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Hamnet

2025

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Victoria Hamnett

Olivia Hamnett

Olivia Jane Hamnett (1943 – 1 November 2001) was an English actress known for numerous television roles in Australia, primarily in soap operas and miniseries. including The Sullivans as Meg Fulton in 1979, in Prisoner as Dr. Kate Peterson, who was a supporting cast member in 1981–82 and in Return to Eden 1983 & 1985 as Joanna Randall.

Jacobi Jupe

Cast · Known for The Exorcist: Martyrs, Hamnet

Jacobi Jupe (born July 2013) is a British actor, best known for portraying Hamnet Shakespeare in Hamnet (2025) for which he won the Astra Film Award for Best Young Performer, and received nominations for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer, and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Breakthrough Performance. He is also the younger brother of actor Noah Jupe.

Justine Mitchell

Cast · Known for Hamnet

Justine Mitchell is an Irish actress. She is best known for playing Elaine Lynch in the Irish thriller series Smother (2021-2023) and for portraying Joan Hathaway in Chloé Zhao's 2025 period drama film Hamnet.

Nina Gold

Casting · Known for Conclave, Jurassic World Dominion, Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

Nina Gold is a British casting director known for her work on the HBO series Rome and Game of Thrones, the Netflix series The Crown, and the Sky Studios series The Day of the Jackal (2024). She has also worked as casting director in films such as Les Misérables, The Martian, The Two Popes, Conclave, and five films in the Star Wars franchise. At the 98th Academy Awards, Gold received a nomination for the inaugural Academy Award for Achievement in Casting for the 2025 film Hamnet. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nina Gold, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Bodhi Rae Breathnach

Cast · Known for Shelter, Sense and Sensibility, Hamnet

Bodhi Rae Breathnach (born August 16, 2011) is an Irish film, television, and stage actor. She is known for her work in literary adaptations, historical drama, and genre films, and has appeared in productions for film, television, and major British theatre institutions. Breathnach made her feature film debut portraying Susanna Shakespeare in Hamnet (2025), directed by Chloé Zhao, an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same name. The film marked her first major international screen role. She later starred as Jessie opposite Jason Statham in the action-drama Shelter (2026). Her upcoming film work includes a role in Robert Eggers’ Werwulf, a historical horror film set in 13th-century England, as well as a forthcoming screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, in which she portrays Margaret Dashwood. In addition to her film career, Breathnach has appeared in British television series, including So Awkward Academy and The Capture. On stage, she starred as Sarah in Beth Steel’s Till the Stars Come Down at London’s National Theatre in 2024. Breathnach is represented by The Artists Partnership in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Irish actor and television presenter Danann Breathnach.

Olivia Lynes

Cast · Known for Hamnet

Olivia Lynes (born November 11, 2011) is a British singer and actress, who gained fame as a finalist in Series 16 of Britain's Got Talent (2023). Known for her powerful vocals and receiving Amanda Holden's Golden Buzzer, she performed "Defying Gravity" and "Into the Unknown" on the show. She has since appeared on The Helene Fischer Show and acted in the 2025 film Hamnet.

Jessie Buckley

Cast · Known for Hamnet, Fargo

Jessie Buckley (born 28 December 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. Her accolades include the Academy Award for Best Actress (becoming the first Irish woman to win the award), a British Academy Film Award, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Scottish BAFTA, in addition to an additional nomination for an Academy Award. Buckley began her career in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything, in which she came second. A RADA graduate, her early onscreen appearances were in BBC television series such as War & Peace (2016) and Taboo (2017). Buckley made her film debut with the lead role in Beast (2017), followed by her breakout role as an aspiring country music singer in the musical film Wild Rose (2018); the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Buckley's career progressed with starring roles in films such as I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), Men (2022), Women Talking (2022) and Wicked Little Letters (2023). For her performance as a troubled mother in the psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), she received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She gained further recognition for her portrayal of Agnes Shakespeare in the period drama Hamnet (2025), receiving a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, an Actor Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. On television, Buckley has starred in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019) and season four of Fargo (2020). On stage, Buckley's portrayal of Sally Bowles in a 2021 West End theatre revival of Cabaret won her the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. In 2022, she released the collaborative album For All Our Days That Tear the Heart with Bernard Butler, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessie Buckley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Chloé Zhao

