Period drama inspired by the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle. She was the illegitimate daughter of John Lindsay a Captain in the Royal Navy, stationed in the Caribbean with a Black woman named Maria Belle who bore him a daughter c. 1762. There has been a great deal of speculation about Maria Belle's status: whether enslaved, captured, free and so on. It is likely she was a slave aboard a captured Spanish ship.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Dido Elizabeth Belle | |
Tom Wilkinson | Lord Mansfield | |
Miranda Richardson | Lady Ashford | |
Penelope Wilton | Lady Mary Murray | |
Emily Watson | Lady Mansfield | |
Sarah Gadon | Lady Elizabeth Murray |
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