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In Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Wilkinson played a wealthy patron, Van Ruijven, who lusted after a maid (Scarlett Johansson). His character commissions a portrait of her by Dutch painter Vermeer (Colin Firth). The film, based on Tracy Chevalier's novel, was nominated for three Oscars.