In Film and Television
In film adaptations of Great Expectations, Miss Havisham has been played by a number of distinguished actresses, including:
- Florence Reed (1934)
- Martita Hunt (1946)
- Margaret Leighton (1974)
- Joan Hickson (1981)
- Jean Simmons (who had previously played Estella in 1946 opposite Hunt) (1989)
- Anne Bancroft (1998) (a version which modernized the story to the twentieth century and changed the names of several characters)
- Charlotte Rampling (1999)
- Gillian Anderson (2011) TV Movie
- Helena Bonham Carter (Upcoming, 2012)
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