Panorama
TV · 4 eps