List of The Crown characters

The Crown is a historical drama web television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan, and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix. It grew out of Morgan's film The Queen (2006) and his stage play The Audience (2013).

The following is a list of characters and respective cast members who appeared on the television series. The majority of the cast has changed every two seasons to better portray the characters as they age.

Characters and cast

Key	Main	Recurring	Featured	Guest

Main

The following characters have been credited as main cast in the opening credits.

Character	Appearances / actors
	Season 1 (2016)	Season 2 (2017)	Season 3 (2019)	Season 4 (2020)
Queen Elizabeth II Young Princess Elizabeth	Claire Foy		Olivia Colman
	Verity Russell		Verity Russell	Claire Foy
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Young Prince Philip	Matt Smith		Tobias Menzies
		Finn Elliot	Finn Elliot
Princess Margaret Young Princess Margaret	Vanessa Kirby		Helena Bonham Carter
	Beau Gadsdon		Beau Gadsdon
Queen Mary	Eileen Atkins
Anthony Eden	Jeremy Northam
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother	Victoria Hamilton		Marion Bailey
Peter Townsend	Ben Miles	Ben Miles
Louis Mountbatten	Greg Wise		Charles Dance
King George VI	Jared Harris	Jared Harris
Winston Churchill	John Lithgow	John Lithgow
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor	Alex Jennings		Derek Jacobi
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor	Lia Williams		Geraldine Chaplin
Harold Macmillan		Anton Lesser
Antony Armstrong-Jones		Matthew Goode	Ben Daniels
Harold Wilson			Jason Watkins
Anne, Princess Royal	Grace and Amelia Gilmour (uncredited)		Erin Doherty
		Lyla Barrett-Rye
Princess Alice of Battenberg	Rosalind Knight	Sophie Leigh Stone	Jane Lapotaire
Charles, Prince of Wales	Billy Jenkins		Josh O'Connor
		Julian Baring
Edward Heath Young Edward Heath			Michael Maloney
			Louis Zegrean
Camilla Shand			Emerald Fennell
Andrew Parker Bowles			Andrew Buchan

Featured

The following cast members have been credited in the opening titles of single episodes in which they play a significant role.

Character	Appearances / actors
	Season 1 (2016)	Season 2 (2017)	Season 3 (2019)	Season 4 (2020)
Graham Sutherland	Stephen Dillane
Patricia Campbell		Gemma Whelan
Lord Altrincham		John Heffernan
Billy Graham		Paul Sparks
John F. Kennedy		Michael C. Hall
Jacqueline Kennedy		Jodi Balfour
Kurt Hahn		Burghart Klaußner
Lyndon B. Johnson			Clancy Brown
Edward Millward			Mark Lewis Jones
Robin Woods			Tim McMullan
Roddy Llewellyn			Harry Treadaway

Recurring

The following cast members have appeared in two or more episodes within a season.

Character	Appearances / actors
	Season 1 (2016)	Season 2 (2017)	Season 3 (2019)	Season 4 (2020)
Lord Salisbury	Clive Francis
Tommy Lascelles	Pip Torrens		Pip Torrens
Martin Charteris	Harry Hadden-Paton		Charles Edwards
Mike Parker	Daniel Ings
Margaret "Bobo" MacDonald	Lizzy McInnerny
Duke of Norfolk	Patrick Ryecart	Patrick Ryecart	Patrick Ryecart
Michael Adeane	Will Keen		David Rintoul
Doctor Weir	James Laurenson
Cecil Beaton	Mark Tandy
Clementine Churchill	Harriet Walter
Jock Colville	Nicholas Rowe
Clement Attlee	Simon Chandler
Venetia Scott	Kate Phillips
Archbishop of Canterbury	Ronald Pickup
Harry Crookshank	Nigel Cooke
Lord Chamberlain	Patrick Drury
Archbishop of York	John Woodvine
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester	Andy Sanderson		Michael Thomas
Rab Butler	Michael Culkin
Walter Monckton	George Asprey
The Queen's Equerry	James Hillier		Sam Phillips
Collins	Jo Stone-Fewings
Clarissa Eden	Anna Madeley	Anna Madeley
Bishop of Durham	Tony Guilfoyle
Billy Wallace	Nick Hendrix	Tom Durant-Pritchard
Johnny Dalkeith	Josh Taylor	Josh Taylor
Colin Tennant	David Shields	Pip Carter	Richard Teverson
Bill Mattheson	Paul Thornley
Eileen Parker		Chloe Pirrie
Anthony Nutting		Nicholas Burns
Master of the Household	Michael Bertenshaw	Michael Bertenshaw
Lady Mountbatten		Lucy Russell
Conolly Abel Smith		Adrian Lukis
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark		Guy Williams
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark		Leonie Benesch	Leonie Benesch
Meryn Lewis		Simon Paisley Day
Dorothy Macmillan		Sylvestra Le Touzel
Elizabeth Cavendish		Catherine Bailey
Porchey	Joseph Kloska	Joseph Kloska	John Hollingworth
Bob Boothby		Paul Clayton
Camilla Fry		Yolanda Kettle
Jeremy Fry		Ed Cooper Clarke
Dudley Moore		Ryan Sampson
John Profumo		Tim Steed
Freddie Bishop		Robert Irons
Jim Orr Young Jim Orr		Oliver Maltman
		Kit Redding
Alec Douglas-Home		David Annen
Stephen Ward		Richard Lintern
Alice, Duchess of Gloucester			Penny Downie
Winkie			Alan Gill
Blinkie			Pippa Winslow
Tony Benn			Mark Dexter
Barbara Castle			Lorraine Ashbourne
Richard Crossman			Aden Gillett
Marcia Williams			Sinéad Matthews
George Thomas			David Charles
George Thomson			Stuart McQuarrie
Sydney Johnson			Connie M'Gadzah

