Jane Austen Filmography

Sense and Sensibility

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Hattie Morahan, Charity Wakefield, Dan Stevens, David Morrissey, Dominic Cooper, Janet McTeer

Synopsis: Hattie Morahan, Charity Wakefield, and Dominic Cooper star in screenwriter Andrew Davies' adaptation of the classic Jane Austen tale of love and class conflict. Marianne Dashwood (Wakefield) has fallen deeply in love with John Willoughby (Cooper), yet despite their feelings for one another the Read More

Persuasion

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Sally Hawkins, Rupert Penry-Jones, Alice Krige

Synopsis: Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones star in this adaptation of the Jane Austin classic about a lovelorn woman who receives a second chance for true happiness. Anne Elliot was just nineteen when she fell hopelessly in love with dashing naval officer Frederick Wentworth, so when her family Read More

Mansfield Park

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Billie Piper, Blake Ritson

Synopsis: Produced for UK television network ITV, this adaptation of Jane Austin's classic tale stars Billie Piper as Fanny Price, and Blake Ritson as Edmund Bertram. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Northanger Abbey

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Felicity Jones and J.J. Feild star in this made for television adaptation of Jane Austin's easygoing parody of gothic fiction concerning a hopeless romantic drawn into a mysterious relationship. Catherine Moreland (Jones) longs for the day that a dashing gentleman will finally sweep her off her Read More

DVD Bookshelf: Pride and Prejudice

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Anne Flosnik

Synopsis: DVD Bookshelf: Pride and Prejudice presents a reading of the Jane Austin classic about two sisters who must balance love and practicality. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Pride & Prejudice

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Judi Dench

Synopsis: Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennetts (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their Read More

Bride and Prejudice

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Anupam Kher, Nadira Babbar, Naveen Andrews

Synopsis: The very British sensibilities of Jane Austen are introduced to the exotic flavors of the Bollywood musical in this romantic comedy with songs from the director of Bend It Like Beckham, Gurinder Chadha. Lalita Bakshi (Aishwarya Rai) is the lovely and eligible daughter of her socially ambitious Read More

Pride & Prejudice

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Kam Heskin, Orlando Seale

Synopsis: Utah-based filmmaker Andrew Black makes his feature debut with Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy. The screenplay is an adaptation of the original Jane Austen novel, updated to reflect the contemporary dating situation among Mormons at Brigham Young University. Kam Heskin plays Elizabeth, an Read More

Mansfield Park

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz, Harold Pinter

Synopsis: Freely adapted from a novel by Jane Austen, this period drama is set in the early 1800s, as a girl named Fanny (Hannah Taylor Gordon) is being raised by loving but desperately poor parents. Wanting a better life for Fanny, they send her away to live with her aunts, high-minded Mrs. Norris (Sheila Gish Read More

Emma

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette, Greta Scacchi, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jane Austen (who in the '90s seemed to be in the running alongside William Shakespeare and Stephen King for the honors of most adapted author in Hollywood), this period romantic comedy stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse, a young woman who imagines herself an authority on Read More

Emma

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Raymond Coulthard, Olivia Williams, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Strong, Samantha Morton

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Emma Woodhouse (Kate Beckinsale) is a clever young woman from a wealthy family who fancies herself a matchmaker and tries to find a husband for her shy friend Harriet (Samantha Morton). However, Emma's skills in bringing romances Read More

Persuasion

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Corin Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, John Woodvine, Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Susan Fleetwood

Synopsis: Adapted from what is arguably Jane Austen's most mature and subtlest novel, Persuasion is somewhat more nuanced and restrained than the more frequently adapted Emma and Pride and Prejudice. The protagonist, Anne (Amanda Root), is, by the conventions of society, considered an old maid when she Read More

Sense and Sensibility

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise

Synopsis: The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier Read More

Pride and Prejudice

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Susannah Harker, Crispin Bonham Carter, Adrian Lukis

