The Phantom of the Opera - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "The Phantom of the Opera"
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Timing:
2:21 (141 min)
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Actors and characters
Victor McGuire
Character Piangi
Imogen Bain
Character Carlotta's Maid
Miles Western
Character Carlotta's Wigmaker
Judith Paris
Character Carlotta's Seamstress
Halcro Johnston
Character Passirino
Paul Brooke
Character Auctioneer
Oliver Chopping
Character Porter
Alison Skilbeck
Character Nun / Nurse
Lee Sellers
Character Chauffeur
Chris Overton
Character Young Phantom
Jesika Cannon
Character Young Christine
Annabel Porter
Character Young Meg
Laura Hounsom
Character Young Madame Giry
Lorraine Stewart
Character Ballet Tart
Lucy Casson
Character Ballet Tart
Jonathan D. Ellis
Character Fop
Jose Tirado
Character Lead Male Dancer / Flamenco Dancer / Masquerade Dancer
David Langham
Character Fop #1 / Male Ensemble
Sebastien Torkia
Character Ballet Boy
Liesl Dowsett
Character Ballet Girl / Masquerade Dancer
Greet Botterman
Character Ballet Girl / Masquerade Dancer
Kirsty Tapp
Character Ballet Girl / Masquerade Dancer
Amy Lawson
Character Ballet Girl / Masquerade Dancer
Tess Cunningham
Character Ballet Girl / Masquerade Dancer
Kathryn Dunn
Character Ballet Girl / Flamenco Dancer
Pia Driver
Character Ballet Girl / Flamenco Dancer / Masquerade Dancer
Sophia Hurdley
Character Ballet Girl
Elena Buda
Character Ballet Girl
Mark Carroll
Character Male Ensemble
Terry Kelly
Character Male Ensemble
David Arneil
Character Male Ensemble
John Griffiths
Character Male Ensemble
Graham McDuff
Character Male Ensemble
Tricia Deighton
Character Female Ensemble
Mandy Holliday
Character Female Ensemble
Jackie Marks
Character Female Ensemble
Sophie-Louise Dann
Character Female Ensemble
Valerie Cutko
Character Female Ensemble
Julia Worsley
Character Female Ensemble
Margaret Preece
Character Female Ensemble
Annalene Beechey
Character Female Ensemble
Lucy Potter
Character Ballet Girl
Remy Martyn
Character Flamenco Dancer / Male Masquerade Dancer
Richard Bayliss
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Andrew Charles Corbett
Character Flamenco Dancer / Male Masquerade Dancer
Ralph Broadbent
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Damien Lee Stirk
Character Flamenco Dancer / Male Masquerade Dancer
Alexander Cameron
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Pascal Langdale
Character Flamenco Dancer
Carlos Otera
Character Flamenco Dancer
Matthew Draper
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Annika Strandberg
Character Flamenco Dancer
Ben Gant
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Beth Sheather
Character Flamenco Dancer
Jonathon Hill
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Isabel Lesto
Character Flamenco Dancer
Sarah Frasca
Character Flamenco Dancer
Timothy Kipling
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Sandra Eloani
Character Flamenco Dancer
Jonathon Kitchen
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Ruben Halse
Character Candelabra Holder
Tristan Keyte
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Damian Jones
Character Candelabra Holder
Michael Mansbridge
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Jeff Moore
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Vanessa Perroncel
Character Candelabra Holder
Lea Jerova
Character Candelabra Holder
Julian Poole
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Rebekah Dobbins
Character Candelabra Holder
James Pullman
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Lee Chapman
Character Candelabra Holder
Robert Purvis
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Dave Tosh
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Rod Buchanan
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Chris Worsey
Character Opera Populaire Orchestra
Ashley Wallen
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Adam Pudney
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Ben Garner
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Blake Clayfield
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Damien Delaney
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Marcus Tesch
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Michael Small
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Milo Miles
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Nathan Clark
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Stephen B. White
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Stephen Berkeley
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Kasper Cornish
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Philip Catchpole
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Ryan Jenkins
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Gavin Wilkinson
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Alec Mann
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Scott Wyer
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Paul Micha
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Clinton Goldsmith
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Andrew Corbett
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Luis Gallo Mudarra
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Tom Tanscy
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Luke Jackson
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Aaron Sillis
Character Male Masquerade Dancer
Melanie Perks
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Lorena Randi
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Lisa Stevens
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Rachael Crocker
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Julia Florimo
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Caroline Lynn
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Joanna Woodliffe
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Marilena Nicolaou
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Joanna Ernest
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Georgina Hagerty
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Simone De La Rue
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Claire Goodman
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Gem Collingwood
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Maddy G. Harris
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Juliet Gough
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Deborah Bundy
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Pippa Raine
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Leigh Daniels
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Gabriel Noble
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Maryam Pourian
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Candice Evans
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Janine Davis
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Bethany Elliot
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
Dawn Collins
Character Female Masquerade Dancer
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on Gaston Leroux’s novel “The Phantom of the Opera” (Le Fantome de l'Opera, 1910).
