‘The Serpent Queen’: Minnie Driver Among 10 Cast In Starz Period Drama’s Second Season
deadline.comThe Starz period drama The Serpent Queen is beefing up its cast for Season 2. Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting, Chevalier) is among 10 new cast members, both series regulars and recurring stars, joining the Samantha Morton-led series set to return with new episodes later this year.
Regulars include Angus Imrie (Emma), Emma McDonald (Moonhaven), Stanley Morgan (I Used to Be Famous) and Philippine Velge (Station Eleven).
Rosalie Craig (1899), Isobel Jesper Jones (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), Bill Milner (Son of Rambow), Ashley Thomas (Them) and Alexandre Willaume (The Wheel of Time) will recur.
The Serpent Queen tells the story of Catherine de Medici (Morton) who, against all odds, became one of the most powerful and longest-serving rulers in French history. Driver plays “Elizabeth I” the infamous ‘Virgin Queen.’ Elizabeth goes toe-to-toe with Catherine and is a woman of style, wit and experience. Imrie plays “Henry IV” the son of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne d’Albret, he appears uncivilized, to the unobservant observer but in reality, he is quite an intellect. McDonald plays “Rahima” who viewers first met in season one.
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