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"  Meryl Streep is to play Emmeline Pankhurst in the upcoming drama Suffragette. The multiple Oscar-winning actress will star as the political activist opposite Carey Mulligan in the project from Pathe, Film4 and the BFI Film Fund. The historical drama will be based on true events and will focus on the women on the frontlines of the early feminist movement. Sarah Gavron will direct from a script by Abi Morgan, who previously wrote The Iron Lady starring Streep two years ago. Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Anne-Marie Duff and Samuel West will also star in the drama. Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women&amp;#039;s Franchise League and the Women&amp;#039;s Social and Political Union, and was leader of the British suffragette movement, which led to women winning the right to vote. Meryl Streep recently signed up to star in anti-NRA film The Senator&amp;#039;s Wife. Photo credit: Francois Guillot/AFP Via Digital Spy "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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