The Last Kingdom BBC Cast List, Trailer and Air Date – TV Series

Air Date, Trailer and Cast List for The Last Kingdom: Upcoming BBC Two and BBC America TV drama starring Alexander Dreymon, David Dawson, Emily Cox, Rutger Hauer and Matthew Macfadyen.

When does The Last Kingdom start on BBC?

With filming for the historical drama having begun in November of 2014, the series UK air date and time has now been officially set for Thursday the 22nd of October, 2015, at 9:00pm on BBC2.

The Last Kingdom cast members: Brida (EMILY COX) and Uhtred (ALEXANDER DREYMON) - Image Credit: BBC/Carnival Films/Joss Barratt

Brida (EMILY COX) and Uhtred (ALEXANDER DREYMON) – Image Credit: BBC/Carnival Films/Joss Barratt

The Last Kingdom Cast List – BBC TV Series

Character Name – Actor/Actress (Other Work)

Uhtred – Alexander Dreymon (American Horror Story, Blood Ransom, Heartlock, Christopher and His Kind)

Ravn – Rutger Hauer (True Blood, The 10th Kingdom, Merlin, Fatherland, Flesh and Blood, The Hitcher, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Escape from Sobibor, Blade Runner)

Alfred – David Dawson (Ripper Street, Banished, Dancing on the Edge, Peaky Blinders, The Hollow Crown, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Luther, The Road to Coronation Street, Gracie!)

Brida – Emily Cox (Rammbock, The Silent Mountain)

Lord Uhtred – Matthew Macfadyen – @Matt_Macfadyen (Spooks, Ambassadors, Little Dorrit, The Enfield Haunting, The Pillars of the Earth, Any Human Heart, Criminal Justice, Perfect Strangers, The Way We Live Now, The Three Musketeers, Robin Hood, Anna Karenina, Death at a Funeral, Frost/Nixon)

Beocca – Ian Hart (The Driver, My Mad Fat Diary, Klondike, The Bridge, Boardwalk Empire, Rogue, Luck, Dirt, Father & Son, Five Daughters, The Virgin Queen, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Finding Neverland, When Harvey Met Bob, Michael Collins)

Ragner the Younger – Tobias Santelmann – @santelmann (The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler’s Atomic Bomb, Acquitted, Maria, Stikk, Eyewitness, Hercules)

Guthrum – Thomas W. Gabrielsson (Real Humans, The Killing III, The Protectors, The Eagle, A Royal Affair, Dark Horse)

Earl Ragner – Peter Gantzler (Bankerot, Partiets mand, Better Times, Italian for Beginners, The Boss of It All)

Aelfric – Joseph Millson – @josephmillson (Banished, Holby City, Peak Practice, 24:Live Another Day, Campus, Talk to Me, The Sarah Jane Adventures, I Give It a Year)

Kjartan – Alexandre Willaume (Ludvig & Julemanden, Rita, Those Who Kill, Over the Edge, Deliver Us from Evil, Deadline)

Ubba – Rune Temte (Love Me Tomorrow)

Storri the Scorcerer – Henning Valin Jakobsen (Lulu & Leon, The Bridge, Pagten, White Night)

Young Uhtred – Tom Taylor

Young Thyra – Madeleine Power (The Thirteenth Tale)

Young Birda – Jocelyn Macnab

 

The Last Kingdom BBC Two Trailer

Storyline

Set during the year 872, virtually all of England’s kingdoms have now fallen into Viking hands. But despite the ruthless onslaught, King Alfred the Great is so far managing to keep the invaders out of Wessex – The Last Kingdom.

The stories hero Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon) is orphaned when the Vikings kill his Saxon nobleman father, after which the Norse invaders kidnap and raise Uhtred as their own. With mixed heritage, Uhtred must decide where his true loyalties now lay – with the people of his original homeland or with those who raised him.