Harriet Walter and Timothy Spall join the cast of Wolf Hall for the historical drama’s final series
Harriet Walter and Timothy Spall have joined the cast of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.
As previously announced, Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Jonathan Pryce, Kate Phillips and Lilit Lesser all return for the six-part series.
Based on Hilary Mantel's latest novel's multi-award winning trilogy, the historical drama directed by Peter Kosminsky and produced by Linda Osborne, has now started filming across England and Wales.
But some new faces will join the show for the first time with Killing Eve and Succession star Harriet Walter, 73, set to play Lady Margaret Pole, while Harry Potter favorite Timothy Spall will take on the role of the Duke of Norfolk to take.
Reprising their roles are Love Actually star Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Rafe Sadler, Joss Porter as Richard Cromwell and Black Mirror actor James Larkin (Black Mirror, McMafia) as Master Treasurer Fitzwilliam.
Harriet Walter (pictured, left, in May) and Timothy Spall (pictured, right, in October) have joined the cast of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Based on the final novel in Hilary Mantel's multi-award-winning trilogy, the historical drama has now begun filming (LR Mark Rylance, Thomas Brodie Sangster and Joss Porter)
Argo stars Richard Dillane as the Duke of Suffolk, Will Keen as Archbishop Cranmer and Hannah Steele as Mary Shelton round out the cast.
Adding volume to the stellar cast, The Crown favorite Alex Jennings will join BBC Two's historic show as Stephen Gardiner, Maisie Richardson-Sellers as Bess Oughtred, Lydia Leonard (The Fifth Estate) as Lady Jane Rochford.
Rocketman star Charlie Rowe plays Gregory Cromwell, Harry Potter icon Harry Melling as Thomas Wriothesley, Corentin Fila as Christophe and Tom Mothersdale (Bodies) as Richard Riche.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light reunites the creative team of the first BAFTA and Golden Globe winning series and is directed by seven-time BAFTA award winner Peter Kosminsky, best known for Channel 4 series The Undeclared War.
The period piece is being adapted for television by Academy Award-nominated Peter Straughan and produced by Colin Callender's Playground and Company Pictures.
British director Peter, 67, said: “Casting director Robert Sterne has done a truly extraordinary job putting together the most stunning cast I have ever had the pleasure of working with.
'Led by Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, they have been attracted by the quality of Hilary Mantel's writing and Peter Straughan's deft editing.
'While filming at Tudor locations across England and Wales, it is our privilege to present Hilary's latest novel to an international television audience.'
Playground CEO Colin Callender said: “Peter Kosminsky and our brilliant casting director Robert Sterne and his team have brought together a glorious cast, with many of the original cast returning alongside some very exciting new faces.”
Other actors appearing in the upcoming show also include The Witcher star Viola Prettejohn as Mary Fitzroy, The Serpent's Ellie de Lange as Jenneke, 1917 star Pip Carter and Barbie actress Hannah Khalique-Brown as Dorothea.
The historical series is set in 1536, immediately after the death of Anne Boleyn Thomas Cromwell emerges from the carnage to continue his rise to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles for short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.
Yet Cromwell, a man who can only rely on his wits, has no large family to support him, and no private army.
Cromwell must navigate the moral complexities that come with the exercise of power in this brutal and bloody time and is caught between his desire to do what is right and his instinct to survive.
But now that Henry VIII has executed his queen, no one is safe anymore.
Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion that will test Henry's regime to its limits, Cromwell's powerful imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future.
All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as the wheel of fortune turns, Cromwell's enemies gather in the shadows.
Highly anticipated and years in the making, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light follows the last four years of Cromwell's life and completes his journey from self-made man to the most feared, influential figure of his time.
The six-part series airs on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK, while series one is available to watch on BBC iPlayer in the UK and on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in the US.
The period piece is adapted by Academy Award nominated Peter Straughan and produced by Colin Callender's Playground and Company Pictures (photo Damian Lewis)
Cromwell must navigate the moral complexities that come with the exercise of power in these unforgiving times and is caught between his desire to do what is right and his instinct to survive.