hamnet cast
Hamnet is a 2025 British historical drama film with a cast led by Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.
Main Hamnet cast
- Jessie Buckley as Agnes Shakespeare (Anne/Agnes Hathaway), William Shakespeare’s wife.
- Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare , struggling with grief and creative ambition.
- Jacobi Jupe as Hamnet Shakespeare , the couple’s 11‑year‑old son whose death shapes the story.
- Olivia Lynes as Judith Shakespeare , Hamnet’s twin sister.
- Bodhi Rae Breathnach as Susanna Shakespeare , the eldest Shakespeare child.
Key supporting roles
- Emily Watson as Mary Shakespeare , William’s mother.
- David Wilmot as John Shakespeare , William’s father.
- Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew Hathaway , Agnes’s brother.
- Freya Hannan-Mills as Eliza Shakespeare.
- Dainton Anderson as Edmund Shakespeare.
- Elliot Baxter as Richard Shakespeare.
Hamlet-play-related roles inside Hamnet
Within the film’s framing around Shakespeare’s art, there are actors portraying figures from his later play Hamlet.
| Character (in-play) | Actor |
|---|---|
| Hamlet | Noah Jupe |
| Ophelia | El Simons |
| Roawn | Louisa Harland |
| Marcellus | Jack Shalloo |
| Bernardo | Sam Woolf |
| Francisco | Hera Gibson |
Quick Scoop & context
- The film is directed by Chloé Zhao and co-written with novelist Maggie O’Farrell , adapting O’Farrell’s bestselling novel Hamnet.
- It focuses less on Shakespeare’s fame and more on family grief, marriage, and how tragedy feeds his later work , which has made the cast choices a big talking point in 2025–2026 film discussions.
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