An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Anthony Hopkins
as Lear
Emma Thompson
as Goneril
Emily Watson
as Regan
Jim Broadbent
as Earl of Gloucester
Florence Pugh
as Cordelia
Jim Carter
as Earl of Kent
Andrew Scott
as Edgar
John Macmillan
as Edmund
Tobias Menzies
as Duke of Cornwall
Anthony Calf
as Duke of Albany
Karl Johnson
as Fool
Christopher Eccleston
as Oswald
