Vanity Fair2018

Director
James Strong, Jonathan Entwistle

Actors

Olivia Cooke (Becky Sharp)
Tom Bateman (Rawdon Crawley)
Johnny Flynn (William Dobbin)
Claudia Jessie (Amelia Sedley)
Michael Palin (William Makepeace Thackery)
Simon Russell Beale (John Sedley)

A new adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s masterpiece.
Vanity Fair is brought to screens by acclaimed writer Gwyneth Hughes. Co-produced by the renowned Mammoth Screen alongside Amazon Studios, the drama features an ensemble cast including Olivia Cooke – star of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One – as Thackeray’s timeless heroine Becky Sharp.
This classic tale, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, follows Becky as attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English society. Her story of “villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing” takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes as she goes.
“(An) affair that the public cannot help but fall in love with.” – The Telegraph
“Sparkling, sumptuous, superbly cast” – The Guardian
“Pitch-perfect” – Radio Times