King Lear poster

Movie · 1998

King Lear

Released 21 March 1998 More from 1998 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Ian Holm
as King Lear
66
Timothy West
as Gloucester
63
Amanda Redman
as Regan
40
Paul Rhys
as Edgar
34
Victoria Hamilton
as Cordelia
26
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
40years between the oldest and youngest billed
66Ian Holm — oldest on the call sheet
26Victoria Hamilton — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast
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