simon woods played mr bingley in pride and prejudice.
simon woods played mr bingley in pride and prejudice.
who played mr bingley in pride and prejudice?
simon woods
according to wright, rosamund pike was cast as the eldest sister "because [he] knew she wasn't going to play her as a nice, simple person. jane has a real interior world, she has her heart broken." despite being pike's ex-boyfriend, simon woods was cast as her romantic interest mr bingley. the other three bennet sisters were played by talulah riley, carey mulligan, and jena malone, the only american actress among them. wright believed malone to have a "pretty faultless english accent". mulligan heard about the casting call at a dinner hosted by julian fellowes, to whom she had written a letter after failing to get into drama school; she won the part after three auditions. tamzin merchant appears as georgiana darcy; she was hired despite having no previous acting experience after she wrote a letter to the casting director. in addition to merchant, "pride & prejudice" was the feature film debut of both mulligan and riley.
pride & prejudice (2005 film)
the producers found crispin bonham-carter to have the best physical contrast to firth's darcy and gave him his first major television role as the good-natured and wealthy mr charles bingley. bonham-carter had originally auditioned for the part of mr george wickham, a handsome militia lieutenant whose charm conceals his licentiousness and greed, but adrian lukis was cast instead. anna chancellor, of "four weddings and a funeral" fame, played mr bingley's sister caroline bingley. (chancellor is also jane austen's six-times-great-niece) mr bingley's other sister and his brother-in-law were played by lucy robinson (louisa hurst) and rupert vansittart (mr hurst). casting the role of darcy's young sister, georgiana, proved hard as the producers were looking for a young actress who appeared innocent, proud and yet shy, had class and could also play the piano. after auditioning over 70 actresses, simon langton suggested emilia fox, the real-life daughter of joanna david (mrs gardiner), for the part. barbara leigh-hunt was cast as darcy's meddling aunt, lady catherine de bourgh, without auditions or screen tests.
pride and prejudice (1995 tv series)