‘The Serpent Queen’ Season 2 – Minnie Driver & 9 More Actors Join the Starz Drama Series
The second season of the ‘Serpent Queen’ is on its way and will be Premiering on Starz With New Episodes for 2025.
Emma McDonald joins as a series regular, where she will take over the role of Rahima, who was introduced in season one. Rahima has grown in wit and confidence and now has assumed an important position in Catherine’s life.
Sennie Nanua portrayed Rahima in the first season.
Minnie Driver (Recurring)
Minnie Driver joins the cast as Elizabeth I, the infamous "Virgin Queen," in a recurring role. Elizabeth goes toe-to-toe with Catherine and is a woman of style, wit and experience.
Angus Imrie (Series Regular)
Angus Imrie joins the cast as a series regular. He will portray 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.
Stanley Morgan (Series Regular)
Stanley Morgan will join the cast as a series regular, portraying Anjou, the younger brother of King Charles, who is non-conforming and capable of disruptive violence.
Philippine Velge (Series Regular)
Philippine Velge will join as a series regular in the role of Margot, who is Catherine’s eldest daughter, who is her polar opposite. Incredibly charming, liked by all and seeks the truth.
Rosalie Craig (Recurring)
Rosalie Craig joins the season two cast in a recurring role as Jeanne d'Albret, who is the self-righteous and disapproving wife of Antonie de Bourbon.
Isobel Jesper Jones (Recurring)
Isobel Jesper Jones joins the cast in a recurring role as Edith, a protestant preacher to a group of loyal followers.
Actress Sennia Nanua Who Plays Rahima on the Serpent Queen, was replaced by another actress named Emma McDonald.
Emma McDonald joins as a series regular, where she will take over the role of Rahima, who was introduced in season one. Rahima has grown in wit and confidence and now has assumed an important position in Catherine’s life.
Sennie Nanua portrayed Rahima in the first season.
Minnie Driver (Recurring)
Minnie Driver joins the cast as Elizabeth I, the infamous "Virgin Queen," in a recurring role. Elizabeth goes toe-to-toe with Catherine and is a woman of style, wit and experience.
Angus Imrie (Series Regular)
Angus Imrie joins the cast as a series regular. He will portray 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.
Stanley Morgan (Series Regular)
Stanley Morgan will join the cast as a series regular, portraying Anjou, the younger brother of King Charles, who is non-conforming and capable of disruptive violence.
Philippine Velge (Series Regular)
Philippine Velge will join as a series regular in the role of Margot, who is Catherine’s eldest daughter, who is her polar opposite. Incredibly charming, liked by all and seeks the truth.
Rosalie Craig (Recurring)
Rosalie Craig joins the season two cast in a recurring role as Jeanne d'Albret, who is the self-righteous and disapproving wife of Antonie de Bourbon.
Isobel Jesper Jones (Recurring)
Isobel Jesper Jones joins the cast in a recurring role as Edith, a protestant preacher to a group of loyal followers.
Actress Sennia Nanua Who Plays Rahima on the Serpent Queen, was replaced by another actress named Emma McDonald.
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Samantha Morton has established herself as one of the finest actors of her generation, winning Oscar nominations for her turns in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Jim Sheridan's In America (2002). She has the talent to become one of the major performers in the cinema of this young century.
Samantha Morton was born on May 13, 1977 in Nottingham, England to parents who divorced when she was three years old. Peter and Pamela Morton took other spouses and made Samantha part of a mixed family of 13; she has eight brothers and sisters. She turned to play-acting early in her life, while she was a school-girl.
At 13, she left regular school to train as an actress at the Central Junior Television Workshop, where she learned her craft for three years. It was at the end of her training then that she decided that a life as a professional actress was for her.
She honed her skills in television roles, working her way up from series television to TV-movies and prestigious mini-series, such as Emma (1996) and Jane Eyre (1997). Her first major film role, Under the Skin (1997), won her the Best Actress Award from the Boston Film Critics Society. Woody Allen cast her as Hattie, the "dumb" (unspeaking) lover of Sean Penn's caddish jazz guitarist in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), a beautiful performance in a role that could have flummoxed a less-talented performer. Penn was Oscar-nominated for his performance, but it was Morton's Hattie that was central to the success of the film, Allen's last unqualified success. She provided the moral and narrative center of the film. It was quite a remarkable performance for a 21-year old as she had to do all her acting with her face, having been shorn of her voice. The role of Hattie won Morton a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination.
Ironically, Morton had never seen a Woody Allen movie before. (She grew up watching the TV and listening to the radio.) She agreed to do the film after reading the script (as she says, well-written roles for women are hard to find), and the movie made her a hot commodity in Hollywood after she won the Oscar nomination. (She lost out to Angelina Jolie). Morton was offered many roles, but was very choosy as she was not in acting as a game with a payoff of stardom and money.
