From The Tudors and Wolf Hall to Poldark, Sharpe, Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights, gird your loins for the hottest period drama men to grace our TV screens!

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark in Poldark



Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe in Sharpe



Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice



Grégory Fitoussi as Henri Leclair in Mr Selfridge



Allen Leech as Tom Branson in Downton Abbey



Jonathan Rhys Meyers (and Henry Cavill) in The Tudors



Tom Hardy as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights



Damian Lewis as Soames Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga



Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall



Jonny Lee Miller as Mr Knightley in Emma



Richard Armitage as Mr Thornton in North & South



Rufus Sewell as  Will Ladislaw in Middlemarch



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