Becky Sharp International Television Festival as well as a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role as well. Olivia Cooke played Sharp in a 2018 television series, screened on ITV over seven episodes. Becky Sharp Rebecca Sharp is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–48 novel "Vanity Fair". She is presented as a cynical social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men. This is in contrast with the clinging, dependent Amelia Sedley, her friend whom she befriends at school. Becky then uses Amelia as a stepping stone to gain social position. Sharp functions as a
Sir Charles Sedley, 2nd Baronet to an illegitimate daughter, who married Henry Venables-Vernon, afterwards the 3rd Baron Vernon. Sir Charles Sedley, 2nd Baronet Sir Charles Sedley, 2nd Baronet (c. 1721-23 August 1778), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1747 and 1778. Sedley was the eldest son of Sir Charles Sedley, 1st Baronet, son of Sir Charles Sedley, illegitimate son of Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet and was educated at Westminster School and University College, Oxford. He succeeded his father in 1730. He sat as Member of Parliament for Nottingham from 1747 to 1754 and 1774 to 1778. Sedley died