Miniseries · History
The Bible
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Diogo Morgado
Jesus Christ
5 eps
Keith David
Narrator
5 eps
Roma Downey
Mother Mary
5 eps
Sebastian Knapp
John
5 eps
Adrian Schiller
Caiaphas
5 eps
Paul Brightwell
Malchus
5 eps
Greg Hicks
Pontius Pilate
5 eps
Amber Rose Revah
Mary Magdalene
5 eps
Louise Delamere
Claudia
5 eps
Darwin Shaw
Peter
5 eps
William Houston
Moses
5 eps
Paul Marc Davis
Simon
5 eps
Con O'Neill
Paul
5 eps
Francis Magee
Saul
5 eps
Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni
Satan
5 eps
Andrew Scarborough
Joshua
5 eps
Paul Freeman
5 eps
Joe Wredden
Judas
5 eps
Matthew Gravelle
Thomas
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Bible actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Bible reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
The story of God's creation of the Earth and the landmark events leading up to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Julian P. HobbsExecutive Producer
- Dirk HoogstraExecutive Producer
- Roma DowneyExecutive Producer
- Richard BedserExecutive Producer
- Mark BurnettExecutive Producer
Writing
- Richard BedserWriter
Direction
- Christopher SpencerDirector
- Tony MitchellDirector
- Crispin ReeceDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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