Wolf Hall: Thomas Brodie-Sangster Returns for Final Season — Harriet Walker, Legends’ Maisie Richardson-Sellers Join Cast

A few more returns and more than two dozen (!) new bits of casting have been announced for the second/final season of Wolf Hall.

MASTERPIECE PBS and the BBC previously announced that the six-episode Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, based on the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning trilogy, will bring back Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Jonathan Pryce, Kate Phillips and Lilit Lesser.

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This Monday morning, it was announced that Thomas Brodie-Sangster also will return, reprising his role as Rafe Sadler. Other returns include Joss Porter as Richard Cromwell, James Larkin as Master Treasurer Fitzwilliam, Richard Dillane as the Duke of Suffolk, Will Keen as Archbishop Cranmer and Hannah Steele as Mary Shelton.

The slew of new castings, meanwhile, are led by Harriet Walter (Killing Eve, Succession) and Timothy Spall (Mr Turner), who will respectively play Lady Margaret Pole and the Duke of Norfolk.

Also new for the second/final season are — hold your breath, mates! — Maisie Richardson-Sellers (Legends of Tomorrow) as Bess Oughtred, Alex Jennings (The Crown) as Stephen Gardiner, Lydia Leonard (Gentleman Jack) as Lady Jane Rochford, Charlie Rowe (Salvation) as Gregory Cromwell and Harry Melling (The Queen’s Gambit) as Thomas Wriothesley.

You also have Corentin Fila (Mortel) as Christophe, Tom Mothersdale (Culprits) as Richard Riche, Karim Kadjar as Eustache Chapuys, Lucy Russell (A Spy Among Friends) as Lady Anne Shelton, Will Tudor (Industry) as Edward Seymour, Viola Prettejohn (The Nevers) as Mary Fitzroy, Thomas Arnold (A Spy Among Friends) as Hans Holbein, Jordan Kouamé (Malpractice) as Martin The Gaoler and Agnes O’Casey (Dangerous Liaisons) as Lady Margaret Douglas.

Other new castings include Cecilia Appiah (Hijack) as Nan Seymour, Ellie de Lange (Arcadia) as Jenneke, Hubert Burton (ITV’s Jekyll and Hyde) as Thomas Howard the Lesser, Pip Carter (Industry) as Sir Geoffrey Pole, Josef Altin (Game of Thrones) as Thomas Avery, Sarah Priddy as Lady Margery Seymour and Hannah Khalique-Brown (The Undeclared War) as Dorothea.

And last but presumably not least, there’s Amir El-Masry (Industry) as Thomas Wyatt, German Segal (The Undeclared War) as Olisleger, Summer Richards as Catherine Howard and Dana Herfurth (Love Addicts) as Anne of Cleves.

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is currently filming in England and Wales.

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