Best known on the film side for roles in films like Twisters and Where the Crawdads Sing, Edgar-Jones was BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated for her lead role opposite Paul Mescal in Hulu’s Normal People, also garnering a Golden Globe nomination for her work on Under the Banner of Heaven.

After the recent new film adaptations for all manner of Jane Austen-penned classics - the 2020 "Emma," the 2022 "Persuasion," and a recently announced limited series version of "Pride and Prejudice," to say nothing of an extremely successful recent re-release of Joe Wright's film version of the iconic novel - it was only a matter of time before Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" was teed up for its own new spin.

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