2002 • Daniel Deronda

DIRECTOR: Tom Hooper
WRITER(S): Andrew Davies (screenplay), George Eliot (novel)
PRODUCER(S): Louis Marks
AIR DATE: November 24, 2002 (UK)
DISTRIBUTOR(S): BBC
LOCATIONS: All abroad London and the UK including Surrey, Scotland, Somerset, Oxfordshire, Middlesex, London, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, as well as Malta

George Eliot's last, most ambitious novel, which charts a love story set in Victorian high society, takes a surprising turn into the hidden world of English Jews. Hugh Dancy (Madame Bovary) stars as Daniel Deronda, and Romola Garai (Nicholas Nickleby) is his soul mate Gwendolen Harleth. Though entranced with Daniel, Gwendolen is forced into an oppressive marriage to Henleigh Grandcourt (Hugh Bonneville; Notting Hill, Iris), while Daniel finds a new life through his friendship with singer Mirah Lapidoth (Jodhi May; The Turn of the Screw, Aristocrats). The screenplay is by period drama master Andrew Davies (Middlemarch, Moll Flanders, Wives and Daughters, The Way We Live Now).

• Romola Garai . . . Gwendolen Harleth
• Hugh Bonneville . . . Henleigh Grandcourt
• Jodhi May . . . Mirah Lapidoth
• Edward Fox . . . Sir Hugo Mallinger
• Barbara Hershey . . . Contessa Maria Alcharisi