Trivia


  • Jennifer Ehle, who plays the dark-haired Elizabeth Bennet, is actually blonde.

  • During Mr. Darcy's first proposal to Elizabeth, take a good look at the clock on the Hunsford mantelpiece. It never moves past 6:17!

  • Colin Firth initially declined the part of Mr. Darcy.

  • Crispin Bonham-Carter (Mr. Bingley) originally auditioned for the part of Mr. Wickham.

  • Colin Firth (Mr. Darcy) and Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth Bennet) were a couple in real life during filming, but the relationship ended before the miniseries was broadcast on TV.  

  • Lucy Briers (Mary Bennet) and Emilia Fox (Georgiana Darcy) are both pianists and performed their own pieces in the miniseries.

  • Julia Sawalha (Lydia Bennet) is actually a year older than Jennfier Ehle (Elizabeth) in real life.

  • The scene in which Mr. Darcy dives into the Pemberley lake (a scene, we might add, which does not appear in the novel) was filmed partly in a tank and partly on a mattress.  Colin Firth (Mr. Darcy) was filmed flopping onto a foam mattress and then swimming through a tank full of water.  The shots were then spliced together to create the illusion of Mr. Darcy diving into a lake.

  • Joanna David (Mrs. Gardiner) is the mother of Emilia Fox (Georgiana Darcy).  Emilia Fox is also the daughter of Joanna David.  La, what a coincidence...

  • Anthony Calf (Colonel Fitzwilliam) is Susannah Harker's (Jane Bennet's) brother-in-law.