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Lady Honoria Dedlock
The charming, self-controlled wife of Sir Leicester Dedlock. She has a secret past.
Best known as agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, Gillian Anderson was once named one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. Her other credits include the films Playing By Heart, The House Of Mirth and Tristram Shandy.
Anderson has appeared frequently on London's West End. Her debut was in the play, What The Night Is For, a performance for which she won the whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Best Actress Award. In 2004, she starred in Rebecca Gilman's play, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, which ran for two months at London's Royal Court Theatre.
Born in Chicago, her family moved to Puerto Rico when she was a baby. After 15 months there, they then moved to London, where she spent nine years of her childhood, growing up first in Stamford Hill and later in Crouch End. She returned to live in London in 2002, after making the final series of The X-Files.
She's currently married to filmmaker Julian Ozanne.
Sir Leicester Dedlock
Husband of Lady Dedlock, a proud aristocrat and bastion of the status quo. Owner of the Chesney Wold estate in Lincolnshire.
Timothy West is a major name in British theatre. He's been on stage since the 1950s and is seen regularly in films and on TV. His career began when he started working with repertory companies across the UK. He made his debut in the West End in 1959 in the farce Caught Napping. In 1962 he made his first appearance with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
West has appeared in the previous Masterpiece Theatre productions Crime and Punishment (1980), Rebecca (1997) and King Lear (1998).
West is president of the famous drama school, LAMDA; he was awarded a CBE for services to acting in 1984. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by six different universities.
Mrs. Rouncewell
The kindly old housekeeper of Chesney Wold, home of Sir Leicester and Lady Dedlock. She has two sons: George, and another who is an important ironmaster in northern England.
A native of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, Anne Reid has been acting since the 1950s. In 2004 she won acclaim and a BAFTA nomination for her performance in the film The Mother, alongside Daniel Craig (the newest James Bond).
Other credits include performances in Doctor Who, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Dalziel and Pascoe, Midsomer Murders and Coronation Street. In 1995 she provided the voice of "Wendolene Ramsbottom" in Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave.
Mademoiselle Hortense
Lady Dedlock's hot-tempered and vengeful French maid.
Lilo Baur appeared in the 2004 film Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason; she has also worked extensively on the stage and in radio drama.
Rosa
Personal maid to Lady Dedlock after Hortense is dismissed.
Emma Williams' previous on-screen credits include Miss Marple: The Body In The Library; she's also worked in radio and on stage, appearing in Bat Boy The Musical and Sex, Chips & Rock 'N' Roll.
Mercury
A footman in the household of Sir Leicester Dedlock.
Richard Cant has appeared in Midsomer Murders, The Way We Live Now and Shackleton.
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