She had consolidated her reputation by following up the Allen film with work in indie features that showed that she was not only talented, but quite courageous as a performer. She played a heroin addict in the underrated Jesus' Son (1999) and gave a brilliant performance in Morvern Callar (2002), the story of a Scottish supermarket clerk coping with her boyfriend's suicide.
Steven Spielberg cast her, opposite superstar Tom Cruise, as the clairvoyant in Minority Report (2002), in which she more than held her own opposite Cruise and the special effects. (She took the role as Cruise and Steven Spielberg are favorites of hers). As good as she was, Morton was better served by Irish director Jim Sheridan, Sheridan cast her as a character modeled after his wife in an autobiographical picture more in line with persona and that made better use of her talents. Her performance as the young Irish mother coping with life in New York City in In America (2002) won her numerous critics' awards and another Oscar nod, this time as Best Actress.
At this point, one feels that the odds of her winning the Oscar are even or better. Samantha Morton continues to deliver fine work in provocative films such as Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 (2003), though she is branching out towards the mainstream, taking a role in the remake of that perennial family favorite, Lassie (2005).- Actor
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Charles Dance is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains. Some of his most high-profile roles are Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011), Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986), Dr. Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993), the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold (2014), Lord Havelock Vetinari in Terry Pratchett's Going Postal (2010), Alastair Denniston in The Imitation Game (2014) and William Randolph Hearst in Mank (2020).
He played the role of Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011), based on the Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin.
In 1989, he played Bond creator Ian Fleming in Anglia Television's drama biography.- Actress
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Minnie Driver was born January 31, 1970 in London and raised in Barbados until she was seven. Her mother, Gaynor Churchward, was a designer and former couture model. Her father, Charles Ronald "Ronnie" Driver, was a businessman. Minnie's mother was her father's mistress while he was still married to his wife. Minnie's sister, Kate Driver, is a manager and producer.
Her breakout role was in the 1995 film Circle of Friends. Minnie then appeared briefly in the James Bond picture Goldeneye. Since then, she has focused on working in a wide tonal range of films. These include several cult classics: Grosse Point Blank, Big Night, and Owning Mahowny; the painted romance of Good Will Hunting (earning an Oscar nomination for best actress in a supporting role); musicals like The Phantom of the Opera; period comedies like the Oscar Wilde classic An Ideal Husband; and Princess Mononoke, the seminal animated Japanese film by Hayao Miyazaki. Minnie has also starred in several family films such as Tarzan, Ella Enchanted, and the 2021 live action Cinderella.
Minnie has a wide-range of television work in place from FX's dark comedy classic The Riches, in which she co-starred with Eddie Izzard, to starring in two network sitcoms including NBC's About A Boy adaptation as well as ABC's Speechless. Both of which ran for several seasons. Minnie also pops up in key guest-starring roles such as her turn as Lorraine Finster on Will & Grace which lasted almost fifteen years and as Cath on the current BBC / HBO comedy Starstruck. Minnie is also starring in the Amazon anthology Modern Love which is on air now (2021).
On September 5, 2008, she gave birth to a boy named Henry Story Driver. She is in a long-term relationship with Addison O'Dea.- Emma McDonald is known for The Picture of Dorian Gray (2021) and Moonhaven (2022).
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The French actress Ludivine Sagnier was born on July 3, 1979 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in France's Yvelines department. Ludivine studied acting as a young girl and had made her movie debut at the age 10 in Les maris, les femmes, les amants (1989). She has established her reputation as one of the brightest young stars in French and international cinema in her collaborations with French filmmaker François Ozon, starting with Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000) (based on a screenplay by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 8 Women (2002) and in Swimming Pool (2003). For her performance in 8 Women (2002), she won a Cesar Award nomination (the French equivalent of the Oscar) and the Romy Schneider Award that is given each year to a promising young French actress. In that film, Sagnier proved her acting prowess by distinguishing herself in a stellar cast that included the legendary actresses Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert as well as Emmanuelle Béart and Fanny Ardant. Along with these grand ladies of the French cinema, Sagnier won the Best Actress Award from the European Film Academy Award and the Silver Bear Award at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival.
Swimming Pool (2003) represented her crossover into English-language cinema. (Sagnier played her first English language role in Toothache (2006).) Marketed in the U.S. with a comely shot of Sagnier sunbathing alongside a pool, Ozon's film became one of the biggest-grossing foreign movies in the U.S. during 2003. So far, she has turned down large monetary offers to appear in American films as the foreign girlfriend of young American superstars, as she remains committed to French cinema.
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