• 
  Roland Emmerich

  regizor

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  Vanessa Redgrave

  regina Elisabeta
• 
  Rhys Ifans

  contele of Oxford
• 
  Rafe Spall

  William Shakespeare
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  Edward Hogg

  Robert Cecil
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  David Thewlis

  William Cecil
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  Alex Hassell

  Spencer
• 
  Alexander Yassin

  Javanese Nobleman

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  Amy Kwolek

  Anne de Vere, tânără
• 
  Isaiah Michalski

  Robert Cecil
• 
  Joely Richardson

  prinţesa Elizabeth Tudor
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  John Keogh

  Philip Henslowe
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  Julian Bleach

  Sir Richard Pole
• 
  Luke Thomas Taylor

  Boy Oxford
• 
  Paula Schramm

  Bridget de Vere

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  Robert Emms

  Thomas Dekker
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  Sebastian Armesto

  Ben Jonson
• 
  Sebastian Reid

  Essex
• 
  Tony Way

  Thomas Nashe
• 
  Trystan Gravelle

  Christopher Marlow
• 
  Vicky Krieps

  Bessie
• 
  Xavier Samuel

  Henry Wriothesley
• 
  Ned Dennehy

  interogator
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  Mike Maas

  parior
• 
  Mark Rylance

  Gloucester
• 
  Jamie Campbell Bower

  contele de Oxford, tânăr
• 
  Patrick Diemling

  ucenicul lui Oxford
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  Tom Wlaschiha

  căpitanul Gărzii
• 
  Paolo De Vita

  Francesco
• 
  Sam Reid

  Earl of Essex

• 
  Roland Emmerich

  producător
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  Larry J. Franco

  producător
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  Anna Foerster

  imagine
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  Lisy Christl

  costume
• 
  Peter R. Adam

  montaj
• 
  Thomas Wanker

  coloană sonoră
• 
  Sebastian T. Krawinkel

  design de producţie
• 
  Simon-Julien Boucherie

  decoruri