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.
Cast
- Anne-Marie Duff as Queen Elizabeth I
- Tom Hardy as Robert Dudley
- Ian Hart as William Cecil - Lord Burghley
- Dexter Fletcher as Sir Thomas Radcliffe - Earl of Sussex
- Joanne Whalley as Queen Mary
- Ben Daniels as Francis Walsingham
- Kevin McKidd as Duke of Norfolk
- Emilia Fox as Amy Dudley
- Tara Fitzgerald as Kat Ashley
- Hans Matheson as Robert Devereux - Earl of Essex