Top ten Henry VIIIs on screen To celebrate Hilary Mantel's new Tudor novel Bring up the Bodies we present the top ten screen Henry VIII's. In the TV series The Tudors (2007-2010), Jonathan Rhys Myers played a young sex-obsessed Henry rejecting his frumpy Spanish wife Katherine in favour of the delectable Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer). As Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall made clear it was Anne's refusal to become Henry's mistress that provoked him into divorcing Katherine and marrying her. So perhaps the sexual angle wasn't far off the mark.