Overview
The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Director and cast
- Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie
- Sam Riley as Pierre Curie
- Aneurin Barnard as Paul Langevin
- Simon Russell Beale as Professor Lippmann
- Katherine Parkinson as Jeanne Langevin
- Sian Brooke as Bronia Sklodowska
- Anya Taylor-Joy as Irène Aged 18
- Yvette Feuer as Carla
- Mirjam Novak as Nurse
- Ralph Berkin as Doctor
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