Another Life
2001A 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.
Acted in
Natasha Little
as Edith Jessie Thompson
Nick Moran
as Percy Thompson
Ioan Gruffudd
as Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters
Imelda Staunton
as Ethel Graydon
Tom Wilkinson
as Mr. Carlton
Rachael Stirling
as Avis Graydon
Diana Coupland
as Mrs. Lester
Michael Bertenshaw
as William Graydon
Daniel Brocklebank
as Newnie
Elizabeth McKechnie
as Mrs. Thompson
Judy Clifton
as Nora Lester
Simon Paris
as Sgt. Mew
Alex Potter
as Young Billy
Anton Gregory
as Young Harold
Rikki Doughty
as Young Freddie
Juliet Forester
as Miss Prior
Helen Brampton
as Lily Thompson
Angela Hart
as Nun
Karen Powell
as Nun
Daniel Goode
as Kenneth
Gyuri Sarossy
as Archie
Arthur Gerard
as Mr Lester
Barbara Wilshere
as Mr Carlton's Whore
Nicholas Hutchison
as Dr Maudsley
Alan Leith
as Inspector Hall
Michael Sheard
as Mr. Justice Shearman
Bruce Purchase
as Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett
John Tordoff
as John Ellis
Richard Mayes
as Prison Chaplain