Stage Beauty (2004)

The Evolution of Billy Crudup (30 movies items)

"Character Name: Ned Kynaston "

The Evolution of Tom Hollander (28 movies items)

"Role: Sir Peter Lely "

Great performances never nominated (male) (12 movies items)

"Billy Crudup - Ned Kynaston "

Best Movie Couples (21 movies items)

"Ned and Maria "

favourite movie characters (34 movies items)

"Ned Kynaston ♥ though he was kind of an asshole ;) "

A good movie

“I thought it was a very interesting picture. To see how the theater work back in those days was rather fascinating. Claire Danes and Billy Crudup gives both very good performances and the directing is very good aswell. Definitely worth a look.” read more

The evolution of Claire Danes (28 movies items)

"character : Maria "

The Best Period Films You MUST Watch (76 movies items)

"Set in the theatres 1660's of London, this film is about the rules of gender roles in theatre production, and means to change them for everyone's benefit. Ned Kynaston is the bisexual cross-dressing actor who has been playing female parts in plays for years, particularly Desdemona in Othello. One day however, the rules of only men playing women could change when aspiring actress Maria auditions as Kynaston's praised role, Desdemona, and soon enough, King Charles II decides to make the law that a"

The British Royal Family on Film (24 movies items)

"Charles II was the king who changed acting so that women could act on the English stage, the central plot of this piece."

100 years of great films (93 movies items)

"2004"

How did I miss this?

“I can't believe I never even heard of this movie until very recently when I, by chance, caught it on TV. It was so amasing that I had to rent it and show it to all my friends.

What really caught my eye when I saw the cover of the DVD was that the two main leads, Billy Crudup and Claire Danes, were also the leads in another favorite movie of mine, Princess Mononoke. And I quite enjoyed the English dub of that movie for the most part. So it was wonderful bonus surprise for me.

On to the movie itself, it's takes place around the time when women started acting in England, because prior to that it was all men actors doing the female parts. So you get to see the fall of Ned, Billy Crudup, and the rise of Maria, Claire Danes, as women actually get to play the role of women. An” read more