Starz announced today that Alex Kalymnios ("Scott and Bailey," "Becoming Human") has joined the production to direct episodes of THE WHITE PRINCESS, the follow-up to the Golden Globe® and Emmy® award-nominated Starz Original Miniseries "The White Queen," from Company Pictures and Playground.
In casting news, Amy Manson ("Once Upon a Time," "Being Human"), boards the production in the role of Lady Catherine Gordon, cousin to King James IV of Scotland. Catherine is the politically motivated love interest of "The Boy" - a young man who threatens to rupture the tentative peace bought by the marriage of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII by claiming to be Prince Richard of York, rightful heir to the throne and Elizabeth's long lost brother. "The Boy" - played by Patrick Gibson ("The OA," "The Passing Bells") - finds support in the courts of Europe, giving new hope to a group of York loyalists led by the Duchess of Burgundy and Elizabeth Woodville - the Dowager Queen.
Andrew Whipp ("Outlander," "Death in Paradise") rounds out the cast as Richard Pole, supporter and former soldier of Henry VII, whose marriage to Elizabeth's cousin Margaret Plantagenet (played by Rebecca Benson ("Game of Thrones," Justin Kurzel's Macbeth)) reinforces the alliance between the Houses of York and Lancaster under Tudor rule.
Previously announced cast includes newcomer Jacob Collins-Levy ("Glitch," Holding the Man) in the role of Henry VII, the paranoid and unlikely king forced to marry an enemy to secure his throne; the equally unwilling Princess Elizabeth (played by Jodie Comer ("Doctor Foster," "My Mad Fat Diary")), daughter of the rival House of York; and Princess Elizabeth's mother Elizabeth Woodville "The White Queen," indomitable strategist and unwavering supporter of the York cause, played by Essie Davis (Babadook, "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries"). Joanne Whalley ("Wolf Hall," "The Borgias") plays the widowed Duchess of Burgundy, Elizabeth of York's aunt, and sister to dead Kings Richard III and Edward IV of England - a sensual, intelligent York woman who presides over her cultured court across the English Channel. Michelle Fairley ("Game of Thrones," "Rebellion") is in the role of Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII's mother who was a philanthropist, benefactor for the Church, and the calculating mastermind behind Henry's ascent to the Throne of England. Suki Waterhouse (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Insurgent) has been cast as Cecily of York, the self-interested and jealous younger sister to Princess Elizabeth.
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