A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.
Acting
Streep's whisper-quiet terror redefined cinematic villainy without yelling once.
Costume
Patricia Field turned Anne Hathaway into a fashion timeline you could chart.
Writing
Aline Brosh McKenna's script is 90% quotable; the other 10% is 'gird your loins'.
Director
David Frankel
Meryl Streep
Miranda Priestly
Anne Hathaway
Andy Sachs
Emily Blunt
Emily
Stanley Tucci
Nigel
Simon Baker
Christian Thompson
Adrian Grenier
Nate
Tracie Thoms
Lily
Rich Sommer
Doug
Daniel Sunjata
James Holt
David Marshall Grant
Richard Sachs
James Naughton
Stephen
Tibor Feldman
Irv Ravitz
Rebecca Mader
Jocelyn
Jimena Hoyos
Lucia
Gisele Bündchen
Serena
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Streep based Miranda's voice on men she'd observed—deliberately lower register, never shouted—to create psychological dominance without theatrics.
The cerulean sweater monologue fundamentally shifted how audiences understood invisible labor and supply chains; it's now taught in fashion and business schools.
US
