Elisabeth, Empress of Austria – Maike Boerdam
Luigi Lucheni, Elisabeth's murderer – Alex Melcher
Der Tod, Elisabeth's lover – Uwe Kröger
Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth's husband – André Bauer
Archduchess Sophie, Elisabeth's mother-in-law – Sabine Maria Reiß
Archduke Rudolf, Elisabeth's son – Jesper Tydén (u/s Der Tod)
Rudolf as a child –
Duke Max in Bavaria, Elisabeth's father – Kasper Holmboe (u/s Franz-Joseph)
Duchess Ludovika, Elisabeth's mother – Nicole Mühle
Helene von Wittelsbach, Elisabeth's sister – Eva-Maria Bender
Count Grünne, Imperial adjutant – Christian Alexander Müller (u/s Lucheni, Franz-Joseph)
Archbishop Rauscher – Alexander Belinkx (u/s Max)
Prince Schwarzenberg, minister – Thomas Christ (u/s Max)
Baron Hübner, Viennese capitalist – Johan Samuelsson (u/s der Tod)
Baron Kempen, Chief of Police – Nico Gaik (u/s Rudolf)
Countess Sztáray – Wiebke Woetzel
Countess Esterházy-Liechtenstein – Juliana Albrecht (u/s Sophie)
Maximilian of Mexico – Gordon Gesatzki (Andrássy)
Mary Vetsera – Kathleen Bauer (credited as Eine Mutter)
A young Hungarian nobleman – Daniel Williams (Batthyány)
Fanny Feifalik, Elisabeth's hairdresser – Holly Hylton
A lady-in-waiting (Hofdame) – probably Claudia Wendrinsky
A governess (Gouvernante) – Kathrin Genitheim
A professor – Peter Bjällö (credited as Károlyi)
Fräulein Windisch, a madwoman – Franziska Forster (u/s Elisabeth)
Frau Wolf – Sabine Maria Reiß
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