Cultural depictions of Cleopatra

Cleopatra has been the subject of literature, films, plays, television programs, and art. Only those with Wikipedia articles are cited.

Advertising

• Kimberly-Clark: 2010 TV campaign for Poise adult underwear with Whoopi Goldberg as Cleopatra ^[1]
• Doctor's Associates: Subway 2010 "Five Dollar Foot Long" TV campaign with Ewa Da Cruz as Cleopatra
• Fleet Laboratories: 2011 Summer's Eve TV campaign ^[2]
• ooVoo: "Arcana Academy" campaign ^[3]

Art

Cleopatra as a Goddess; 1st century BC

"La morte di Cleopatra" by Cagnacci

Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners by Alexandre Cabanel (1887).

Poster for the film Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara

The Banquet of Cleopatra was a subject in art, mainly of the Baroque period.

• Robert K. Abbett: cover of Cleopatra (1962)
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema: "Cleopatra" (1875)
  • "The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra" (1883)
• Ivan Argunov: "Умирающая Клеопатра" (1749)
• Francesco Xanto Avelli: "Marco Antonio e Cleopatra" (1542) ^[4]
• Gillian Ayres: "Antony and Cleopatra" (1982)
• Bartolommeo Bandinelli: "Cleopatra"
• Francesco Baratta: "Cleopatra" ^[5]
• François Barois: "Cléopâtre mourant" (1700)
• Pompeo Batoni: "Cleopatra e Marco Antonio morente" (1763)
• Hans Sebald Beham: "Der tod der Kleopatra" (1529) ^[6]
• Gyula Benczúr: "Kleopátra" (1911)
• Claude Bertin: "Cléopâtre se suicide" (c. 1697)
• Jacques Blanchard: "La mort de Cléopâtre" (c. 1620)
• Arnold Böcklin "Kleopatra" (1872)
• Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi "Cleopatra" (1519–1522)
• Boucicaut Master: "Cléopâtre a présenté avec la tête et membres de son propre enfant" (c. 1415) ^[7]
  • "Le tombeau de Marc Antony et de Cléopâtre" (c. 1415) ^[8]
• Frederick Arthur Bridgman: "Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae" (1896)
  • "Cleopatra's Barge"
• Frank Brunner: "Cleopatra" (1976)
• Winifred Brunton: "Queen Cleopatra VII"
• Alexandre Cabanel: "Cléopatre essayant des poisons sur des condangés à mort" (1887)
• Guido Cagnacci: "La morte di Cleopatra" (1658)
  • "La morte di Cleopatra" (1660)
• Denis Calvaert: "De dood van Cleopatra" (1590)
• Andrea Casali: "Antonio e Cleopatra" ^[9]
• André Castaigne: "Antoine et Cléopâtre" (1911)
• Chelsea Porcelain: "The Death of Cleopatra" (1760) ^[10]
• Demetre Chiparus: "Cleopatra" (c. 1925)
• Giovanni Battista Cipriani: "Cleopatra" after Benvenuto Cellini ^[11]
• Auguste Clésinger: "Cléopâtre" ^[12]
• John Collier: "The Death of Cleopatra" (1890)
• Michel Corneille "Cléopâtre et l'aspic" (1650–1660)
• Donato Creti: "Cleopatra" (1710)
• Pietro da Cortona: "Cesare rimette Cleopatra sul trono d'Egitto" (1637)
• Salvador Dalí: "Cesare y Cleopatra" (1972)
  • "La muerte de Cleopatra" (1975)
  • "Les Amoureux Antoine et Cléopâtre" (1979)
• Leonardo da Pistoia: "Cleopatra" ^[13]
• George and Edward Dalziel: "Cleopatra" (1864) after Frederick Sandys ^[14]
• Jacopo de' Barbari: "Cleopatra" (c. 1508) ^[15]
• Jan de Bray: "Het banket van Marcus Antonius en Cleopatra" (1669)
