Wolf Hall is a six-part adaptation of the multi-award winning novels by Hilary Mantel,Wolf Hall and Bringing up the Bodies. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a fictionalized biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell - the brilliant and ruthless advisor in the court of Henry VIII. Stars Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII, and Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.