Mary Queen of Scots (2018) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Josie Rourke.

Cast

• Saoirse Ronan as Mary Stuart
• Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I
• Jack Lowden as Lord Darnley
• David Tennant as John Knox
• Guy Pearce as William Cecil
• Gemma Chan as Bess of Hardwick
• James McArdle as James, Earl of Moray
• Ismael Cruz Cordova as David Rizzio
• Martin Compston as Earl of Bothwell
• Joe Alwyn as Robert Dudley
• Brendan Coyle as Earl of Lennox
• Ian Hart as Lord Maitland
• Richard Cant as Thomas Andrews
• Guy Rhys as Earl of Kent
• Thom Petty as Earl of Shrewsbury
• Izuka Hoyle as Mary Seton
• John Ramm as Bull
• Simon Russell Beale as Robert Beale
• Maria Dragus as Mary Fleming
• Liah O'Prey as Mary Livingston
• Eileen O'Higgins as Mary Beaton
• Greg Miller Burns as Thomas Hepburn
• Aneurin Pascoe as John Hepburn
• Adrian Derrick-Palmer as George Dalgleish
• Kal Sabir as The Laird of Ramorny
• Luke Kidd as James Haliburton
• Adrian Lester as Lord Randolph
• Georgia Burnell as Kate Carey
• Alan Turkington as Thomas Jenye
• Euan Macnaughton as William Kirkcaldy of Grange
• Scot Greenan as Hector Maclean
• Karen Dunbar as Commoner
• Ian Hallard as Sir Richard Knightley
• Andrew Rothney as King James I
• Angela Bain as Snuffer Woman
• Abby Cassidy as Fotheringhay Gentlewoman
• Shalisha James-Davis as Fotheringhay Gentlewoman
• Adam Bond as Sir William Douglas
• Katharine O'Donnelly as Young Holyrood Servant
• Grace Molony as Dorothy Stafford

Crew

• Josie Rourke — Director
• John Mathieson — Director of Photography
• Beau Willimon — Screenplay
• Max Richter — Original Music Composer
• Tim Bevan — Producer
• Eric Fellner — Producer
• Debra Hayward — Producer

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