Lady Rowley Geraldine James "Both Sir Marmaduke and Lady Rowley felt that there might be objections to such a marriage as that proposed to them, raised by the Trevelyan family. Lady Rowley would not have liked her daughter to go to England, to be received with cold looks by strangers. But it soon appeared that there was no one to make objections..." A native of Berkshire, England, Geraldine James has appeared in several groundbreaking films and television programs, including Gandhi and the Masterpiece Theatre titles The Jewel in the Crown, Rebecca, The Hound of the Baskervilles and White Teeth. Winner of the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for her performance in She's Been Away, James also appeared in Calendar Girls with Helen Mirren.