Anne Boleyn Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

Manori Ravindran International EditorA new drama about Tudor queen Anne Boleyn, starring Jodie Turner-Smith, has found its Henry VIII.British actor Mark Stanley has been cast as the iconic monarch. Best known for playing Grenn in the HBO series “Game of Thrones,” Stanley has also had starring roles in “Kajaki,” “Our Kind of Traitor” and “Dickensian.”Boleyn was the Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII.

Royal biographer Lady Colin Campbell has slammed Channel 5’s decision to cast Jodie Turner-Smith as a Tudor-era Queen.‘I see absolutely no reason whatsoever for a woman of colour playing Anne Boleyn, except to make a spurious political point that in my view is bordering on racial aggravation,’ says the former I’m A Celebrity contestant, born in Jamaica.‘People would be extremely offended if there was a play about Maya Angelou and she was played by Meryl Streep — so the reverse has got to be true

Over a decade after her breakthrough role as Anne Boleyn on, Natalie Dormer is back on Showtime with the darkly charming spinoff,, in which she plays Magda, a shape-shifting demon and craver of chaos. The lead role — which actually sees her playing multiple personas — is showcase for the English actress who has since garnered international acclaim thanks to supporting characters as Margaery Tyrell on and Cressida in films. 

Few actors on TV this year have set themselves the task that Natalie Dormer gave herself when she agreed to appear on Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful.”