
111 minutes
12/25/2013
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.

Ralph Fiennes
as Charles Dickens

Felicity Jones
as Nelly Ternan

Joanna Scanlan
as Catherine Dickens

Kristin Scott Thomas
as Catherine Ternan

Tom Hollander
as Wilkie Collins

Michelle Fairley
as Caroline Graves

John Kavanagh
as Reverend Benham

Amanda Hale
as Fanny Ternan

Perdita Weeks
as Maria Ternan

Tom Burke
as George Wharton

Richard McCabe
as Mark Lemon

David Collings
as Governor

James Michael Rankin
as Evening Man

Charlotte Hope
as Prostitute

Michael Marcus
as Charley Dickens

Laurence Spellman
as Porter

Jonathan Harden
as Mr. Arnott

Christos Lawton
as Mr. Evans
Claire Daly
as Mrs. Lambourne

Mark Dexter
as Mr. Augustus Egg
Gwendolen Chatfield
as Marney Dickens
Joseph Paxton
as Mr. Pigott
Sophie Russell
as Miss Ellen Sabine

Charissa Shearer
as Katey Dickens
Jeremy Assouly
as Francis Dickens
Declan Walker
as Alfred Dickens
John Joe Bitcliffe
as Sydney Dickens
Harry Harmon
as Henry Dickens
Joseph Harmon
as Edward 'Plorn' Dickens
Daphne Neville
as Victorian Lady

Jonathan Jaynes
as Racegoer

Michael Hadley
as Sir Peter
Geoffrey Freshwater
as Sir Oliver / Mr. Buckstone

Tahirah Sharif
as Ternan Maid
Ophelia Standen
as Harriet Graves
James Traherne
as Policeman

Daniel André Pageon
as Elderly Frenchman
Odile Gash
as Elderly Frenchwoman
Philippe Smolikowski
as French Doctor
Assiba Abes
as French Midwife

Grahame Fox
as Station Guard

Steve Morphew
as Ticket Collector

Laurence Spellman
as Train Porter
Sally Leonard
as Young Lady

Tallulah Harlech
as Young Lady
Ethan Andrews
as Jean Marie
Sebastian Coates
as Jean Baptiste
Harry Crichton-Miller
as Jean Paul
Jack Curtin
as Obenreizer
Jacob Greenhouse
as Landlord
Ethan Radus
as Vendale