Cate Blanchett

as Elizabeth I

Joseph Fiennes

as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

Geoffrey Rush

as Sir Francis Walsingham

Christopher Eccleston

as Duke of Norfolk

John Gielgud

as The Pope

Richard Attenborough

as Sir William Cecil

Fanny Ardant

as Mary of Guise

Éric Cantona

as Monsieur de Foix