A House full of British period drama actors

[birdienl]

This weekend, I rewatched the movie Amazing Grace. I really love this movie: it's a moving story based on true historical facts, it's beautifully shot with eye for historical details and it's got great acting. And.. it's a perfect movie for one of my little quirks: spot-the-actor. Having watched a lot of British period drama, I always like to link actors in a movie/ tv-show I'm watching to other things I've seen them in. And Amazing Grace has a complete parliament full of well-known period drama actors! So, where have we seen these MP's (etc) before?

 

Ioan Gruffudd as William Wilberforce
Also seen in: King Arthur, Forsyte Saga, Hornblower, Great Expectations



Romola Garai as Barbara Spooner
Also seen in: Emma (2009), Atonement, Mary Bryant, Vanity Fair (2004), Nicholas Nickelby (2002), Daniel Deronda



Benedict Cumberbatch as William Pitt
Also seen in: Small Island, Creation, The other Boleyn girl



Micheal Gambon as Lord Charles Fox
Also seen in: Emma, Cranford, Wives and Daughters, Gosford Park



Rufus Sewell as Thomas Clarkson
Also seen in: The Illusionist, Tristand & Isolde, Charles II: The power and the passion, Dangerous beauty, The Woodlanders, Middlemarch

Ciarán Hinds as Lord Tarleton
Also seen in: Miss Pettigrew lives for a day, The mayor of Casterbridge, Jane Eyre (1997), Persuasion (1995)



Toby Jones as the Duke of Clarence
Also seen in: Creation, The Old curiosity shop (2007), The painted veil



Nicholas Farrell as Henry Thornton
Also seen in: Casualty 1900s, Mansfield Park (1983)



Sylvestra Le Touzel as Marianne Thornton
Also seen in: Northanger Abbey (2007), Vanity Fair (1998), Mansfield Park (1983)



Stephen Campbell Moore as James Stephen
Also seen in: A good woman, He knew he was right



Bill Paterson as Lord Dundas
Also seen in: Little Dorrit, Miss Potter, Wives and Daughters, Hard Times


 

Comments

[tsuu.livejournal.com]

Oh I love this movie. I too love to link British actors like you do.

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

It's such a fun game, don't you think? Sometimes you uncover really interesting things. Like Nicholas Farrell and Sylvestra Le Touzel, they played husband and wife in Amazing Grace, but they were also a couple as Fanny and Edmund in Mansfield Park (1983)! It's a small world!

[tsuu.livejournal.com]

It really is lol! More often than not I sit there impressed with myself at how many of the actors I recognise from other productions, though I'm sure most people would find it quite lame.