The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World

Overview

Over 80 years after her death, Maria Skłodowska-Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing - a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. This multi-layered film reveals the real Maria Skłodowska-Curie, an extraordinary woman who fell in love three times, had to survive the pain of loss, and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair. It is a riveting portrait of a tenacious mother and scientist, who opened the door on a whole new realm of physics, which she discovered and named - radioactivity.

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Cast

David Malone

Himself - Narrator (voice)

Geraldine James

Maria Skłodowska-Curie's letters read by

Marie Curie

Herself (archive footage)

Julie Des Jardins

Herself - Author: 'The Madam Curie Complex'

Patricia Fara

Herself - Clare College, Cambridge

Malgorzata Sobieszczak-Marciniak

Herself - Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum, Warsaw

Teresa Kaczorowska

Herself - Journalist and Author

Renaud Huynh

Himself - Musée Curie, Paris

Andrea Sella

Himself - University College, London

Hélène Langevin-Joliot

Herself - Maria Skłodowska-Curie's Granddaughter