National Theatre Live: The Audience (2013)

8.3/10 • 142 min • Drama History

Overview

For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.

Cast

Helen Mirren

The Queen

Michael Elwyn

Anthony Eden

Haydn Gwynne

Margaret Thatcher

Richard McCabe

Harold Wilson

Nathaniel Parker

Gordon Brown

Paul Ritter

John Major

Rufus Wright

David Cameron

Edward Fox

Winston Churchill

David Peart

James Callaghan / Private Secretary

Geoffrey Beevers

Equerry

Nell Williams

Young Elizabeth

Harry Feltham

Junior Equerry / Footman

Jonathan Coote

Cecil Beaton / Detective

Ian Houghton

Detective / Policeman

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