Plot
Charlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester.
Cast
as Jane Eyre
as Edward Rochester
as Mrs. Reed
as Mrs. Fairfax
as Grace Poole
as Blanche Ingram
as Lady Lynn
as George
as Colonel Dent
as Sir George Lynn
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
September 24, 2006
Last Aired Date
October 15, 2006
Production Companies
BBC
GBH
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
4
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Reviews
Jane Eyre is a tough adaptation. You need a host of competent actors for the minor roles, good child actors and a brooding, fiery Bronte hero for Rochester, capable of attaching a variety of women and inspiring devotion in one of literature's great heroines. There have been plenty of great Rochesters, Orson Welles and William Hurt to name but two, and Toby Stephens may be another. The ladies c…
This was Ruth Wilson's breakout role, her first out of drama school. Producer Diederick Santer said they stopped looking for actresses the moment Ruth walked into to room and from more or less the first moment she appears on screen, you can see why. Jane Eyre is a tough adaptation. You need a host of competent actors for the minor roles. Look how much Pam Ferris brings in the role of servant, …