Director · Known for Hamnet

Chloé Zhao (born Zhao Ting; 31 March 1982) is a Chinese filmmaker. She is known primarily for her work on independent films. For her film Nomadland (2020), Zhao became the third woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Her debut feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), premiered at Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. The Rider (2017) was critically acclaimed and received nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Best Director. Zhao garnered international recognition with the American film Nomadland (2020), which she wrote, produced, edited and directed, and which won numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. With four Academy Award nominations, Zhao won Best Picture and Best Director, becoming the first woman of colour to win the latter. She also won directing awards at the Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and British Academy Film Awards, becoming the second female winner of each. Zhao co-wrote and directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals (2021). Her 2025 film, Hamnet, premiered at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival to critical acclaim. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama in 2025 and the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Zhao also received her second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming only the second woman, after Jane Campion, to achieve two nominations in this category.

Kirk Hammett

Kirk Lee Hammett is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist and a contributing songwriter for heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003, Hammett was ranked 11th on Rolling Stone's list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Tessa Harnetiaux

Tessa Harnetiaux (born Tessa Alana Harnetiaux) is an American actress known for her work across television, film, and independent cinema.Born on October 9, 1990, in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, she pursued her passion for performing by moving to New York City. She graduated from the prestigious American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), where she honed her craft under the tutelage of veteran Broadway performers. Harnetiaux began her professional career on stage, notably originating the role of Jane in John and Jane at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre.Harnetiaux transitioned to on-screen roles and gained widespread recognition as Megan in the Cinemax original comedy series, The Girls' Guide to Depravity (2013). She has since built a diverse television resume, appearing in popular series such as ABC Family's Young & Hungry, CBS's Criminal Minds, and Disney Channel's Stuck in the Middle.In addition to her television work, Harnetiaux has established a strong presence in the independent film market. Her notable feature film credits include the thriller Lethal Seduction (2015) and the horror-mystery Blood Is Blood (2016).If you are preparing to upload this text directly, you can adjust it to meet TMDb style guidelines. Let me know if you would like to:Add a bulleted filmography section for easier reading.Shorten the bio into a single-paragraph summary.Include her personal details, such as marriage and family trivia. A is b

Butch Hammett

Julia Harnett

Robert Hamner

Scott Hamner

Ricci Harnett

Cast · Known for 28 Days Later

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ricci Harnett (born 1973 in London, England) is an English actor, best known for his role as Carlton Leach in the film Rise of the Footsoldier. He debuted in 1991 in The Object of Beauty alongside John Malkovich. He has also appeared in the film 28 Days Later as Corporal Mitchell. Harnett played the lead character of Carroll Bailey in Porcelain Film's 2009 film Breathe. Harnett has made a number of appearances on popular television series such as The Thin Blue Line, Casualty and The Bill. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ricci Harnett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Earl Hamner, Jr.

Cast · Producer · Writer · Known for The Waltons, Falcon Crest, The Twilight Zone

