Rupert Graves

William Shakespeare

Tom Sturridge

William Herbert

Indira Varma

Lucie "The dark lady"

Zoë Wanamaker

Countess of Pembroke

Anna Chancellor

Anne Hathaway

Andrew Tiernan

Ben Jonson

Nicky Henson

John Shakespeare

Alan Williams

George Wilkin

Nicholas Rowe

Richard Burbage

Tom Hiddleston

John Hall

Tom Mison

Young Blood

Christopher Fairbank

Physician

Camilla Arfwedson

Lucie's Maid

Joanne McCallin

Street Hoare

Joseph Rhys Blake

Street Urchin

Clem Tibber

Hamnet Shakespeare

Ian Hughes

Thomas Thorpe