Olivia Colman is to appear in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel Great Expectations, playing the role of wealthy spinster Miss Havisham.
The Oscar-winning actor 48, will star in the six-part series chronicling the life of an orphan named Pip.
The cast will also feature Fionn Whitehead as Pip, alongside Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle and Matt Berry.
The Bafta-winning writer Steven Knight created the series, which will be executive produced by the team behind the BBC’s 2019 adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Lucy Forbes, who previously worked on BBC series This Is Going to Hurt, will act as lead director with Mark Kinsella as producer. Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol are the first two in a series of adaptations of Dickens’ novels that have been commissioned by the BBC and FX Productions.
Great Expectations, published in 1861, was initially released as a series of weekly chapters before it was published as a novel.
Martita Hunt played the role of Miss Havisham in the 1946 film version.
Source: theguardian.com – Olivia Colman to star in BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations
