Where Gosford Park stars are now-from racy naturist confession to tragic cancer battles

Gosford Park was a murder mystery with a sparkling all-star cast of iconic actors like Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, and Stephen Fry but what are the famous faces doing now?

Where Gosford Park stars are now-from racy naturist confession to tragic cancer battles

Gosford Park was a murder mystery with a sparkling all-star cast of iconic actors like Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, and Stephen Fry but what are the famous faces doing now?

With its star-studded cast and stacks of movie awards, Gosford Park 2001 was a murder mystery like no other.

The satirical black comedy film, directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes, takes place in the early 20th century at Gosford Park -a fancy English country house -where a group of wealthy Brits gather for a shooting weekend.

Soon enough though, a chilling murder occurs after a lavish dinner party which wreaks havoc on the manor house and its guests, and the film becomes an Agatha Christie-style 'whodunnit'.

The film featured an absolutely stunning superstar cast of acting legends like Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Stephen Fry and Michael Gambon -which is outstanding on its own.

However, the murder mystery comedy also proved to be a huge critical success and was nominated for a whopping 61 awards after its release, winning 25 of them.

Some fans of Downton Abbey might not know that Gosford Park actually spawned Downton, as it was originally planned as a spin-off of Gosford Park by Fellowes -who wrote and created Downton.

To celebrate the classy British mystery film premiering on Netflix this month, the Daily Star have tracked down the original cast to see what they got up to after their time at Gosford Park.

Charles Dance -Raymond, Lord Stockbridge

Before playing Lord Stockbridge in Gosford Park, Lady Stockbridge's snobby husband and a war veteran, Charles Dance was already an established actor on the screen and stage -making him a film veteran too.

The classy 74-year old star has taken on a bunch of high-profile roles since the film, including the strict and dutiful Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones 2011-2015.

He also played Lord Mountbatten in the third and fourth seasons of royal family drama The Crown 2019-2020 -where he bagged an Emmy nomination for...