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Movie · 2020

How to Build a Girl

Released 24 September 2020 More from 2020 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Joanna Scanlan
as Mrs. Belling
58
Michael Sheen
as Sigmund Freud
51
Sharon Horgan
as Jo March
50
Paddy Considine
as Pat Morrigan
47
Chris O'Dowd
as Alan 'Wilko' Wilkinson
40
Alfie Allen
as John Kite
34
Gemma Arterton
as Maria Von Trapp
34
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
24years between the oldest and youngest billed
58Joanna Scanlan — oldest on the call sheet
34Gemma Arterton — youngest billed
45average age of the credited cast
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