We have a great mix of old and new in this month’s salute to those actors and actresses who have performed in Austen-inspired films. 

May 4 – Anthony Calf, who portrayed Colonel Fitzwilliam in 1995’s Pride and Prejudice

May 8 – Christina Cole, who portrayed Miss Caroline Bingley in Lost in Austen

May 8 – Janet McTeer, who portrayed Mrs. Dashwood in 2008’s Sense and Sensibility 

May 8 – Kam Heskin, who portrayed Elizabeth in 2003’s Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy 

May 8 – Phyllida Law, who portrayed Mrs. Bates in 1996’s Emma, as well as Mrs. Austen in Miss Austen Regrets

May 10 – Anna Maxwell Martin, who portrayed Cassandra Austen in Becoming Jane, as well as Elizabeth Bennet in Death Comes to Pemberley 

May 10 – Sally Phillips, who portrayed Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 

May 13 – Samantha Morton, who portrayed Harriet Smith in 1996’s Emma (TV version)

May 15 – Greg Wise, who portrayed Mr. Willoughby in 1995’s Sense and Sensibility

May 16 – Rebecca Front, who portrayed Mrs. Bennet in Death Comes to Pemberley

May 17 – Maureen O’Sullivan, who portrayed Jane Bennet in 1940’s Pride and Prejudice (17 May 1911 to 23 June 1998)

May 19 – Bryan Marshall, who portrayed Captain Frederick Wentworth in 1971’s Persuasion 

May 19 – Eleanor Tomlinson, who portrayed Georgiana Darcy in Death Comes to Pemberley

May 22 – Laurence Olivier, who portrayed Fitzwilliam Darcy in 1940’s Pride and Prejudice (22 May 1907 to 11 July 1989)

May 26 – Ben Gourley, who portrayed Charles in 2003’s Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy 

May 26 – Laurence Fox, who played Mr. Wisley in Becoming Jane 

May 26 – Peter Cushing, who portrayed Fitzwilliam Darcy in 1952’s Pride and Prejudice (26 May 1913 to 11 August 1994)

May 27 – Bella Heathcote, who portrayed Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

May 28 – Carey Mulligan, who portrayed Kitty Bennet in 2005’s Pride and Prejudice, as well as Isabella Thorpe in 2007’s Northanger Abbey

May 30 – Tracey Childs, who portrayed Marianne Dashwood in 1981’s Sense and Sensibility