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The Importance of Being Oscar

Duration: 1 hour, 24 minutes

on BBC Two Wales HD

A star-studded account of Oscar Wilde’s glittering and controversial career before his trial for homosexual crimes and tragic fall from grace. Show more

Contributors

Lady Bracknell:
Anna Chancellor
Virginia, Hester Worsley, Cecily, Lady Windermere:
Anna Devlin
Canterville Ghost, Basil Hallward:
James Fleet
Jokannen, Dorian Gray, Lord Goring:
Freddie Fox
Young Oscar Wilde, Vivian, Bunthorne, Jack Worthing, Lord Windermere:
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
Salome, Mrs Allonby, Gwendolyn, Lady Chiltern:
Alice Orr-Ewing
Oscar Wilde:
Nicholas Rowe
Herodias, Mrs Arbuthnot, Mrs Erlynne:
Claire Skinner
Herod, Cyril, Lord Illingworth, Algernon, Robert Chiltern, Darlington, Henry Wotton:
Ed Stoppard
Executive Producer:
Franny Moyle

BBC Two Wales HD

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