Editing Elizabeth (film) (section)

==Cast==
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| caption1          = Queen Elizabeth I in The Darnley Portrait, c. 1575
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* [[Cate Blanchett]] as [[Queen Elizabeth I]]
* [[Geoffrey Rush]] as [[Francis Walsingham]]
* [[Joseph Fiennes]] as [[Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester]]
* [[Richard Attenborough]] as [[William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley]]
* [[Christopher Eccleston]] as [[Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk]]
* [[James Frain]] as [[Álvaro de la Quadra]]
* [[Eric Cantona]] as [[Paul de Foix]]
* [[Vincent Cassel]] as [[Henry, Duke of Anjou]]
* [[Kathy Burke]] as [[Queen Mary I]]
* [[Fanny Ardant]] as [[Mary of Guise]]
* [[Emily Mortimer]] as [[Kat Ashley]]
* [[Kelly Macdonald]] as [[Lettice Knollys|Isabel Knollys]]
* [[Jamie Foreman]] as [[Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex|Earl of Sussex]]
* [[Edward Hardwicke]] as [[Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel]]
* [[Amanda Ryan]] as Lettice Howard
* [[Terence Rigby]] as [[Stephen Gardiner|Bishop Stephen Gardiner]]
* [[Daniel Craig]] as [[John Ballard (Jesuit)|John Ballard]]
* [[John Gielgud]] as [[Pope Pius V]]
* [[Kenny Doughty]] as Sir Thomas Elyot
* [[Angus Deayton]] as [[Armagil Waad]], [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]]
* Vladimir Vega as the Vatican Cardinal
* [[Rod Culbertson]], [[Paul Fox (actor)|Paul Fox]], and Liz Giles as Protestant Martyrs
* George Yiasoumi as [[King Philip II of Spain]]
* Joe White as Master of the Tower
* Ben Frain as the Youth
* Brendan O'Hea as Lord William Howard
* [[Edward Highmore]] as Lord Harewood
* [[Joseph O'Conor]] as [[Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby|Earl of Derby]]
* Viviane Horne as Lady Arundel
* [[Daisy Bevan]] as Arundel's Daughter
* [[Alfie Allen]] as Arundel's son
* Jennifer Lewicki as Arundel's Housemaid
* Michael Beint as [[Owen Oglethorpe|Bishop Carlisle]]
* Peter Stockbridge as Palace Chamberlain
* [[Wayne Sleep]] as dance tutor
* Nick Smallman as the Executioner
* Lewis Jones as Catholic priest
* Valerie Gale as Mary's lady-in-waiting
* [[Lily Allen]], Sarah Owens, Hayley Burroughs, Kate Loustau, Sally Grey, and Elika Gibbs as Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting
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