
104 minutes
7/3/2008
She was loved, she was a princess, heir to the throne - but the childhood fairytale turned to lifelong nightmare for Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's first child. When Henry divorced her mother and married Anne Boleyn, Mary became an outcast and a threat to the Protestant succession. By a twist of fate, on the death of her brother, she became queen at last in 1553, but her attempts to make England Catholic again were a disaster for her and the country. History has called her "Bloody Mary" for the burning of the Protestants, but how fair is this? This film paints another picture, of a woman true to her beliefs, pushed towards a terrible psychological disintegration.
Miranda French
as Mary Tudor

Simon Kirke
as Dudley
Jorge Balça
as Philip of Spain
Jason Sharp
as Henry VIII
Lizzie Rees
as Young Mary (as Elizabeth Rees)

Sarah Finigan
as Servant
Lisa Marie Kennedy
as Anne Boleyn
Sean Rees
as Ambassador Renard

Glenn Salvage
as Norfolk Noble

Aubrey Wakeling
as Duke of Norfolk
Burtie Welland
as Thomas Cromwell