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Great Expectations is a three-part BBC television drama adaptation by Sarah Phelps of the Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel of the same name, starring Ray Winstone as Magwitch, Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham, [1] Douglas Booth as Pip, Vanessa Kirby as Estella and David Suchet as Jaggers. The adaptation was first broadcast on British television ...
Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 1900 – 13 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946).
In 1998 she starred in the romance fantasy Sliding Doors, the romantic drama Great Expectations and the romantic period comedy Shakespeare in Love earning the Academy Award for Best Actress for the latter. She earned acclaim for her roles in the mystery thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Wes Anderson's comedy-drama The Royal Tenenbaums ...
Eileen Marian Adams Erskine (15 August 1914 – 8 November 1995) was an English actress from Nottingham who was active in film mainly in the 1940s when she appeared in This Happy Breed (1944) and Great Expectations (1946).
Great Expectations is a 1998 American romantic drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, from a screenplay by Mitch Glazer and starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, and Robert De Niro.
Holliday Clark Grainger (born 27 March 1988), also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress.Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in the Strike series, DI/DCI Rachel Carey in the Peacock/BBC One crime drama The Capture, and ...
Justine Waddell (born 4 November 1975) is a South African-British former actress. She played roles in the 2006 film The Fall and 2005 film Chaos as well as Tess in the 1998 LWT adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Estella in the 1999 BBC adaptation of Great Expectations.
Jean Merilyn Simmons OBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer. [1] [2] One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets," she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.