Synopsis:
Set in the 1660s in a time when in live theatre women's roles were played by men, Edward 'Ned' Kynaston (Billy Crudup) is England's most celebrated leading lady, using his beauty and skill to make the great female roles his own. But when Charles II is tired of seeing the same old performers, the ruler allows women to tread the boards and men may no longer play women's parts. Ned becomes a virtual nobody, vrtually overnight and seems headed for suicide until his ex-dresser turned actress Maria (Claire Danes) takes it upon herself to make a man of him again.
