Ended

The Virgin Queen

6.5 35

2006

1h

1 season

Drama

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.

Seasons

Miniseries

Cast

Anne-Marie Duff

Queen Elizabeth I

William Cecil - Lord Burghley

Dexter Fletcher

Sir Thomas Radcliffe - Earl of Sussex

Francis Walsingham

Duke of Norfolk

Tara Fitzgerald

Robert Devereux - Earl of Essex

Sienna Guillory

Lettice Knollys

Lord Chancellor Gardiner

Sir James Melville

Christopher Hatton

Matthias Gibbig

Stephen Walters

Gilbert Gifford

Vincent Franklin

Thomas Phelippes

Charlotte Winner

Mary, Queen of Scots

Nicholas Hewetson

Nigel Martin Davey

Earl of Pembroke

Dr. William Cowes

Sir Walter Raleigh

Earl of Southampton

Sir Thomas Gorges

Sebastian Armesto