Film

Anonymous

2011 · 2h 10m · Drama · History · Thriller

Was Shakespeare a Fraud?

IMDb

6.8

Rotten Tomatoes

47%

Metacritic

50

Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

Jamie Campbell Bower

Young Earl of Oxford

Rhys Ifans

Edward de Vere

David Thewlis

William Cecil

Joely Richardson

Princess Elizabeth Tudor

Vanessa Redgrave

Queen Elizabeth I

Sebastian Armesto

Ben Jonson

Rafe Spall

William Shakespeare

Edward Hogg

Robert Cecil

Xavier Samuel

Earl of Southampton

Sam Reid

Earl of Essex

Paolo De Vita

Francesco

Trystan Gravelle

Christopher Marlowe

Robert Emms

Thomas Dekker

Tony Way

Thomas Nashe

Julian Bleach

Captain Richard Pole

Derek Jacobi

Prologue

• Roland EmmerichDirector · Producer
• John OrloffWriter · Executive Producer
• Robert LegerProducer
• Larry FrancoProducer
• Marc WeigertExecutive Producer
• Volker EngelExecutive Producer
• Anna FoersterDirector of Photography
• Harald KloserOriginal Music Composer
• Thomas WanderOriginal Music Composer
• Peter R. AdamEditor

Official Trailer

Release date

October 21, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$30,000,000

Revenue

$15,395,087

Genres

Drama, History, Thriller

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