Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

141 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 1, 2004

Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?

Vanity Fair

141 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 1, 2004

Vanity Fair
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Focus Features
Original title Vanity Fair
Directors Mira Nair
Writers Mark Skeet, Matthew Faulk, William Makepeace Thackeray, Julian Fellowes

Cast

Reese Witherspoon

as Becky Sharp

James Purefoy

as Rawdon Crawley

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

as George Osborne

Romola Garai

as Amelia Sedley

Gabriel Byrne

as The Marquess of Steyne

Rhys Ifans

as William Dobbin

Jim Broadbent

as Mr. Osborne

Bob Hoskins

as Sir Pitt Crawley

Eileen Atkins

as Miss Matilda Crawley

Tony Maudsley

as Joseph Sedley

Douglas Hodge

as Pitt Crawley

Tom Sturridge

as Older Georgy Osborne

Ruth Sheen

as Miss Pinkerton

William Melling

as Rawdy

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

as Lady Bareacres

Roger Lloyd Pack

as Francis Sharp

Angelica Mandy

as Young Becky

Deborah Findlay

as Mrs. Sedley

John Franklyn-Robbins

as Mr. Sedley

Tim Preece

as Horrocks

Natasha Little

as Lady Jane Sheepshanks

Geraldine McEwan

as Lady Southdown

Kathryn Drysdale

as Rhoda Swartz

Kelly Hunter

as Lady Steyne

Richard McCabe

as The King

John Woodvine

as Lord Bareacres

Robert Pattinson

as Older Rawdy Crawley (uncredited)

Nikita Ramsey

as Public School Girl (uncredited)

Jade Ramsey

as Public School Girl (uncredited)