WOLF HALL

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• Release Year: 2015
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Tony® Award-winning actor Mark Rylance (Twelfth Night) and Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winner Damian Lewis (Homeland) star in the six-hour miniseries adapted from Hilary Mantel's best-selling Booker Prize-winning novels: Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. ; ; From humble beginnings and with an enigmatic past, Thomas Cromwell (Rylance) is the brilliant consigliere to King Henry VIII (Lewis). Told from Cromwell's perspective, Wolf Hall follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king and country while dealing with deadly political intrigue, Henry VIII's tempestuous relationship with Anne Boleyn (Claire Foy, Little Dorrit), and the religious upheavals of the Protestant reformation. ; ; A historical drama for a modern audience, this unromanticized re-telling lifts the veil on the internal struggles England faced on the brink of Reformation. At the center of it all is Cromwell, navigating the moral complexities that accompany the exercise of power, trapped between his desire to do what is right and his instinct to survive. ;
• Cast: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Joss Porter, Bernard Hill, Hannah Steele, Jessica Raine, Edward Holcroft, Joel MacCormack, Tom Holland, Richard Dillane, Saskia Reeves, Luke Roberts, David Robb, Kate Phillips, Will Keen, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Ed Speleers, Alastair Mackenzie, Tim Plester, Mark Gatiss, Anton Lesser, Jonathan Pryce, Max Fowler, Felix Scott, Joanne Whalley, Iain Batchelor, Mary Jo Randle, Natasha Little, Charity Wakefield, Harry Lloyd, Tim Steed, Samuel Bottomley, Bryan Dick, Emma Hiddleston, Robert Wilfort, Jonathan Aris, Sarah Crowden, Janet Henfrey, Mathieu Amalric, Enzo Cilenti, Paul Ritter, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Athena Droutis, Monica Dolan, Christopher Fairbank, Lily Lesser, Nigel Cooke, Richard Rycroft, Kerry Ingram, Benjamin Whitrow, Emilia Jones, Izzy Lee, Sarah Bennett, Louise Kimber, Richard Durden, Sean Buckley, Jonathan McGuinness, Robert Rowe, Thomas Arnold, Gus Barry, Paul Clayton, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Lucy Russell, Christopher Staines, James Laurenson, Miltos Yerolemou, Elizabeth Conboy, Sam Alexander, Jack Lowden, Philippe Spall, Tom Forbes, Ian Barritt, James Greene, Rocky Marshall, Richard Banks, Ben Steele, Karol Steele, Gary John Barber, Mark Baxter, Steve Carroll, Elaine Caulfield, Graham Cawte, Alex Chapman, Michael Dacre, Jamie Darlington, Nik Davies, Charlotte Day, Kevin Dodds, Helen Evans, Wayne Gibbon, Lucy Greenhalgh, John W.G. Harley, Jessie Hawkes, Lex Lamprey, Daniel Lander, Xavier Laurent, Kris Lee, Vikki MacKenzie, Martyn Mayger, Stephen McDade, Stuart McNeil, Colin Murtagh, Emily Alice Nolan, Rachel Jane Rhodes, Sean Talo, Colin Taylor, Mark Tilbury, Glenn Webster, Benjamin Woof, Peter Kosminsky, Hilary Mantel, Peter Straughan
• Director: Peter Kosminsky
• Runtime: 6:00
• Company: PBS
• Media Format: Series