After the second season of "The Crown", the Netflix series about the life of Queen Elizabeth II arrived in 1964. In the fourth season, it will now go to the time in the eighties in the United Kingdom: Gillian Anderson to play Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990.
As the British "Sunday Times" and the US film portal "Deadline" reported, she takes the role of the "Iron Lady" in the footsteps of Meryl Streep and Greta Scacchi. Streep played Queen Elizabeth in "The Iron Lady" in 2011, Scacchi was in 2002 for the TV movie "The Truth" in the role of politician hatched.
Anderson is currently featured in the Netflix series "Sex Education." She became known through her role as Agent Dana Scully, which she played from 1993 to 2002 in the US series "The X-Files of the FBI".
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After Claire Foy and Matt Smith as a royal couple in the first two seasons, these roles in the third season - and probably in the fourth - are taken over by Olivia Colman and Tobias Menzies. Foy had won several awards for her portrayal of Queen in the 1950s and 1960s, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
The series also caused quite a stir last year when it became known that Foy had received far less gage than their co-star Matt Smith.