---
title: 'The Duchess (2008)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Saul Dibb'
released: '2008-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 109
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-duchess-2008'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0864761/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Duchess (2008)

2008 · 109 min · Drama, History, Romance · United Kingdom, France, Italy, United States


## Synopsis

The Duchess is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Saul Dibb, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen, based on the 1998 book Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, about the late 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. She was a distant relation of Diana, Princess of Wales, from whom the quote "There were three people in her marriage" on the promotional poster comes from. The Duchess was the older sister of Lady Diana's great-great-great-grandfather, George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Saul Dibb](https://cinepixo.com/people/saul-dibb)
- **Screenplay:** [Saul Dibb](https://cinepixo.com/people/saul-dibb), [Anders Thomas Jensen](https://cinepixo.com/people/anders-thomas-jensen), [Jeffrey Hatcher](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeffrey-hatcher)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Rachel Portman](https://cinepixo.com/people/rachel-portman)
- **Producer:** [Michael Kuhn](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-kuhn), [Gabrielle Tana](https://cinepixo.com/people/gabrielle-tana)
- **Director of Photography:** [Gyula Pados](https://cinepixo.com/people/gyula-pados)
- **Editor:** [Masahiro Hirakubo](https://cinepixo.com/people/masahiro-hirakubo)

## Cast

- [Patrick Godfrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-godfrey)
- [Poppy Wigglesworth](https://cinepixo.com/people/poppy-wigglesworth) as Charlotte Williams
- [John Shrapnel](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-shrapnel) as le général Grey
- [Sebastian Applewhite](https://cinepixo.com/people/sebastian-applewhite) as Augustus Clifford
- [Dominic Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/dominic-cooper) as Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
- [Calvin Dean](https://cinepixo.com/people/calvin-dean) as Devonshire House Servant
- [Eva Hrela](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-hrela) as Charlotte Williams
- [Ralph Fiennes](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-fiennes) as William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
- [Bruce Mackinnon](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-mackinnon) as actor playing Sir Peter Teazle
- [Keira Knightley](https://cinepixo.com/people/keira-knightley) as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
- [Camilla Arfwedson](https://cinepixo.com/people/camilla-arfwedson) as Lady Charlotte
- [Alistair Petrie](https://cinepixo.com/people/alistair-petrie) as Heaton
- [Max Bennett](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-bennett)
- [Georgia King](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgia-king) as actress playing Lady Teazle
- [Charlotte Rampling](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlotte-rampling) as Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer

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Official site: http://www.theduchessmovie.com/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-duchess-2008
Film facts: Wikidata (Q466514); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.