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Effie (2012)

Emma Thompson has written the screenplay for Effie, the period biopic of Euphemia Gray who was married to the art critic John Ruskin in 1850s London, and later fell in love with his protegé John Millais.

CAST:

Effie - Dakota Fanning
John Ruskin - Greg Wise
John Everett Millais - Tom Sturridge
Ruskin's parents - Derek Jacobi and Julie Walters
Lady Elizabeth Eastlake - Emma Thompson
Sir Charles Eastlake - Edward Fox

Filming is expected to begin this October in London, Scotland and Venice

Source: Deadline via Comingsoon.net

Oliver Twist

This 2007 BBC film
is based on a novel by Charles Dickens

In the 19th Century, the orphan Oliver Twist is sent to a workhouse, where the children are barely fed and mistreated. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is welcomed by a gang of pickpockets leaded by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow's fancy house. Oliver is wounded, while Mr. Brownlow tries to save him.

Cast:

William Miller as Oliver Twist
Julian Rhind-Tutt as Monks
Edward Fox as Mr. Brownlow
Adam Arnold as The Artful Dodger
Tom Hardy as Bill Sikes
Sophie Okonedo as Nancy
Morven Christie as Rose Maylie
Timothy Spall as Fagin
Gregor Fisher as Mr. Bumble
Sarah Lancashire as Mrs Corney
Anna Massey as Mrs. Bedwin
Nicola Walker as Sally
Rob Brydon as Mr. Fang
John Sessions as Mr. Sowerberry
Michelle Gomez as Mrs. Sowerberry
Connor Catchpole as Pearly

Oliver

Mr Bumble

Mr and Mrs Sowerberry

Fagan

Nancy

Mrs Bedwin, Rose and Monks

Nancy and Bill

Rose (loved Morven in Lost in Austen)

Mrs Bedwin ( I love any movie Anna Massey is in!)

Mrs Corney

Trivia - this film features sisters from Lost in Austen:
Morven Christie who played Jane Bennett
and Ruby Bentall (Charlotte, Sowerberry's servant) who played Mary Bennett

Nicholas Nickleby

After the death of his financially replete father, Nicholas Nickleby and his family travel to London to seek assistance from his father's older brother Ralph. Taking an immediate dislike to his nephew, Ralph employs Nicholas under the sadistic Mr. Squeers and his interminable wife, owners of a boys' school in northern England. In the meantime, Ralph seeks to use Nicholas' beautiful sister Kate as a ploy to influence his investors. Discourse forces Nicholas to flee the school with the crippled Smike, an orphan with no memories of his former life before he was brought to Dotheboys' Hall. On their journey back to London they meet up with Vincent Crummles and his acting troupe, befriend Ralph's good-hearted secretary Newman Noggs, and ultimately rise over adversity.

(Written by Charity, IMDB)

This film based on a novel by Charles Dickens was nominated for
Best Comedy or Musical for Golden Globe Awards

Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunman) and Smike (Jamie Bell)

Nicholas with his sister Madeleine (Romola Garai) and his mother (Stella Gonet)

Christopher Plummer as Uncle Ralph

Anne Hathaway as Madeleine

Jim Broadbent as Mr. Wackford Squeers

Juliet Stevenson as Mrs. Squeers

Edward Fox as Sir Mulberry Hawk

Mr & Mrs. Crummles (Dame Edna and Nathan Lane)

Alan Cumming as Mr. Folair

Miss Lacreevy (Sophie Thompson, 2nd from left)

Timothy Spall as Charles Cheeryble

Gerard Horan as Ned Cheeryble

Nicholas with Mr. Noggs (Tom Courtenay)

The Fox Family

The 3 Fox brothers are Edward, James and Robert.
Edward and James are actors while their brother Robert is a producer of films.

