Wives and Daughters
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.
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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.
Justine Waddell
Molly Gibson
Rosamund Pike
Lady Harriet Cumnor
Keeley Hawes
Cynthia Kirkpatrick
Iain Glen
Mr. Preston
Barbara Flynn
Miss Browning
Anthony Howell
Roger Hamley
Francesca Annis
Hyacinth Gibson
Bill Paterson
Mr. Gibson
Michael Gambon
Squire Hamley
Tom Hollander
Osborne Hamley
Deborah Findlay
Miss Phoebe
Penelope Wilton
Mrs. Hamley
Richard Coyle
Mr. Coxe
Jemima Rooper
Lizzie Goodenough
Anna Maguire
Young Molly
Richard Dempsey
Mr. Bold
Elizabeth Spriggs
Mrs. Goodenough
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