Gentleman Jack: Overview, Synopsis and Cast

Gentleman Jack is a historical drama television series created by Sally Wainwright. Set in the year 1832 in Yorkshire, it stars Suranne Jones as landowner and industrialist Anne Lister. The series is based on the collected diaries of Lister, which contain over four million words and are written largely in secret code, documenting a lifetime of lesbian relationships.

Gentleman Jack is a BBC One and HBO co-production. The series premiered on 22 April 2019 in the United States, and in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2019. It was renewed for a second series by BBC One on 23 May 2019. Production on the second series resumed in October 2020.

Set in 1832, the brilliant, endearing Miss Anne Lister leaves Hastings brokenhearted and heads to the lush landscape of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England to restore her uncle’s estate that she has inherited. While restoring the estate, she finds that the family land has a coal mine and finds that it is being stolen by two brothers. This newly instated, unusual lady landowner and landlord encounters a potentially blossoming and dangerous romance with another woman, which she records in a cryptic diary that no one can decode.

Suranne Jones as Anne Lister, Sophie Rundle as Ann Walker, Anne Lister’s love interest, Joe Armstrong as Samuel Washington, Anne Lister’s land steward.,Amelia Bullmore as Eliza Priestley, wife of William Priestley, Rosie Cavaliero as Elizabeth Cordingley, a servant of the Lister’s.,Gemma Whelan as Marian Lister, Anne Lister’s sister, Gemma Jones as Aunt Anne Lister, Timothy West as Jeremy Lister, Anne Lister’s father, Tom Lewis as Thomas Sowden, one of Anne Lister’s tenants