Actors in adaptations (nearly) as crushworthy as Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy
- Rufus Sewel as Will Ladislaw in Middlemarch
- Ciaran Hinds as Captain Wentworth in Persuasion
- Matthew Macfadyen as Arthur Clennam in Little Dorrit
- Omar Sharif as Yuri in Doctor Zhivago
- Michael Fassbender as Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre
- Jeremy Northam as Mr. Knightley in Emma
- Christian Bale as Laurie in Little Women
- Jonathan Crombie as Gilbert Blythe in Anne of Green Gables
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Newland Archer in The Age of Innocence
- Ralph Fiennes as Oscar Hopkins in Oscar and Lucinda
Who else am I missing?