- John Travolta and Antonio Banderas both auditioned for the role of the Phantom. The latter even took vocal lessons specifically for the part.
- Keira Knightley was one of the contenders for the role of Christine Daaé. Among the other applicants were Charlotte Church, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Martina McCahon, Jessica Simpson, Andrea Corr, and Anne Hathaway. Katie Holmes almost landed the role of Christine, but the director considered her too "old" for it.
- The project was ready to launch as early as 1990, and at that time, Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman were to be its main stars (they were the ones who played the lead roles on stage). However, shortly before work began on the project, Andrew Lloyd Webber divorced Sarah Brightman, and the project was shelved.
- Among the candidates for the director's chair were Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and John Woo.
- Over the long thirteen years that the film was in development, quite a few notable figures felt involved in the project, albeit not for a long period. Only one candidate was approved from the very beginning – director Joel Schumacher. The author of 'The Phantom of the Opera', Andrew Lloyd Webber, invited Joel after seeing the film 'The Lost Boys'.
- It took around 4 hours each day to apply makeup to Gerard Butler, the lead actor.
- The final scene of the film took a whole week to shoot.
- In April 2004, the audience attending the play of the same name in London was asked to stay after the performance and record sound effects for the film.
- Joel Schumacher invited Gerard Butler to the project after seeing the actor in "Dracula 2000".
- Neither Gerard Butler nor Emmy Rossum had seen the musical before receiving their roles. Joel Schumacher also hadn't seen the theatrical version.
- Specifically for the film, Weber wrote about 15 minutes of new music. He also invested $6 million of his own funds into the film's production.
- Weber did not participate in the casting, his only condition being that the actors sing in their own voices.
- Minnie Driver (Carlotta) performed only one song in her own voice — "Learn to be lonely".
- A chandelier (weighing 2.2 tons) was specially made for the filming of this movie.
- During the main aria, “The Phantom of the Opera,” the boat moved along special rails located underwater.
- Sets were specially built to audition actors for roles in the upcoming film. The actors even had to wear costumes.
- Hugh Jackman auditioned for the role of the Phantom.
- Schumacher suggested considering Colin Farrell, but abandoned the idea after becoming convinced of the actor's complete inability to sing.
- Filming took place in the United Kingdom from September 2003 to January 2004.
- All the actors sing in the film themselves—with the exception of Minnie Driver. She is a professional jazz singer, but to have Carlotta sing soprano, Margaret Preece, a professional opera singer, was brought in. Incidentally, she also appeared in the film—as the companion in the Il Muto scene.
- Carlotta speaks with an Italian accent – Minnie Driver lived in Venice as a child and borrowed the accent from an Italian neighbor.
- The film's makeup artist, Jenny Shircore, developed the Phantom's disfigurement design based on a case of congenital pathology she once witnessed.
- The white half-mask worn by Gerard Butler as the Phantom was sold at an eBay auction for £6,350.
- At the beginning of the film, in the auction scene (as in the musical), the chandelier's lot number is 666, the biblical "number of the beast" mentioned in the "Book of Revelation."
- The beginning of the film, the photograph of old Paris that then transforms into black-and-white film footage, is a reference to Baz Luhrmann's film musical "Moulin Rouge!" (2001).
- Director Joel Schumacher wanted to achieve realism, so in the fire scene, the theater's sets were actually burned to the ground.
- Throughout the film, the Phantom utters only 14 lines. The rest is vocals.
- In the musical, the chandelier falls at the end of the first act. But in the film adaptation, this event is moved to the end of the movie. This plot device was later incorporated into the Las Vegas version of the musical. Because the chandelier now falls in the 'wrong place,' the lyrics had to be slightly altered: Monsieur Firmin in the musical at the Masquerade raises a toast 'to the new chandelier,' while in the film this line was replaced with 'to the friends that are here.'
- When the Phantom first leads Christine to his lair, they walk through a corridor where human hands protrude from the walls, holding burning candelabras. This is a quote from Jean Cocteau's film 'Beauty and the Beast' (1946).
- In the episode when Christine makes her debut on the theater stage, her costume is different from the original musical—that is, it is not a costume for the opera 'Hannibal.' Her dress, jewelry, and hairstyle are copies of the portrait of Empress Elizabeth by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1865).
- During the masquerade, Raoul chases the Phantom and ends up in a mirror room. It's not in the original musical, but the mirror room is present in Leroux's original novel.
- The film is based on Gaston Leroux's novel "The Phantom of the Opera" (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910).
- Minnie Driver (Carlotta) performed only one song in her own voice – "Learn to be lonely".
- At the beginning of the film, in the auction scene (as in the musical), the lot number for the chandelier is 666, the biblical "number of the beast" mentioned in the "Book of Revelation" (the "Apocalypse").
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