List of The Crown characters
The Crown is a historical drama web television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan, and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix. It grew out of Morgan's film The Queen (2006) and his stage play The Audience (2013).
The following is a list of characters and respective cast members who appeared on the television series. The majority of the cast has changed every two seasons to better portray the characters as they age.
Characters and cast[]
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This section shows characters who will appear or have appeared in at least one season of the series.
- A green cell indicates the actor is a main cast member.
- A red cell indicates the actor is a recurring cast member.
- A light blue cell indicates the actor is a guest or special guest cast member.
- A yellow cell indicates the actor is a featured cast member.
Main[]
The following characters have been credited as main cast in the opening credits.
| Character | Appearances / actors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 (2016) |
Season 2 (2017) |
Season 3 (2019) |
Season 4 (2020) | |
| Queen Elizabeth II Young Princess Elizabeth |
Claire Foy | Olivia Colman | ||
| Verity Russell | Verity Russell | Claire Foy | ||
| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Young Prince Philip |
Matt Smith | Tobias Menzies | ||
| Finn Elliot[a] | Finn Elliot | |||
| Princess Margaret Young Princess Margaret |
Vanessa Kirby | Helena Bonham Carter | ||
| Beau Gadsdon | Beau Gadsdon | |||
| Queen Mary | Eileen Atkins | |||
| Anthony Eden | Jeremy Northam | |||
| Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | Victoria Hamilton | Marion Bailey | ||
| Peter Townsend | Ben Miles | Ben Miles | ||
| Louis Mountbatten | Greg Wise | Charles Dance | Charles Dance | |
| King George VI | Jared Harris | Jared Harris | ||
| Winston Churchill | John Lithgow | John Lithgow | ||
| Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor | Alex Jennings | Alex Jennings | Derek Jacobi | |
| Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Lia Williams | Lia Williams | Geraldine Chaplin | |
| Harold Macmillan | Anton Lesser | |||
| Antony Armstrong-Jones | Matthew Goode | Ben Daniels | ||
| Harold Wilson | Jason Watkins | |||
| Anne, Princess Royal | Grace and Amelia Gilmour (uncredited)[1] | Erin Doherty | ||
| Lyla Barrett-Rye | ||||
| Charles, Prince of Wales | Billy Jenkins | Josh O'Connor | ||
| Julian Baring[b] | ||||
| Margaret Thatcher Young Margaret Thatcher |
Gillian Anderson | |||
| Eva Feiler | ||||
| Diana, Princess of Wales | Emma Corrin | |||
| Denis Thatcher | Stephen Boxer | |||
| Camilla Parker Bowles | Emerald Fennell | Emerald Fennell | ||
Featured[]
The following cast members have been credited in the opening titles of up to two episodes in a season.
| Character | Appearances / actors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 (2016) |
Season 2 (2017) |
Season 3 (2019) |
Season 4 (2020) | |
| Graham Sutherland | Stephen Dillane | |||
| Patricia Campbell | Gemma Whelan | |||
| Lord Altrincham | John Heffernan | |||
| Billy Graham | Paul Sparks | |||
| John F. Kennedy | Michael C. Hall | |||
| Jacqueline Kennedy | Jodi Balfour | |||
| Kurt Hahn | Burghart Klaußner | |||
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Clancy Brown | |||
| Princess Alice of Battenberg | Rosalind Knight | Sophie Leigh Stone | Jane Lapotaire | |
| Edward Millward | Mark Lewis Jones | |||
| Robin Woods | Tim McMullan | |||
| Edward Heath Young Edward Heath |
Michael Maloney[c] | |||
| Louis Zegrean | ||||
| Andrew Parker Bowles | Andrew Buchan | Andrew Buchan | ||
| Roddy Llewellyn | Harry Treadaway | Harry Treadaway[d] | ||
| Michael Fagan | Tom Brooke | |||
| Bob Hawke | Richard Roxburgh[e] | |||
| Derek Johnson | Tom Burke | |||
| Michael Shea | Nicholas Farrell | |||
Recurring[]
The following characters have appeared in two or more episodes within a season.
