Mary Shelley
Her greatest love inspired her darkest creation
2017 · 2h · PG-13 Drama, Romance
Overview
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Director and cast
- Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley
- Douglas Booth as Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Bel Powley as Claire Clairmont
- Stephen Dillane as William Godwin
- Joanne Froggatt as Mary Jane Clairmont
- Tom Sturridge as Lord Byron
- Ben Hardy as Dr. John Polidori
- Maisie Williams as Isabel Baxter
- Hugh O'Conor as Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Ciara Charteris as Harriet Shelley
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