Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestDaniel's quest to discover his true identity takes him to Genoa.
In 1870s England, idealist Daniel Deronda seeks his mysterious origins and becomes entangled in the lives of the self-centered Gwendolen Harleth, who is trapped in a loveless marriage, and Jewish singer Mirah Lapidoth.
Acting
Romola Garai's Gwendolen—desperation dressed in silk.
Writing
Andrew Davies makes Eliot's dense prose dangerously watchable.
Costume
Every gown screams 'I have no legal rights.'
Creator
Andrew Davies
Hugh Dancy
Daniel Deronda
Romola Garai
Gwendolen Harleth
Jodhi May
Mirah Lapidoth
Edward Fox
Sir Hugo Mallinger
Hugh Bonneville
Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt
David Bamber
Thomas Cranmer Lush
Greta Scacchi
Lydia Glasher
Allan Corduner
Herr Julius Klesmer
Amanda Root
Mrs Davilow
Celia Imrie
Mrs Meyrick
Jamie Bamber
Hans Meyrick
Georgie Glen
Lady Mallinger
Nicholas Day
Lord Brackenshaw
Michael Elwyn
Mr Arrowpoint
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eliot wrote this after meeting Jewish scholar Emanuel Deutsch, making it one of Victorian literature's only sympathetic Jewish portraits—Zionism before Zionism existed.
Andrew Davies also adapted 'Pride and Prejudice' (1995)—notice his signature addition of swimming scenes for male leads.
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