Anonymous (2011)
Was Shakespeare a Fraud?
130 min
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
- Release date
- September 11, 2011
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom, Germany
- Budget
- $30,000,000
- Box office
- $15,395,087
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Trailer
Cast
- Jamie Campbell Bower as Young Earl of Oxford
- Rhys Ifans as Earl of Oxford
- David Thewlis as William Cecil
- Joely Richardson as Young Queen Elizabeth I
- Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth I
- Sebastian Armesto as Ben Jonson
- Rafe Spall as William Shakespeare
- Edward Hogg as Robert Cecil
- Xavier Samuel as Earl of Southampton
- Sam Reid as Earl of Essex
- Paolo De Vita as Francesco
- Trystan Gravelle as Christopher Marlowe
- Robert Emms as Thomas Dekker
- Tony Way as Thomas Nashe
- Julian Bleach as Captain Richard Pole
- Derek Jacobi as Prologue
- Alex Hassell as Spencer
- James Garnon as John Heminge
- Mark Rylance as Condell
- Jasper Britton as Pope
- Ned Dennehy as Interrogator
- John Keogh as Philip Henslowe
- Lloyd Hutchinson as Richard Burbage
- Vicky Krieps as Bessie Vavasour
- Helen Baxendale as Anne De Vere
- Paula Schramm as Bridget De Vere
- Isaiah Michalski as Boy Robert Cecil
Crew
- Roland Emmerich · Director
- John Orloff · Writer
- Roland Emmerich · Producer
- Larry Franco · Producer
- Robert Leger · Producer
- Harald Kloser · Composer
- Thomas Wander · Composer
- Anna Foerster · Cinematographer
- Peter R. Adam · Editor
- Leo Davis · Casting director
- Lissy Holm · Casting director
- Sebastian T. Krawinkel · Production designer