| Character | Appearances / actors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 (2016) |
Season 2 (2017) |
Season 3 (2019) |
Season 4 (2020) | |
| Lord Salisbury | Clive Francis | |||
| Tommy Lascelles | Pip Torrens | Pip Torrens | ||
| Martin Charteris | Harry Hadden-Paton | Charles Edwards | ||
| Mike Parker | Daniel Ings | |||
| Margaret "Bobo" MacDonald | Lizzy McInnerny | |||
| Duke of Norfolk | Patrick Ryecart | Patrick Ryecart | Patrick Ryecart | |
| Michael Adeane | Will Keen | David Rintoul | ||
| Doctor Weir | James Laurenson | |||
| Cecil Beaton | Mark Tandy | |||
| Clementine Churchill | Harriet Walter | |||
| Jock Colville | Nicholas Rowe | |||
| Clement Attlee | Simon Chandler | |||
| Venetia Scott | Kate Phillips | |||
| Archbishop of Canterbury | Ronald Pickup | |||
| Harry Crookshank | Nigel Cooke | |||
| Lord Chamberlain | Patrick Drury | |||
| Archbishop of York | John Woodvine | |||
| Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester | Andy Sanderson | Michael Thomas | ||
| Rab Butler | Michael Culkin | |||
| Walter Monckton | George Asprey | |||
| The Queen's Equerry | James Hillier | |||
| Collins | Jo Stone-Fewings | |||
| Clarissa Eden | Anna Madeley | Anna Madeley | ||
| Bishop of Durham | Tony Guilfoyle | |||
| Billy Wallace | Nick Hendrix | Tom Durant-Pritchard | ||
| Johnny Dalkeith | Josh Taylor | Josh Taylor | ||
| Colin Tennant | David Shields | Pip Carter | Richard Teverson | |
| Bill Mattheson | Paul Thornley | |||
| Eileen Parker | Chloe Pirrie | |||
| Anthony Nutting | Nicholas Burns | |||
| Master of the Household | Michael Bertenshaw | Michael Bertenshaw | ||
| Lady Mountbatten | Lucy Russell | |||
| Conolly Abel Smith | Adrian Lukis | |||
| Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark | Guy Williams | |||
| Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark | Leonie Benesch | Leonie Benesch | ||
| Meryn Lewis | Simon Paisley Day | |||
| Dorothy Macmillan | Sylvestra Le Touzel | |||
| Elizabeth Cavendish | Catherine Bailey | |||
| Porchey | Joseph Kloska | Joseph Kloska | John Hollingworth | |
| Bob Boothby | Paul Clayton | |||
| Camilla Fry | Yolanda Kettle | |||
| Jeremy Fry | Ed Cooper Clarke | |||
| Dudley Moore | Ryan Sampson | |||
| John Profumo | Tim Steed | |||
| Freddie Bishop | Robert Irons | |||
| Jim Orr Young Jim Orr |
Oliver Maltman | |||
| Kit Redding | ||||
| Alec Douglas-Home | David Annen | |||
| Stephen Ward | Richard Lintern | |||
| Equerry | Sam Phillips | |||
| Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester | Penny Downie | |||
| Winkie | Alan Gill | |||
| Blinkie | Pippa Winslow | |||
| Tony Benn | Mark Dexter | |||
| Barbara Castle | Lorraine Ashbourne | |||
| Richard Crossman | Aden Gillett | |||
| Marcia Williams | Sinéad Matthews | |||
| George Thomas | David Charles | |||
| George Thomson | Stuart McQuarrie | |||
| Sydney Johnson | Connie M'Gadzah | |||
| Prince Edward | Sidney Jackson | Angus Imrie | ||
| Prince Andrew | Marlo Woolley | Tom Byrne | ||
| Mark Thatcher | Freddie Fox | |||
| Carol Thatcher | Rebecca Humphries | |||
| Edward Adeane | Richard Goulding | |||
| Virginia Pitman | Letty Thomas | |||
| Carolyn Pride | Allegra Marland | |||
| Anne Bolton | Flora Higgins | |||
| Mark Phillips | Geoffrey Breton | |||
| Bernard Ingham | Kevin McNally | |||
| Sir Geoffrey Howe | Paul Jesson | |||
| Jim Prior | Nicholas Day | |||
| Lord Hailsham | Richard Syms | |||
| Lord Soames | Peter Pacey | |||
| John Nott | Paul Bigley | |||
| Willie Whitelaw | Don Gallagher | |||
| Francis Pym | Guy Siner | |||
| Ruth, Lady Fermoy | Georgie Glen | |||
| John Moore | Dugald Bruce-Lockhart | |||
| Wendy Mitchell | Judith Paris | |||
| Charles Powell | Dominic Rowan | |||
| Sir Shridath Ramphal | Tony Jayawardena | |||
| Sarah Lindsay | Alana Ramsey | |||
| Sarah, Duchess of York | Jessica Aquilina | |||
| Patrick Jephson | Tom Turner | |||
| Dickie Arbiter | David Phelan | |||
| Equerry | Daniel Fraser | |||
| Prince William | Elliott Hughes Jasper Hughes | |||
| Lucas Barber-Grant | ||||
| Prince Harry | Arran Tinker | |||
Notable guests[]
The following cast members have appeared in a single episode within a season.
