Question: What is the name of the English nobleman and favourite of Elizabeth I, who was played by Hugh Dancy in the 2005 historical drama television miniseries?

Context articles: Elizabeth I (miniseries)
Adam (2009 film)
The Path (TV series)
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick
Women of the Sun
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Daniel Deronda (TV serial)
Sometimes in April
The End of Obrenović Dynasty
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

Elizabeth I is a two-part 2005 British historical drama television miniseries directed by Tom Hooper, written by Nigel Williams, and starring Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I of England.
 The miniseries covers approximately the last 24 years of her nearly 45-year reign.
 Part 1 focuses on the final years of her relationship with the Earl of Leicester, played by Jeremy Irons.
 Part 2 focuses on her subsequent relationship with the Earl of Essex, played by Hugh Dancy.
Adam is an 2009 American romantic drama film written and directed by Max Mayer, starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne.
 The film follows the relationship between a young man named Adam (Dancy) with Asperger syndrome, and Beth (Byrne).
 Mayer was inspired to write the film's script when he heard a radio interview with a man who had Asperger's.
The Path is an American television drama series created by Jessica Goldberg and starring Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, and Hugh Dancy.
 The show portrays members of a fictional religion known as Meyerism.
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, KG (c. 1530 – 21 February 1590) was an English nobleman and general, and an elder brother of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
 Their father was John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who led the English government from 1550–1553 under Edward VI and unsuccessfully tried to establish Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death in July 1553.
 For his participation in this venture Ambrose Dudley was imprisoned in the Tower of London and condemned to death.
 Reprieved, his rehabilitation came after he fought for Philip II of Spain (then England's co-monarch) in the Battle of St. Quentin.
Women of the Sun is an award-winning Australian historical drama television miniseries that was broadcast on SBS Television and later the Australian Broadcasting Company in 1981.
 The series, co-written by Sonia Borg and Hyllus Maris, was composed of four 60-minute episodes to portray the lives of four Aboriginal women in Australian society from the 1820s to the 1980s.
 It was the first series that dealt with such subject matter, and later received several prestigious awards including two Awgies and five Penguin Awards following its release.
 It also won the United Nations Media Peace Prize and the Banff Grand Prix in 1983.
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a 2011 American thriller drama film written and directed by Sean Durkin, and starring Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson, and Hugh Dancy.
 The plot focuses on a young woman suffering from delusions and paranoia after returning to her family from an abusive cult in the Catskill Mountains.
 The film contains several references to the music of Jackson C. Frank.
Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name.
 It was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first broadcast in three parts on BBC One from 23 November to 7 December 2002.
 The serial starred Hugh Dancy as Daniel Deronda, Romola Garai as Gwendolen Harleth, Hugh Bonneville as Henleigh Grandcourt, and Jodhi May as Mirah Lapidoth.
 Co-production funding came from WGBH Boston.
Sometimes in April is a 2005 historical drama television film about the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, written and directed by the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck.
 The ensemble cast includes Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Carole Karemera, and Debra Winger.
The End of the Obrenović Dynasty (Serbian: Краj династије Обреновић ), is а Serbian historical drama television miniseries which depicts events that led to the May Overthrow and assassination of last Serbian king from the Obrenović dynasty, Alexander, and his close family.
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG, PC ( ; 10 November 1565 – 25 February 1601) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Elizabeth I.
 Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599.
 In 1601, he led an abortive "coup d'état" against the government and was executed for treason.