Mary Anning and the Dinosaur Hunters (2024)
The film reveals the life, plight and loves of the eminent Mary Anning, an 1800's fossil hunter - navigating her career and research in a male dominated society at a time when women's research was largely unrecognised or plagiarised by men. Predominantly unknown despite her spectacular finds, including Icthyiousauri, a Pterodactyl and Plesiosaurus, and notwithstanding the fact that Darwins' 'Origin of Species' was largely influenced by her work. She is at last becoming the most celebrated paleontologist of all time.
- Released
- 2024-06-07
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 153 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Sharon Sheehan
Cast
- Sharon Sheehan as Mary Anning
- Jackie Howe as Mrs Molly Anning
- Anna Liddell as Jane Austen
- Tom Machell as Henry De La Beche
- Mark Fletcher as Mr Anning
- Jonathan Moore as Sir Richard Owen
- Stuart Boother as Shandor Loiza Tamas
- Richard Morrison as King of Saxony
- Paul Storrier as Rev. William Buckland
- Jenny Agutter as Miss Philpott