Season 2
Aidan Turner returns as hero Ross Poldark and Eleanor Tomlinson as his wife Demelza. This season introduces other key characters including John Nettles (Midsomer Murders) as Ray Penvenen, one of the county's wealthiest landowners; and Gabriella Wilde (Endless Love) as his niece Caroline Penvenen, a beautiful and manipulative heiress.
Hugh Skinner (W1A) plays Unwin Trevaunance, a prospective MP who hopes that Caroline (and her fortune) will consent to marry him. But does Caroline's heart lie elsewhere?
Also back for the second season are Heida Reed as Elizabeth, Kyle Soller as Francis, Ruby Bentall as Verity, Jack Farthing as George Warleggan and Luke Norris as Dr Dwight Enys. Beatie Edney and Phil Davis return as Jud Paynter and his wife Prudie and Robin Ellis reprises his role as the Reverend Halse.
1790 and there is riot and revolution in the air. Ross Poldark (Aidan Turner) must fight for his freedom when George Warleggan (Jack Farthing) tries to have him hanged as a revolutionary. While Francis (Kyle Soller) and Elizabeth (Heida Reed) watch on in horror, can Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) save Ross from himself?
Crippled by debts, Ross and Francis try to heal old wounds by joining forces in a new mine free of the Warleggans. Ross and Elizabeth are thrown together by unforeseen circumstances, and Ross risks everything in a desperate smuggling venture.
Meanwhile, the fate of the Poldarks is tied to Dr Dwight Enys (Luke Norris) and young heiress Caroline Penvenen (Gabriella Wilde) in unexpected ways.
The Poldark clan must learn to settle their differences once and for all, but at what cost?
Based on the novels by Winston Graham, the 10-part second season was written and created for television by Debbie Horsfield (Cutting It, The Riff Raff Element) and directed by Will Sinclair (Vera, Misfits), Charles Palmer (Death in Paradise, Lark Rise to Candleford) and Richard Senior (Doctor Who, Our Girl).
It is produced by Margaret Mitchell (Vera, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Poirot) and the executive producers are Debbie Horsfield, Karen Thrussell and Damien Timmer for Mammoth Screen and Elizabeth Kilgarriff for the BBC.
Poldark is filmed on location in Cornwall and the Bristol area and at The Bottle Yard Studios.
Starring
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Aidan Turner
as
Ross Poldark
Eleanor Tomlinson
as
Demelza Carne
Caroline Blakiston
as
Aunt Agatha
Jack Farthing
as
George Warleggan
Luke Norris
as
Dwight Enys
Gabriella Wilde
as
Caroline Penvenen
with Phil Davis
as
Jud Paynter
and John Nettles
as
Ray Penvenen