Stage Beauty

A female theatre dresser creates a stir and sparks a revolution in seventeenth century London theatre by playing Desdemona in Othello. But what will become of the male actor she once worked for and eventually replaced?

Stage Beauty is a 2004 drama movie directed by Richard Eyre, starring Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Billy Crudup. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.1/10 from 11,150 votes and runs 1h 46m.