The cast includes Daisy Ridley, Dame Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, and Michelle Pfeiffer. In Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot must investigate the murder of a wealthy American businessman after the transcontinental luxury train, the Orient Express, is snowed in by an avalanche. However, if you haven’t seen Murder on the Orient Express and would like to, it is available on Amazon Prime Video and Google Play to rent or purchase. Besides the main character and his friend, there aren’t many continuing story threads, so newcomers should have no trouble following the narrative. While Death on the Nile is technically a sequel, watching Murder on the Orient Express is not essential. Saunders plays the wealthy American socialite Marie Van Schuyler and French appears as Van Schuyler’s nurse and traveling companion, known only as Bowers. The English comedic duo, Jennifer Saunders ( Absolutely Fabulous) and Dawn French (T he Vicar of Dibley) are reunited in the movie as well. They’re intentionally and quite suspiciously vague as to where in Europe he is from. Carl Bessner, a famous European physician. Sophie Okonedo ( Wheel of Time) and Letitia Wright ( Black Panther) play mother and daughter duo Salome and Rosalie Otterbourne, with the former a singer hired to perform at the Doyles' wedding.

Rose Leslie ( Game of Thrones) is Louise Bourget, Linnet’s chambermaid who joins the newlyweds on their honeymoon.Īnnette Bening as Euphemia Bouc, Bouc’s mother and painter, a character written for this adaptation specifically.Įmma Mackey ( Sex Education) as Jacqueline de Bellefort, Linnet’s former friend and Simon’s former fiancé (both characteristics of a lead suspect).

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