Meryl steps into new role

No sooner has Meryl Streep kicked off Miranda Priestly's click-clacking red stilettos, than she's stepping into another iconic woman's shoes.

It's been confirmed that Meryl, who again plays the formidable Runway magazine editor in The Devil Wears Prada 2 (in cinemas from 1 May) has been cast as Joni Mitchell in a new biopic. The film will focus on the later years of the singer-songwriter famous for hits such as Help Me.

Streep has previously received two Oscar nominations for playing real-life musicians: the violinist Roberta Guaspari in 1999’s Music of the Heart and the eponymous character in Florence Foster Jenkins, about the life of the amateur singer, in 2016.