EXCLUSIVE: Liz Kingsman is joining the cast of Netflix‘s upcoming period drama series remake of Pride and Prejudice.
The actress and comedian will play Anna de Bourgh, the daughter of Fiona Shaw’s Lady Catherine in the series, which recently started production in the UK.
Deadline revealed in April that the series would star Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden and Olivia Colman in the roles of Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy and Mrs. Bennet, respectively. As we reported a few weeks back, the cast also stars Rufus Sewell will star as wise patriarch Mr Bennet.
Cast as the Bennet sisters are Freya Mavor, Heartstopper‘s Rhea Norwood and newcomers Hollie Avery and Hopey Parish. Louis Partridge will take on the scheming Mr Wickham, with Jamie Demetriou playing the pompous Mr Collins, Daryl McCormack as Jane’s beloved Mr Bingley, Siena Kelly as his sister Caroline and Shaw as the fearsome Lady Catherine de Bourg.
Everything I Know About Love scribe Dolly Alderton is writing the show for Netflix, and Euros Lyn (Heartstopper) is directing. Lookout Point is the production house, with Lyn, Corrin, Laura Lankester, Will Johnston and Louise Mutter the exec producers. Lisa Osborne produces.
Austen’s second novel follows Elizabeth Bennet, an unmarried woman and the second of five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet from Hertfordshire, near London. Their home can only be inherited by males in the family, so the daughters must marry well or risk losing everything. While out in society, Elizabeth interacts with single men such as Mr. Darcy, an outwardly curmudgeon who is misunderstood. The novel tackled the issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency.
Kingsman, who was in comedy trope with rising comedy and acting star Stevie Martin, is known for her satirical stage show One Woman Show, which was nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards before transferring to London’s West End and the New York. She’s currently appearing in Brad Pitt vehicle F1: The Movie alongside Brad Pitt, playing his PR aide, Lisbeth, and will next appear in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Project Hail Mary, which stars Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller. Other recent performances have included roles in I, Jack Wright for UKTV and Britbox and she spent four seasons as series lead Rose in French comedy series Parlement.
Among her other credits are roles in Apple TV+’s Hijack and The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, British political comedy series Ballot Monkeys and spin-off Power Monkeys, Channel 5 mockumentary Borderline, BBC comedies Pls Like, Sarstruck and King Gary, ITV’s Timewasters and French comedy series Icon of French Cinema.
Kingsman is repped by Independent Talent Group, CAA, Untitled Entertainment and and Pinnacle PR. Her legs reps are Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman.
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