Desperate Romantics (2009)
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
- First aired
- 2009-07-21
- Genres
- Drama
- Seasons
- 1 (6 episodes)
- Status
- Ended
- Directed / written by
- Paul Gay, Diarmuid Lawrence
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 from 23 votes
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