Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour arrives at court as a quiet, modest young woman in the queen's household, watched by Henry as his marriage to Anne Boleyn sours. She keeps her eyes down, her manner demure, giving little away. She seems an unlikely favourite, more retiring than ambitious, yet the king's attention finds her anyway.

Annabelle Wallis plays her as stillness among the show's noise and appetite, and that restraint becomes its own kind of power. The writing lets her modesty read as either genuine or shrewd without ever resolving which, and Wallis holds that ambiguity so lightly you keep watching just to see her decide.