Notable guests

The following cast members have appeared in a single episode within a season.

Character	Appearances / actors
	Season 1 (2016)	Season 2 (2017)	Season 3 (2019)	Season 4 (2020)
Lord Moran	Nicholas Jones
Ernest Augustus von Hanover	Daniel Betts
Mary	Samantha Baines
Thurman	Anthony Flanagan
Nancy Lewis	Clare Foster
Tony Longdon	Ed Stoppard
Baron Nahum	Julius D'Silva
Mary Charteris	Jo Herbert
John F. Dulles	Garrick Hagon
Professor Hogg	Alan Williams
Henry Marten	Michael Cochrane
Norman Hartnell	Richard Clifford
Commander Vyner	David Yelland
Lady Doris	Caroline Goodall
Imbert-Terry	John Standing
Kathleen Sutherland	Amelia Bullmore
Jean Wallop	Andrea Deck
Gamal Abdel Nasser	Amir Boutrous
Judy Montagu	Abigail Parmenter
Galina Ulanova		Aliya Tanikpaeva
Christian Pineau		Sam Spiegel
David Ben-Gurion		Hugh Futcher
Helen King		Mirrah Foulkes
Doctor Evans		Terrence Hardiman
Bishop of Norwich		David Roper
Dwight D. Eisenhower		Matthew Marsh
Robin Day		Bertie Carvel
Humphrey		Miles Jupp
Gloria		Anne Lambton
George Allen		Miles Richardson
Fruity Metcalfe		Gareth Marks
Vita Sackville-West		Janet Henfrey
John Wheeler-Bennett		Tristan Sturrock
Margaret Lambert		Stella Gonet
Baba Metcalfe		Rebecca Saire
Adolf Hitler		Daniel Philpott
Lady Rosse		Anna Chancellor
Kwame Nkrumah		Danny Sapani
Patrick Plunket		Sam Crane
Robert F. Kennedy		Julian Ovenden
Leonid Brezhnev		James Borthwick
Lee Radziwill		Skye Hallam
Stanisław Radziwill		James Garnon
Charles de Gaulle		Jacques Boudet
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse		August Wittgenstein
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark		Eliza Sodró
Iain Tennant		Lewis MacLeod
Peter Beck		Michael Fenton Stevens
Stephen Ward		Richard Lintern
Jonathan Miller		Josh Lacey
Alan Bennett		Seb Carrington
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark		Clare Holman
Christine Keeler		Gala Gordon
Anthony Blunt			Samuel West
Martin Furnival Jones			Angus Wright
Michael Straight			Paul Hilton
Mary Wilson			Teresa Banham
James Jesus Angleton			Anthony Brophy
Patrick Dean			Michael Simkins
W. Marvin Watson			Martin McDougall
Lady Bird Johnson			Suzanne Kopser
Fred Phillips			Richard Harrington
Gwen Edwards			Gwyneth Keyworth
John Armstrong			Colin Morgan
Chronos			Miltos Yerolemou
Marquis Childs			Nigel Whitmey
Lawrence E. Spivak			Colin Stinton
Cecil Harmsworth King			Rupert Vansittart
Cecil Boyd-Rochfort			Julian Glover
Alec Head			Philippe Smolikowski
Arthur "Bull" Hancock			John Finn
Silvia Millward			Nia Roberts
Thomas Parry			David Summer
Richard Dimbleby			Henry Dimbleby
Ben Bowen Thomas			Alan David
Neil Armstrong			Henry Pettigrew
Buzz Aldrin			Felix Scott
Michael Collins			Andrew-Lee Potts
Prince Edward			Sidney Jackson
Prince Andrew			Marlo Woolley
Cliff Michelmore			Fred Broom
Patrick Moore			Daniel Beales
Priest Michael			Kevin Eldon
Kenneth Harris			Matthew Baldwin
Emperor Hirohito			Togo Igawa
Arthur Scargill			David Wilmot
Derek Parker Bowles			Stephen Riddle
Ann Parker Bowles			Judith Alexander
Major Bruce Shand			Robert Benedetti-Hall
Rosalind Shand			Nesba Crenshaw
Joe Gormley			Richard Walsh
Lucy Lindsay-Hogg			Jessica De Gouw
Lady Anne Tennant			Nancy Carroll
Bodley Scott			Martin Wimbush
Alastair Burnet			Dan Skinner
John Betjeman			Tim Bentinck