The Virgin Queen

Overview

The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Armada; and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex.

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Cast

Anne-Marie Duff

Queen Elizabeth I

Tom Hardy

Robert Dudley

Ian Hart

William Cecil - Lord Burghley

Dexter Fletcher

Sir Thomas Radcliffe - Earl of Sussex

Joanne Whalley

Queen Mary

Ben Daniels

Francis Walsingham

Kevin McKidd

Duke of Norfolk

Emilia Fox

Amy Dudley

Tara Fitzgerald

Kat Ashley

Hans Matheson

Robert Devereux - Earl of Essex

Sienna Guillory

Lettice Knollys

Robert Pugh

Lord Chancellor Gardiner

Ewen Bremner

Sir James Melville

Emma Kennedy

Ellen

Ulrich Thomsen

Baron

Jason Watkins

Christopher Hatton

Richard Syms

Courtier

Matthias Gibbig

Duke of Anjou

Enzo Cilenti

Jean de Simier

Stephen Walters

Gilbert Gifford