The Duchess

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Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age. While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love. From Georgiana’s passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey to the complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, The Duchess is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love. (Her love child with Lord Grey was Eliza Courtney).

Cast
Keira Knightley as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Ralph Fiennes as William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
Hayley Atwell as Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Charlotte Rampling as Lady Spencer
Dominic Cooper as Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Aidan McArdle as Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Emily Jewell as Nanny
Calvin Dean as Devonshire House Servant
Simon McBurney as Charles James Fox
Hannah Stokely as Maid
Richard Syms as Dr Neville
Richard McCabe as Sir James Hare
Andy Armour as Burleigh the Butler
Emily Cohen as Harryo
Poppy Wigglesworth as Charlotte (aged 10)
Mercy Fiennes Tiffin as Little Georgiana
Sebastian Applewhite as Augustus
Eva Hrela as Charlotte (aged 3)
Bruce Mackinnon as Sir Peter Teazle actor
Georgia King as Lady Teazle actress
Kate Burdette as Lady Harriet

Info Detail
Directed by Saul Dibb
Produced by Gabrielle Tana, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Michael Kuhn
Written by Jeffrey Hatcher, Amanda Foreman (biography)
Editing by Masahiro Hirakubo
Distributed by

• Paramount Vantage
• BBC Films
• Pathé
• Qwerty Films

Release date(s)

• September 5, 2008(UK)
• September 12, 2008 (US)

Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $25,2 million