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The reclusive, miserly, lonely Gilbert Norrell has been shut away for most of his life in a vast house in Yorkshire: Hurtfew Abbey - inherited from a rich uncle when Norrell was still a young man, orphaned and alone in the world. One day, young Gilbert found a scrap of paper from a magical book in his uncle’s library. It made him dream of becoming a magician, and of restoring magic to England. Over the intervening forty years, Mr Norrell has dedicated himself to collecting every single book of magic in the country, and to becoming the first practical magician that England has seen for over three centuries.

When we first meet him, Norrell - with the help of his mysterious servant, John Childermass - is very close to achieving this goal. Of making magic a force in the realm once again. However, despite that fact that he can bring statues to life and summon visions out of rain, he still needs to overcome the fact that practical magic is no longer respectable. And respectability, and the acceptance of his fellow men, is what Norrell ultimately craves. In trying to solve this problem, he finds that he must consort with dangerous and elemental forces, and unwittingly unleashes terrors that have been safely sealed away for hundreds of years.

British Independent Film Award (BIFA) winner Eddie Marsan is best known for his work in film and first gained attention in the UK for Paul McGuigan's Gangster No 1. The following year Martin Scorsese’s Gangs Of New York, brought him to the attention of a worldwide audience. Since then Eddie has worked continually in both the UK and the US, with directors such as Michael Mann, Terrence Malik, JJ Abrams Bryan Singer, Richard Linklater and Peter Berg.

Further credits include; Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake and Happy Go Lucky, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 21 Grams, The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, Tyrannosaur, War Horse directed by Steven Spielberg, The World’s End with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Filth directed by Jon S. Baird, Still Life directed by Uberto Pasoli, John Slattery’s God’s Pocket. Other film credits include V For Vendetta alongside Natalie Portman, Mission Impossible 3 with Tom Cruise and Hancock with Will Smith.

Eddie’s work in Television has also been highly regarded and he has previously been seen Little Dorrit, Channel 4 trilogy Red Riding, the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's The Best Of Men. He also featured in the Channel 4 mini-series Southcliffe as Andrew Salter alongside Rory Kinnear and Sean Harris.

Eddie has most recently been seen starring in the acclaimed film X+Y. Later in 2015 Eddie will be seen in Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú series The River, created by Abi Morgan.