TV SERIES · 2011–
Revenge
14 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
Josh Bowman (Daniel Grayson) and Emily VanCamp (Emily Thorne), whose characters got engaged and later married, also married in real life and had two children together.
- #002
Every episode of the series has a one-word title, except for the two-word series finale, "Two Graves," which references a quote that appears at the beginning of the pilot.
- #003
Hiroyuki Sanada played Satoshi Takeda in season 1 but could not appear in season 2 due to a scheduling conflict with The Wolverine (2013). He was replaced by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
- #004
The series is loosely adapted from Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte Cristo.
- #005
The name Amanda means "beloved," while the name Emily means "rival."
- #006
The 9-year-old Emily and the 5-year-old Emily are played by sisters Emily and Alyvia Alyn Lind, respectively.
- #007
Amanda never won Victoria's heart. She continued to have nightmares where she was. (This was stated by Emily VanCamp on Twitter.)
- #008
Madeleine Stowe's costume once consisted of a 13-pearl necklace worth $100,000, a Vera Wang wedding dress worth $12,000 and a Burberry laser-cut leather trench coat worth about $8,000.
- #009
Conrad is the only member of the main Grayson family who never attempted to kill Emily (at least not with his own hands). Ironically, he was the only member of the family who succeeded in killing one of the Amanda/Emilys by proxy.
- #010
Emily (the original Amanda, played by Emily VanCamp), despite being accused repeatedly, is one of the few characters who never directly kills anyone over the course of the series, not even in self-defense.
- #011
At the end of the series, Stevie is the only surviving person who still uses the Grayson name; all the biological Graysons, including Conrad's father, and Victoria die in the final season or in the last episode of the penultimate season, and Charlotte changed her name to that of her biological father.
- #012
Madeleine Stowe (Victoria Grayson) also appeared in the 1990 film Revenge (1990).
- #013
The actress who plays the adult Emily/Amanda is actually named Emily. The actress who plays the child Amanda (at age eight) is also actually named Emily.
- #014
In an interview with HNGN, Barry Sloane (Aiden Mathis) claimed he was originally meant to appear in 3 episodes (he ultimately appeared in 44).
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