His greatest story was the one he could never tell.
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.
$12,000,000
$3,184,853
December 25, 2013
BBC Film, Headline Pictures
52 people
Ralph Fiennes
Charles Dickens
Acting
Felicity Jones
Nelly Ternan
Acting
Joanna Scanlan
Catherine Dickens
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Kristin Scott Thomas
Catherine Ternan
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Tom Hollander
Wilkie Collins
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Michelle Fairley
Caroline Graves
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John Kavanagh
Reverend Benham
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Amanda Hale
Fanny Ternan
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Perdita Weeks
Maria Ternan
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Tom Burke
George Wharton
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Richard McCabe
Mark Lemon
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David Collings
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