Old-Fashioned Charm: Answers to Degrees of Separation Game

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Answers to Degrees of Separation Game

There are the answers for the Degrees of Separation Game I posted last week. The game started with actress Claire Foy and I was quite impressed by the number of you who had correct guesses!

Here was the original puzzle:

Degrees of Separation Puzzle:

Actress Claire Foy was in Upstairs, Downstairs (2010)

with _____ _____ who was in Wives & Daughters (1999)

with _____ _____ who was in Great Expectations (1999)

with _____ _____ who was in Amazing Grace (2006)

with _____ _____ who was in Emma (2009)

with _____ ___ _____ who was in Mansfield Park (1999)

with _____ _____ who was in The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

with ___ ______ who was in Pride & Prejudice (2005)

with _______ __________ who was is Little Dorrit (2008)

with Claire Foy!

And here are the answers:

Actress Claire Foy was in Upstairs, Downstairs (2010) [as Lady Persephone Towyn “Lady Persie”]

with Keeley Hawes [as Lady Agnes Holland] who was in Wives & Daughters [as Cynthia Kirkpatrick]

with Justine Waddell [as Molly Gibson] who was in Great Expectations (1999) [as Estella Havisham]

with Ioan Gruffudd [as Philip Pirrip "Pip"] who was in Amazing Grace [as William Wilberforce]

with Ramola Garai [as Barbara Spooner] who was in Emma (2009) [as Emma Woodhouse]

with Johnny Lee Miller [as Mr. Knightley] who was in Mansfield Park (1999) [as Edmund Bertram]

with Frances O'Connor [as Fanny Price] who was in The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) [as Gwendolen Fairfax]

with Judi Dench [as Lady Augusta Bracknell] who was in Pride & Prejudice (2005) [as Lady Catherine DeBourgh]

with Matthew Macfadyen [as Mr. Darcy] who was is Little Dorrit (2008) [as Arthur Clennam]

with Claire Foy [as Amy Dorrit]!

A few side notes: A few of you rightly pointed out that actor Michael Gambon was also in Amazing Grace and Emma (2009). He was also in Wives & Daughters. :)
Justine Waddell was also in Mansfield Park (1999).
Also actor Blake Ritson who played Mr. Elton in Emma (2009) also played Edmund Bertram in the newer Mansfield Park (2007) and was in Upstairs, Downstairs (2010).
I tried to stick with actors in the leading roles, the one exception here being Judi Dench but I consider her like Emma Woodhouse that "wherever she is she presides". I also tried to choose well known actors (even if some have tricky spelled names!). So while I probably could have chosen Colin Firth in The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) I know taking that path would make the puzzle longer.