Movie · 2011
Anonymous
“Was Shakespeare a Fraud?”
Released 21 October 2011 130 min Drama / History / Thriller More from 2011 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
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How old were they?
Vanessa Redgrave
as Queen Elizabeth I
Derek Jacobi
as Prologue
Mark Rylance
as Condell
Gode Benedix
as Groundling
David Thewlis
as William Cecil
Julian Bleach
as Captain Richard Pole
Joely Richardson
as Princess Elizabeth Tudor
Detlef Bothe
as John De Vere
Ned Dennehy
as Interrogator
Rhys Ifans
as Edward de Vere
Christian Sengewald
as Cecil's Spy Servant
Tony Way
as Thomas Nashe
Edward Hogg
as Robert Cecil
Trystan Gravelle
as Christopher Marlowe
Sebastian Armesto
as Ben Jonson
Rafe Spall
as William Shakespeare
Xavier Samuel
as Earl of Southampton
Robert Emms
as Thomas Dekker
Sam Reid
as Earl of Essex
Jamie Campbell Bower
as Young Earl of Oxford
Paula Schramm
as Bridget De Vere
Paolo De Vita
as Francesco
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The numbers
52years between the oldest and youngest billed
74Vanessa Redgrave — oldest on the call sheet
22Paula Schramm — youngest billed
39average age of the credited cast