who played emma frost?
Finola Hughes Tahyna Tozzi January Jones
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 Joanne Whalley , who played Emma Craven , began acting during childhood , appearing in the long @-@ running soap opera Coronation Street ( 1960 – present ) in 1976 at the age of 10 . She had also appeared in supporting roles in several series including Juliet Bravo ( 1980 – 1985 ) , Bergerac ( 1981 – 1991 ) and Reilly , Ace of Spies ( 1983 ) . Following Edge of Darkness , Whalley was cast in the equally well regarded BBC television serial The Singing Detective ( 1986 ) , written by Dennis Potter . Moving to Hollywood , she appeared in such films as Willow ( 1988 ) , Scandal ( 1989 ) and Shattered ( 1991 ) as well as television mini @-@ series such as Scarlett ( 1994 ) and Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis ( 2000 ) . During her eight @-@ year marriage to the actor Val Kilmer , between 1988 and 1996 , she was often credited as Joanne Whalley @-@ Kilmer . 

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 January Jones as Emma Frost 

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 The formal casting process began in February 1995 , though some of the actors met with Thompson the previous year to help her conceptualise the script . Lee eventually cast all but one of them : Hugh Grant ( as Edward Ferrars ) , Robert Hardy ( as Sir John Middleton ) , Harriet Walter ( as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood ) , Imelda Staunton ( as Charlotte Jennings Palmer ) , and Hugh Laurie ( as Mr. Palmer ) . Amanda Root had also worked with Thompson on the screenplay , but had already committed to star in the 1995 film Persuasion . Commenting on the casting of Laurie , whom she had known for years , Thompson has said , " There is no one [ else ] on the planet who could capture Mr. Palmer 's disenchantment and redemption so perfectly , and make it funny . " 

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 The series was commissioned by Warner Bros. Television in 2007 as a presentation lasting 14 – 20 minutes . Alex O 'Loughlin , Shannon Lucio , Rade Šerbedžija and Amber Valletta were cast in the lead roles , and Rod Holcomb was hired as director . David Greenwalt joined the staff in May 2007 as showrunner and executive producer with Joel Silver ; however , health reasons forced Greenwalt to leave the series . All of the original actors , apart from the male lead role , were recast in June 2007 , and Sophia Myles , Jason Dohring and Shannyn Sossamon replaced them . With an almost entirely different cast , a retooled , full @-@ length pilot for television audiences was re @-@ shot . 

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 He was offered the chance to direct Iron Man 3 for Marvel Studios but declined and instead signed on to direct Les Misérables for Working Title Films , which he had first heard about while discussing a different project with screenwriter William Nicholson in 2010 . Hooper had not seen the musical , so watched a performance of it in London 's West End . Adapted from the musical , the film starred Hugh Jackman , Russell Crowe , Anne Hathaway , Amanda Seyfried , Helena Bonham Carter , Sacha Baron Cohen , and Eddie Redmayne . As the film required the actors to sing and dance , they were auditioned in front of Hooper , producers and composers . The role of Fantine was hugely contested ; Hooper said , " It was like half a dozen of the biggest female movie stars on the planet wanted to play the role " . 
