List of The Crown characters
The Crown is a historical drama web television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan, and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix. It grew out of Morgan's film The Queen (2006) and his stage play The Audience (2013).
The following is a list of characters and respective cast members who appeared on the television series. The majority of the cast has changed every two seasons to better portray the characters as they age.
Characters and cast
This section includes main cast members, recurring characters, and notable guest stars.
- A green cell indicates the actor is a main cast member.
- A yellow cell indicates the actor is a featured cast member.
- A red cell indicates the actor is a recurring cast member.
- A light blue cell indicates the actor is a guest or special guest cast member.
Main
The following characters have been credited as main cast in the opening credits.
Character | Appearances / actors | ||||||
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Season 1 (2016) | Season 2 (2017) | Season 3 (2019) | Season 4 (2020) | Season 5 (2022) | Season 6 (2023) | ||
Queen Elizabeth II | Claire Foy | Olivia Colman | Imelda Staunton | ||||
Verity Russell | Verity Russell | Claire Foy | Claire Foy | Viola Prettejohn[a] | |||
Claire Foy | |||||||
Olivia Colman | |||||||
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | Matt Smith | Tobias Menzies | Jonathan Pryce | ||||
Finn Elliot[b] | Finn Elliot | ||||||
Princess Margaret | Vanessa Kirby | Helena Bonham Carter | Lesley Manville | ||||
Beau Gadsdon | Beau Gadsdon | Vanessa Kirby[c] | Beau Gadsdon | ||||
Queen Mary | Eileen Atkins | Candida Benson | |||||
Anthony Eden | Jeremy Northam | ||||||
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | Victoria Hamilton | Marion Bailey | Marcia Warren | ||||
Peter Townsend | Ben Miles | Ben Miles | Timothy Dalton | Hamish Riddle | |||
Ben Miles[c] | |||||||
Louis Mountbatten | Greg Wise | Charles Dance | Charles Dance | ||||
King George VI | Jared Harris | Jared Harris | |||||
Winston Churchill | John Lithgow | John Lithgow | |||||
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor | Alex Jennings | Alex Jennings | Derek Jacobi | Alex Jennings | |||
Adam Buchanan | |||||||
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Lia Williams | Lia Williams | Geraldine Chaplin | Lia Williams | |||
Harold Macmillan | Anton Lesser | ||||||
Antony Armstrong-Jones | Matthew Goode | Ben Daniels | |||||
Harold Wilson | Jason Watkins | ||||||
Anne, Princess Royal | Grace and Amelia Gilmour (uncredited)[2] | Erin Doherty | Claudia Harrison | ||||
Lyla Barrett-Rye | |||||||
Charles, Prince of Wales | Billy Jenkins | Josh O'Connor | Dominic West | ||||
Julian Baring[d] | |||||||
Diana, Princess of Wales | Emma Corrin | Elizabeth Debicki | |||||
Margaret Thatcher | Gillian Anderson | ||||||
Eva Feiler | |||||||
Denis Thatcher | Stephen Boxer | ||||||
Camilla Parker Bowles | Emerald Fennell | Emerald Fennell | Olivia Williams | ||||
John Major | Marc Ozall | Jonny Lee Miller | |||||
Penny Knatchbull | Natascha McElhone | ||||||
Tony Blair | Bertie Carvel | Bertie Carvel | |||||
Mohamed Al-Fayed | Salim Daw | Salim Daw | |||||
Amir El-Masry | |||||||
Dodi Fayed | Khalid Abdalla | Khalid Abdalla | |||||
Prince William of Wales | Lucas Barber-Grant | Timothée Sambor | Rufus Kampa | ||||
Elliott and Jasper Hughes | Senan West | Ed McVey | |||||
Prince Harry of Wales | Arran Tinker | Teddy Hawley | Fflyn Edwards | ||||
Will Powell | Luther Ford | ||||||
Catherine Middleton | Meg Bellamy | ||||||
Ella Bright |
Featured
The following cast members have been credited in the opening titles of up to two episodes in a season.
Character | Appearances / actors | |||||
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Season 1 (2016) | Season 2 (2017) | Season 3 (2019) | Season 4 (2020) | Season 5 (2022) | Season 6 (2023) | |
Graham Sutherland | Stephen Dillane | |||||
Patricia Campbell | Gemma Whelan | |||||
Lord Altrincham | John Heffernan | |||||
Billy Graham | Paul Sparks | |||||
John F. Kennedy | Michael C. Hall | |||||
Jacqueline Kennedy | Jodi Balfour | |||||
Kurt Hahn | Burghart Klaußner | |||||
Lyndon B. Johnson | Clancy Brown | |||||
Princess Alice of Battenberg | Rosalind Knight | Sophie Leigh Stone | Jane Lapotaire | |||
Edward Millward | Mark Lewis Jones | |||||
Robin Woods | Tim McMullan | |||||
Edward Heath | Michael Maloney[e] | |||||
Louis Zegrean | ||||||
Andrew Parker Bowles | Andrew Buchan | Andrew Buchan | Daniel Flynn | |||
Roddy Llewellyn | Harry Treadaway | Harry Treadaway[f] | ||||
Michael Fagan | Tom Brooke | |||||
Bob Hawke | Richard Roxburgh[g] | |||||
Derek Johnson | Tom Burke | |||||
Michael Shea | Nicholas Farrell | |||||
Martin Bashir | Prasanna Puwanarajah | |||||
Carole Middleton | Eve Best |
Recurring
The following characters have appeared in two or more episodes within a season.
Notable guests
The following cast members have appeared in a single episode within a season.
Notes
- ^ Prettejohn is credited with the main cast in "Ritz" and as a guest star in "Sleep, Dearie Sleep".
- ^ Elliot is credited with the main cast in "Paterfamilias" and as a guest star in "A Company of Men".
- ^ a b Kirby and Miles are credited for flashback scenes in "Annus Horribilis" that used archival footage from the first two seasons.[1]
- ^ Baring is credited with the main cast in "Paterfamilias" and as a guest star in other season two episodes.
- ^ Maloney is credited as a guest star in "Cri de Coeur".
- ^ Treadaway is credited for archive footage in "The Hereditary Principle".
- ^ Roxburgh is credited with the main cast in "Terra Nullius" and as a guest star in "48:1".
References
- ^ Orquiola, John (11 November 2022). "Full List Of The Crown Season 5 Cameos (& When They Happen)". ScreenRant. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ Lacey, Robert (5 October 2017). The Crown: The Inside History. London: Blink Publishing. p. 354. ISBN 9781911274988. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2019.