He played Shakespeare in the 2018 film All Is True, which depicts the final years of the playwright's life, and also directed and starred in several film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, such as Henry V, Hamlet, and Much Ado About Nothing
He played Shakespeare in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, which imagines a fictional romance between the playwright and a young woman, and also played Edmund in the 2011 film Anonymous, which questions the authorship of Shakespeare's works
She played Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, in All Is True, and also played Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, for which she won an Oscar, and appeared in many other film and stage adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, such as Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Merchant of Venice
He played Macbeth, Richard III, King Lear, and Iago in various film and stage adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, and also wrote and performed a one-man show called Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You, which explored his career and his roles in Shakespeare's works
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of all time, and directed and starred in several acclaimed film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, such as Hamlet, Henry V, Richard III, and Othello, and won four Oscars for his work