Holliday as Lady Constance Chatterley
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Created By: D.H. Lawrence (novel), Jed Mercurio Original Network: BBC One Number of Episodes: 1 (that Holliday starred in) Production Year(s): 2014 Original Release: 6 September 2015 Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes Other Cast: Richard Madden, James Norton, Jodie Comer Other Links: IMDB | Insert streaming or other links here |
In 1913 Connie Reid marries wealthy Nottingham colliery owner Sir Clifford Chatterley but he returns from the Great War disabled and in a wheelchair. Connie is loyal but begins to feel alienated as he engages a nurse, Mrs Bolton, to bathe him and excludes her from pit business. Despite his desire for an heir his impotency results in a lack of sexual activity and Connie is drawn to handsome Oliver Mellors, the plain-spoken former miner her husband has engaged as his game-keeper and who represents the passion she craves. They embark upon a physical affair in Oliver’s cottage but are discovered and betrayed by Mrs Bolton. Connie, now carrying Oliver’s child, must choose between a pampered but joyless existence with her husband or an uncertain future with the man she has come to love.
