The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 best-selling roman à clef about her time working at Vogue was met with an initial backlash because it was thinly veiled criticism of that magazine’s editor, Anna Wintour. Meryl Streep, arguably the greatest actor ever, male or female, transformed Weisberger’s tormentor, Miranda Priestly, into a complicated career woman whose unreasonable demands upon Anne Hathaway’s Andrea Sachs could alternately viewed be as tough love.