| Character | Appearances / actors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 (2016) |
Season 2 (2017) |
Season 3 (2019) |
Season 4 (2020) | |
| Lord Moran | Nicholas Jones | |||
| Ernest Augustus von Hanover | Daniel Betts | |||
| Mary | Samantha Baines | |||
| Thurman | Anthony Flanagan | |||
| Nancy Lewis | Clare Foster | |||
| Tony Longdon | Ed Stoppard | |||
| Baron Nahum | Julius D'Silva | |||
| Mary Charteris | Jo Herbert | |||
| John F. Dulles | Garrick Hagon | |||
| Professor Hogg | Alan Williams | |||
| Henry Marten | Michael Cochrane | |||
| Norman Hartnell | Richard Clifford | |||
| Commander Vyner | David Yelland | |||
| Lady Doris | Caroline Goodall | |||
| Imbert-Terry | John Standing | |||
| Kathleen Sutherland | Amelia Bullmore | |||
| Jean Wallop | Andrea Deck | |||
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | Amir Boutrous | |||
| Judy Montagu | Abigail Parmenter | |||
| Galina Ulanova | Aliya Tanikpaeva | |||
| Christian Pineau | Sam Spiegel | |||
| David Ben-Gurion | Hugh Futcher | |||
| Helen King | Mirrah Foulkes | |||
| Doctor Evans | Terrence Hardiman | |||
| Bishop of Norwich | David Roper | |||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Matthew Marsh | |||
| Robin Day | Bertie Carvel | |||
| Humphrey | Miles Jupp | |||
| Gloria | Anne Lambton | |||
| George Allen | Miles Richardson | |||
| Fruity Metcalfe | Gareth Marks | |||
| Vita Sackville-West | Janet Henfrey | |||
| John Wheeler-Bennett | Tristan Sturrock | |||
| Margaret Lambert | Stella Gonet | |||
| Baba Metcalfe | Rebecca Saire | |||
| Adolf Hitler | Daniel Philpott | |||
| Lady Rosse | Anna Chancellor | |||
| Kwame Nkrumah | Danny Sapani | |||
| Patrick Plunket | Sam Crane | |||
| Robert F. Kennedy | Julian Ovenden | |||
| Leonid Brezhnev | James Borthwick | |||
| Lee Radziwill | Skye Hallam | |||
| Stanisław Radziwill | James Garnon | |||
| Charles de Gaulle | Jacques Boudet | |||
| Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse | August Wittgenstein | |||
| Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark | Eliza Sodró | |||
| Iain Tennant | Lewis MacLeod | |||
| Peter Beck | Michael Fenton Stevens | |||
| Stephen Ward | Richard Lintern | |||
| Jonathan Miller | Josh Lacey | |||
| Alan Bennett | Seb Carrington | |||
| Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent | Clare Holman | |||
| Christine Keeler | Gala Gordon | |||
| Anthony Blunt | Samuel West | |||
| Martin Furnival Jones | Angus Wright | |||
| Michael Straight | Paul Hilton | |||
| Mary Wilson | Teresa Banham | |||
| James Jesus Angleton | Anthony Brophy | |||
| Patrick Dean | Michael Simkins | |||
| W. Marvin Watson | Martin McDougall | |||
| Lady Bird Johnson | Suzanne Kopser | |||
| Fred Phillips | Richard Harrington | |||
| Gwen Edwards | Gwyneth Keyworth | |||
| John Armstrong | Colin Morgan | |||
| Chronos | Miltos Yerolemou | |||
| Marquis Childs | Nigel Whitmey | |||
