Juliet Stevenson Juliet is the narrator of the series. She has appeared regularly on stage, screen and TV and won a Laurence Olivier award for Death And The Maiden. Read Juliet's biography. This ...

and the Screen Actors Guild awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vanessa Redgrave, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

She is the daughter of actor Corin Redgrave and his first wife Deirdre Hamilton-Hill. They divorced when Jemma was nine. She is the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson ...

Michael Redgrave, pictured here as Hamlet, was fifty when he played the role. Casting a fifty year old actor as Hamlet naturally influenced the feel and interpretation of the production.