Netflix today announced initial casting on their original series “The Crown,” aimed to tell the gripping, decades–spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain’s post-war destiny. The cast includes Claire Foy (“Wolf Hall”) as Queen Elizabeth II, Matt Smith (“Doctor Who”) as Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, and John Lithgow (“Third Rock from the Sun”) as Sir Winston Churchill. Check out images of all three actors in the gallery viewer below!
“The Crown” tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
The series is produced by Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television. Peter Morgan, Stephen Daldry, Philip Martin, Andy Harries, Suzanne Mackie and Tanya Seghatchian serve as executive producers along with Robert Fox and Matthew Byam Shaw. Andrew Eaton serves as Producer.
All ten episodes of “The Crown” will premiere in all Netflix territories in 2016.
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Claire Foy as as Queen Elizabeth II
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Matt Smith as Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh
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John Lithgow as Sir Winston Churchill
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