Synopsis: Jane Austen's classic novel is brought to the screen once again in this intelligent and witty romantic drama. Elizabeth Bennett (Jennifer Ehle) is one of five sisters living on a British country estate in the 1800s. At a time and place in which matrimony is considered a woman's logical goal in Read More

Northanger Abbey

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Katherine Schlesinger, Peter Firth, Googie Withers, Robert Hardy

Synopsis: Northanger Abbey was filmed in England and first telecast in the U.S. on December 2, 1987. This 90-minute adaptation of Jane Austen's 1818 novel incorporates the author's usual interconnecting themes of true love and acquisition of wealth, and tosses in a little Gothic mystery for good measure. Katherine Schlesinger Read More

Mansfield Park

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Sylvestra Le Touzel, Bernard Hepton, Nicholas Farrell

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen, the British miniseries Mansfield Park starred Sylvestra La Touzel as Fanny Price, a "poor relation" deposited at the doorstep of the titular country estate at age ten. Raised by her cynical uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram (Bernard Hepton), the ugly-duckling Fanny Read More

Sense and Sensibility

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Tracey Childs, Irene Richard, Robert Swann

Synopsis: Ten years before Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility was transformed into a lavish theatrical feature by director Ang Lee, the property was adapted as a rather less lavish but no less entertaining British TV miniseries. Irene Richard and Tracy Childs starred as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood Read More

Pride and Prejudice

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Elizabeth Garvie, David Rintoul, Natalie Ogle, Sabina Franklyn, Tessa Peake-Jones

Synopsis: Fay Weldon wrote the teleplay for this 5-part BBC TV adaptation of Jane Austen's 1812 novel Pride and Prejudice. Class-obsessed Mrs. Bennett (Priscilla Morgan) is dead set upon marrying off her five daughters to wealthy and influential young men. Headstrong Elizabeth Bennett (Elizabeth Garvie) Read More

Emma

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Fiona Walker, Mollie Sugden, Doran Godwin, John Carson

Synopsis: Jane Austen's well-intending cupid comes to the screen once again in this adaptation of her popular novel starring Doran Godwin in the title role and John Carson in the role of Mr. Knightley. Having already orchestrated the marriage of longtime friend Miss Taylor, the scheming Emma next sets her Read More

Persuasion

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Ann Firbank, Bryan Marshall, Basil Dignam, Valeiie Gearon, Marian Spencer

Synopsis: Adapted from Jane Austen's final novel, the five-part British drama series Persuasion starred Anne Firbank as Anne Elliot, a young woman dangerously close to becoming an "old maid." Seven years earlier, Anne had allowed her opinions to be swayed by others (local busybody Lady Russell [Marian Spencer Read More

Pride and Prejudice

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Lewis Fiander, Celia Bannerman, Michael Gough, Vivian Pickles, Polly Adams

Synopsis: The third of the many British TV miniseries adaptations of Jane Austen's slyly satirical 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice was, like its predecessors, originally telecast in six half-hour episodes. Michael Gough, best known to contemporary filmgoers as Alfred the Butler in the Batman movies Read More

Pride and Prejudice

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Alan Badel, Jane Downs

Synopsis: The second of the many British TV miniseries adaptations of Jane Austen's slyly satirical 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice was a six-parter broadcast by the BBC. Jane Downs starred as Elizabeth Bennet, the outwardly fragile but iron-willed young woman who maneuvered around her mother's plans Read More

Pride and Prejudice

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Daphne Slater, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: Long before she was "discovered" by Hollywood, 19th century novelist Jane Austen was well represented on British television. Of her limited output, Pride and Prejudice -- the satirical tale of an ambitious provincial wife, a houseful of marriageable daughters, and a seemingly "helpless" heroine Read More

Pride and Prejudice

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Sullivan

Synopsis: Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining adaptation of one of Austen's best-known novels. The elegant and slyly satirical comedy of manners gets under way when socially conscious Mrs. Bennet (Mary Boland), with the Read More