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Many many actresses have played Ophelia. Indeed it is a standard role for young actresses to cut their teeth on. Ellen Terry made herself an icon playing it. Claire Bloom made her name with the role. So did Judi Dench, opposite John Neville. And Cate Blanchett. On stage Glenda Jackson played her opposite David Warner, Helen Mirren opposite Alan Howard, Carol Royle opposite Michael Pennington, Sophie Thompson and Joanne Pearce opposite Kenneth Branagh, Rebecca Saire opposite Mark Rylance, Stella Gonet opposite Daniel Day Lewis, Linda Marsh opposite Richard Burton, Bonny Giroux opposite Elias Toufexis and Julia Ford opposite Alan Rickman.

On film and for television we had Jean Simmons (opposite Olivier), Marianne Faithfull (Nicol Williamson), Lalla Ward (Sir Derek Jacobi), Anastasiya Vertinskiya (Innokenti Smoktunovsky), Jo Maxwell Muller (Christopher Plummer), Mariah Gale (David Tennant), Helena Bonham Carter (Mel Gibson), Julia Styles (Ethan Hawke), Lisa Gay Hamilton (Campbell Scott), Dunja Movar (Maximilian Schell), Sarah Churchill (Maurice Evans), Gertrude Eliot (Johnston Forbes-Robertson), Susan Fleetwood (Ian McKellen), Lucy Cockram (William Houston), Simone Kirby (Steven Cavanagh), Tallulah Sheffield (William Belchambers), Shantala Shivalingappa (Adrian Lester), Beth Buchanan (Richard Pyros), Ciaran Madden (Richard Chamberlain) and of course Kate Winslett (Branagh, again).

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