Jodie Turner-Smith: Zweite Frau von Heinrich VIII.: Anne Boleyn wird von einer Schwarzen gespielt msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Few periods in global history have been the subject of quite as many period dramas as Henry VIII’s reign – with his ill-fated second queen, Anne Boleyn, proving a favourite subject for everyone from Hilary Mantel to Justin Chadwick. Channel 5’s forthcoming drama series about Henry Tudor’s ill-fated second wife, however, will represent a departure from all previous biopics, with the inimitable Jodie Turner-Smith in the lead role and a focus on Anne’s loving relationship with her daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth I.
“I loved the script, and the humanity of the person at the centre of it,” Turner-Smith tells British
The Queen & Slim star, 34, transformed into the queen in a first look image at the new drama of the same name, after being cast as the first black actress to play Henry VIII s second wife.
Jodie Turner-Smith has been spotted as Anne Boleyn for the first time while filming a Channel 5 drama that its producers say seeks to challenge conventions and shine a feminist light on her story.
Turner-Smith, a black actress born in Britain, is portraying Anne who was the second wife of English King Henry VIII, whom he famously had beheaded in 1536.
Boleyn, who was the white daughter of English nobility, is also one of the key causes of the English Reformation and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I.
She was executed by Henry for high treason after failing to produce a male heir.