Yahoo News Gillian Anderson set to play Margaret Thatcher in Netflix's The Crown
Gillian Anderson is set to play former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama The Crown.
The X-Files actress, who is currently playing a sex therapist in another Netflix show, Sex Education, will play the Iron Lady when the series moves into the 1970s, according to The Times.
However, she won't be appearing for quite some time, as the third season of the royal drama has yet to air on Netflix.
The new season sees a cast shake-up, with Olivia Colman replacing Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II and Tobias Menzies taking over the role of her husband Prince Philip from Matt Smith.
Helena Bonham Carter will star as the Queen's sister Princess Margaret, while Ben Daniels plays her husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones.
We will also meet Prince Charles' current wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, in the third season, played by Emerald Fennell.
According to creator Peter Morgan, the third season will take place between the years 1964 and 1976 – meaning that Anderson is likely to appear in the fourth season, as Thatcher came to power in 1979.
Colman recently admitted that playing Queen Elizabeth in The Crown is much harder than playing Queen Anne in her film The Favourite, because more people have opinions on how she should act as the current monarch.
"I find the harder is Queen Elizabeth because everyone knows what she looks like, everyone knows what she sounds like, everyone has an opinion on whether the casting is right," she said.
"I am loving the job, I am loving trying to play her, but I find her harder. I want to do it justice and do it well and be respectful and all of those things – and the writing is incredible so that helps."
The Crown season 3 will return to Netflix later in 2019.
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