

Conceiving Ada
★ 4.7·1999·1h 25min·Drama, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
Overview
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?
- Director
- Lynn Hershman-Leeson
- Original language
- English
- Status
- Released (Feb 19, 1999)
Cast
40 people
Tilda SwintonAda Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca FaridanyEmmy Coer
Timothy LearySims
Karen BlackLady Byron / Mother Coer- JPJohn Perry BarlowJohn Crosse
- JOJohn O'KeefeCharles Babbage
- JWJ.D. WolfeNicholas Clayton
- OMOwen MurphyWilliam Lovelace
David BrooksChildren's Tutor- EMEsther MulliganMary Shelley
- ESEllen SebastianDr. Fury
Mark CapriDr. Locock
Show 28 more
- JWJoe WemplePriest / Talk Show Host
- CVChris von SneidernMusician In Elevator
- DEDavid EppelSimon
- RSR.U. SiriusBarlow
- KPKashka PeckTeenage Ada
- RLRose LockwoodChild Ada / Claire
- JTJesse Talman BossBaby Ada
- LLLillian L. MalmbergAnne Isabelle Byron
- CMCyrus MareRalph Byron
Michael OosteromLord Byron- PJPollyanna JacobsCocktail Server
- RSRoger ShawPriest (voice)
- BSBruce SterlingCD Rom (voice)
- DNDave NelsonCD Rom (voice)
- HSHenry S. RosenthalCD Rom (voice)
- GLGeorge LeesonCD Rom (voice)
- MHMelissa HowdenCD Rom (voice)
- JRJosh RosenCD Rom (voice)
Lynn Hershman-LeesonCD Rom (voice)- LSLavay SmithClub Band: Lead Singer
- BNBing NathanClub Band: Upright Bass
- CSChris SiebertClub Band: Piano
- BSBill StewartClub Band: Alto Sax
- RARosemary Astromskyclub patron
- BBBrooke Baggettclub patron
- LBLori BakerClub Patron
- SBStack Bussclub patron
- ESEllen Sebastian ChangClub Patron











