Suffragette

film by Gavron [2015]

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The film Suffragette (2015) by Sarah Gavron depicts the story of the British women's suffrage movement, specifically focusing on the militant wing known as the Women

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Helena Bonham Carter
…real-life activist Edith Garrud, in Suffragette (2015). In 2016 she reprised her role as the strangely proportioned Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland in Alice Through the Looking Glass. Bonham Carter then appeared in Ocean’s 8 (2018), a female-driven reboot of the Ocean’s Eleven franchise from the early 2000s. In…
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…real-life activist Edith Garrud, in Suffragette (2015). In 2016 she reprised her role as the strangely proportioned Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland in Alice Through the Looking Glass. Bonham Carter then appeared in Ocean’s 8 (2018), a female-driven reboot of the Ocean’s Eleven franchise from the early 2000s. In…
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Carey Mulligan
…from the Madding Crowd and Suffragette. She later acted in the acclaimed drama Mudbound (2017), about racism in World War II-era Mississippi.
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…from the Madding Crowd and Suffragette. She later acted in the acclaimed drama Mudbound (2017), about racism in World War II-era Mississippi.
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Meryl Streep
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…woman-suffrage pioneer Emmeline Pankhurst in Suffragette (2015), Streep delivered an ebullient and sympathetic performance in the title role of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), about the tragicomic but ultimately inspiring efforts of a syphilitic society matron to establish an opera career. For her work in the film, Streep received her 20th…
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…woman-suffrage pioneer Emmeline Pankhurst in Suffragette (2015), Streep delivered an ebullient and sympathetic performance in the title role of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), about the tragicomic but ultimately inspiring efforts of a syphilitic society matron to establish an opera career. For her work in the film, Streep received her 20th…
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