Jefferson in Paris (1995)

03/31/1995 2h 19m

A powerful man torn between his love for one woman and his secret desire for another.

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Overview

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

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Cast Ages at Release

Nick Nolte

as Thomas Jefferson

Born 02/08/1941, age

Greta Scacchi

as Maria Cosway

Born 02/18/1960, age

Thandiwe Newton

as Sally Hemings

Born 11/06/1972, age

Gwyneth Paltrow

as Patsy Jefferson

Born 09/27/1972, age

Jean-Pierre Aumont

as D'Hancarville

Born 01/05/1911

Died 01/30/2001, age

Simon Callow

as Richard Cosway

Born 06/13/1949, age

Seth Gilliam

as James Hemings

Born 11/05/1968, age

James Earl Jones

as Madison Hemings

Born 01/17/1931, age

Michael Lonsdale

as Louis XVI

Born 05/24/1931

Died 09/21/2020, age

Nancy Marchand

as Madame Abbesse

Born 06/19/1928

Died 06/18/2000, age

Charlotte de Turckheim

as Marie Antoinette

Born 04/05/1955, age

Lambert Wilson

as Marquis de Lafayette

Born 08/03/1958, age

Vincent Cassel

as Camille Desmoulins

Born 11/23/1966, age

Todd Boyce

as William Short

Born 01/01/1961, age

Nigel Whitmey

as John Trumbull

Born 02/23/1963, age

Elsa Zylberstein

as Adrienne de Lafayette

Born 10/16/1968, age

William Moseley

as George Washington de Lafayette

Born 04/27/1987, age

Vernon Dobtcheff

as King's Translator

Born 08/14/1934, age

Thibault de Montalembert

as Assistant

Born 02/10/1962, age

Beatrice Winde

as Mary Hemings

Born 01/05/1924

Died 01/03/2004, age