Eddie Redmayne played different roles in competing Elizabeth movies. In Elizabeth I (2005), he played the traitor Southampton, and in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) he played Thomas Babington. In addition, he portrayed William Stafford in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), a film about Elizabeth I's mother and aunt.
Both Helen Mirren and Barbara Flynn would portray Queen Elizabeth II onscreen, Mirren in both The Queen (2006) and The Audience (2013), Flynn in The Enemy Within (2009).
Barbara Flynn had portrayed Mary Queen of Scots onstage in 1995, co-headlining - with Janet McTeer as Queen Elizabeth - the Mermaid Theatre production of Robert Bolt's ''Vivat! Vivat Regina!''.