• Eugène Delacroix: "Cléopâtre et le paysan" (1838)
• Gerard de Lairesse: "La banquet de Cléopâtre" (1680)
• Jean François de Troy: "La mort de Cléopâtre" ^[16]
• Archie Dickens: "Cleopatra" (1990)
• Erté: cover for the February 1927 Harper's Bazaar ^[17]
• Thomas Francis Dicksee: "Cleopatra" (1876)
• Piero di Cosimo: "Cleopatra" (1485–1490)
• Domenichino: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Jean-Bernard Duvivier: "Cléopâtre" (1789)
• Adrian Feint: "Anthony and Cleopatra"
• Harrison Fisher: "Cleopatra" (1907) ^[18]
• Lavinia Fontana: "Cleopatra" (1585)
• Elisabeth Frink: "Anthony and Cleopatra" (1982), modeled by Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon
• Felice Ficherelli: "La morte di Cleopatra" (1650)
  • "Scene dalla vita di Cleopatra" silver basin (1620–1625) after Bernardo Strozzi ^[19]
• Margaret Foley: "Cleopatra"
• Giacomo Francia: "Cleopatra"
• Francesco Furini: "La morte di Cleopatra" ^[20]
• Louis Gauffier: "Cléopâtre et Octavian" (1788)
• Cesare Gennari: "Cleopatra" (1663)
• Artemisia Gentileschi: "Cleopatra" (1621–1622)
  • "Cleopatra" (1630)
• Orazio Gentileschi: "Cleopatra"
• Jean-Léon Gérôme: "Cléopâtre et César" (1866)
• Giampietrino: "Cleopatra" (c. 1525)
  • "La morte di Cleopatra" (c. 1530)
• Achille Glisenti: "La morte di Cleopatra" (1878)
• Luca Giordano: "Cleopatra" (c. 1700)
• Pierre Gobert: "La Duchesse du Maine en Cléopâtre" ^[21]
• Thomas Ridgeway Gould: "Cleopatra" (1873) ^[22]
• Guercino: "Il suicidio di Cleopatra" (1621)
  • "La Cleopatra morente" (c. 1648)
• Gavin Hamilton: "The Death of Cleopatra" (1767)
• Augustin Hirschvogel: "Der tod der Kleopatra"
• Gerard Hoet: "Het Feest van Cleopatra" ^[23]
• Howard David Johnson: "Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt" ^[24]
• Jacob Jordaens: "Het Feest van Cleopatra" (1653)
• Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée: "La mort de Cléopâtre"
• Giovanni Lanfranco: "Il suicidio di Cleopatra" (1632–1633)
• Gregorio Lazzarini: "Cleopatra o allegoria della Prudenza"
• Edmonia Lewis: "The Death of Cleopatra" (1876)
• Johann Liss: "Der tod der Kleopatra" (1622–1624)
• Claude Lorrain: "Le débarquement de Cléopâtre à Tarse" (1642–1643)
• Juan Luna: "La muerte de Cleopatra" (1881)
• Angelica Kauffman: "Cleopatra"
• Hans Makart: "Der tod der Kleopatra" (1875)
  • "Die Niljagd der Kleopatra" (1883–1884)
• Carlo Maratta: "Cleopatra e la perla" (1650)
• Jan Matsys: "Cleopatra" (c. 1565) ^[25]
• Luigi Mayer "Baths of Cleopatra at Alexandria" (1802), commissioned by Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet
• Giuseppe Mazzuoli: "La morte di Cleopatra" (c. 1713) ^[26]
• Sebastiano Mazzoni: "La morte di Cleopatra"
  • "Il Banchetto di Cleopatra" (1660) ^[27]
• Angus McBride: "Antony and Cleopatra" (1973)
• Anton Raphael Mengs: "Augustus und Kleopatra" (1761)
• Michelangelo: "Cleopatra" (1533–1534)
• Pierre Mignard: "La mort de Cléopâtre" (1670)
• Gustave Moreau: "Cléopâtre" (c. 1887)
• Caspar Netscher: "De dood van Cleopatra" (1673)
• Terese Nielsen: "Cleopatra"
• Theodor Pallady: "Cleopatra" ^[28]
• Michael Parkes: "Cleopatra" (1990)
• Maxfield Parrish: "Cleopatra" (1917)
