Where Are They Now? Pride & Prejudice (2005) Film's Supporting Cast 20 years later! (Part 2)

My P&P (2005) movie's 20th Year Anniversary celebratory posts here continues...

The main cast of Pride & Prejudice (2005) are not the only ones whose careers soared and have continued to be busy after their P&P film. Here are the rest of the best P&P (2005) supporting cast who are all wonderful, versatile, and amazingly talented group of actors/actresses (including from a few season veterans to breakout newcomers) and what they're up to now... 

Pride & Prejudice (2005) film
The Supporting Cast - Where are they now?
***20 Years Later***

Judi Dench (Lady Catherine de Bourgh)
(photos by Getty Images | Alex Bailey - Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best known for role(s): as M in (James Bond Movies), as Lady Catherine de Bourgh in (Pride & Prejudice), as Queen Elizabeth in (Shakespeare in Love, which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress with interestingly, an only a cameo appearance!), as Jean / Jean Pargetter in ( As Time Goes By (TV series) ), and many, many more...
Last Seen In: as Granny in Belfast (2021), Allelujah (2022), Spirited (2022)
Currently Seen: as Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease)

Note: No current or upcoming TV or Film projects known at this time for Dame Judi Dench, but here's a few recent articles about her...

Royal sculptor makes bust of Dame Judi Dench live on stage to be auctioned for lymphoedema research 
Judi Dench says her vision loss is so bad she no longer go out alone
The real Judi Dench: actor, gardiner, punk, prankster, 'dreadful' cook

   
Penelope Wilton (Mrs. Gardiner)
 (photos by Getty Images | Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best known for role(s): as Mrs. Isobel Crawley Downton Abbey (TV series), as Mrs. Gardiner in Pride & Prejudice, as Ruth Calendar Girls, as Jean Ainslie in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel movies
Last seen in: as Hester Leggett in Operation Mincemeat (2021) with Matthew Macfadyen and Colin Firth! As Isobel Crawley Merton in Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022 film), as Maureen in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023), as Miss Pinkerton in Murder is Easy (TV Miniseries, 2023) with Sinead Matthews (aka Betsy, the Bennet Family maid), as Francine in Dead Hot (TV Series, 2024)
Currently Seen: as Mrs. Gardiner in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease)
Will Be Seen Next: as Isobel Merton in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (September 12, 2025)
Upcoming film(s): as Nanny in Fing! (In Production), Visitation (??? / Completed)
 

Peter Wight (Mr. Gardiner)
 (photos by Getty Images | Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best Known for role(s): as Mr. Gardiner in Pride & Prejudice, as Edmund Lovett in The Paradise Seasons 1&2 (TV Series), as Police Inspector in Atonement
Last Seen in: as Ragueneau in Cyrano (2021) directed by Joe Wright! as Peter Jaconelli in The Reckoning (TV Series, 2023)
Currently Seen: as Mr. Gardiner in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease)
Upcoming TV & Films: as Andrew Weycroft in High Stakes (TV Series), The Conjuring: Last Rites (Film; September 5, 2025)

Kelly Reilly (Caroline Bingley)
 (photos by Getty Images | Alex Bailey - Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best known for role(s): as Caroline Bingley in Pride & Prejudice, which she won an Empire Award for a Best Newcomer), as DC Anna Travis in  (Above Suspicion movie and TV series), as Mary Morstan in (Sherlock Holmes movies), as Jenny in Eden Lake, as Wendy in The Spanish Apartment trilogy films, as Beth Dutton in Yellowstone (TV Series; 2018-2024)
Last seen: as Beth Dutton in Yellowstone (TV Series; 2018-2024), as Rose in Here (2024 film), as Maddie Mckay in Little Wing (2024), as Rowena Drake in The Haunting in Venice (2023 film)
Currently Seen: as Caroline Bingley in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease)
Upcoming TV & Film(s): as Jackie Ellis in Under Salt Marsh (TV Series; In Production), as Hannah in Last Meals (Pre-Production)


Simon Woods (Mr. Bingley)
 (photos by Getty Images | Alex Bailey - Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best known for role(s): as Mr. Bingley in Pride & Prejudice, as Gaius Octavian Caesar Rome (TV series), and as Dr. Harrison in Cranford (TV mini-series)   
Last seen in: The 60th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards and reunited with former P&P co-star Carey Mulligan in 2014, A Previous Engagement as Tyler  (2008)Angel as Clive Fennelly, and Penelope as Edward Vanderman 
Currently Seen:
as Mr. Bingley in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease)

Note: Simon Woods is retired from acting since 2008. He is now a Playwright, which Vogue Magazine featured an article of him in April 2019 here: Simon Woods's Celebrated Play Hansard Arrives in London


Tom Hollander (Mr. Collins)
 (photos by Getty Images | Alex Bailey - Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best known for role(s): 
as Mr. Collins in Pride & Prejudice, as Cutler Becket in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's EndOsborne Hamley Wives and Daughters (TV mini-series), as Charlie Willis A Good Year,   
Last Seen: as Truman Capote in Feud: Capote vs The Swans (TV Miniseries; 2024), See a photo of Tom Hollander at the Critics Choice Awards 2025, as Quentin in The White Lotus (TV Series; 2022), 
Currently Seen: as Mr. Collins in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease), as working class Brit/Old man/Mr. Collins (voice) in American Dad (TV Series, 13 episodes; Animated, 2006-2025)as Alfred Pennyworth/Macaroon Man/Alfred (voice) in Harley Quinn (TV Series, 13 episodes; Animated, 2020-2025), as Alfred Hitchcock in Monsters (TV Series; 2025)
Upcoming TV & Film project(s): as Cameron in The Iris Affair (TV Series; Post-Production)Me, You (Pre-Production), 

Claudie Blakley (Charlotte Lucas) 
 (photos by Getty Images | Alex Bailey - Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best known for role(s): as Emma Timmins in Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series), as Charlotte Lucas in Pride & Prejudice, as Mabel Nesbitt in Gosford Park
Last seen: 
as Susan Robbins in Season 4 (Episode 4) of Call the Midwife (TV Series), as Claire Asher in Midsomer Murders (TV Series), as Louise Marsh in Silent Witness (TV Series), Season 2 of Grantchester (TV Series) 
Currently Seen: as Charlotte Lucas in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease), as Mrs. Devine in Father Brown (TV Series, 2023-2025)
Upcoming TV/film(s): The Inn at the Edge of the World (Pre-production)

Rupert Friend (Mr. Wickham)
 (photos by Getty Images | Alex Bailey - Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best known for role(s): 
as Mr. Wickham in Pride & Prejudice, as Prince Albert in The Young Victoria, as Chéri in Chéri, as Ludovic Meyer in Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont, as Agent Peter Quinn in Homeland (TV Series)
Last seen: as David Brooks in Canary Black (2024 film), Montana in Asteroid City (2023 film), as The Inquisitor in Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV Miniseries; 2022)
Currently Seen: as Mr. Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease), as Sergey in Companion (2025 film), Jake McCarthy in Dreams (2025)
Will be seen next: as Excalibur in The Phoenician Scheme (2025 film; June 6, 2025), as Martin Krebs in Jurassic World Rebirth (2025 film; July 2, 2025), as Ted in After This Death (2025 film; June 9, 2025)
Upcoming project(s): The Mysterious Master M (Podcast series; 2023-???)

Tamzin Merchant (Georgiana Darcy)
 (photos by Tamzin Merchant on her IG! | Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best known for role(s): as Georgiana Darcy in Pride & Prejudice, as Catherine Howard in The Tudors (TV series)), as Mary Rivers in Jane Eyre, and as Anne Hale in Salem (TV Series)
Last Seen: as Anne Hale in Season 2 of Salem (TV Series), as Lyra Strayd in Supergirl (TV Series; 2017, 5 episodes), as Imogen Spurnrose in Carnival Row (TV Series; 2019-2023, 18 episodes)
Currently Seen: as Georgiana Darcy in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease)

Upcoming film(s): as Ortancia in The Yellow Tie (2025 film), The Caged (In Production)

Cornelius Booth (Colonel Fitzwilliam)
(photos by Cornelius Booth via James Foster LTD | Alex Bailey - Working Title Films/Focus Features)

(see more of his TV/Film/Theatre work resume here!)

