Harriet Walter, Timothy Spall & Harry Melling have been added to the cast for the BBC/Masterpiece PBS TV adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, the third volume of Hilary Mantel's award-winning trilogy, Variety reported. The six-part series is currently filming across the U.K..
Walter (Succession) will play Lady Margaret Pole, while Spall (Mr. Turner) is the Duke of Norfolk and Melling (The Queen's Gambit) plays Thomas Wriothesley. They join returning cast members Mark Rylance (Thomas Cromwell), Damian Lewis (King Henry VIII), Jonathan Pryce (Cardinal Wolsey), Kate Phillips (Jane Seymour), and Lilit Lesser (Princess Mary).
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light will be directed by Peter Kosminsky, adapted for television by Peter Straughan, and produced by Playground and Company Pictures. Executive producers are Colin Callender and Noëlette Buckley for Playground, Kosminsky, Lucy Richer for the BBC, and Susanne Simpson for Masterpiece.
Kosminsky said, "Casting director Robert Sterne has done a truly extraordinary job assembling the most stunning cast with which I've ever had the privilege to work. Led by Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, they've been drawn by the quality of Hilary Mantel's writing and Peter Straughan's adroit adaptation. Shooting in Tudor locations all over England and Wales, it is our privilege to bring Hilary's last novel to an international television audience."
Colin Callender, CEO of Playground, added, "Peter Kosminsky and our brilliant casting director Robert Sterne and his team have brought together a glorious cast with many of the original cast returning alongside some very exciting new faces."