• Gianfrancesco Penni: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Johann Georg Platzer: "Antonius und Kleopatra in der Schlacht bei Actium" (c. 1750)
  • "Das Gastmal der Kleopatra" (1750) ^[29]
• Valentine Cameron Prinsep: "The Death of Cleopatra" ^[30]
• Domenico Puligo: "La morte di Cleopatra" (c. 1525)
• Marcantonio Raimondi: "La morte di Cleopatra" (1520–1525) ^[31]
• Jean-Baptiste Regnault: "La mort de Cléopâtre" (1796–1799)
• Rembrandt: "Studie van een naakt vrouw als Cleopatra" (c. 1637)
• Guido Reni: "Cleopatra con l'aspide" (1630)
  • "Cleopatra" (1635–1640)
• Pietro Ricchi: "La morte di Cleopatra" (c. 1670)
• Sebastiano Ricci: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Domenico Riccio: "Il suicidio di Cleopatra" (1552)
• Antoine Rivalz: "La mort de Cléopâtre" ^[32]
• Jean-André Rixens: "La mort de Cléopâtre" (1874)
• Girolamo Romani: "La morte di Cleopatra" lunette (1531–1532) ^[33]
• Mimmo Rotella: "Cleopatra"
• Peter Paul Rubens: "Cleopatra" (1615)
• School of Fontainebleau: "Cléopâtre" ^[34]
  • "Cléopâtre" (1754) ^[35]
• Elisabetta Sirani: "Cleopatra" ^[36]
• Andrea Solari: "Cleopatra" ^[37]
• Leonello Spada: "La morte di Cleopatra" ^[38]
• Pierre Gustave Eugene Staal: "Cleopatra" (1858), from Mary Cowden Clarke's World Noted Women
• Massimo Stanzione: "Cleopatra" (1630) ^[39]
• William Wetmore Story: "Cleopatra" (1869)
• Jean-Joseph Taillasson: "Cléopâtre découvert par Rodogune d'avoir empoisonné la coupe nuptial" (1791)
• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted several works and cycles on Anthony and Cleopatra. The Banquet of Cleopatra (1744) is in Melbourne, Australia. Tiepolo returned to the subject a few years later in a scene in his fresco cycle on Anthony and Cleopatra in the Palazzo Labia in Venice. A further large oil Tiepolo version is paired with a Meeting of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony. This is in Arkhangelskoye Palace near Moscow (1747, 338 x 600 cm). There are several oil sketch modelli and drawings.
• Timotheus: "Queen Cleopatra" ^[40]
• Michele Tosini: "Cleopatra" ^[41]
• Francesco Trevisani: "Il banchetto di Marco Antonio" (1702)
• Henry Tresham: "In the Palace in Alexandria" (1795), published by the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery dramatizing Antony and Cleopatra ^[42]
• Alessandro Turchi: "La morte di Antonio e Cleopatra" (1630–1635)
  • "La morte di Cleopatra" (1640)
• Anthony van Dyck: "Death of Cleopatra VII"
• Justus van Egmont: "Het verhaal van Marcus Antonius en Cleopatra" (1677) ^[43]
  • "Het verhaal van Caesar en Cleopatra" (1680) tapestry ^[44]
• Willem van Mieris: "De dood van Cleopatra" (1694)
• Jan van Scorel: "De stervende Cleopatra" (c. 1523) ^[45]
• Alessandro Varotari: "Cleopatra" ^[46]
• Vecchietta: "Antonio e Cleopatra"
• Claude Vignon: "Cléopâtre se donnant la mort" (c. 1640)
• Vincent of Beauvais: "Les suicides d'Antoine et Cléopâtre" from Le Miroir Historial ^[47]
• John William Waterhouse: "Cleopatra" (1888)
• Richard Caton Woodville: "Cleopatra"
  • "The Death of Cleopatra" (1889) for The Illustrated London News

