TV Info
Episode Premiere
May 24, 2009Distributor
ShowtimeGenre
Drama, Romance, HistoryShow Period
2007 - nowProduction Company
Bord Scannon na hEireann, Peace Arch, Showtime
Cast and Crew
Screenwriter
Michael HirstMain Cast
- Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as King Henry VIII
- Henry Cavill as Charles Brandon
- James Frain as Thomas Cromwell
- Anthony Brophy
- Jeremy Northam as Sir Thomas More
- Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn
- Maria Doyle Kennedy
- Nick Dunning
- Annabelle Wallis as Jane Seymour
Synopsis
Henry moves swiftly to annul his loveless marriage to Anne of Cleves, and beds a new mistress, 17-year-old Katherine Howard; Princess Mary falls in love with Duke Philip of Bavaria; Cromwell's fall from favor is sudden and dramatic.
