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* FakeBrit: Princess/Lady Mary (Creator/SarahBolger), Thomas Boleyn (Nick Dunning), George Boleyn (Pádraic Delaney), Lady Rochfod (Joanne King) and Bishop Fisher (Bosco Hogan) are all played by southern Irish actors. The Duke of Norfolk (Creator/HenryCzerny), Thomas Culpepper (Torrance Coombs), Sir Francis Bryan (Alan van Sprang) and William Compton (Kristen Holden-Ried), among many others, are played by Canadians. Emma Hamilton (Anne Stanhope) is Australian. Wolsey is played by the New Zealander/Australian Creator/SamNeill. Plus of course Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers as Henry, who is Irish.
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* FakeBrit: Princess/Lady Mary (Creator/SarahBolger), Thomas Boleyn (Nick Dunning), George Boleyn (Pádraic Delaney), Lady Rochfod (Joanne King) and Bishop Fisher (Bosco Hogan) are all played by southern Irish actors. The Duke of Norfolk (Creator/HenryCzerny), Thomas Culpepper (Torrance Coombs), Sir Francis Bryan (Alan van Sprang) and William Compton (Kristen Holden-Ried), among many others, are played by Canadians. Emma Hamilton (Anne Stanhope) is Australian. Wolsey is played by the New Zealander/Australian Creator/SamNeill. Plus of course Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers as Henry, Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers, who is Irish.Irish, as Henry.
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* UnderageCasting: Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born 1977) plays Henry VIII, while from Season 2 onwards, Creator/SarahBolger (born 1991) plays his daughter Mary; there are only 14 years between the actors and Meyers looks his age most of the time, though later in the series the make-up department did start adding gray hair and wrinkles to make him look older.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Ireland for England.
* DawsonCasting: The actor playing the Earl of Surrey is only six years younger than the actor who played the Duke of Norfolk, his supposed father.
* DawsonCasting: The actor playing the Earl of Surrey is only six years younger than the actor who played the Duke of Norfolk, his supposed father.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Ireland doubles for England.
*DawsonCasting: DawsonCasting:
** The actor playing the Earl of Surrey is only six years younger than the actor who played the Duke of Norfolk, his supposedfather.father.
** Katherine Howard is believed to have mostly likely been born in 1523, making her around 17 when she married Henry VIII in 1540 and 19 when she was executed in 1542. Creator/TamzinMerchant was around 21 when she first played Katherine (before her marriage to Henry), though this is understandable given the sexual nature of the role; Merchant was also able to pass for a teenager well. It's also worth noting some sources place Katherine's birth year slightly earlier, which would make Merchant almost exactly the right age.
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** The actor playing the Earl of Surrey is only six years younger than the actor who played the Duke of Norfolk, his supposed
** Katherine Howard is believed to have mostly likely been born in 1523, making her around 17 when she married Henry VIII in 1540 and 19 when she was executed in 1542. Creator/TamzinMerchant was around 21 when she first played Katherine (before her marriage to Henry), though this is understandable given the sexual nature of the role; Merchant was also able to pass for a teenager well. It's also worth noting some sources place Katherine's birth year slightly earlier, which would make Merchant almost exactly the right age.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/NatalieDormer dyed her hair Black to play Anne Boleyn. The producers wanted her to keep her blonde hair for the role but Dormer insisted on the historically accurate brunette.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/NatalieDormer dyed her hair Black black to play Anne Boleyn. The producers wanted her to keep her blonde hair for the role but Dormer insisted on the historically accurate brunette.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/NatalieDormer dyed her hair dark brown to play Anne Boleyn. The producers wanted her to keep her blonde hair for the role but Dormer insisted on the historically accurate brunette.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/NatalieDormer dyed her hair dark brown Black to play Anne Boleyn. The producers wanted her to keep her blonde hair for the role but Dormer insisted on the historically accurate brunette.
