Florence Foster Jenkins
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- depiction of Jenkins
- In Florence Foster Jenkins
…of Jenkins’s life, and a biopic (based on the biography by Nicholas Martin and Jasper Rees) starring Meryl Streep in the title role was released in 2016.
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- discussed in biography
- In Stephen Frears
In 2016 Frears directed Florence Foster Jenkins, which features Meryl Streep in the title role of a delusional socialite who embarks upon an opera career despite a lack of vocal talent. He followed with Victoria and Abdul (2017), about the unlikely friendship between the aging Queen Victoria and her…
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- In Stephen Frears
role of
- Ferguson
- In Rebecca Ferguson: Stardom: The White Queen and the Mission: Impossible films
…roles in several films, including Florence Foster Jenkins, a comedy directed by Stephen Frears and starring Meryl Streep as a wealthy woman who pursues a singing career despite her lack of talent. That year Ferguson also appeared in The Girl on the Train, a crime drama based on Paula Hawkins’s…
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- Grant
- In Hugh Grant: Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually
…played by Meryl Streep, in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016).
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- Streep
- In Meryl Streep: Later films and television work
…in the title role of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), about the tragicomic but ultimately inspiring efforts of a syphilitic society matron to establish an opera career. For her work in the film, Streep received her 20th Oscar nomination.
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