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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Persuasion: Recognizable Actors

Here are the actors/actresses on Persuasion movies who I recognized from other old-fashioned films.
(* means I haven’t actually seen it (or all of it); therefore I may not approve of it, but I always hear about that person being in that movie, or may have recognized them from the portions I saw.)

1995
Amanda Root (Anne Elliot) – Miss Temple on Jane Eyre (1996), Mrs. Harleth on *Daniel Deronda


Miss Bates (Emma 1996)

Ciaran Hinds (Captain Wentworth) – Mr. Rochester on Jane Eyre (1997), Michael Henchard on The Mayor of Casterbridge, Lord Tarleton on Amazing Grace

Sophie Thompson (Mary Musgrove) – Miss Bates on Emma (1996, Miramax), Miss Lacreevy on Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Victoria Hamilton (Henrietta Musgrove) – Ruby Pratt on *Lark Rise to Candleford, Mrs. Forster on Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Fiona Shaw (Mrs. Croft) – Mrs. Reed on Jane Eyre (1996)



2007
Edmund Betram (Manfield Park)
Rupert Penry-Jones (Capt. Wentworth) – St. John Rivers on Jane Eyre (1997)

Nicholas Farrell (Mr. Musgrove) – Edmund on Mansfield Park (1983), Henry Thornton on Amazing Grace

3 comments:

  1. Miss Laurie of Old-Fashioned CharmSeptember 4, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    These are some of my favorite actors, they are prodigiously talented! :)

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  2. JujubeSeptember 4, 2011 at 9:52 PM

    It's interesting to know which actors acted in which films. Plenty of them rotated period drama roles.

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  3. Miss DashwoodJanuary 19, 2014 at 10:01 AM

    Haha, you should add Random Mustachioed Andre/Firmin (Identity Doubtful) Weirdo from POTOTM to Ciaran Hinds' list of other appearances. Ehehehehehehe.

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