2003
Director: Pete Travis
Writer: Peter Morgan
Producer: Francis Hopkinson
Music: Rob Lane
Costume: Lucinda Wright
Cinematographer: Peter Middleton BCS
Editor: Eddie Mansell
Casting Director: Celestia Fox
Production Designer: James Merifield
Art Director: Jacqueline Abrahams
Visual effects supervisor: Simon Frame
Henry VIII ascended to the throne as a lithe, handsome seventeen-year-old
and died after an extraordinary thirty-eight year reign, an embittered,
obese invalid.
The rest of Europe looked on in amazement as Henry, desperate for a male
heir, cast aside the older, but loyal, Catalina of Aragon for a series of
marriages with wives who are probably better known for the way their lives
ended than they lived - the determined temptress Anne Boleyn, the pious
yet tragic Jane Seymour, the outcast Anne of Cleves, the adulterous
Catherine Howard and finally the devoted Catherine Parr.
This tale of Henry VIII depicts the sexual intrigue, betrayal and rivalry
that existed within his court, in a reign notable for its political and
religious upheaval, violence and corruption.
Cast List:
Ray Winstone | Henry VIII | |
Assumpta Serna | .... | Catalina of Aragon |
Helena Bonham Carter | .... | Anne Boleyn |
Emilia Fox | .... | Jane Seymour |
Emily Blunt | .... | Catherine Howard |
Pia Gerard | .... | Anne of Cleves |
Claire Holman | .... | Catherine Parr |
David Suchet | .... | Cardinal Wolsey |
Danny Webb | .... | Thomas Cromwell |
Mark Strong | .... | Duke of Norfolk |
Sean Bean | .... | Robert Aske |
Lara Belmont | .... | Mary Tudor |
Marsha Fitzalan | .... | Duchess of Norfolk |
Edward Tudor Pole | .... | Friar Peto |
Kelly Hunter | .... | Lady Rochford |
Edward Kelsey | .... | Campeggio |
Michael Maloney | .... | Thomas Cranmer |
Rhys Meredith | .... | Thomas Smeeton |
Charles Dance | .... | Duke of Buckingham |
Thomas Lockyer | .... | Edward Seymour |
William Houston | .... | Thomas Seymour |
Benjamin Whitrow | .... | Thomas Boleyn |
Dominic Mafham | .... | George Boleyn |
Christopher Good | .... | Sir John Semour |
Scott Handy | .... | Lord Henry Percy |
Joss Ackland | .... | Henry VII |
Sid Mitchell | .... | Young Henry VIII |
Tom Turner | .... | Francis Dereham |
Terence Harvey | .... | Bishop Gardiner |
Joseph Morgan | .... | Thomas Culpepper |