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Earl Henry Hamner, Jr. (born on July 10, 1923 in Schuyler, Virginia) is an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the long-running CBS series The Waltons and Falcon Crest. As a novelist, he is best known for the novel Spencer's Mountain, which was inspired by his own childhood and formed the basis for both the film of the same name and the television series The Waltons, for which he provided voiceover narration. He based the cantankerous Walton family grandparents in the popular television series on his own maternal Italian-American grandparents, Ora Lee and Colonel Anderson Gianniny, an anglicized version of the Italian surname "Giannini". In 1954, Hamner wrote "Hit and Run", an episode of the NBC legal drama Justice in which guest star E.G. Marshall plays a man haunted by his crime of striking a newsboy on a bicycle and fleeing the scene of the accident. Hamner also contributed eight episodes in the early 1960s to the CBS science fiction series The Twilight Zone. His first script acceptance for the series was his big writing break in Hollywood. He created two less successful series, Boone on NBC (1983–1984), starring Tom Byrd and Barry Corbin, and Apple's Way (1974–1975) on CBS with Ronny Cox. Hamner used family names to title his projects: Spencer (Spencer's Mountain) is the maiden name of his paternal grandmother Susan Henry Spencer Hamner. "The Waltons" comes from his paternal grandfather Walter Clifton Hamner and great-grandfather Walter Leland Hamner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Earl Hamner, Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Terry Hamner

Cast · Known for Changed Forever

Matt Hamner

Cast · Known for Changed Forever

Mary C. Hammett

William Belchambers

William Belchambers is an Actor known for Hamlet (2007), Utopia (2013) and Royal Shakespeare Company: Love's Labour's Lost (2015). He graduated from RADA and has worked extensively in Theatre, Film and Television

Leslie Hoffman

Leslie grew up in the beautiful Adirondack Hamlet of Saranac Lake (population 5000) in Upstate New York. The Town is famous for being the original site of the National Vaudeville Artists Lodge which later was renamed the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital. As a child, she used to play at the William Morris Playground. Little wonder, she knew that someday she too would be an entertainer. Her most memorable roles are the Hall Guard on "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Scream 2" Stunt Doubling Laurie Metcalf in the Theater Scene, her years working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager and Stunt Doubling Queen Elizabeth sliding down the Banquet Table. She also was the first stuntwoman elected to the SAG Board of Directors and the first Stuntperson elected to the AFTRA National and Local L. A. Board of Directors. She currently travels the world appearing at Horror, Sci-Fi and other themed Conventions to meet her Fans.

Tenen Holtz

Elihu "Elye" Tenenholtz was born in the Russian hamlet of Azran, near the city of Rovne, in 1887 and came to the US at the age of ten. His first appearance in amateur Yiddish theatricals occurred in 1903, in staged readings of the works of Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem, the first person to do that. He augmented his theater appearances by writing for and editing a Yiddish satirical magazine under the pen-name "Moishe McCarthy". In 1916 he made the leap to the professional Yiddish stage and, befriended by the great doyenne Bessie Thomashevsky, helped her pen her memoirs, the first publication documenting a Yiddish actor's life. By 1920 he was appearing on both the Yiddish art stage with Maurice Schwartz and on Broadway, quickly rising to the top leadership of the Hebrew Actors' Union, the first arts union in America. In 1925 he co-founded a theater company with Celia Adler, half-sister of Luther Adler and "Method" teacher Stella Adler. In 1926 he was summoned to Hollywood and given a five-year contract at MGM. Like most Jewish actors, when he arrived in Hollywood he changed his name (choosing to bifurcate it into "Tenen Holtz"). During that time he regularly appeared in films alongside such stars as Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Marion Davies and under directors like King Vidor and Victor Fleming. This period would prove to be Tenenholtz's most prolific and would account for the majority of the 50+ films in which he would appear. While in Hollywood he helped jump start its fledgling Yiddish theater, founding a popular Yiddish theater company that included other transplanted Yiddish actors including Muni Weisenfreund (aka Paul Muni, father and son Rudolph Schildkraut and Joseph Schildkraut. When his contract at MGM ended, he moved over to Warner Brothers where he made films with Leslie Howard under the direction of Michael Curtiz. By the late 1930s the only calls he got were from Poverty Row studios, so Tenenholtz moved to nearby Monrovia and opened a chicken ranch. Though he would occasionally go back in front of the camera, he retired from film. By the time TV emerged, he landed a few roles on shows such as Perry Mason (1957) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). He died in 1971.