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Penelope plays widow charged with murder after suicide pact
Daily Express
|April 14, 2026
DAME Penelope Wilton will play a woman charged with murder at the age of 80 after surviving a suicide pact with her husband in a true-life drama.
The Downton Abbey actress, 79, has been cast opposite Sir Jonathan Pryce, 78, as terminally ill Dennis in the four-parter named after title character Mavis Eccleston.
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