The Crown's Season 4 Cast Is Packed With A-Listers and Newcomers Alike

The newly-minted Oscar winner is set to take over the role of Queen Elizabeth II from Emmy winner Claire Foy. Most recently seen playing another British queen in The Favourite, Colman has had a slew of roles in both film and television, most notably in the British crime thrillers Broadchurch and The Night Manager. Incidentally, she actually played Queen Elizabeth II's mother, the Queen Mother, in 2012's Hyde Park on Hudson!

Best known for his dual roles as villainous "Black Jack" Randall and modern historian Frank Randall in Outlander, Menzies takes over as the queen's husband from Matt Smith. He has had an acclaimed career on the British stage, especially with Shakespeare. His role on Outlander isn't his only massive TV adaptation, either: he plays Edmure Tully, a cousin to the Starks, on Game of Thrones.

Like her TV brother O'Connor, Doherty isn't too familiar to audiences, unless they're very into British historical dramas. With a career mostly on the stage so far, Doherty has appeared in the 2019 miniseries of Les Miserables and in one episode of Call the Midwife. Doherty will be playing Princess Anne, the queen's only daughter, throughout her young adult years that also will include her first marriage.

As an actress, Fennell is best know for her five seasons playing Patsy Mount on Call the Midwife, but she's also an acclaimed writer, with three episodes of Killing Eve credited to her. Unlike many of her co-stars, who are taking over roles from previous portrayers, Fennell will be the first person on The Crown to portray Camilla Shand, later Parker-Bowles, Prince Charles's first love and future second wife.

The controversial British prime minister is set to appear in the fourth season, which covers the 1980s. Anderson is best known, of course, as geek icon Dana Scully on The X-Files, but her career has spanned successful decades on the screen and stage alike; she's won an Emmy and a Golden Globe (both for The X-Files).