The Frankenstein Chronicles

Cast

• Sean Bean – Inspector John Marlott, a Thames River Police officer.
• Tom Ward – Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary.
• Richie Campbell – Joseph Nightingale, a Bow Street Runner.
• Ed Stoppard – Lord Daniel Hervey, an impoverished nobleman and of a private charity hospital.
• Vanessa Kirby – Lady Jemima Hervey, an impoverished noblewoman, sister to Lord Hervey.
• Ryan Sampson – Boz, a journalist from The Morning Chronicle.
• Robbie Gee – Billy Oates, a hardened street-smart criminal.
• Anna Maxwell Martin – Mary Shelley, authoress of Frankenstein.
• Richard Clements - Percy Byshe Shelley, poet and husband of Mary Shelley.
• Charlie Creed-Miles – Tom Pritty, a grave-robber working for the local surgeons.
• Eloise Smyth – Flora, a homeless child taken by Billy Oates to work as a prostitute.
• Samuel West – Sir William Chester, a renowned surgeon and pioneer of galvanism.
• Mark Bazeley – Garnet Chester, Sir William's cousin, also a surgeon.
• Elliot Cowan – Sir Bentley Warburton, Sir Robert Peel's political rival.
• Kate Dickie – Mrs. Bishop, the matron of a gang of murderers.
• Steven Berkoff – William Blake, author, artist and printmaker.
• Deirdre Mullins – Agnes Marlott, John Marlott's deceased wife.
• Laurence Fox – Frederick Dipple, a socialite with an interest in automata.
• Maeve Dermody – Esther Rose, a Jewish seamstress contracted by Mr. Dipple to provide clothing for his mechanical creations.
• Victoria Emslie – Automaton, one of Mr. Dipple's mechanical creations.
• Lily Lesser – Ada Byron, a brilliant female mathematician, assisting Mr. Dipple in creating his automata.
• Kerrie Hayes – Queenie Pickett, Dipple's housemaid and Nightingale's childhood friend.

  Production

Episodes

Series 1 (2015)

Series 2 (2017)

Reception