Best known for role(s): 
as Colonel Fitzwilliam in Pride & Prejudice
Last Seen: as Andrew in Disclaimer (TV Series; 2024), as Erik Haiden in Professor T (TV Series, 2024), as Mr. Fillet in The Strays (2023)
Previously seen On Stage: 
A summer tour with the play Henry IV part 2 from July 13 to August 13 at the Theatre Royal Bath with Lost In Austen's Tom Mison (Mr. Bingley). 
Currently Seen: as Colonel Fitzwilliam in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease)

Pip Torrens (Netherfield Butler)

 (photos by Getty Images | Alex Bailey - Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best known for role(s): as Netherfield Butler in Pride & Prejudice, as Prince Scherbatsky (Dolly's father and Oblonsky's father In-Law) in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, Edward Austen Knight in Miss Austen Regrets, Tommy Lascelles in Netflix's The Crown (TV Series, 17 Episodes), as Colonel Kaplan in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Last Seen:
as Roger Short in Joy, Lord Blancheford in Renegade Nell (TV Series, 3 Episodes), as Mr. Justice Fraser in Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office (TV Miniseries, 1 Episode), Peter Munion in Succession (TV Series, 4 Episodes)
Currently Seen: as Netherfield Butler in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease)
Will Be Seen Next: 
as Thomas Browne (Voice) in Zygone Century (Podcast Series, 1 Episode)
Upcoming TV & Film Projects: as Adnon Svoboda in Vindicta (in Post-Production), as Mr. Black in Savage House (in Post-Production), Wife & Dog (co-starring with Rosamund Pike in Post-Production), The Hack (TV Miniseries, in Post-Production), and Untitled Alejandro G. Inarritu Film (in Production)

Sinead Matthews (Betsy, the Bennet family maid)
 (photos by J.S. Clerk in an Interview with Sinead Matthews
 | Alex Bailey - Working Title Films/Focus Features)

Best known for role(s): as Betsy in Pride & Prejudice, Queen Victoria in Mr. Turner, Marcia Williams in Netflix's The Crown (TV Series, 3 Episodes), Mary in He Knew He Was Right (TV Miniseries, 2 Episodes)
Last Seen:
as Honoria Wayneflete in Murder is Easy (TV Series, 2 Episodes; co-starring with Penelope Wilton), as Sylvia in Till The Stars Come Down, as Michelle in Things You Should Have Done (TV Series, 3 Episodes)
Currently Seen: as Betsy in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease), in Jan in The Date (short film), Ms. Jenner in Brides
Upcoming TV & Film Projects: as Rose in Ivanko's Childhood (Short, Completed) ,  as Denise in Down Cemetery Road (TV Series; Post-Production, 8 Episodes), as Becky Sheldon in The Enforcer (Short; Post-Production)

And the late Meg Wynn Owen (1939-2022), who passed away in June 2022! RIP... 🕊️🤍 



Meg Wynn Owen (Mrs. Reynolds, Darcy family's housekeeper)
 
Best Known for role(s): as Mrs. Reynolds in Pride & Prejudice, as PM's Secretary in Love Actually (with Keira Knightley), as Lady Crawley in Vanity Fair, as Lewis in Gosford Park (with Claudie Blakley & Tom Hollander), as Hazel Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs (1973-1974 TV Series, 21 Episodes)
Last Seen: as Olive Livingstone in The Jury (2011 TV Series, 3 Episodes) and as old Isabella in Doctor Who (2010 TV Series, 1 Episode)
Currently Seen: as Mrs. Reynolds in Pride & Prejudice (20th Anniversary Rerelease)

Part 3 is coming up soon...

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