Age: 50
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Justine Waddell is a South African-born actress known for her role as Tess Durbeyfield in the 1998 television adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and for her role in the BBC television serial, Wives and Daughters. She has also appeared in various theatrical productions such as the 1997 London stage production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov. Description above from the Wikipedia article Justine Waddell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together.
