What the Cast of Victoria Looks Like In Real Life

Coleman stars as the Queen herself in the popular period drama.

Before playing the leading lady, Coleman appeared in the films Me Before You and Doctor Who and in television shows like Waterloo Road and Death Comes to Pemberley.

Hughes serves as Coleman's partner on screen, depicting the young Prince Albert.

Before his role on Victoria, Hughes starred in the film About Time.

Here is Ferdinand Kingsley in his role as Charles Elmé Francatelli, the household chef and a culinary celebrity in his day.

British actor Kingsley, whose father is Ben Kingsley, has appeared in The Hollow Crown, Ripper Street, Agatha Christie's Poirot, and Dracula Untold.

Miss Skerrett is loosely based on Marianne Skerrett, who served as Queen Victoria's head dresser and wardrobe-woman for 25 years.

Nell Hudson also plays Laoghaire MacKenzie in another beloved period drama, Outlander.

Tommy Knight began his acting career early, playing Sarah Jane's son Luke Smith on the cult British show Doctor Who. He then went on to star in a spin-off series, The Sarah Jane Adventures.

While the Duchess of Monmouth is a fictional character, Travers has shared that she's "partly based on a historical person called Caroline Norton."

The young Queen and her Prime Minister were quite close, though the series posits that their connection might have been romantic. In reality, Lord Melbourne was more than 30 years Victoria's senior and she saw him as a father figure.

The busy English actor is perhaps best known for his role in A Knight's Tale with Heath Ledger.

Alice Orr-Ewing appears in Victoria as Lady Flora Hastings, lady-in-waiting to Victoria's mother. A pregnancy scandal involving the young aristocrat was a low point early in the Queen's reign.

Before her role as a lady-in-waiting, Orr-Ewing appeared in the movies The Theory of Everything and Atonement.

Peter Firth plays Victoria's Uncle Ernest Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland.

Firth is best known for his appearance in the hit BBC One show Spooks; he has also appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Catherine Flemming appears in the first season of Victoria as the young Queen's mother, a German-born princess who became the Duchess of Kent.

The German actress is also known for her work in Simone's Labyrinth, Hunger: Longing for Love, and No Place to Go.

Paul Rhys plays Sir John Conroy, comptroller to the household of Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent. The young Queen detested him for trying to control her.

Rhys is no stranger to the royal scene; he appeared in the 2009 British miniseries The Queen in the role of Prince Charles.