Ken Follett | The Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth cast

Ian McShane
as 'Waleran Bigod'

Hayley Atwell
as 'Aliena'

Eddie Redmayne
as 'Jack'

Anatole Taubman
as 'Remigius'

David Oakes
as 'William'

Matthew Macfadyen
as 'Prior Philip'

Rufus Sewell
as 'Tom'

Natalia Wörner
as 'Ellen'

Character

Portrayed by

Selected appearances

Waleran

Ian McShane
(Golden Globe winner)

HBO’s Deadwood, Sexy Beast series

Bartholomew

Donald Sutherland
(two-time Golden Globe winner)

ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money, Human Trafficking and Ken Follett's The Eye of the Needle (1981)

Tom Builder

Rufus Sewell

CBS’s The Eleventh Hour,
HBO’s Emmy winning mini John Adams)

Prior Philip

Matthew Macfadyen

Ridley Scott’s new feature film Nottingham,
Ron Howard’s Frost and Nixon

Regan Hamleigh

Sarah Parish

BBC's Mistresses, The Holiday

Aliena

Hayley Atwell

The Duchess, Brideshead Revisited

Jack

Eddie Redmayne

The Other Boleyn Girl, Elizabeth – The Golden Age

The Archbishop

Gordon Pinsent

Away from Her, The Listener

Ellen

Natalia Wörner

Miss Texas, Storm Tide

Remigius

Anatole Taubman

Quantum of Solace, Taken

Cuthbert

John Pielmeier
(also the series screenwriter)

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Hitler – The Rise of Evil

Alfred

Liam Garrigan

BBC’s series The Chase, ITV’s He Kills Coppers

William Hamleigh

David Oakes

Channel Four’s Henry VIII – Mind of a Tyrant, the BBC’s Walter’s War

Richard

Sam Claflin

Percy Hamleigh

Robert Bathurst

BBC series Emma, My Family

Walter

Goetz Otto

The Downfall, Tomorrow Never Dies

Johnny Eightpence

Jody Halse

Sweeney Todd, The Golden Compass

Francis

David Bark Jones

Rocknrolla, The DaVinci Code

The TV series official site

See the Tandem/Muse/Scott Free website for the production, where you can follow the filming, cast and crew news and Ken's blog …
www.the-pillars-of-the-earth.tv/

The Pillars of the Earth cast