Anonymous

Nino Sandow as Stage Manager (New York) David Thewlis as William Cecil Tony Way as Thomas Nashe Jasper Britton as Pope James Clyde as King James I André Kaczmarczyk as Titania Oliver Rickenbacher as Stage Player: Shakespeare Company Detlef Bothe as John De Vere Trystan Pütter as Bottom Alfred Hartung as Stage Player: Shakespeare Company Joely Richardson as Princess Elizabeth Tudor Jonas Hämmerle as Child Oberon Rhys Ifans as Edward de Vere Rafe Spall as William Shakespeare Julian Bleach as Captain Richard Pole Paula Schramm as Bridget De Vere Paolo De Vita as Francesco Trystan Gravelle as Christopher Marlowe James Garnon as John Heminge John Keogh as Philip Henslowe Axel Sichrovsky as Essex General Katrin Pollitt as Lady-in-Waiting Mike Maas as Pole's Commander Robert Emms as Thomas Dekker Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth I Vicky Krieps as Bessie Vavasour Patrick Diemling as Oxford's Servant Richard Durden as Archbishop Laura Lo Zito as Selling Maid Henry Lloyd-Hughes as Bear Baiter Alex Hassell as Spencer Mark Rylance as Condell Helen Baxendale as Anne De Vere Gode Benedix as Groundling Patrick Heyn as Oxford's Doctor Edward Hogg as Robert Cecil Sam Reid as Earl of Essex Lloyd Hutchinson as Richard Burbage Ned Dennehy as Interrogator Shaun Lawton as Footman Christian Sengewald as Cecil's Spy Servant Claudius von Stolzmann as Stage Player: Shakespeare Company Sebastian Armesto as Ben Jonson Xavier Samuel as Earl of Southampton Nic Romm as Usher Jamie Campbell Bower as Young Earl of Oxford Derek Jacobi as Prologue

Lisy Christl Costume Design Harald Kloser Original Music Composer Larry Franco Producer Kirstin Winkler Co-Producer Anna Foerster Director of Photography Sandra Balej Compositing Artist Carl Woebcken Co-Producer Stefan Speth Art Direction Roland Emmerich Director, Producer Christoph Fisser Co-Producer Marcus Loges Line Producer Henning Molfenter Co-Producer Volker Engel Executive Producer