Screenplay: ‘The Invisible Woman’

Cast: Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones

the-invisible-woman-screenplayThe Invisible Woman: Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity. Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success – falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens – a brilliant amateur actor – a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of “invisibility”.

Cast

  • Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens
  • Felicity Jones as Nelly Ternan
  • Kristin Scott Thomas as Catherine Ternan
  • Tom Hollander as Wilkie Collins
  • Joanna Scanlan as Catherine Dickens
  • Michelle Fairley as Caroline Graves
  • Jonathan Harden as Mr. Arnott
  • Tom Burke as Mr. George Wharton Robinson
  • Perdita Weeks as Maria Ternan
  • John Kavanagh as Reverend Benham

Director: Ralph Fiennes

Written by: Abi Morgan

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