Meryl Streep is Vogue‘s January 2012 cover girl.  At 62 years old, she’s the oldest actress to grace the magazine’s cover, but who’s counting?   Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Streep looks incredible:  luminous, natural, and lovely.

She gives a serious, smart interview, discussing her pet causes – sustainable agriculture, the National Women’s History Museum – and her role as Margaret Thatcher, England’s controversial, first female prime minister, in The Iron Lady.   Streep explained why this project matters more to her than anything she’s worked on in awhile:

“Because the material embedded in it is a lot of what I’ve been thinking about. The themes in the film, which I don’t feel like underlining, have interested me for a while. And you never see these subjects covered in films normally, and so that was very thrilling…Women and power and diminishment of power and loss of power.  And reconciliation with your life when you come to a point when you’ve lived most of it and it’s behind you. I have always liked and been intrigued by older people, and the idea that behind them lives every human trauma, drama, glory, jokes, love.”

Smart, serious, luminous and lovely.  Read the whole article here.

Photo:  Vogue

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