| Lawrence E. Spivak | Colin Stinton | |||
| Cecil Harmsworth King | Rupert Vansittart | |||
| Cecil Boyd-Rochfort | Julian Glover | |||
| Alec Head | Philippe Smolikowski | |||
| Arthur "Bull" Hancock | John Finn | |||
| Silvia Millward | Nia Roberts | |||
| Thomas Parry | David Summer | |||
| Richard Dimbleby | Henry Dimbleby | |||
| Ben Bowen Thomas | Alan David | |||
| Neil Armstrong | Henry Pettigrew | |||
| Buzz Aldrin | Felix Scott | |||
| Michael Collins | Andrew-Lee Potts | |||
| Cliff Michelmore | Fred Broom | |||
| Patrick Moore | Daniel Beales | |||
| Priest Michael | Kevin Eldon | |||
| Kenneth Harris | Matthew Baldwin | |||
| Emperor Hirohito | Togo Igawa | |||
| Arthur Scargill | David Wilmot | |||
| Ann Parker Bowles | Judith Alexander | |||
| Major Bruce Shand | Robert Benedetti-Hall | |||
| Rosalind Shand | Nesba Crenshaw | |||
| Joe Gormley | Richard Walsh | |||
| Lucy Lindsay-Hogg | Jessica De Gouw | |||
| Lady Anne Tennant | Nancy Carroll | |||
| Bodley Scott | Martin Wimbush | |||
| Alastair Burnet | Dan Skinner | |||
| John Betjeman | Tim Bentinck | |||
| Lady Sarah Spencer | Isobel Eadie | |||
| Patricia Knatchbull | Harriet Benson | |||
| Dowager Lady Brabourne | Valerie Sarruf | |||
| Timothy Knatchbull | Brandon Whitt | |||
| Nicholas Knatchbull | Evan Whitt | |||
| Lord Brabourne | Mark Carlisle | |||
| Thomas McMahon | Mark Brennan | |||
| Laurens van der Post | Roy Sampson | |||
| Anne-Charlotte Verney | Karina Orr | |||
| Admiral Henry Leach | Douglas Reith | |||
| Graham Evans | Adam Fitzgerald | |||
| Hazel Hawke | Naomi Allisstone | |||
| Penelope Carter | Gemma Jones | |||
| Katherine Bowes-Lyon | Trudie Emery | |||
| Nerissa Bowes-Lyon | Pauline Hendrickson | |||
| Hardy Amies | Peter Symonds | |||
| Wayne Sleep | Jay Webb | |||
| James Hewitt | Daniel Donskoy | |||
| Elspeth Howe | Lin Sagovsky | |||
| Margaret Heagarty | Annette Badland | |||
| Kenneth Clarke | Nick Wymer | |||
| Michael Howard | Al Barclay | |||
| Norman Lamont | Keith Chopping | |||
| Peter Lilley | Martin Fisher | |||
| John Major | Marc Ozall | |||
| Cecil Parkinson | Duncan Duff | |||
| Chris Patten | Oliver Milburn | |||
| Malcolm Rifkind | Michael Mears | |||
| Bernard Weatherill | Stephen Greif | |||
Notes[]
- ^ Elliot is credited with the main cast in "Paterfamilias" and as a guest star in "A Company of Men".
- ^ Baring is credited with the main cast in "Paterfamilias" and as a guest star in other season two episodes.
- ^ Maloney is credited as a guest star in "Cri de Coeur".
- ^ Treadaway is credited for archive footage in "The Hereditary Principle".
- ^ Roxburgh is credited with the main cast in "Terra Nullius" and as a guest star in "48:1".
References[]
- ^ Lacey, Robert (5 October 2017). The Crown: The Inside History. London: Blink Publishing. p. 354. ISBN 9781911274988.
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