Saoirse Ronan
Mary Stuart
Acting
Margot Robbie
Queen Elizabeth I
Acting
Jack Lowden
Lord Darnley
Acting
Joe Alwyn
Robert Dudley
Acting
David Tennant
John Knox
Acting
Guy Pearce
William Cecil
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Gemma Chan
Bess of Hardwick
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Martin Compston
Earl of Bothwell
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Ismael Cruz Cordova
David Rizzio
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Brendan Coyle
Earl of Lennox
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Ian Hart
Lord Maitland
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James McArdle
James, Earl of Moray
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Richard Cant
Thomas Andrews
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Guy Rhys
Earl of Kent
Acting
Thom Petty
Earl of Shrewsbury
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Izuka Hoyle
Mary Seton
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John Ramm
Bull
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Simon Russell Beale
Robert Beale
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Maria Dragus
Mary Fleming
Acting
Liah O'Prey
Mary Livingston
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Eileen O'Higgins
Mary Beaton
Acting
Greg Miller Burns
Thomas Hepburn
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Aneurin Pascoe
John Hepburn
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Adrian Derrick-Palmer
George Dalgleish
Crew
Kal Sabir
The Laird of Ramorny
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Luke Kidd
James Haliburton
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Adrian Lester
Lord Randolph
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Georgia Burnell
Kate Carey
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Alan Turkington
Thomas Jenye
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Euan Macnaughton
William Kirkcaldy of Grange
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Scot Greenan
Hector Maclean
Acting
Karen Dunbar
Commoner
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Ian Hallard
Sir Richard Knightley
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Andrew Rothney
King James I
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Angela Bain
Snuffer Woman
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Abby Cassidy
Fotheringhay Gentlewoman
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Shalisha James-Davis
Fotheringhay Gentlewoman
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Adam Bond
Sir William Douglas
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Katharine O'Donnelly
Young Holyrood Servant
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Grace Molony
Dorothy Stafford
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Luke Hobson
Henry Killigrew
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Ben Wiggins
John Tamworth
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Eldredd Wolf
William Killigrew
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Eric MacLennan
Portrait Painter
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Nathen East
Andrew Ker of Fawdonside
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Daniel Booroff
Knox's Secretary
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Sean Buchanan
Francis Yaxley
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Matthew Pidgeon
Wedding Announcer
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Benjamin Barraclough
Officer
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Jordan Turk
James MacDonald
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Adam Stevenson
Urie Campbell
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Scot Greenan
Hector MacLean
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Chris Grahamson
Moray's Drummer
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Ed Jones
William Taylor
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Owen Gorman
Bishop
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John Stahl
Fisherman
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Kadiff Kirwan
Attaché
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Alex Beckett
Sir Walter Mildmay
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Will Rowlands
Soldier
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Grant Crookes
Bothwell
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Philip Gascoyne
English Nobleman (uncredited)
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Daniel Joseph Woolf
Queen's Privy Council (uncredited)
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