Vanity Fair poster
Screenplay Julian Fellowes, Mark Skeet, Matthew Faulk
Director Mira Nair

Vanity Fair

Tagline: All's fair in love & war.

Release Date: 2004-09-01

Duration: 141 minutes

Synopsis

Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?

Casting

  • Robert Pattinson
    Older Rawdy Crawley (uncredited)
  • Reese Witherspoon
    Becky Sharp
  • James Purefoy
    Rawdon Crawley
  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers
    George Osborne
  • Rhys Ifans
    William Dobbin
  • Geraldine McEwan
    Lady Southdown
  • Jim Broadbent
    Mr. Osborne
  • Romola Garai
    Amelia Sedley
  • Gabriel Byrne
    The Marquess of Steyne
  • Natasha Little
    Lady Jane Sheepshanks