---
title: 'Hamnet (2025)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Chloé Zhao'
released: '2025-08-29'
runtime_minutes: 125
certification: 'PG-13'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hamnet-2025'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14905854/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Hamnet (2025)

2025 · PG-13 · 125 min · Drama, History · United Kingdom, United States


## Synopsis

Hamnet is a 2025 historical drama film directed by Chloé Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with Maggie O'Farrell, based on the 2020 novel by O'Farrell. The film dramatises the family life of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes Hathaway as they cope with the death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet. It stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as Agnes and William, alongside Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, and Jacobi Jupe in supporting roles.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Chloé Zhao](https://cinepixo.com/people/chloe-zhao)
- **Screenplay:** [Chloé Zhao](https://cinepixo.com/people/chloe-zhao), [Maggie O'Farrell](https://cinepixo.com/people/maggie-o-farrell)
- **Editor:** [Chloé Zhao](https://cinepixo.com/people/chloe-zhao), [Affonso Gonçalves](https://cinepixo.com/people/affonso-goncalves)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Max Richter](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-richter)
- **Producer:** [Steven Spielberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-spielberg), [Sam Mendes](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-mendes), [Pippa Harris](https://cinepixo.com/people/pippa-harris)
- **Director of Photography:** [Łukasz Żal](https://cinepixo.com/people/ukasz-zal)

## Cast

- [Jessie Buckley](https://cinepixo.com/people/jessie-buckley) as Anne Hathaway
- [Paul Mescal](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-mescal) as William Shakespeare
- [Joe Alwyn](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-alwyn) as Bartholomew
- [Justine Mitchell](https://cinepixo.com/people/justine-mitchell) as Joan
- [Emily Watson](https://cinepixo.com/people/emily-watson) as Mary Shakespeare
- [David Wilmot](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-wilmot) as John Shakespeare
- [Louisa Harland](https://cinepixo.com/people/louisa-harland) as Rowan
- [John MacKay](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-mackay) as Priest
- [Jacobi Jupe](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacobi-jupe) as Hamnet Shakespeare
- [Bodhi Rae Breathnach](https://cinepixo.com/people/bodhi-rae-breathnach) as Susanna Hall
- [Noah Jupe](https://cinepixo.com/people/noah-jupe) as Prince Hamlet
- [Sam Woolf](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-woolf) as Bernardo
- [Jack Shalloo](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-shalloo) as Marcellus
- [Shaun Mason](https://cinepixo.com/people/shaun-mason) as King Claudius
- [Matthew Tennyson](https://cinepixo.com/people/matthew-tennyson) as Gertrude

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/hamnet-2025
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