Editing Thomas Wolsey (section)

==Fictional portrayals==
* Wolsey plays a major role in the early stages of ''the Autobiography of Henry VIII'' by [[Margaret George]].
* Wolsey is the primary antagonist of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Henry VIII (play)|Henry VIII]]'', which depicts him as an arrogant power-grabber.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Irish |first1=Bradley |title=Emotion in the Tudor Court: The Disgusting Cardinal Thomas Wolsey |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv3znz47.6  |publisher=Northwestern University Press |jstor=j.ctv3znz47.6 |access-date=20 February 2023}}</ref> [[Henry Irving]], [[Walter Hampden]] and [[John Gielgud]] were well known for their stage performances of the role, and [[Timothy West]] played him in the 1979 [[BBC Television Shakespeare]] production of that play. Henry Irving's reading of Wolsey's Farewell survives on a rare wax cylinder recording.{{sfn|Kilgarriff|n.d.}}
* Wolsey is a minor but important character in [[Robert Bolt]]'s play ''[[A Man for All Seasons (play)|A Man for All Seasons]]''; he was played in the two film versions of the play by [[Orson Welles]] ([[A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)|1966]]) and [[John Gielgud]] ([[A Man for All Seasons (1988 film)|1988]]), respectively.
* Wolsey was portrayed somewhat more sympathetically in the film ''[[Anne of the Thousand Days]]'' (1969), a performance that earned [[Anthony Quayle]] an [[Academy Award]] nomination.
* Wolsey was played by [[John Baskcomb]] in ''[[The Six Wives of Henry VIII (BBC TV series)|The Six Wives of Henry VIII]]'' (1970) and by [[John Bryans]] when the series was made into the film ''[[Henry VIII and His Six Wives]]'' (1972).
* [[David Suchet]] plays Wolsey in the 2003 two-part television serial ''[[Henry VIII (TV serial)|Henry VIII]]'' with [[Ray Winstone]].
* [[Terry Scott]] portrayed a comical Wolsey in ''[[Carry On Henry]]'' (1970).
* William Griffis played Wolsey in the Broadway musical ''[[Rex (musical)|Rex]]'' (1976), which starred [[Nicol Williamson]] as Henry.
* In the Showtime series ''[[The Tudors]]'' (2007), [[Sam Neill]] plays Wolsey. This production interprets his death as suicide by cutthroat, covered up by the king and Cromwell out of residual affection for him.
* [[Roger Ashton-Griffiths]] portrays Wolsey in [[David Starkey]]'s 2009 documentary series ''[[Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant]]''.
* Wolsey is one of the main characters in [[Hilary Mantel]]'s novel ''[[Wolf Hall]]'' (2009), played by [[Paul Jesson]] in the RSC production<ref>[https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/wolf-hall-parts-one-two-498312 IBDB – Wolf Hall Parts One & Two]</ref> and by [[Jonathan Pryce]] in the [[Wolf Hall (TV series)|first]] and [[Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light|second]] television series.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Masterpiece Announces Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/masterpiece-announces-wolf-hall-the-mirror-and-the-light/ |access-date=2024-06-29 |website=Masterpiece |language=en-US}}</ref> He is portrayed through Cromwell's eyes as a mentor and a ruthlessly loyal statesman. A desire to avenge Wolsey's downfall and ignominious death fuels many of Cromwell's actions through the latter half of ''Wolf Hall'' and its sequel ''[[Bring Up the Bodies]]'', which was incorporated into the stage and television adaptations.
* In the TVE series ''[[Carlos, rey emperador]]'' (2015), he is portrayed by Blai Llopis.
* Wolsey appears in ''[[The White Princess]]'', STARZ, Season 1, Episode 8 (2017), played by Mark Edel-Hunt.
* Philip Cumbus portrays Wolsey in ''[[The Spanish Princess]]'', a sequel to ''The White Princess''.