Cast & Fact

Alternate Title

Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen

Director
Shekhar Kapur

Cast

Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth I)
Liz Gilles (Female martyr)
Rod Culbertson (Master Ridley)
Paul Fox (Male martyr)
Terence Rigby (Bishop Gardiner)
Christopher Eccleston (Duke of Norfolk)
Peter Stockbridge (Palace chamberlain)
Amanda Ryan (Lettice Howard)
Kathy Burke (Queen Mary I)
Valerie Gale (Mary's dwarf)
George Yiasoumi (King Philip II of Spain)
James Frain (Alvaro de la Quadra, Spanish ambassador)
Jamie Foreman (earl of Sussex)
Edward Hardwicke (earl of Arundel)
Emily Mortimer (Kat Ashley)
Joseph Fiennes (Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester)
Kelly MacDonald (Isabel Knollys)
Wayne Sleep (Dance tutor)
Sally Grey (Lady in waiting)
Kate Loustau (Lady in waiting)
Elika Gibbs (Lady in waiting)
Sarah Owen (Lady in waiting)
Lily Allen (Lady in waiting)
Joe White (Master of the Tower)
Matt Andrews (Norfolk's man)
Liam Foley (Norfolk's man)
Geoffrey Rush (Sir Francis Walsingham)
Ben Frain (Young Frenchman)
Richard Attenborough (Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley)
Lewis Jones (Priest)
Michael Beint (Bishop Carlisle)
Angus Deayton (Waad, chancellor of the Exchequer)
Eric Cantona (Monsieur de Foix, French ambassador)
Kenny Doughty (Sir Thomas Elyot)
Hayley Burroughs (Elizabeth's dwarf)
Fanny Ardant (Mary of Guise)
Joseph O'Connor (earl of Derby)
Brendan O'Hea (Lord William Howard)
Edward Highmore (Lord Harewood)
Daniel Moynihan (First bishop)
Jeremy Hawk (Second bishop)
James Rowe (Bishop in cellar)
Donald Pelmear (Third bishop)
Tim Bevan (Handsome man)
Charles Cartmell (Dudley's man)
Edward Purver (Dudley's man)
Vincent Cassel (Duc d'Anjou)
Sir John Gielgud (Pope Paul IV)
Daniel Craig (John Ballard)
Vladimir Vega (Vatican cardinal)
Alfie Allen (Arundel's son)
Daisy Bevan (Arundel's daughter)
Jennifer Lewicki (Arundel's nursemaid)
Viviane Horne (Arundel's wife)
Nick Shallman (Walsingham's man)

Awards

Academy Award for Best Makeup (1998): Jenny Shircore
British Academy Award for Best British Film (1999): Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Alison Owen
British Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (1999): Cate Blanchett
British Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (1999): Geoffrey Rush
British Academy Award for Film Music (1999): David Hirschfelder
British Academy Award for Best Cinematography (1999): Remi Adefarasin
British Academy Award for Best Makeup/Hair (1999): Jenny Shircore
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama (1999): Cate Blanchett

Trivia

Elizabeth was Indian director Shekhar Kapur’s first English-language film.

Quotes

Elizabeth: “Observe, Lord Burghley, I am married to England.”