Where Are They Now? Jane Austen Character Actors

The Daily Mail recently published an article that featured three Jane Austen character actors: Colin Firth, Jemima Rooper, and Felicity Jones. Click here to read it.

Colin Firth (Mr. Darcy) and Helena Bonham Carter in The King's Speech

Jemima Rooper, Amanda Price in Lost in Austen, now in Me and My Girl

Felicity Jones (Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey) as Luise Miller, a woman in love with a prince.

Images from the Daily Mail

Hear and See Amanda Price Sing in Lost in Austen

So many viewers of Lost in Austen have complained of not seeing Amanda (Jemima Rooper) sing Downtown in the American version of the DVD. Please enjoy.

Lost in Austen DVD available April 14th

Good news for Lost in Austen fans!

The widescreen DVD of the television mini-series will be available for purchase in North America on April 14th. This British ITV production aired in the UK and Canada last fall and in the US in January on the Ovation network.

If you were lucky enough to see Lost in Austen, you know that it is a time travel parody of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice where Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper), a contemporary London bank clerk is transported back in time to her favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice where she lives with the Bennet family at Longbourn and meets Mr. Darcy (Elliot Cowan). Her experience there is oddly out of step with the book and her attempts to fix things to match the novel are hilarious.

If you missed the Ovation broadcast in January, buying the DVD in April may be your only chance to view it this year. If taken as a pastiche, it is immensely enjoyable and I recommend pre-ordering it for your Austen movie library. If you order it by February 3rd at Barnes & Noble, you can take advantage of their buy two DVD’s and get the third free special. What a deal!

You can read reviews of the production at Jane Austen's World and Austenprose.

Cheer, Laurel Ann, Austenprose

Lost in Austen Montage by Spikesbint

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Lost in Austen, Behind the Scenes

You know you're on your way to stardom when you get Fugged, like Jemima Rooper did two years ago. Jemima was born in Hammersmith, hence the constant in jokes about her birth place in 'Lost in Austen', Jemima's latest starring vehicle.

Here's a link to Episode 2, Part 1 on YouTube. Update: These links have since been taken down on YouTube. There are other sources. Bit torrent and Surf the Channel are good bets.

And here's a recent interview with Jemima and Elliot Cowan about the film.



A 'Behind the Scenes' YouTube video of Lost in Austen.

• Short Bio of Jemima in Hellomagazine.com
• Not Just Anybody: Actor Elliot Cowan
  

Lost in Austen: Jemima Rooper

Fantasy

Lost in Austen sees the original story thrown off track as London-living Amanda finds Lizzie Bennet in her bathroom.

She swaps her humdrum life in the Noughties to enter the fictional world of Pride and Prejudice."

Read more in the following links about this time travel fantasy, which will be shown in the UK this autumn. Update: Lost in Austen will be shown in the UK on September 3rd. I agree with Mags, editrix of Austenblog: Why is this sequel given 3 hours of airtime when ITV barely gave Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey a scant 90 minutes?:

• Lost in Austen Fansite

• Jane Austen Will Steal Your Identity: Lost in Austen

• Coming this Autumn Across the Pond: Lost in Austen

• Biography: Jemima Rooper