1. Miranda Priestly was born on Miriam Princhek; October 25,1949 and is a character in Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel The Devil Wears Prada, portrayed by Meryl Streep in the 2006 film adaptation of the novel.
12 Facts About Miranda Priestly
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Miranda Priestly is known as much for her icy demeanor and diva attitude as for her outstanding power within the fashion world.
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Miranda Priestly was born Miriam Princhek on October 25,1949, in London's East End.
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Miranda Priestly's family were poor but devout Orthodox Jews, who relied on the community for support because her father worked odd jobs and her mother died in childbirth.
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Miranda Priestly made a name for herself in London's fashion world and studied French at night and was made junior editor of Chic magazine in Paris.
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When she was twenty-four, Miriam changed her name to Miranda Priestly and replaced her rough accent with a sophisticated one.
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Miranda Priestly is the editor-in-chief of Runway, a very chic and influential fashion magazine published by the Elias-Clark company.
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Miranda Priestly is known for wearing a white Hermes scarf with her everyday outfit, and treating her subordinates in a manner that borders on emotional and psychological abuse.
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Weisberger denies that Miranda Priestly is modeled on Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, saying in the publicity material for the book that her antics and demands are partially fictional and partially a composite of actual experiences she and her friends had in their first jobs.
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The film incarnation of Miranda Priestly speaks with an American accent, which strongly suggests the film character is not a Briton as portrayed in the novel.
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In February 2018, on American reality television series Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kris Jenner dressed as Miranda Priestly, channeling her 'Boss Lady' persona.
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In 2020, The Huffington Posts Monica Torres wrote about how much more she appreciated Miranda Priestly upon watching the film for the first time since her teens.