Desperate Romantics (2009) Cast & Crew

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Cast

• Aidan Turner as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Rafe Spall as William Holman Hunt
• Tom Hollander as John Ruskin
• Samuel Barnett as John Millais
• Sam Crane as Fred Walters
• Zoë Tapper as Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
• Amy Manson as Lizzie Siddal
• Jennie Jacques as Annie Miller
• Josie Farmiloe as Charlotte Siddal
• Maimie McCoy as Margaret
• Phil Davis as Mr. Stone
• Mark Heap as Charles Dickens
• Rebecca Davies as Fanny Cornforth
• Dyfrig Morris as William Morris
• Peter Sandys-Clarke as Edward Burne-Jones
• Natalie Thomas as Jane Burden
• Poppy Lee Friar as Rose La Touche

Crew

• Paul Gay — Director
• Diarmuid Lawrence — Director
• Daniel Pemberton — Original Music Composer
• Kieran McGuigan — Director of Photography
• Peter Bowker — Writer
• Alan Almond — Director of Photography
• Ben Evans — Producer

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