2005

Director: Coky Giedroyc

Writer: Paula Milne

Producer: Paul Rutman

Music: Martin Phipps

Costume: Amy Roberts

Makeup: Karen Hartley

Director of Photography: David Odd

Production Designer: Donal Wood

Casting Director: Nina Gold

Vulnerable and imperious, passionate and unreachable, from teenage princess to accomplished queen, forever torn between duty and personal longing, the reign of Elizabeth I is exposed in lavish and spectacular style.

Anne-Marie Duff stars as the enigmatic 'Virgin Queen' in a spellbinding drama about the life of one of Britain's greatest monarchs, Elizabeth I. Her femininity baffled and threatened the male order of Renaissance England for more than 40 years. The role is as challenging and complex as anything history offers.

Paula Milne's powerful script about the long and eventful life of England's iconic Queen was filmed against a backdrop of some of Great Britain's most beautiful houses and landscapes. 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 Spanish Armada, and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex.

Cast List:

Anne-Marie Duff	....	Queen Elizabeth I
Tom Hardy	....	Lord Leicester (Robert Dudley)
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex	....	Hans Matheson
William Cecil, Lord Burghley	....	Ian Hart
Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex	....	Dexter Fletcher
Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk	....	Kevin McKidd
Queen Mary I	....	Joanne Whalley
Lettice Knollys	....	Sienna Guillory
Lord Chancellor Gardiner	....	Robert Pugh
Amy Robsart	....	Emilia Fox
Kat Ashley	....	Tara Fitzgerald
Sir James Melville	....	Ewen Bremner
Robert Cecil	....	Daniel Evans
Francis Walsingham	....	Ben Daniels
Cardinal Pole	....	Michael Feast
Baron Casper Breuner	....	Ulrich Thomsen
King Phillip of Spain	....	Stanley Townsend
Sir John Brydges	....	Tony Guilfoyler
Thomas Wyatt	....	Bryan Dick
Valencia	....	Stella Maris
Bishop Latimer	....	Ken Bones
Henry Bedingfield	....	Pearce Quigley
Dr. Lee	....	Alan Williams
Alvaro de Quadra	....	Marcello Margi
Christopher Hatton	....	Jason Watkins
Mrs. Odingwell	....	Lisa Millnett
Herald	....	Toby Whithouse
Jean de Simier	....	Enzo Cilenti
Gilbert Gifford	....	Stephen Walters
Dr. William Cowes	....	Ralph Ineson
Thomas Phelippes	....	Vincent Franklin
Mary Queen of Scots	....	Charlotte Winner
Ellen	....	Emma Kennedy
Nicholas Hilliard	....	Nicholas Hewetson
Captain Morgan	....	Tony Maudsley
Aslop	....	Karl Theobald
Sir Walter Raleigh	....	Derek Riddell
Anges	....	Joanna Griffiths
Cecily	....	Siobhan Hewlett
Charles Blount	....	Sebastian Armesto
Francis Bacon	....	Neil Stuke
Earl of Southampton	....	Shaun Evans
Warden	....	Ken Hadley
Overweight Little Boy	....	Jacob Moriarty
Dentist	....	Geoff Bell
Courtier	....	Richard Syms
Young Man	....	Gavin Brocker