Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I

  Christopher Eccleston as Duke of Norfolk

  Joseph Fiennes as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

  Geoffrey Rush as Sir Francis Walsingham

   Richard Attenborough as Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley

  Jamie Foreman as Earl of Sussex

  Edward Hardwicke as Earl of Arundel

  Kathy Burke as Queen Mary Tudor

  James Frain as Alvaro de la Quadra

  Eric Cantona as Monsieur de Foix

  Fanny Ardant as Mary of Guise

  Vincent Cassel as Duc d'Anjou