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Tom Austen has been added to the cast
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I have recently informed you that
Sky and
Canal Plus are preparing a TV series based on famous Western character
DJANGO who will be played by
Matthias Schoenaerts and now new names have been added to the cast. The series set in the 19th century will be one of the most expensive ones this season.
Noomi Rapace will be Elizabeth, a powerful and merciless enemy of John Ellis (
Nicholas Pinnock). Along with his fiancee Sarah, John Ellis is the founder of New Babylon, a city of outcasts which welcomes everyone from any background, race or creed.
Lisa Vacari will play Sarah, who is also Django's lost daughter. Our dear
Tom Austen will also star next to
Jyuddah Jaymes, Eric Kole and
Benny Opoku Arthur, who will play John Ellis’ three sons! Django finally finds Sarah in New Babylon after the rest
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Matthias Schoenaerts will play Django himself in the new series
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of his family was slaughtered eight years earlier. Gaining John Ellis’ hostility, he insists he must stay, arguing the city is in danger. Sarah fears, however, that his very presence in itself puts New Babylon in jeopardy.
And Tom Cullen is in it just as we spied with our little eye last winter :)
Starz new eight part epic drama
BECOMING ELIZABETH has announced full cast.
Alicia Von Rittberg will, as you already know, be young Elizabeth Tudor, an orphaned teenager who becomes embroiled in the political and
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First official photo from the new series with Cullen and Rittberg
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sexual politics of the English court on her journey to secure the crown. The death of King Henry VIII sets into motion a dangerous scramble for power. His surviving children find themselves pawns in a game between the great families of England and the powers of Europe who vie for control of the country.
Romola Garai will be Mary, Henry’s eldest child, daughter of his
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Tom Cullen and Jamie Blackley will star in the new series
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first wife, the Spanish princess herself, Catherine of Aragon.
Oliver Zetterström plays Edward, Henry’s youngest, but as a boy, the only one that matters in the brutal wars of Tudor succession.
Jessica Raine is Catherine Parr, Henry’s widow, a clever, educated woman, who played the part of Regent once during Henry’s illness and bitterly resents that she is not able to play it again.
Tom Cullen is King's uncle, ambitious Thomas Seymour.
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Jessica Raine, Bella Ramsey and Romola Garai will also star
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Heffernan will be his brother, Lord Protector and Duke of Somerset.
Jamie Parker is John Dudley, Somerset’s right-hand man on the Privy Council, while
Jamie Blackley is Robert Dudley, John Dudley’s eldest and favourite son, and Elizabeth’s friend from childhood.
Jacob Avery will be his younger brother Guildford Dudley!
Alexandra Gilbreath is Kat Ashley, the nearest
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Jamie Parker and John Heffernan will also star in the new series
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thing Elizabeth has to a mother since Anne Boleyn’s execution when she was only two.
Leo Bill is Henry Grey, a senior member of England’s council, whose daughter Jane Grey (
Bella Ramsey) is next in line to the throne after Mary and Elizabeth.
Alex Macqueen will be Catholic bishop Steven Gardiner.
Olivier Huband is Spanish Ambassador Guzman, the pillar of Mary's court.
