Another starring role for Englefield as new film shoot is on the way

Production begins this week on the as yet untitled film, described as a suspense thriller and starring among others Eric Bana, of Hulk and Troy fame, Golden Globe Award nominee Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent, Riz Ahmed (Four Lions), Olivier Award nominee Kenneth Cranham, and BAFTA Award nominee Anne-Marie Duff, who played John Lennon’s mother in 2009 film Nowhere Boy.
This is not the first time that Englefield House (pictured right) and estate has been used as the location for a film; in August 2004 Hollywood came to Englefield when Woody Allen was filming Oscar–nominated Scarlett Johansson in Match Point.
In 1984, former Charlie’s Angel star Jaclyn Smith stayed at the mansion to film The Florence Nightingale Saga.
The estate has also been used in television episodes of Jeeves and Wooster and Inspector Morse and, more recently, the Oscar-winning King’s Speech.
Last year, Newbury MP Richard Benyon, whose family owns the estate, revealed that Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes had considered Englefield for the location of his hit series, before choosing Highclere Castle because it was “more substantial”.