Netflix have announced their 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.
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 CROWN reunites writer Peter Morgan (THE QUEEN, FROST/NIXON) with director Stephen Daldry (BILLY ELLIOT, THE HOURS) and producer Andy Harries (THE QUEEN). Stephen Daldry, Philip Martin and Julian Jarrold will direct episodes from scripts by Peter Morgan.All ten episodes of THE CROWN will premiere in all Netflix territories in 2016.
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