Pride and Prejudiced! Scots star Freya Mavor's dramatic reveal
However, despite being cast in the latest incarnation of the renowned love story, Scots actress Freya Mavor has admitted she isn't the biggest fan of the genre.
Due to be broadcast by streaming giant Netflix, the new show also features The Crown stars Olivia Colman and Emma Corrin, as well as fellow Scot Jack Lowden, who takesa on the role of the brooding Mr Darcy.
And it isn't the first time Mavor has taken part in a period drama.
She is currently starring as a duplicitous thief in BBC series Marie Antoinette.
However, discussing what similar TV shows and films she has watched in preparation for her role on the Beeb, Ms Mavor admitted it isn't a TV genre she consumes much of.
Discussing her preparation for her role on Marie Antoinette, Ms Mavor told the Mail on Sunday: 'I definitely didn't do any period drama watching for research.
'I definitely did much more like reading and I also sort of watched other things that would inspire me for her character and for her role in the world.'
She added: 'To be fair, I'm not a huge watcher of period dramas.'
However, Ms Mavor was quick to point out that despite not watching many of them, she finds those she has seen 'gripping'.
She said: 'Amazingly done period dramas [are] so gripping. The other worldliness of them is always very like enticing.'
Ms Mavor will play Jane Bennet in the Regency drama, following in the footsteps of Maureen O'Sullivan, Rosamund Pike and Susannah Harker, who have all played the role on screen.
Her cast-member Emma Corrin meanwhile will play the lead role of Elizabeth Bennet - a role made famous by the likes of Keira Knightley and Jennifer Ehle, who played the love interest to Colin Firth.
Ms Mavor, 31, lived in La Rochelle in France after moving from Edinburgh when she was nine. She came back to Scotland's capital at 14 before leaving for Bristol to star in her breakout role, Mini in Channel 4 drama Skins.
And it isn't just Ms Mavor who has starred in period dramas before.
Lowden, from Oxton in the Borders, starred in Mary Queen of Scots - the film where he met his future wife Saoirse Ronan. His part as Mr Darcy will see him take on a role famously portrayed by Colin Firth.
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