Overview - Another Life

Overview

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.

Cast

• Name: Natasha Little

  Character: Edith Jessie Thompson

  Popularity: 3.5887

  

• Name: Nick Moran

  Character: Percy Thompson

  Popularity: 1.0116

  

• Name: Ioan Gruffudd

  Character: Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters

  Popularity: 3.1834

  

• Name: Imelda Staunton

  Character: Ethel Graydon

  Popularity: 2.4888

  

• Name: Tom Wilkinson

  Character: Mr. Carlton

  Popularity: 1.2729

  

• Name: Rachael Stirling

  Character: Avis Graydon

  Popularity: 1.8587

  

• Name: Diana Coupland

  Character: Mrs. Lester

  Popularity: 0.6408

  

• Name: Michael Bertenshaw

  Character: William Graydon

  Popularity: 0.2757