The Other Boleyn Girl
The Other Boleyn Girl is a 2008 historical romantic drama film directed by Justin Chadwick. The screenplay by Peter Morgan was adapted from Philippa Gregory’s 2001 novel of the same name. It is a fictionalised account of the lives of 16th-century English aristocrats Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII, and her sister, Anne, who became the monarch's ill-fated second wife.
Plot
Henry VIII of England's marriage to his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon, has not produced a male heir. Their only surviving child together is a daughter, Princess Mary, whom Henry fears cannot successfully rule as a woman. Meanwhile, Lady Mary Boleyn marries William Carey. Mary's uncle, Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk and her father, Sir Thomas Boleyn, plot to install Mary's older sister, Anne, as Henry's new mistress, hoping that she will be able to bear Henry a son and improve the family's status. Anne accepts.
Cast
- Alfie Allen
- Ana Torrent
- Andrew Garfield
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Bill Wallis
- Constance Stride
- Corinne Galloway
- David Morrissey
- Eddie Redmayne
- Eric Bana
- Iain Mitchell
- Jim Sturgess
- Juno Temple
- Kristin Scott Thomas
- Maisie Smith
- Mark Lewis Jones
- Mark Rylance
- Michael Smiley
- Natalie Portman
- Oliver Coleman
- Scarlett Johansson