The Virgin Queen
First aired
January 22, 2006
Ended
Avg. episode: 60m
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 & Crew
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
- RS
Richard Syms
Courtier
- MG
Matthias Gibbig
Duke of Anjou
- CG
Coky Giedroyc
Director
Paula Milne
Writer
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