 Based on the Booker Prize winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, the six-part serial was written by Peter Straughan and stars Mark Rylance as Cromwell, Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn.The serial was transmitted on BBC Two in January and February 2015. and on Masterpiece (TV series) in the United States later the same year.It received eight Emmy nominations and ten BAFTA programme and craft nominations, going on to win the Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television award at the Golden Globes; a Peabody Award and Baftas for Best Drama and Best Actor (Mark Rylance), together with Best Fiction Editing (David Blackmore) and Best Fiction Sound (Simon Clark and team) at the Bafta Craft Awards.