Margaret Thatcher
Acting • Born 1925-10-13 – Died 2013-04-08
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.
Filmography
92 credits
Laboratory Greece
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
In the Grip of Gazprom
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Laissez-faire
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Portillo on Thatcher
Movie • 2008
Self (Archive Footage)
Ice Under His Feet
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain
Movie • 2013
Self
Influence
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Cabinet Confidential
Movie • 2001
Self
How to Be Prime Minister
Movie • 1996
Self
Maggie and Me
Movie • 2013
Self (Archive Footage)
Thatcher's Not Dead
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady
Movie • 2012
Herself
The Emperor's New Clothes
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary
Movie • 2013
Self
Remembering Reagan at His Ranch
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
The Falklands War: The Untold Story
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Hillsborough
Movie • 2016
Self (archive Footage)
Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
How to Win the TV Debate
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
McEnroe
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Meeting Gorbachev
Movie • 2019
Self (archive Footage)
The Lady is Not for Turning: An Unauthorized Story on Margaret Thatcher
Movie • 2011
Nazi Hunters: The Real Walk-In
Movie • 2022
Self (archive Footage)
How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
Movie • 2007
Self
Let Poland Be Poland
Movie • 1982
Self
A Very British Sex Scandal: The Love Child & the Secretary
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
To Kill the Cabinet
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
Odd Man Out: A Film Portrait of Enoch Powell
Movie • 1995
Self
Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Empire of the Censors
Movie • 1995
Self
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Prelúdio
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Rockin' Ronnie
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
The Dark Side of Porn: The Real Animal Farm
Movie • 2006
(archive footage)
Reagan
Movie • 1998
Self
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Degeneration Punk
Movie • 1997
England 79
Movie • 2019
The Shock Doctrine
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Movie • 2019
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Shadow World
Movie • 2016
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister
Movie • 2013
Self
The Swap
Movie • 2016
Self (voice)
How to Win the US Presidency
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Reagan
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
The Pinochet Case
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Thatcher vs The Miners: The Battle for Britain
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Best Ever Spitting Image
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
The Red and the Blue
Movie • 1983
Self (uncredited)
In Search of Tony Blair
Movie • 2004
Self (Archive Footage)
The Downing Street Patient
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Westminster's Secret Service
Movie • 1995
Self (Archive Footage)
The New Ten Commandments
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher, l'enfance d'un chef
Movie • 2007
Self
Margaret Thatcher: Serving the Crown
Movie • 2022
Self
Palme
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Satans mördare
Movie • 1995
Self
Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Rude Boy
Movie • 1980
Self
Kenny Dalglish
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
I, Dolours
Movie • 2018
Self (Archive Footage)
Soul Boys of the Western World
Movie • 2014
The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
Movie • 1986
Self
Informe especial
TV • 1984
Self (archive footage)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
TV • 2007
Self (archive footage)
The Wilderness Years
TV • 1995
Self (Archive Footage)
Endgame in Ireland
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Wasted Windfall
TV • 1994
Self
紫荆花开
TV • 2017
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
TV • 1993
Self
The Century of the Self
TV • 2002
Self (archive footage)
History 101
TV • 2020
Self (archive footage)
The Secret Rulers of the World
TV • 2001
Self (archive footage)
Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game
TV • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
TV • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Lockerbie
TV • 2023
Self (archive footage)
40 Minutes
TV • 1981
Код доступа
TV • 2017
Self
Dispatches
TV • 1987
TV Eye
TV • 1978
Weekend World
TV • 1972
Panorama
TV • 1953