Desperate Romantics
First aired
July 21, 2009
Ended
Avg. episode: 60m
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
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Cast & Crew
Aidan Turner
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Rafe Spall
William Holman Hunt
Tom Hollander
John Ruskin
Samuel Barnett
John Millais
Sam Crane
Fred Walters
Zoë Tapper
Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
Amy Manson
Lizzie Siddal
Jennie Jacques
Annie Miller
- JF
Josie Farmiloe
Charlotte Siddal
Maimie McCoy
Margaret
Phil Davis
Mr. Stone
Mark Heap
Charles Dickens
Rebecca Davies
Fanny Cornforth
- DM
Dyfrig Morris
William Morris
Peter Sandys-Clarke
Edward Burne-Jones
- NT
Natalie Thomas
Jane Burden
Poppy Lee Friar
Rose La Touche
- PG
Paul Gay
Director
Diarmuid Lawrence
Director
- PB
Peter Bowker
Writer
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