Hamlet Cast and Creatives Close Gertrude Nancy Carroll RSC includes: Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Winter’s Tale Theatre includes: The Cabinet Minister (Menier Chocolate Factory), Marjorie Prime (Menier Chocolate Factory), Rock n Roll (Hampstead Theatre), Betrayal (Theatre Royal Bath), Manor, The Magistrate, After The Dance, The Enchantment, Man of Mode, The Voysey Inheritance, The False Servant, The Talking Cure (National Theatre), The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead and Duke of Yorks), Closer, The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse), House of Games, Waste, King Lear (Almeida), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sheffield Crucible), You Never Can Tell (Garrick), See How They Run (Duchess), The Duck House (Vaudeville), Still Life/Astonished Heart (Liverpool Playhouse). Television includes: Dalgleish, Ghosts of Beirut, Father Brown, The Crown, Murder in Provence, Stephen, Will, Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Lewis, Silent Witness, Agatha Raison, Queens of Mystery, Call the Midwife, Cambridge Spies Film includes: Magic Mike -The Last Dance, The Gathering Storm, Iris, An Ideal Husband Claudius Jared Harris RSC includes: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Clockwork Orange, & The Silent Woman Theatre Includes: The Homecoming (The Young Vic), A Period Of Adjustment (Almeida), Hamlet (NJ Shakespeare Festival), Humble Boy (Theatre for A New Audience, NYC), More Lies About Jerzy (The Vineyard, NYC), Ecstasy (The New Group, NYC), King Lear, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (NY Shakespeare Festival) Television includes: Chernobyl (HBO), The Terror (AMC), The Crown (Netflix), Mad Men (AMC), & The Two Of US (VH1) Film includes: Reawakening, Lincoln, Brave The Dark, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Happiness, & I Shot Andy Warhol. Animation: The Sea Beast, The Boxtrolls Ghost / First Player Anton Lesser RSC includes: The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Shakespearean Actors, Richard II, Some Americans Abroad, Richard III Theatre includes: The Pope (Theatre Royal and Derngate), A Doll’s House (Donmar Warehouse), The Vertical Hour (Royal Court Theatre), Julius Caesar (Barbican/tour), Lucky Ones (Hampstead Theatre), Private Lives, Mutabilitie, Wild Oats, The Birthday Party (National Theatre), Art (Wyndham’s Theatre) Television includes: Andor (Disney+), 1899 (Netflix), The Trial of Christine Keeler (Ecosse Films), Endeavour (Mammoth Screen Ltd), Game of Thrones (HBO), The Crown (Left Bank / Netflix), Will (TNT), Hooten & The Lady (Red Planet / SKY), The Hollow Crown, The Hollow Crown: Henry V (Neal Street Productions), The Escape Artist (Endor Productions), Mad Dogs (Left Bank Pictures), Spies of Warsaw (Fresh Pictures Ltd), Secret State (Company Pictures), The Scapegoat (Island Pictures), The Man Who Crossed Hitler (Hardy Pictures), The Hour (Kudos), Primeval: Webisodes (ITV), The Politician’s Wife (Channel 4), Wolf Hall, The Game, The Musketeers, Father Brown, Atlantis, Dickensian, Better, Ripper Street, Garrow’s Law, Five Daughters, Holby City, Casualty 1909, Little Dorrit, Dickens, Invasion Earth, Lorna Doone, Perfect Strangers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Vanity Fair (BBC) Film includes: The Yellow Tie, Benediction, Charlotte Gray, Imagining Argentina, Girl in the Café, Miss Potter, Einstein and Eddington, River Queen, The Kaiser’s Last Kiss, Flutter, On Chesil Beach, Closer To The Moon, Gatecrash, Kindred, The Courier, Disobedience Anton is an RSC Associate Artist. Polonius Elliot Levey RSC includes: The Comedy of Errors Theatre includes: Cold War, Nine Lessons and Carols, The Three Sisters (Almeida); Cabaret, Good, Mary Stuart, The Ruling Class, Much Ado About Nothing (West End); Snowflake (Kiln); St Joan, Coriolanus (Donmar); The Mighty Walzer (Royal Exchange); Kafka’s Dick (Theatre Royal Bath); Canvas (Chichester Festival Theatre); Danton’s Death, The Habit of Art, All’s Well That Ends Well, England People Very Nice, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, His Dark Materials (National); Beasts and Beauties (Bristol Old Vic); How Much Is Your Iron, Monkey! (Young Vic); Loves Work (Gate); On Ego, On Religion (Soho); Take Flight (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Tempest (British Council Tour/A&BC); Three Sisters on Hope Street (Hampstead/Liverpool Everyman); Tonight We Fly (Trestle); The Warp (Ken Campbell Company). Television includes: Bookish, We were the lucky ones, Queenie, Anne, This Way Up, The Amazing Mr. Blunden, Endeavour, Life, Truth