David Tennant as Self - Host

Catherine Tate as Self - Host

Judi Dench as Self - Performer

Benedict Cumberbatch as Self - Performer

Joseph Fiennes as Self

Ian McKellen as Self - Performer

David Suchet as Oberon

Helen Mirren as Self - Performer

Richard Atwill as Ben Jonson

Simon Russell Beale as Richard II

Emma Carrington as Béatrice

Richard David-Caine as Self

Anne-Marie Duff as Self - Performer

Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet

Mariah Gale as Juliet

Henry Goodman as Self

Jalaal Hartley as Horrible Histories segment

Alex Hassell as Various

Rufus Hound as Self

Natey Jones as Romeo

Rory Kinnear as Self - Performer

John Lithgow as Self - Performer

Rhian Lois as Bénédict

Nitin Sawhney as The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company

Nicholas Lumley as Various

Al Murray as Bottom

Alison Moyet as Much Ado About Nothing

Tim Minchin as Self

Theo Ogundipe as Various

Antony Sher as Self

Tom Stourton as Horrible Histories segment

Rufus Wainwright as Self - Performer

Harriet Walter as Self - Performer

Alex Waldmann as Self - Performer

Akala as The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company

King Charles III of the United Kingdom as Self - Hamlet