Last Updated on October 21, 2019
After more than a year without any new episodes of the Netflix British period drama, “The Crown” is back! Well, nearly back, and we don’t have long to wait.
The premiere date has been announced, and the full trailer is here. The new cast is full of faces familiar to period drama fans.
Season 3 of “The Crown” premieres on Netflix Sunday, November 17.
The year is 1964 at the start of the new season, as Olivia Colman (The Favourite) steps into the role of Queen Elizabeth II. Tobias Menzies (Outlander) will play her husband Prince Philip, and Helena Bonham Carter (Howards End) has been cast as her sister Princess Margaret. Season 3 will take viewers through 1977.
Colman takes over the role from Claire Foy, Menzies replaces Matt Smith as Philip, and Margaret was previously played by Vanessa Kirby.
Ben Daniels (The Hollow Crown) plays Margaret’s husband Anthony Armstrong-Jones, commonly known as Lord Snowdon.
“Call the Midwife” star Emerald Fennell plays Parker Bowles, and “The Durrells in Corfu” Josh O’Connor plays Prince Charles. Charles Dance (Bleak House) joins the cast as Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s trusted adviser and great-uncle.
Erin Doherty (Les Misérables) stars as Princess Anne, Marion Bailey (Britannia) as The Queen Mother, and Jason Watkins (Little Dorrit) as Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
Season 4 of “The Crown” is confirmed, with plans to move into production later in 2019. Emma Corrin (Pennyworth) will join the cast in the role Lady Diana Spencer, and Gillian Anderson (Viceroy’s House) is slated to play former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Brenda S. Adams
October 29, 2019 at 12:52 pm (4 years ago)I loved everyone in the original casting but the change looks like it will be a very good update with excellent actresses and actors so it will be very easy to make the transition. I, for one, can hardly wait for season 3 of ‘The Crown’ to be made available for viewing!
Linda Dietz
August 18, 2019 at 2:56 pm (5 years ago)I heard there would be cast changes to The Crown, but I never heard why. While I like many of the stars in the new cast, I really liked all those in the old cast and they had become the people they played. It seems to me these many changes will be hard to get used to. Was this planned from the inception of the series, or did many of the original cast members just sign contracts shorter contracts? Please help me understand.
Willow and Thatch
August 18, 2019 at 3:53 pm (5 years ago)Yes, it was planned from the start. They didn’t want to artificially age the actors, and thought it best to recast every few years.
Marsha Mott
August 12, 2019 at 6:42 pm (5 years ago)Love this posting!