Wives and Daughters
28/11/1999
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, 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 and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia, while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.
TV Show Information
Justine Waddell
as Molly Gibson
Rosamund Pike
as Lady Harriet Cumnor
Keeley Hawes
as Cynthia Kirkpatrick
Iain Glen
as Mr. Preston
Barbara Flynn
as Miss Browning
Anthony Howell
as Roger Hamley
Francesca Annis
as Hyacinth Gibson
Bill Paterson
as Mr. Gibson
Michael Gambon
as Squire Hamley
Tom Hollander
as Osborne Hamley
Deborah Findlay
as Miss Phoebe
Penelope Wilton
as Mrs. Hamley
Richard Coyle
as Mr. Coxe
Jemima Rooper
as Lizzie Goodenough
Anna Maguire
as Young Molly
Richard Dempsey
as Mr. Bold
Elizabeth Spriggs
as Mrs. Goodenough
