Directed by:
Geoffrey SaxScreenplay:
Andrew DaviesCinematography:
Cinders ForshawComposer:
Adrian JohnstonCast:
Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi May, Hugh Bonneville, Johnny Vegas, John Bowe, Janet Henfrey, Alex Kelly, Bernice Stegers, Annie Hulley (more)Plots(1)
Smitten by music hall life, and by the beautiful male impersonator Kitty Butler (Keeley Hawes), Nan Astley (Rachael Stirling) leaves her family's Whitstable oyster parlor and follows her heart to London. There she finds unimaginable joy and misery as she explores the secret side of fin de siècle life. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Rachael Stirling
UK
Best movies:
Sixteen (2013)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Still Crazy (1998)
Keeley Hawes
UK
Best movies:
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
Wives and Daughters (1999) (series)
Our Mutual Friend (1998) (series)
Anna Chancellor
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Testament of Youth (2014)
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) (series)
Jodhi May
UK
Best movies:
Warriors (1999) (TV movie)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Max and Helen (1990) (TV movie)
Hugh Bonneville
UK
Best movies:
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Paddington 2 (2017)
Johnny Vegas
UK
Best movies:
The Brothers Grimsby (2016)
Tulip Fever (2017)
The Libertine (2004)
John Bowe
UK
Best movies:
Prime Suspect (1991) (TV movie)
Cranford (2007) (series)
Einstein and Eddington (2008) (TV movie)
Janet Henfrey
UK
Best movies:
Lady Jane (1986)
Wolf Hall (2015) (series)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Alex Kelly
Best movies:
The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003) (TV movie)
Vera Drake (2004)
All or Nothing (2002)
Bernice Stegers
UK
Best movies:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Suite Française (2014)
Annie Hulley
UK
Sally Hawkins
UK
Best movies:
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
Maudie (2016)
Desert Flower (2009)
Daniel Mays
UK
Best movies:
Atonement (2007)
1917 (2019)
The Secret Life of Words (2005)
Benedict Cumberbatch
UK
Best movies:
Frankenstein (2011) (theatrical recording)
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Hamlet (2015) (theatrical recording)
Dean Lennox Kelly
UK
Best movies:
Cranford (2007) (series)
The Secret Life of Words (2005)
Inspector George Gently (2007) (series)
Alexei Sayle
UK
Best movies:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) (series)
Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
Monica Dolan
UK
Best movies:
King Lear (2008) (TV movie)
Wolf Hall (2015) (series)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Paul Ready
UK
Best movies:
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Ripper Street (2012) (series)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
David Spinx
UK
Best movies:
Conspiracy (2001) (TV movie)
If Only (1998)
A Touch of Frost (1992) (series)
Di Botcher
UK
Best movies:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Green Wing (2004) (series)
All or Nothing (2002)