The Many Faces of Elizabeth Bennet & Fitzwilliam Darcy (Part 5)

And one more update here, this time on The Many Faces of Elizabeth Bennet & Fitzwilliam Darcy with two new upcoming re-telling and Zombie mash-up movies of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice novel, the upcoming Hallmark Channel's Unleashing Mr. Darcy starring premiering on Hallmark on January 23rd, 2016 and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies film starring  &

Several actors have portrayed the most popular fictional couple Elizabeth Bennet & Fitzwilliam Darcy (aka Mr. Darcy) in Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, which has been adapted countless times from Stage (1936)/Broadway (First Impression 1959), TV mini-series (1938, 1952, 1967, 1980, and 1995), and films (1940, 1958, and 2005, as well as inspired P&P films such as Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy 2003, Bride & Prejudice 2004, Death Comes To Pemberley, and Bridget Jones movies to name a few) numerous times since 1936 (stage version) to the 2005 Oscar nominated film version starring Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen.


I'm sure many of you P&P fans have seen at least 1 or 2 TV or film versions of P&P. I can say now that I've seen at least 10 (1940, 1980, 1995, 2003, B&P 2004, 2005, Lost In Austen, A Modern P&P, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and Death Comes To Pemberley...I'll see both Unleashing Mr. Darcy and PPZ movies in 2016 as well as Bridget Jones' Baby movie) of them. Of course, the 2005 film version (with Keira & Matthew) remain my all-time favorite P&P film adaptation of all P&P versions I've seen. It was the BEST P&P version I've ever seen (and have seen countless times for a decade now!), in my humble opinion. It made me love and finished reading the original novel (as well as watched every P&P adaptation released on both TV & Films), it made me love both Keira Knightley as an actress and Matthew Macfadyen as an actor (as well as the rest of P&P 05 cast), and the reason I created my own P&P Fan Forum, Devoted Fans of P&P on FB, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, and this P&P Blog here, of course.


Anyway, here are some images from various P&P adaptations (including the 4 notable tv/film versions that most of us had either seen or heard about and are universally acknowledged) that I could find through google image searches on the web...

(Then & Now): The Many Faces of 
Elizabeth Bennet & Mr. Darcy

Greer Garson & Laurence Olivier
Pride and Prejudice (1940; Film)

Celia Bannerman & Lewis Fiander
Pride and Prejudice (1967; TV) 
 

Elizabeth Garvie & David Rintoul
Pride and Prejudice (1980; TV/Miniseries)


Jennifer Ehle & Colin Firth
Pride and Prejudice (1995; TV/Miniseries)

Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen
Pride & Prejudice (2005; Film)

 
Other Inspired/P&P-related Films

Kam Heskin (as Elizabeth Bennet) & Orlando Seale (as Will Darcy)
Pride & Prejudice: The Latter-Day Comedy (2003; Independent Film)

Aishwarya Rai (as Lalita Bakshi) & Martin Henderson (as Will Darcy)
Bride & Prejudice (2004; Bollywood Musical Film)

&

(Lost In Austen; TV Miniseries 2008)

Mia Petee & Caleb Grusing
 A Modern Pride and Prejudice (2011; Independent Film) 

Ashley Clements (as Lizzie Bennet) & Daniel Gordh (as William Darcy) 

 The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012/2013; Vlog/YouTube series)

(as Elizabeth Darcy) &

(Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; Film 2016)

Plus, I've included the following...

Renee Zellweger (as Bridget Jones) & Colin Firth (as Mark Darcy)

  Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
 

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
 

and Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) 

(source: EW.com)