Elizabeth I & Contemporaries

Elizabeth: The Golden Age(2007); directed by Shekhar Kapur; Universal Studios. Soundtrack (iTunes) by AR Rahman and Craig Johnson.

Starring: 

• Elizabeth I = Cate Blanchett
• Sir Francis Walsingham = Geoffrey Rush
• Walter Raleigh = Clive Owen
• Bess Throckmorton = Abbie Cornish
• Mary Stuart = Samantha Morton
• King Philip of Spain = Jordi Molla
• Robert Reston = Rhys Ifans
• Thomas Babington = Eddie Redmayne

Elizabeth I (2005); directed by Tom Hooper; Company Pictures and HBO Films

Starring:

• Elizabeth I = Helen Mirren
• Sir Francis Walsingham = Jeremy Irons
• Robert Devereaux = Hugh Dancy
• Mary Stuart = Barbara Flynn
• William Cecil = Ian McDiarmid
• Sir Francis Drake = David Delve
• Sir Walter Raleigh = Ben Pullen

 

 

Elizabeth I — The Virgin Queen (2005); directed by Coky Giedroyc; BBC. Soundtrack (iTunes) by Martin Phipps.

Starring:

• Elizabeth I = Anne-Marie Duff
• William Cecil = Ian Hart
• Robert Dudley = Tom Hardy
• Duke of Norfolk = Kevin McKidd
• Francis Walsingham = Ben Daniels
• Sir Thomas Radcliffe = Dexter Fletcher
• Lettice Knollys = Sienna Guillory

Elizabeth (1998); directed by Shekhar Kapur; Polygram Filmed Entertainment. Soundtrack (iTunes) by David Hirschfelder

Starring:

• Elizabeth I = Cate Blanchett
• Sir Francis Walsingham = Geoffrey Rush
• Duke of Norfolk = Christopher Eccleston
• Robert Dudley = Joseph Fiennes
• Sir William Cecil = Richard Attenborough
• Mary Tudor = Kathy Burke

Lady Jane (1986); directed by Trevor Nunn; Paramount Pictures

Starring: 

• Lady Jane Grey = Helena Bonham Carter
• Guilford Dudley = Cary Ewles
• John Dudley = John Wood
• Princess Mary = Jane Lapotaire
• King Edward VI = Warren Saire
• Frances Grey = Sara Kestelman
• Henry Grey = Patrick Stewart

 

Elizabeth R (1972); directed by Roderick Graham;

Starring:

• Elizabeth I = Glenda Jackson
• William Cecil = Ronald Hines
• Francis Walsingham = Stephen Murray
• Robert Dudley = Robert Hardy
• Lettice, Lady Leicester = Angela Thorne
• Earl of Sussex = John Shrapnel
• Earl of Essex = Robin Ellis

 

 

 

 

Mary, Queen of Scots (1971); directed by Charles Jarrot; Universal Pictures

Starring:

• Mary Queen of Scots = Vanessa Redgrave
• Elizabeth I = Glenda Jackson
• James Stuart = Patrick McGoohan
• Lord Darnley = Timothy Dalton
• William Cecil = Trevor Howard
• Robert Dudley = Daniel Massey
• Lord Bothwell = Nigel Davenport

 

 

 

The Virgin Queen (1955); directed by Henry Koster; Twentieth-Century Fox

Starring:

• Elizabeth I = Bette Davis
• Sir Walter Raleigh = Richard Todd
• Beth Throgmorton = Joan Collins
• Robert Dudley = Herbert Marshall
• Chadwick = Jay Robinson

 

 

 

Mary of Scotland (1936); directed by John Ford; RKO Radio Pictures

Starring:

• Mary Stuart = Katharine Hepburn
• Lord Bothwell = Fredric March
• Lord Darnley = Douglas Walton
• David Rizzio = John Carradine
• John Knox = Moroni Olsen
• Queen Elizabeth = Florence Eldridge
• Morton = Robert Barrat
• Leicester = Gavin Muir