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- Helen Mirren. ‘THE QUEEN,’ 2006.
- Claire Foy. ‘THE CROWN,’ 2016.
- Olivia Colman. ‘THE CROWN,’ 2019.
- Imelda Staunton. ‘THE CROWN,’ 2022.
- Claire Foy, Season 1. Foy, 38, told Variety she was "very proud" to originate the role of the Queen in season 1 of The Crown, released November 2016. "I found she's very challenging as a person for me to play because we're not massively similar — vocally, physically, and she's a very control, stoic person," she told the magazine before the show premiered.
- Claire Foy, Season 2. Foy went on to win the Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a drama series in 2017 and would take the same statuette for reprising her role as Queen Elizabeth in season 2 of The Crown in 2018.
- Olivia Colman, Season 3. With a change of cast to reflect the passage of time, Queen Elizabeth's tiara passed to Colman, 48, for seasons 3 and 4 of The Crown.
- Olivia Colman, Season 4. Colman opened up about feeling a hotter spotlight as she returned to the role of Queen Elizabeth before season 4 premiered in November 2020.
Nov 11, 2022 · The Oscar-nominated Staunton takes over the role of Queen Elizabeth from Olivia Colman, who herself took over from Claire Foy in the show’s first two seasons.
- Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown Seasons 1 & 2
- Verity Russell as Princess Elizabeth in The Crown Seasons 1 & 3
- Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown Seasons 3 & 4
- Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown Season 5
- Everything We Know About The Crown’s Prequel Series
Claire Foy originated the role of Queen Elizabeth in The Crown and she is still the standard by which her successors are judged, especially considering Foy on the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for The Crown season 2. In her two seasons, Foy played Elizabeth from age 21 in 1947 to age 38 in 1964. Her stint began with Princess E...
Verity Russell portrayed Princess Elizabeth in The Crown's flashbacks to her childhood when she was heir presumptive to the throne. Russell appears as the young Elizabeth in four prologues of The Crown season 1 alongside the young Princess Margaret (Beau Gadsdon). Verity played Princess Elizabeth at 12 years old in The Crown season 1 and she return...
Olivia Colman successfully inherited the role of Queen Elizabeth from Claire Foy and her performance as Her Royal Highness is lauded in her own right. Starting in The Crown season 3, Colman played the Queen from age 38 in 1964 to age 64 in 1990 when The Crown season 4 ended. As the middle-aged Queen, Colman played Elizabeth as cooler and more dista...
Imelda Staunton will take over the role of Queen Elizabeth from Olivia Colman for The Crown seasons 5 and 6. Staunton will play the monarch from age 64 presumably into her late 70s since The Crown season 5 is presumed to end at some point in the 2000s. Audiences are most likely to recognize Staunton for her role as Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter ...
While The Crown continues on with season 5 in 2022, there are talks of a prequel series happening, too. The Crown itself has been greenlit to run for a sixth season, which likely won't arrive until 2023 or 2024, but the prequel's fate is more uncertain. Nothing has been confirmed or is in official development yet, but Netflix and Left Bank Pictures...
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- Jeannette Charles. We should start with the Queen of playing The Queen. Jeannette Charles has been credited as The Queen/Queen Elizabeth II/HM The Queen a whopping 28 times—a run she secured with her very first role, playing Queen Elizabeth II in the 1974 television movie Loriots Telecabinet.
- Claire Foy. Claire Foy was the first actor to take on the role of Elizabeth for Netflix’s decade-spanning The Crown, portraying Princess Elizabeth with verve and youthful complexity.
- Olivia Colman. Oscar-winner Olivia Colman took over from Foy for seasons 2 and 3 of The Crown, which took Queen Elizabeth into the more modern eras of Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana.
- Imelda Staunton. Imelda Staunton’s debut as Queen Elizabeth II on The Crown will come in November, and they’re currently filming a sixth—and reportedly final—season where she continues the role.
Dec 18, 2023 · NPR's Scott Detrow talks with actress Imelda Staunton, who plays Queen Elizabeth II on Netflix's sweeping historical drama The Crown, which is ending its six-season run with a final batch of...
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There are five different portrayals of Queen Elizabeth II in this Channel 4 docudrama series, with Emilia Fox, Samantha Bond, Susan Jameson and Diana Quick also starring as the late...
