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TV series · 2016

The Crown

“Duty lasts a lifetime.”

First aired 4 November 2016 Drama TMDB ↗

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

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Marcia Warren
as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
72
Jonathan Pryce
as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
69
Imelda Staunton
as Queen Elizabeth II
60
Lesley Manville
as Princess Margaret
60
Jeremy Northam
as Anthony Eden
54
Helena Bonham Carter
as Princess Margaret
50
Dominic West
as Prince Charles
47
Jonny Lee Miller
as John Major
43
Olivia Colman
as Queen Elizabeth II
42
Tobias Menzies
as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
42
Claudia Harrison
as Princess Anne
40
Matt Smith
as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
34
Everyone else (108) ↓
John Woodvine
as Archbishop of York
87
Eileen Atkins
as Queen Mary
82
Derek Jacobi
as Duke of Windsor
78
Jonathan Newth
as Page (Buckingham Palace)
77
Garrick Hagon
as John F. Dulles
77
Ronald Pickup
as Archbishop of Canterbury
76
James Laurenson
as Doctor Weir
76
Tony Bill
as Guardian Editor
76
John Humphrys
as Newsreader (voice)
73
John Lithgow
as Winston Churchill
71
Patrick Drury
as Lord Chamberlain
71
Clive Francis
as Lord Salisbury
70
Paul Jesson
as Sir Geoffrey Howe
70
Michael Buerk
as Newsreader (voice)
70
Charles Dance
as Lord Mountbatten
70
David Rintoul
as Michael Adeane
67
Martin Wimbush
as Dr. Bodley Scott
67
Stephen Boxer
as Denis Thatcher
66
Salim Daw
as Mohamed Al Fayed
66
Harriet Walter
as Clemmie Churchill
66
Marion Bailey
as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
65
Anton Lesser
as Harold Macmillan
64
Michael Thomas
as Duke of Gloucester
64
Patrick Ryecart
as Duke of Norfolk
64
Simon Chandler
as Clement Attlee
63
Michael Culkin
as Rab Butler
62
Penny Downie
as Duchess of Gloucester
62
Kevin McNally
as Bernard Ingham
60
Georgie Glen
as Ruth Lady Fermoy
60
Mark Tandy
as Cecil Beaton
59
Nigel Cooke
as Harry Crookshank
59
Alex Jennings
as David, Duke of Windsor
59
Michael Maloney
as Edward Heath
59
Sylvestra Le Touzel
as Dorothy Macmillan
58
Don Gallagher
as Willie Whitelaw
58
Anatoliy Kotenyov
as Boris Yeltsin
58
Lizzy McInnerny
as Bobo Macdonald
56
Pip Torrens
as Tommy Lascelles
56
Kevin Eldon
as Priest Michael
56
Christopher Villiers
as Rear Admiral Woodard
56
Lorraine Ashbourne
as Barbara Castle
55
Jared Harris
as King George VI
55
Paul Bigley
as John Nott
54
Ben Daniels
as Lord Snowdon
52
Amelia Bullmore
as Kathleen Sutherland
52
Andrew Havill
as Robert Fellowes
51
Lia Williams
as Wallis Simpson / Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
51
Jason Watkins
as Harold Wilson
50
Ben Miles
as Peter Townsend
50
Greg Wise
as Lord Mountbatten
50
Nicholas Rowe
as Jock Colville
49
Gillian Anderson
as Margaret Thatcher
48
Olivia Williams
as Camilla Parker Bowles
48
Charles Edwards
as Martin Charteris
47
Will Keen
as Michael Adeane
46
Victoria Hamilton
as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
45
Dominic Rowan
as Charles Powell
45
Michael C. Hall
as President Kennedy
45
Mark Dexter
as Tony Benn
43
James Hillier
as Equerry (Buckingham Palace)
43
James Hillier
as Buckingham Palace Equerry
43
Flora Montgomery
as Norma Major
42
James Murray
as Prince Andrew
41
Anna Madeley
as Clarissa Eden
40
Bertie Carvel
as Tony Blair
39
Blake Ritson
as Andrew Gailey
38
Andrew Buchan
as Andrew Parker Bowles
37
Jamie Parker
as Robin Janvrin
37
Harry Hadden-Paton
as Martin Charteris
35
Khalid Abdalla
as Dodi Fayed
35
Lydia Leonard
as Cherie Blair
34
Lee Otway
as Kez Wingfield
34
Christina Cole
as Interviewer
34
Claire Foy
as Queen Elizabeth II
32
Geoffrey Breton
as Mark Phillips
32
Sam Phillips
as Equerry
32
Emerald Fennell
as Camilla Shand / Camilla Parker Bowles
31
Daniel Ings
as Mike Parker
30
Vanessa Kirby
as Princess Margaret
28
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
as Mark Bolland
28
Josh O'Connor
as Prince Charles
26
Elizabeth Debicki
as Princess Diana
26
Elizabeth Debicki
as Princess Diana (archive footage)
26
Erin Doherty
as Princess Anne
24
Angus Imrie
as Prince Edward
22
Emma Corrin
as Lady Diana Spencer
20
Lyla Barrett-Rye
as Princess Anne
10
Billy Jenkins
as Prince Charles
9
Beau Gadsdon
as Young Margaret
8
Chris Gordon
as Duke of Edinburgh's Valet
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Julian Baring
as Prince Charles
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Verity Russell
as Young Elizabeth
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Richard Goulding
as Edward Adeane
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Tom Byrne
as Prince Andrew
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George Asprey
as Walter Monckton
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Theo Fraser Steele
as Timothy Laurence
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Sam Woolf
as Prince Edward
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Ed Sayer
as Equerry
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Harry Anton
as Trevor Rees-Jones
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Rufus Kampa
as Young Prince William
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Sebastian Blunt
as Prince Edward
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Ed McVey
as Prince William
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Luther Ford
as Prince Harry
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Lucy Newman-Williams
as American Journalist 2
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Richard Elfyn
as Selwyn Lloyd
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John Surman
as Cecil Mann, Crown Jeweller
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Felix Scott
as Buzz Aldrin
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Nicholas Lumley
as Lord Stamfordham
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