Astronomy

• Johann Palisa named 216 Kleopatra after Cleopatra

Ballet

• Jean-Pierre Aumer and Rodolphe Kreutzer: Antony et Cléopâtre (1808)
• Michel Fokine and Anton Arensky: Nuit d'Egypte (1908)
  • restaged as Cléopâtre (1909) by Sergei Diaghilev, starring Ida Rubinstein, costumed by Léon Bakst ^[48]
• Martha Graham and Halim El-Dabh: One More Gaudy Night (1961)
• David Nixon and Claude-Michel Schönberg: Cleopatra (2011) for the Northern Ballet ^[49]
• Jean-Georges Noverre: Antony et Cléopâtre (1765)
• Ben Stevenson: Cleopatra (2000) for the Houston Ballet ^[50]

The 1909 Cléopâtre costume designed by Léon Bakst for Ida Rubinstein.

Beauty/Fashion

• Colgate-Palmolive: Cleopatra line of Beauty Cream Soap and lotions ^[51]

Celebrities

• Sandra Bernhard posed as Cleopatra for the August 1989 cover of Spy
• Kim Kardashian posed as Cleopatra based on Elizabeth Taylor's film portrayal for a photo spread in the March 2011 issue of Harper's Bazaar

Comics

• Robert Bernstein: Tales of Suspense #44, Tony Stark follows The Mad Pharaoh to ancient Egypt, and aids Cleopatra ^[52]
• Bret Blevins and Rick Remender: Legion of the Supernatural, #3
• Walter Crane: Sheba
• René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo: Asterix and Cleopatra
• Don Marquis: Archy and Mehitabel
• Vicente Segrelles: Cleopatra

Documentaries

• Cleopatra, Portrait of a Killer (2009) (Camelia Ben Sakour)
• Rome's Greatest Battles: Actium (2010) (Laëtitia Eïdo)

Film

Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917)

Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934)

Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963)

• The Angry Hills: the girl Morrison talks to on the phone says her name is Cleopatra
• Antony and Cleopatra (1908) (Florence Lawrence)
• Antony and Cleopatra (Ethel Teare)
• Antony and Cleopatra (Hildegarde Neil)
• Asterix and Cleopatra (Micheline Dax)
• Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (Monica Bellucci)
• Caesar and Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh)
• Carry On Cleo (Amanda Barrie)
• Cleobatra (1943) (Amina Rizk)
• Cleopatra (1917) (Theda Bara)
• Cleopatra (1934) (Claudette Colbert)
• Cleopatra (1963) (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Cleopatra (1970) (Chinatsu Nakayama)
• Cleopatra (1999) (Leonor Varela)
• Cleopatra (1970) (Viva)
• Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt (1912) (Helen Gardner)
• Cléopâtre (1899) (Jeanne d'Alcy)
• Dante's Inferno (Lorna Low)
• Due notti con Cleopatra (Sophia Loren)
• Giulio Cesare (2006) (Danielle de Niese)
• Highway to Hell (Amy Stiller)
• Marie Antoinette: as Drouet tries to convince a mob that the man inside the carriage they have stopped is Louis XVI, a woman in the mob shouts facetiously, "And I'm Cleopatra!"
• Munchie Strikes Back (Antonia Dorian)
• The Notorious Cleopatra (Sonora)
• Serpent of the Nile (Rhonda Fleming)
• Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (Virginia Madsen)
• The Story of Mankind (Virginia Mayo)
• Totò e Cleopatra (1963) (Magali Noël)

See also: Cleopatra (Character) imdb.com page

Games

• Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome The campaign in Pax Romana: 1. Actium: has a history section that talks about Antony and Cleopatra falling in love, the navy battle in Egypt and their downfall by suicide. Also in the campaign you're required to sink Cleopatra's barge in order to win the campaign.
• Anachronism Set 2 includes Cleopatra
• Assassin's Creed II In the backstory of the game, Cleopatra is included in a list of tyrannical rulers targeted by the assassins. She is killed by a female assassin named Amunet, who assassinates her using an asp to make the queen's death appear to be a suicide.
• BreakAway's and Impressions's "Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile" (2000)
• Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone -Cleopatra appears as an end boss in the final level of the arcade game.
• Cleopatra and the Society of Architects
• Cleopatra Fortune
• Civilization II
• Civilization III
• Civilization VI
• Civilization Revolution
• Dante's Inferno
• Kheops Studio's "Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny" (2007)
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
• Shadow of Rome Iris and Charmian, twins who appear throughout the game who employ the character Sextus and his gladiators, are implied to be working for Cleopatra, even though it's never confirmed. But considering that the game is based around Julius Caeser's assassination, it's highly possible that she is the one who sent them.
• International Game Technology has a series of Cleopatra slot machines.

Literature

• Jacob Abbott: Cleopatra (1879)
• Giovanni Boccaccio: "Cleopatrae, Aegypti Reginae" (from De mulieribus claris)
• Gillian Bradshaw: Cleopatra's Heir
• Charlotte Brontë: Villette, Lucy is mortified at seeing a semi-nude painting of Cleopatra
• Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra (1935)
• Jeffrey K. Gardner: Cleopatra
• Georg Ebers: Kleopatra (1894)
• Karen Essex: Kleopatra (2001) and Pharaoh (2002)
• Colin Falconer: When We Were Gods (2000)
• Sarah Fielding: The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1758)
• Théophile Gautier: "Un Nuit de Cléopâtre" (1838)
• Margaret George: The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997)
• Delphine de Girardin: Cléopâtre (1847)
• Kristiana Gregory: The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C.
• Henry Gréville: Cléopâtre (1886)
• H. Rider Haggard: Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis
• Margaret Carver Leighton: Cleopatra: Sister of the Moon (1969)
• Michael Livingston: The Shards of Heaven (2015)^[53][54]
• Emil Ludwig: Kleopatra: Geschichte einer Königin (1937)
• Colleen McCullough: Caesar: Let the Dice Fly, The October Horse, and Antony and Cleopatra
• Michelle Moran: Cleopatra's Daughter (2009)
• Talbot Mundy: Tros of Samothrace
• Plutarch: Life of Antony
• François Rabelais: Cléopâtre dans l'Hadès (1553)
• Steven Saylor: The Judgment of Caesar
• John Maddox Roberts: The Princess and the Pirates
• Thornton Wilder: The Ides of March

