<P> His personality, while it lacks the flash of Marianne Dashwood's romantic interest Willoughby, indicates more fortitude . Despite the good common sense that links him to Elinor, he is able to attach himself to other people and form bonds of friendship and love with ease . He exemplifies great loyalty when he sacrifices his potential happiness with Elinor to honor a promise he made to another girl when he was younger . He and Marianne's future husband Colonel Brandon are both models of great character under unimpressive exteriors . This simplicity makes them rather less three - dimensional than Pride and Prejudice's Fitzwilliam Darcy and Emma's Mr. Knightley . </P> <P> He eventually marries Elinor after he is abandoned by Lucy Steele for his now propertied brother . </P> <Ul> <Li> Chet Stratton in 1950 </Li> <Li> Robin Ellis in 1971 </Li> <Li> Bosco Hogan in 1981 </Li> <Li> Hugh Grant in the 1995 film adaptation </Li> <Li> Dan Stevens in the 2008 BBC serial adaption </Li> <Li> Nicholas D'Agosto as "Edward Ferris" in the 2011 film From Prada to Nada </Li> <Li> Henry Devas in Helen Edmundson's 2013 BBC Radio 4 adaptation </Li> </Ul> <Li> Chet Stratton in 1950 </Li>

Who played edward ferrars in sense and sensibility