Seekers, Quiz, Martin’s Close, The State of the Union, Peaky Blinders, Press, Watergate, Black Earth Rising, Silent Witness, Man Down, The Child in Time, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Wrong Mans, Ripper Street, Jamaica Inn, New Tricks, Truckers, Da Vinci’s Demons, Parade’s End, A Touch of Cloth, Casualty, Amnesia, Beau Brummel, Eastenders, Fat Friends, Holby City, Hotel Babylon, Lump in my Throat, Robin Hood, Sex, the City and Me, Sirens, Jason and the Argonauts. Film includes: Murder on the Orient Express, Denial, Fallen, The Master of York, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Lady in the Van, Spooks, Philomena, The Wall, The Queen, Filth and Wisdom, Song of Songs, Supertex, Book of John. Awards include: Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Cabaret). Horatio Kel Matsena RSC includes: Pericles Theatre includes: Dear England (West End), Shades of Blue (Matsena Productions / Sadler’s Wells), Dear England (National Theatre), Joseph K and the Cost of Living (National Theatre Wales), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Director - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama), A Monster Calls (Old Vic and US tour), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Part 1 & 2 (Bristol Old Vic/BOVTS) Television includes: Mixtape, Galwad, The Light, Brothers in Dance: Anthony and Kel Matsena, Doctors Film includes: Mad Heidi, Are You Numb Yet? Radio includes: Galapagos, Fahrenheit 451 Laertes Lewis Shepherd This is Lewis' RSC debut Theatre includes: Dear England (National Theatre), I Fucked You In My Spaceship (Vaults Festival), Super High Resolution (Soho Theatre), Film includes: 10 Swords and The Moon Founder and Artistic Director of INCEPT COLLECTIVE Trained at: Rose Bruford College Hamlet Luke Thallon This is Luke's RSC debut Theatre includes: Patriots (Almeida, West End & Broadway), Leopoldstadt, the Pinter at the Pinter season (West End), Present Laughter, Camp Siegfried (The Old Vic), Cold War, Nine Lessons and Carols, Albion (Almeida Theatre), After Life (National Theatre), Cock (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Inheritance (Young Vic) Luke was listed by The Stage in 2022 as one of the top 25 theatre-makers of the future. He won the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance in Leopoldstadt in the West End. He was made an ambassador to The Old Vic in 2024. Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama Ophelia Nia Towle This is Nia’s RSC debut Theatre includes: A View From The Bridge (Theatre Royal Haymarket in a transfer from the Theatre Royal Bath), The Crucible (Gielgud Theatre), The Ocean At The End of the Lane (Duke of York's Theatre) Film includes: Persuasion, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Late, Sparklers, They Found Her In A Field Trained at: Guildhall School of Music & Drama Previous Next Cast Gertrude Nancy Carroll Claudius Jared Harris Ghost / First Player Anton Lesser Polonius Elliot Levey Horatio Kel Matsena Laertes Lewis Shepherd Hamlet Luke Thallon Ophelia Nia Towle Creatives Director Rupert Goold Set Designer Es Devlin Costume Designer Evie Gurney Lighting Designer Jack Knowles Composer and Sound Designer Adam Cork Movement Director Hannes Langolf Video Designer Akhila Krishnan Casting Director Charlotte Sutton CDG Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon 8 Feb - 29 Mar 2025 Book Tickets Running time: To be confirmed About the play Cast and creatives The plot Related events Learning More Less About the play Cast and creatives The plot Related events Learning Next performance: 8 February, 7:00PM Royal Shakespeare TheatreStratford-upon-Avon In This Section About the play Grief can play tricks on the mind but when Hamlet unravels a web of deceit it leads him to the ultimate crisis of conscience. Luke Thallon stars and Rupert Goold directs. Read More The plot Find out about the plot of Shakespeare's great tragedy. Find out more Related events Find out more about our production of Hamlet and how it was created, with our series of events. Find out more Learning Explore information and resources for teachers and learners on Hamlet Find out more Past productions Insights into some of our key past productions, how they were staged and the directorial choices that were made Read More Merchandise Buy now Hamlet on the Shakespeare Learning Zone Studying Hamlet? Visit the SHAKESPEARE LEARNING ZONE to discover loads of facts, videos and info about the play Find out more Assisted Performances Find out about our assisted performances for Hamlet. Find out more You may also like