Music

• Tal Bachman's "She's So High" references Cleopatra
• Charles Griffes's "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1912)
• Charlie Sexton's "Impressed" references Antony and Cleopatra (from Pictures for Pleasure)
• Danny Schmidt's "Cleopatra" (2005) ^[55]
• Spin Doctors's "Cleopatra's Cat" (1994) (from Turn It Upside Down)
• Sophie Tucker's "Cleopatra Had a Jazz Band" (1917) ^[56]
• Thompson Twins's "Lies" references Cleopatra
• Adam and the Ants's Cleopatra (1979) (from Dirk Wears White Sox) - later covered by Elastica
• Frank Ocean's "Pyramids" (2012) extensively references Cleopatra
• Epic Rap Battles of History's battle, Cleopatra vs. Marilyn Monroe
• Katy Perry's music video for "Dark Horse" features an Ancient Egyptian theme, complete with the singer playing the role of "Katy-Patra".
• Madonna's Like it Or Not references Cleopatra (from Confessions On A Dancefloor)
• The Lumineers' sophomore album is titled Cleopatra, after the third track. The black and white photo on the cover depicts silent movie star Theda Bara in the title role in the 1917 film Cleopatra. It was released in 2016.

Opera

• Cleopatra (1779) by Pasquale Anfossi
• Antony and Cleopatra by Samuel Barber
• La Mort de Cléopâtre (1829) (cantata) by Hector Berlioz
• Antoine et Cléopâtre (1972) by Emmanuel Bondeville
• Cleopatra (1904) (tone poem) by George Whitefield Chadwick
• La Cleopatra by Domenico Cimarosa
• Omnium (2005) by Norman Durkee
• Antoine et Cléopâtre (2006) by Lewis Furey (adapted from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra)
• "Variation de Cléopâtre" (from Faust) by Charles Gounod
• Cleopatra e Cesare (1742) by Carl Heinrich Graun
• Great Caesar (1899) (burlesque) by George Grossmith, Jr. and Paul Rubens
• Cleopatra's Night by Henry Kimball Hadley
• Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel
• Antonio e Cleopatra (1725) (serenata) by Johann Adolph Hasse
• Antonio e Cleopatra (1937) by Gian Francesco Malipiero
• Cléopâtre by Jules-Émile-Frédéric Massenet
• Die unglückselige Kleopatra, Königin von Ägypten (1704) by Johann Mattheson
• Antonio e Cleopatra (1701) (serenata) by Alessandro Scarlatti
• Die Perlen der Kleopatra (1923) by Oscar Straus

Plays

• Caesar's Revenge (1595) by Anonymous
• The False One (1620) by Francis Beaumont and Philip Massinger
• Caesar in Egypt (1724) by Colley Cibber (Cleopatra is a major character)
• Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel
• All for Love by John Dryden
• Marc-Antoine (c. 1578) by Robert Garnier
• Harmachio (1890) by H. Rider Haggard (renamed Cleopatra in 1891)
• Cléopâtre Captive (1552–1553) by Étienne Jodelle
• Cleopatra (1661) by Daniel Casper von Lohenstein
• Cléopâtre (1630) by Jean Mairet ^[57]
• Cleopâtre (1750) by Jean-François Marmontel ^[58]
• Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, Her Tragedy (1639) by Thomas May
• Cléopâtre (1890) by Émile Moreau and Victorien Sardou
• Antony and Cleopatra (1677) by Charles Sedley
• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
• Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
• The Death of Cleopatra (1929) by Ahmed Shawqi
• The Tragedy of Antonie (c. 1592) by Mary Sidney

