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Miss Havisham offers to shape Pip into a gentleman in exchange for spending time with Estella. The well-meaning adult who brokers the agreement isn't aware of her true purpose for extending her ...

Miss Havisham is one of the most iconic characters in English literature. The wealthy recluse from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” is so well known, she has become shorthand for ...

NEW YORK, March 24 (UPI) --Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman says she doesn't view her latest character, Miss Havisham in Hulu's six-part adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, as a ...

Touching on Miss Havisham adopting Estella after her heartbreak, Olivia joked her character has trained her daughter to be an “assassin” by hurting men the same way she was hurt.

In the latest adaptation, a six-part Great Expectations series, Oscar winner Olivia Colman plays an eerie Miss Havisham. Hulu released a new trailer Thursday, showing Colman in the role.

Written by Steven Knight and featuring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, the series gleefully takes great liberties in adapting the classic novel, albeit to sometimes dubious effect.

Olivia Colman speaks to the BBC about playing a Dickens villain - and why she thinks Great Expectations is still relevant for modern Britain. "It's terrible what happens to Miss Havisham," the ...

In the footage, Miss Havisham welcomes Pip into the eerie house with Colman unrecognisable with white hair and yellow teeth. READ MORE: Countryfile backlash as fans scream at BBC over Adam mining ...

In the film adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," we follow the journey of Pip, a young boy whose life is forever altered after meeting the escaped convict Magwitch in a desolate ...