Throughout its six seasons, the show has cycled through numerous new cast members as the characters age.
In short, “The Crown” has featured a very impressive cast.
As a child, Smith spent 10 hours a day training.
He eventually made it onto the Leicester City youth team.
However, despite her many successes, her life has not been without its tragedies.
Less than a year later, the pair announced their plan to divorce.
“A long time ago, I gave up on the idea of happiness,” she said.
She added, “I’ve realized that my life is quite dramatic, and that’s OK.
I’m really happy, but…I’m not sorted, at all.”
she visited the spot where a relative had drowned during a race.
As she read the newspaper article that described how his body was found, she began to cry.
As a child, Kirby never dreamed of this kind of stardom.
In fact, she struggled with serious self-doubt that almost stopped her from following her dreams.
“I was very sensitive,” she confessed toHarper’s Bazaarin 2023.
Even though Kirby knew she wanted to act, she didn’t believe in herself.
“I had so much self-doubt growing up oh my goodness, I still do,” she said.
“I have made peace with the fact that it is there.”
Finding fame later in life wasn’t always easy for the “Broadchurch” star.
In fact, at first, it was a real shock to the system.
“I find all of it very embarrassing,” she toldVoguein 2023 of her fame.
“We never fell out of love with London,” she said.
“I love London, but it became difficult.”
Sometimes, her encounters with the photographers even verged on dangerous.
“I was scared,” she confessed.
I was crying and they were laughing."
Anderson’s life hasn’t always been easy, though.
“That’s what I’ve learned.
But then sometimes it’s important that I force myself to stop, because what am I running from?
In “The Crown,” she played a middle-aged Princess Margaret.
However, her life has also been tainted with tragedy.
When Bonham Carter was just 5, her mother had a breakdown.
She reportedly spent three years in bed.
“We’ve all had a bit my mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother.
It’s genetic.”
Shortly after this, her father had a stroke, leaving him largely immobilized and with severe sight loss.
Years later, another tragedy struck.
Bonham Carter’s long relationship with director Tim Burton came to an end in 2022 after 13 years.
“It was a long-lasting thing.
That’s the other thing, it’s not that finite.
It never ends.”
Tobias Menzies says he finds life hard
Life can be hard even for the biggest stars.
Tobias Menzies played the second iteration of Prince Philip in “The Crown.”
Menzies has found himself becoming more reflective and morose as he’s aged.
“I find life hard,” he toldVulturein 2019.
“Bruising, curious, disappointing at times, amazing at times.
You have more life experience, and you get more beaten up along the way.
I find it a bumpy ride.
I know lots of other people find it funner than I do.”
The one silver lining?
Menzies has found it a little easier to reach complex emotional states in his work.
Although the rejection was demoralizing, ultimately, they didn’t let the disappointment stop them.
“There was a voice in my head that said: right, how badly do I want this?
I can’t let this affect me.
I need to find a way,” they said.
Eventually, Corrin went to Cambridge University, where they found a new route into the acting world.
Adjusting to life in the spotlight wasn’t exactly easy for the young actor.
“I found it so impactful, people stopping me.
O’Connor found his new fame so strange that he even found himself looking at smaller projects.
“When I was young, nobody thought of being famous or going to America.
“I don’t know what the immediate future is for theater,” she admitted.
However, there was a time when the Australian actor didn’t exactly see herself that way.
“I thought I had to be something for someone else,” she toldBritish Glamour.
Over the years, Debicki learned to accept and love her body a little more.
For instance, she began exercising for herself rather than anyone else.
In 2021, she took over from Olivia Colman as the oldest and final version of Queen Elizabeth II.
During her time on the show, the real-life Queen Elizabeth II died.
When she got home, the news of the queen’s death broke.
Allegedly, West told several stories that Harry wanted to keep private.
“There was a lot of liqueur drunk.
We all drank champagne out of [one of the team’s] favourite prosthetic legs.”
West later conceded in an interview that he “probably said too much.”
It was her first professional role and, as such, she suddenly found herself living in the spotlight.
It’s so lucky,” she reflected toEllein 2023.
But it’s amazing and even if I never work again, it will be a privilege.”
