King Louis XIII
He鈥檚 as excitable as a child and as easily influenced 鈥� yet King Louis XIII is one of the world鈥檚 most powerful men.
Four years on, Louis continues to prosecute an expensive and brutal war with Spain while ignoring the plight of his citizens.
He devotes all of his energy to the Dauphin, lavishing the little boy with boundless love and conspicuous treats while ordinary Parisians starve.
Louis meets long-suffering wife Anne’s attempts to intervene with startling hostility as their marriage grows ever-more tainted by secrecy and he determinedly shuts her out.
Louis remains his charming self in public, but ultimately his indifference towards Anne and the people of Paris will fuel the revolutionary fires that herald a new political era and severely test the Musketeers’ loyalties.
Ryan Gage
Ryan is a charismatic stage and screen actor. As well as starring as King Louis in The Musketeers, he played a lead role in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy and has also recently filmed A Hundred Streets with Idris Elba and Gemma Arterton.
His other TV work includes the serial thriller Angel of Decay, a TV miniseries for Discovery ID, as well as Red Dwarf, , Hamlet and Murder on the Home Front.
He has won critical acclaim for his theatre work, including Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Hamlet, Macbeth, Macbett, God in Ruins, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead.
Ryan created the role of Simon in Ghost Stories on the West End and has also appeared onstage in American Justice.
