Henry VIII (TV serial)

Henry VIII (TV serial)

Infobox Television Film
name = Henry VIII


caption =
format = Historical drama
runtime = 250 min.
director = Pete Travis
producer = Justin Bodle
Rebecca Eaton
Andy Harries
Francis Hopkinson
Peter Morgan
Bill Shephard
writer = Peter Morgan
starring = Ray Winstone
music = Rob Lane
country = United Kingdom
language = English
network = ITV
first_aired = 12 October 2003
last_aired = 19 October 2003
num_episodes = 2

"Henry VIII" is a British two-part television serial produced principally by Granada Television for ITV, based on the life of Henry VIII of England. It chronicled the monarch's life from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until his death following a stroke in 1547, by which time he had married for the sixth time. Additional production funding was provided by WGBH Boston and Powercorp.

It starred veteran British actor Ray Winstone in his first role in a costume drama; his co-star was Helena Bonham Carter who played Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, whose character dominated the first episode and whose dramatic death brought the first part of the story to its conclusion. Character actor David Suchet also made an appearance as Henry's first chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey. The second episode, which followed the last eleven years of Henry's life, saw Winstone act opposite Emilia Fox as his docile third wife, Jane Seymour, Sean Bean as a Catholic rebel and Emily Blunt (in her first major appearance) as Catherine Howard, the promiscuous teenager who was coerced into becoming Henry's fifth queen.

Cast

*Ray Winstone as King Henry VIII
*Joss Ackland as King Henry VII
*Charles Dance as the Duke of Buckingham
*Mark Strong as the Duke of Norfolk
*Assumpta Serna as Katherine of Aragon
*Thomas Lockyer as Edward Seymour
*William Houston as Thomas Seymour
*David Suchet as Thomas Wolsey
*Danny Webb as Thomas Cromwell
*Scott Handy as Henry Percy
*Helena Bonham Carter as Anne Boleyn
*Benjamin Whitrow as Thomas Boleyn
*John Higgins as Robert Barnes
*Michael Maloney as Thomas Cranmer
*Lara Belmont as Mary Tudor
*Emilia Fox as Jane Seymour
*Sean Bean as Robert Aske
*Joseph Morgan as Thomas Culpeper
*Marsha Fitzalan as the Duchess of Norfolk
*Terence Harvey as Bishop Gardiner
*Kelly Hunter as Lady Rochford
*Pia Girard as Anne of Cleves
*Emily Blunt as Catherine Howard
*Tom Turner as Francis Dereham
*Clare Holman as Catherine Parre
*Hugh Mitchell as King Edward VI
*David Gwillim as Physician
*Derek Jacobi as the narrator (uncredited)

Awards

*Cine awards best actress - Helena Bonham Carter
*Cine awards best series
*Fantasporto best actress - Helena Bonham Carter


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