Plot
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.
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Cast
Saoirse Ronan
Mary Stuart
Margot Robbie
Queen Elizabeth I
Jack Lowden
Lord Darnley
Joe Alwyn
Robert Dudley
David Tennant
John Knox
Guy Pearce
William Cecil
Gemma Chan
Bess of Hardwick
Martin Compston
Earl of Bothwell
Ismael Cruz Cordova
David Rizzio
Brendan Coyle
Earl of Lennox
Ian Hart
Lord Maitland
James McArdle
James, Earl of Moray
Richard Cant
Thomas Andrews
Guy Rhys
Earl of Kent
Thom Petty
Earl of Shrewsbury
Izuka Hoyle
Mary Seton
John Ramm
Bull
Simon Russell Beale
Robert Beale
Maria Dragus
Mary Fleming
Liah O'Prey
Mary Livingston
Eileen O'Higgins
Mary Beaton
Greg Miller Burns
Thomas Hepburn
Aneurin Pascoe
John Hepburn
Adrian Derrick-Palmer
George Dalgleish
Kal Sabir
The Laird of Ramorny
Luke Kidd
James Haliburton
Adrian Lester
Lord Randolph
Georgia Burnell
Kate Carey
Alan Turkington
Thomas Jenye
Euan Macnaughton
William Kirkcaldy of Grange
Scot Greenan
Hector Maclean
Karen Dunbar
Commoner
Ian Hallard
Sir Richard Knightley
Andrew Rothney
King James I
Angela Bain
Snuffer Woman
Abby Cassidy
Fotheringhay Gentlewoman
Shalisha James-Davis
Fotheringhay Gentlewoman
Adam Bond
Sir William Douglas
Katharine O'Donnelly
Young Holyrood Servant
Grace Molony
Dorothy Stafford
Luke Hobson
Henry Killigrew
Ben Wiggins
John Tamworth
Eldredd Wolf
William Killigrew
Eric MacLennan
Portrait Painter
Nathen East
Andrew Ker of Fawdonside
Daniel Booroff
Knox's Secretary
Sean Buchanan
Francis Yaxley
Matthew Pidgeon
Wedding Announcer
Benjamin Barraclough
Officer
Jordan Turk
James MacDonald
Adam Stevenson
Urie Campbell
Chris Grahamson
Moray's Drummer
Ed Jones
William Taylor
Owen Gorman
Bishop
John Stahl
Fisherman
Kadiff Kirwan
Attaché
Alex Beckett
Sir Walter Mildmay
Will Rowlands
Soldier
Grant Crookes
Bothwell
Philip Gascoyne
English Nobleman (uncredited)
