British actress Olivia Colman is set to take over the role of Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown seasons 3 and 4 for Netflix. She will replace Claire Foy, who will bow out at the end of the second season, which debuts on December 8th. More on the Olivia Colman The Crown news below.
Olivia Colman The Crown – Actress To Play Queen Elizabeth II In Upcoming Seasons
The next two seasons haven’t been officially ordered, but Variety says that early pre-production is already underway.
The series tells the inside story of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, as the fragile social order established after the Second World War breaks apart. It is based upon Peter Morgan’s play ‘The Audience’, and Morgan is the series creator.
Beginning with soldiers in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces fighting an illegal war in Egypt, and ending with the downfall of her third Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, after a devastating scandal, the second season bears witness to the end of the age of deference, and ushers in the revolutionary era of the 1960s, so reports the trade.
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Colman was seen in all three seasons of the hit BBC series Broadchurch, as well as The Night Manager, and also in film roles in films like Hot Fuzz, The Lobster, and Locke. She also played Queen Elizabeth previously in 2012’s Hyde Park On Hudson. She will next be seen in Sir Kenneth Branagh’s big-screen version of Murder On The Orient Express, which opens in cinemas next week.
Matt Smith, Victoria Hamilton, Vanessa Kirby, John Lithgow, Nicholas Rowe, Pip Torrens, Jeremy Northam, Ben Miles, and Billy Jenkins also star in the hit series.
We’re guessing that season three of The Crown will go into production in 2018.
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