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Who Played Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband

Lady Chiltern is a role in An Ideal Husband, a play that opened West End in 2018.

The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband explores corruption and morality, bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. An ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern’s smooth ascent to the top seems assured. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his past financial chicanery. A witty new production from director Jonathan Church, (Singin’ in the Rain and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Chichester; West End) An Ideal Husband opens at the Vaudeville Theatre (20 April – 14 July), before playing at the Theatre Royal Bath as part of their Summer Season (18 July – 4 August). Starring real-life father and son Edward (The Audience, West End; The Day of the Jackal, ITV) and Freddie Fox (The Judas Kiss, West End; Cucumber & Banana, Channel 4; E4), Olivier Award-nominated Frances Barber (Silk, BBC; Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s Globe), NathanielParker (This House, West End; Wolf Hall, West End & Broadway), Sally Bretton (Not Going Out, BBC; King Lear, Shakespeare’s Globe) and Susan Hampshire (Forsyte Saga, Monarch of the Glen, BBC). The Oscar Wilde Season rolls elegantly on; don’t miss it!

4 actors have played Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband.

View full cast of An Ideal Husband

Performer Production Opened
Allison Daugherty Broadway An Ideal Husband 1996
Madeleine Potter Broadway An Ideal Husband 1996
Penny Downie Broadway An Ideal Husband 1996
Sally Bretton West End An Ideal Husband 2018

Other Roles in An Ideal Husband

Role Production Opened
Earl of Caversham West End An Ideal Husband 2018
Lady Chiltern West End An Ideal Husband 2018
Lady Markby West End An Ideal Husband 2018
Lord Chiltern West End An Ideal Husband 2018
Lord Goring West End An Ideal Husband 2018
Mrs. Cheveley West End An Ideal Husband 2018

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