Prodigy is a 2016 coming-of-age psychological drama film written, produced and directed by Matthew Vaughn, who also directed the screenplay. It stars Maisie Williams as Melanie Norrington, a girl who suffers from a brutal stutter and is thus savagely bullied at school, but is proven to be quite brilliant in spite of herself. It co-stars Keira Knightley, Georgie Henley, David Tennant, Mark Strong, Judi Dench, Freddie Highmore, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, Henry Caville, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley, Julie Walters, Katie McGrath and Sarah Hyland. The film is dedicated to the memory of Peter Vaughan, who died on 6th December that same year.