I wasn’t able to use this data like I’d originally planned so I decided to just make it into a nice big diagram. All of the actors who won, were nominated for, or otherwise received Oscars and also appeared in films based on the works of Agatha Christie. (Easily the franchise that has attracted the most number of such actors).
Toby also popped up in Agatha Christie’s ‘Miss Marple’ during 2010. In ‘The Blue Geranium’ he starred as George Prichard alongside Sharon Small.
The Daily Telegraph summed up the plot thus “In this, ‘The Blue Geranium’, Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie) turns her beady eye to the case of Mary Pritchard, an insane middle-aged woman who dies mysteriously in the night. As usual, the programme is shot with a mixture of period detail and self-aware wit, and as usual the by-numbers plot is elevated by the stellar cast: this episode features Toby Stephens (wearing a terrifying pencil moustache) as a rich northern industrialist, Gavin & Stacey’s Joanna Page as a vicar’s daughter and Patrick Baladi (Neil Godwin from The Office) as a slightly creepy doctor"
This distinctive hat has been used at least seven times over the years. It was spotted as early as 1984 on Gwen Watford as Dolly Bantry in the 1984 Marple: The Body in the Library. In 1991 it was seen in Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge, where it was worn by Diana Kent as Zoe Havering. In 1992, it was used again inPoirotin the episode The ABC Murders, this time on an extra. 2001′s Gosford Park saw the hat being worn by Natasha Wightman as Lady Lavinia Meredith, and in 2012 it was seen on Anne Reid as Clarice Thackeray in Upstairs, Downstairs. Liz White as Lizzie Mottershead wore the hat in 2014 in Our Zoo, and in 2016 it was worn by Keeley Hawes as Louisa Durrell in The Durrells.