About Wives and Daughters
- Released on November 28, 1999
Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. It focuses on Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell), the daughter of the town doctor, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother (Francesca Annis) and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes), while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.
Full Cast of Wives and Daughters
Justine Waddell plays Molly Gibson (6 episodes)
Rosamund Pike plays Lady Harriet Cumnor (6 episodes)
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See Rosamund Pike's other roles →Keeley Hawes plays Cynthia Kirkpatrick (6 episodes)
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See Keeley Hawes's other roles →Iain Glen plays Mr. Preston (6 episodes)
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See Barbara Flynn's other roles →Anthony Howell plays Roger Hamley (6 episodes)
Francesca Annis plays Hyacinth Gibson (6 episodes)
Bill Paterson plays Mr. Gibson (6 episodes)
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See Bill Paterson's other roles →Michael Gambon plays Squire Hamley (6 episodes)
Tom Hollander plays Osborne Hamley (6 episodes)
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See Tom Hollander's other roles →Deborah Findlay plays Miss Phoebe (6 episodes)
Penelope Wilton plays Mrs. Hamley (6 episodes)
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See Penelope Wilton's other roles →Richard Coyle plays Mr. Coxe (6 episodes)
Jemima Rooper plays Lizzie Goodenough (6 episodes)
Anna Maguire plays Young Molly (6 episodes)
Richard Dempsey plays Mr. Bold (6 episodes)
Elizabeth Spriggs plays Mrs. Goodenough (6 episodes)
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