The Woman in White (2018 TV series)

The Woman in White is a five-part BBC television adaptation of the 1860 sensation novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins. The series began airing on BBC One on 22 April 2018, and stars Jessie Buckley, Ben Hardy, Olivia Vinall, Dougray Scott and Charles Dance.

Cast and characters

 * Jessie Buckley as Marian Halcombe
 * Ben Hardy as Walter Hartright
 * Olivia Vinall as Laura Fairlie/Anne Catherick
 * Dougray Scott as Sir Percival Glyde
 * Riccardo Scamarcio as Count Fosco
 * Charles Dance as Frederick Fairlie
 * Art Malik as Erasmus Nash
 * Joanna Scanlan as Mrs Vesey
 * Vicki Pepperdine as Mrs Michelson
 * Kerry Fox as Mrs Catherick
 * Nicholas Jones as Mr Gilmore
 * Ivan Kaye as Professor Pesca
 * Sonya Cassidy as Madam Fosco
 * Cathy Belton as Mrs Hartright
 * Tony Flynn as Mr Merriman, Percival Glyde's solicitor

Production
Filming for the series began in February 2017 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Differences from the novel
The script condensed the original novel. In the television production, the character Erasmus Nash (played by Art Malik) was added to achieve some of that condensation. In the book, Walter does all of Nash's detective activities.