Desperate Romantics

2009 | 1 Season | 7.4 | Ended
Drama

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

Aidan Turner

Aidan Turner

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

 Rafe Spall

Rafe Spall

William Holman Hunt

 Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander

John Ruskin

 Samuel Barnett

Samuel Barnett

John Millais

 Sam Crane

Sam Crane

Fred Walters

 Zoë Tapper

Zoë Tapper

Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais

 Amy Manson

Amy Manson

Lizzie Siddal

 Jennie Jacques

Jennie Jacques

Annie Miller

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