"Iron Lady", Britian Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is brilliantly portrayed by Merrill Streep, whose legacy as a world renown actress is immortalized in this 2012 Oscar winning performance. This story is a study in leadership, challenged by personal ambitions, sacrifices, and the ruthlessness needed to act on one's convictions in the face of extraordinary adversity. Ms. Streep presents Ms. Thatcher as charming, beautiful, fragile, forceful, uncompromising and aging. Her life is portrayed as a series of laced together memories while her own mind becomes chaotic and disintegrates. Her extraordinary professional challenges transcend the newsreels when they are personally shared with a touching hallucination of her deceased husband, Denis, brilliantly portrayed by Jim Broadbent. Ms. Thatcher was never a popular personality but she was an effectively uncompromising leader. Ms. Thatcher's legacy remains controversial because she ruled rather than governed. On the other hand, Ms. Streep has created a lasting legacy to her continually exquisite acting career by providing a character analysis for analysts to examine, critique and build upon for creating future world leaders. Ms. Streep, as Ms. Thatcher, has created the final word on who the Iron Lady really was and the person behind the power was human, after all.