On screen
Cast
33 credited performers
Anne-Marie Duff
Queen Elizabeth I
Tom Hardy
Robert Dudley - Earl of Leicester
Sienna Guillory
Lettice Knollys
Ian Hart
William Cecil - Lord Burghley
Dexter Fletcher
Sir Thomas Radcliffe - Earl of Sussex
Ulrich Thomsen
Baron Casper Breuner
Artwork unavailable
Richard Syms
Courtier
Tara Fitzgerald
Kat Ashley
Jason Watkins
Christopher Hatton
Ben Daniels
Francis Walsingham
Kevin McKidd
Duke of Norfolk
Artwork unavailable
Rodrigo De Veccha
Jester
Artwork unavailable
Marcello Magni
Alvarez De Quadra
Emilia Fox
Amy Dudley
Lisa Millett
Mrs. Odingsell
Ralph Ineson
Dr. William Cowes
Ewen Bremner
Sir James Melville
Hans Matheson
Robert Devereux - Earl of Essex
Joanna Griffiths
Agnes
Siobhan Hewlett
Cecily
Geoff Bell
Dentist
Karl Theobald
Alsop
Nigel Martin Davey
Earl of Pembroke
Daniel Evans
Robert Cecil
Derek Riddell
Sir Walter Raleigh
Neil Stuke
Francis Bacon
Sebastian Armesto
Charles Blount
Shaun Evans
Earl of Southampton
Artwork unavailable
Gavin Brocker
Young Man
Artwork unavailable
Jordy Cernik
Period Guard
Robert Pugh
Lord Chancellor Gardiner
Joanne Whalley
Queen Mary
Michael Feast
Cardinal Pole