Anonymous (2011)
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Cast & Crew
Jamie Campbell Bower
Young Earl of Oxford
Rhys Ifans
Edward de Vere
David Thewlis
William Cecil
Joely Richardson
Princess Elizabeth Tudor
Vanessa Redgrave
Queen Elizabeth I
Sebastian Armesto
Ben Jonson
Rafe Spall
William Shakespeare
Edward Hogg
Robert Cecil
Xavier Samuel
Earl of Southampton
Sam Reid
Earl of Essex
Paolo De Vita
Francesco
Trystan Gravelle
Christopher Marlowe
Robert Emms
Thomas Dekker
Tony Way
Thomas Nashe
Julian Bleach
Captain Richard Pole
Derek Jacobi
Prologue
Alex Hassell
Spencer
James Garnon
John Heminge
Mark Rylance
Condell
Jasper Britton
Pope
Ned Dennehy
Interrogator
John Keogh
Philip Henslowe
Lloyd Hutchinson
Richard Burbage
Vicky Krieps
Bessie Vavasour
Helen Baxendale
Anne De Vere
Paula Schramm
Bridget De Vere
Richard Durden
Archbishop
Shaun Lawton
Footman
Detlef Bothe
John De Vere
James Clyde
King James I
Christian Sengewald
Cecil's Spy Servant
Axel Sichrovsky
Essex General
Katrin Pollitt
Lady-in-Waiting
Laura Lo Zito
Selling Maid
Gode Benedix
Groundling
Nic Romm
Usher
Henry Lloyd-Hughes
Bear Baiter
Patrick Diemling
Oxford's Servant
Patrick Heyn
Oxford's Doctor
Nino Sandow
Stage Manager (New York)
Trystan Pütter
Bottom
André Kaczmarczyk
Titania
Jonas Hämmerle
Child Oberon
Mike Maas
Pole's Commander
Alfred Hartung
Stage Player: Shakespeare Company
Oliver Rickenbacher
Stage Player: Shakespeare Company
Claudius von Stolzmann
Stage Player: Shakespeare Company
John Orloff
Writer
Roland Emmerich
Director
Marc Weigert, John Orloff, Volker Engel
Executive Producer
Robert Leger, Roland Emmerich, Larry Franco
Producer
