The Ascent of Woman (2015) - Video Detective

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09/02/2015

Name	Character

Amanda Foreman	Herself, historian, host and narrator
Jakuchô Setouchi	Herself, novelist and Buddhist nun
Fiona Shaw	Herself
Mariya Alyokhina	Herself, Pussy Riot
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova	Herself, Pussy Riot
Evgenia Dimitropoulou	Herself
Irving Finkel	Himself, philologist and assyriologist
Natalia Polosmak	Herself, archaeologist (archive footage)
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones	Himself, professor of ancient history, Cardiff University
Judith Herrin	Herself, history professor, King's College London

(see additional cast & crew)

Name	Character

Amanda Foreman	Herself, historian, host and narrator
Jakuchô Setouchi	Herself, novelist and Buddhist nun
Fiona Shaw	Herself
Mariya Alyokhina	Herself, Pussy Riot
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova	Herself, Pussy Riot
Evgenia Dimitropoulou	Herself
Irving Finkel	Himself, philologist and assyriologist
Natalia Polosmak	Herself, archaeologist (archive footage)
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones	Himself, professor of ancient history, Cardiff University
Judith Herrin	Herself, history professor, King's College London
Catherine Marand-Fouquet	Herself, historian and author
Nguyen Thi Thanh Hòa	Herself, president of the Vietnam Women's Union
Ian Hodder	Himself, archaeologist, Stanford University
Elif Safak	Herself, author
Béatrice Daël	Herself, activist
Yi Zhaoyin	Herself, Shanghai Normal University
Payman Abdhalla	Herself
Lydia	Herself, Benedictine nun
Olivier Blanc	Himself, author of 'Marie-Olympe de Gouges. Une humaniste à la fin du xviiie siècle'
Meng Man	Herself, professor, Minzu University of China