‘The Age of Innocence’: Netflix Rounds Out Cast for Limited Series Adaptation

Netflix has rounded out the cast for its fresh take on The Age Of Innocence, a limited series based on Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Emma Frost (The White Queen, The White Princess) has penned the adaptation and will serve as executive producer and showrunner on the Chernin Entertainment production.

The series was quietly greenlit earlier this year and has been prepping for a fall start of production in Europe.

Joining the project as series regulars are Fiona Glascott  (Julia, Brooklyn and Fantastic Beasts), Belinda Bromilow (The Great, The Roses) and Emma Shipp (Rivals, What it Feels Like For a Girl). Glascott will play Augusta Welland, May’s mother; Bromilow will play Adeline Archer, Newland’s mother; and Shipp will play Janey Archer, Newland’s ummarried sister.

New supporting cast members include Hayley Mills (Trap, Arthur’s Whisky), Ryan Morgan (Mix Tape, The Mongoose), Will Tudor (Industry, Wolf Hall), John Light (Around The World in 80 Days, Showtrial), Steven Pacey (Mobland, Nuremberg), Kel Matsena (Mad Heidi, Mix Tape), Lucia Balordi (A Testa Alta), Elly Roberts (Sex Education, Black Cake), Jack Cutmore-Scott (Buffy and Frasier), Anna Madeley (All Creatures Great and Small) and Michael Cochrane (Downton Abbey, Sharpe).

Previously announced cast includes Camila Morrone as Ellen Olenska, Kristine Froseth as May Welland, 
Ben Radcliffe as Newland Archer and Margot Martindale as Mrs. Manson-Mingott, May and Ellen’s grandmother.

Other EPs with Frost are Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Tracey Cook (Chernin Entertainment), Shannon Murphy, Pavlina Hatoupis, and Shannon Murphy (who is also directing episodes 1-3).

Wharton’s novel was notably adapted by Martin Scorsese in the 1993 Columbia Pictures feature starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder.