Gertrude — Hamlet Character Profile

About Gertrude

The Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother, whose swift remarriage to Claudius fuels Hamlet's existential crisis and moral disillusionment regarding women and power.

Character Facts

Played by

Elza Radziņa

Appears in

Hamlet (1964)

Role

Supporting

More characters from Hamlet

• Hamlet (Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy)
• Ophelia (Anastasiya Vertinskaya)
• Claudius (Mikhail Nazvanov)
• Priest (Ants Lauter)
• Polonius (Yuriy Tolubeev)
• Rosencrantz (Igor Dmitriev)
• Gravedigger (Viktor Kolpakov)
• First actor (Aleksandr Chekayevsky)
• Guildenstern (Vadim Medvedev)
• Horatio (Vladimir Erenberg)
• Laertes (Stepan Oleksenko)
• Ghost of Hamlet's Father (Grigoriy Gay)