Poetry

• "Dead Cleopatra Lies in a Crystal Casket" (1917) by Conrad Aiken
• "Cerchio II, Canto V" by Dante Alighieri (from Inferno)
• "Клеопатра" by Anna Akhmatova
• "Cléopâtre" (1670) by Isaac de Benserade
• "Cleopatrie Martiris, Egipti Regine" by Geoffrey Chaucer (from The Legend of Good Women)
• "Cleopatra" by Robert Crawford ^[59]
• "La Cleopatra" (1632) by Girolamo Graziani
• "Antoine et Cléopâtre" (from Les Trophées, 1878–1887) by José-Maria de Heredia
• "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1960) by Ted Hughes
• "Antony and Cleopatra" (1857) by William Haines Lytle
• "Au jardin de l’infante, Cléopâtre" (1893) by Albert Samain
• "Early in the Morning" (1955) by Louis Simpson ^[60]
• "After Reading Antony and Cleopatra" (1890) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Cleopatra" (1868) by William Wetmore Story
• "Cleopatra" (1864) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1897) by John B. Tabb

Television

Lyndsey Marshal as Cleopatra in Rome

• Antonio e Cleopatra (1965) (Valeria Valeri)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1974) Royal Shakespeare Company (Janet Suzman)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1981) BBC Television Shakespeare (Jane Lapotaire)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1983) (Lynn Redgrave)
• Astro Boy: "The Return of Queen Cleopatra" (Season 1, Episode 31)
• Bewitched: "Samantha's Caesar Salad", Samantha conjures up Cleopatra to try to persuade Julius Caesar to return to his time
• Cleopatra (Leonor Varela)
• Cleopatra (2010) (TV series) (Sulaf Fawakherji)
• Cleopatra (2010) (TV series) (Cyrine Abdelnour)
• The Cleopatras (Michelle Newell)
• Clone High: a clone of Cleopatra is voiced by Christa Miller
• The Danny Thomas Show: "The Singing Sisters", as Kathy badgers Danny to audition a pair of singing nuns, he tells her "Okay, Cleopatra, get that snake away from me."
• Doctor Who: River Song (Alex Kingston) poses as Cleopatra several decades after her death
• Fantasy Island: "My Fair Pharaoh", a woman (Joan Collins) wants to be Cleopatra
• General Electric Theater: "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Piper Laurie)
• Giulio Cesare (1990) (Susan Larson)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame: "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Geneviève Bujold)
• Histeria! (voiced by Tress MacNeille)
• Horrible Histories (2009 TV series) (Martha Howe-Douglas/Kathryn Drysdale)
• Imperium: Augustus (Anna Valle)
• Julius Caesar (Samuela Sardo)
• Legends of the Hidden Temple: "The Snake Bracelet of Cleopatra"
• Meeting of Minds: "Queen Cleopatra/Theodore Roosevelt/Thomas Aquinas/Thomas Paine" (Jayne Meadows)
• The Morecambe & Wise Show: "Season 5, Episode 5" (Glenda Jackson)
• Mujeres Insólitas: "La Sierpe del Nilo" (Rocío Dúrcal)
• The New Addams Family: "Cleopatra, Green of the Nile" (Adam Behr and Nicholas Podbrey)
• Producers' Showcase: "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Claire Bloom)
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Episode 11
• Rome (2005–07) (Lyndsey Marshal)
• The Spread of the Eagle (1963) (TV series) (Mary Morris)
• The Supersizers...: "The Supersizers Eat...Ancient Rome" (Sue Perkins)
• Teen Angel: "Honest Abe and Popular Steve" (Sue Giosa)
• You Are There: "The Death of Cleopatra" (Kim Stanley)
• Xena: Warrior Princess:
  • "King of Assassins" (Gina Torres)
  • "Antony & Cleopatra" (Jo Davidson/Lucy Lawless)

References

External links

• Cleopatra at the Internet Movie Database

William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Characters	Mark Antony Octavius Caesar Lepidus Cleopatra Sextus Pompey Domitius Enobarbus Ventidius Canidius Scarus Octavia Maecenas Agrippa Taurus Dolabella Gallus Menas Charmian
Sources	Parallel Lives
Stage adaptations	The False One (c.1620) All for Love (1677)
Opera	Antony and Cleopatra (1966)
On screen	1908 1913 1959 (TV) 1972 1974 (TV) 1981 (TV)
Related	Cultural depictions of Cleopatra Cultural depictions of Augustus Salad days Asp Thomas North Cleopatra (1912) Cleopatra (1917) Roman Tragedies (2007)