Edward Fox is married to Joanna David
and they are the parents of Emilia Fox

Edward's films include:

Oliver Twist
Agatha Christie
Stage Beauty
Nicholas Nickleby
Daniel Deronda
Foyle's War
The Importance of Being Earnest
Prince Valiant
Gulliver's Travels
Robin Hood
Anastasia
Gandhi
The Mirror Crack'd
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
The Portrait of a Lady

Joanna David's films include:

Bleak House
He Knew He Was Right
Foyle's War
Forsyte Saga
The Way We Live Now
The Mill on the Floss
Bramwell II
Pride and Prejudice

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Anna Karenina
Rebecca
The Duchess of Duke Street
Ballet Shoes
Colditz
The Edwardians
War & Peace
The Last of the Mohicans
Sense and Sensibility (1971)

Mother and Daughter Connection:

~Joanna played title character of Rebecca (1979), her daughter Emilia reprised the same role in 1997

~Joanna played Theo Danes in Ballet Shoes (1975) & Emilia would play Sylvia in Ballet Shoes (2007)

~Both mom and daughter appeared in Pride and Prejudice (1995) as Aunt Gardner and Georgiana Darcy

Emilia Fox's films include:

Ballet Shoes
The Virgin Queen
Henry VIII -jane seymour
Helen of Troy
The Pianist
Marple: The Moving Finger
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
David Copperfield
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Rebecca

and she made her movie debut in a "little movie" called
Pride and Prejudice

Emilia is married to Jared Harris, son of Richard Harris, the famous Irish actor. She and her husband have played a real life married couple: though not in the same production. Jared Harris played Henry VIII in the BBC version of The Other Boleyn Girl (2003) opposite Jodhi May and Natasha Mcelhone and Emilia played Jane Seymour in Henry VIII (2003) .

Jared also acted in The Shadow in the North with Billie Piper (Jared's wife Emilia and Billie's husband Laurence are first cousins)

(updated to say that Emilia and Jared sadly are no longer married)

James Fox (brother of Edward) is the father of Laurence Fox , his films include:

Remains of the Day
Passage to India
Colditz (Laurence was also in this film)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Agatha Christie: Poirot
Cambridge Spies
The Golden Bowl
Up at the Villa
Anna Karenina
Gulliver's Travels
The Old Curiosity Shop
Greystoke:Legend of Tarzan
Anna Pavlova
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Miniver Story

Laurence Fox's films include:

Becoming Jane
A Room with a View
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Gosford Park
Agatha Christie Marple: The Sittaford Mystery
Colditz
Foyle's War

Laurence on his wedding day with Billie Piper

Laurence with Anne Hathaway
in
Becoming Jane

Robert Fox's films include:
Atonement
The Hours
Iris
A Month by the Lake

Robert was previously married to Natasha Richardson.
He's currently married to Vogue editor Fiona Golfar.

I guess the question might be what hasn't this family been in...
looks like a remake of The Tortoise and the Hare
with Edward and Emilia

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I was thinking that this "Royal Family" of British cinema have been in so many things that they're probably related to royalty and there is a connection...

Edward is also the half-brother of Daniel Chatto, the husband of Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, the only daughter of Princess Margaret.

Daniel Deronda

....Hugh Dancy stars as the eponymous Daniel Deronda, with Romola Garai as his soul mate Gwendolen Harleth. Though entranced with Daniel, Gwendolen is forced into an oppressive marriage to Henleigh Grandcourt (Hugh Bonneville), while Daniel finds a new life through his friendship with Mirah Lapidoth (Jodhi May)
....Daniel first becomes enchanted by the beautiful Gwendolen as she gambles recklessly at the roulette table. Her family have recently fallen on hard times and pinned their hopes upon the proud, but charming Gwendolen attracting a rich husband. A short while ago, Gwendolen reluctantly succumbed to the advances of rich bachelor, Henleigh Grandcourt, only to discover that he had a mistress, Lydia Glasher (Greta Scacchi), and three children.
....Daniel's also been troubled. Illegitimate and haunted by doubts about his own identity, he is frustrated that his uncle and lifetime guardian, Sir Hugo Mallinger (Edward Fox), will tell him nothing about his real parents. Later, he saves a young Jewish singer Mirah Lapidoth from drowning herself in the Thames.
....Eventually, Gwendolen' marries Grandcourt, but soon realises he's still seeing his mistress. She's is trapped in a marriage that is doomed before it has begun. However, she's left widowed when Grandcourt drowns in a sailing accident.
....Meanwhile, Daniel embarks on a journey to find his true identity and Mirah's family. It takes him into London's Jewish community and Genoa, where he meets The Contessa (Barbara Hershey), a celebrated opera diva who holds the key to his past. It is not until he has returned home to London that the idealistic, young hero's journey of self-fulfillment reaches a powerful and dramatic conclusion. (synopsis: BBC)
[Based on novel by Georg Eliot, screenplay by Andrew Davies]