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Popular culture
Notable portrayals of Queen Elizabeth in film and television have been plentiful; in fact, she is the most filmed British monarch[citation needed]. Those who have made an impression in the role of Elizabeth in the last 100 years, have included:
Film classics
- French actress Sarah Bernhardt in Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912)
- Florence Eldridge in Mary of Scotland (1936)
- Flora Robson in Fire Over England (1937), The Lion Has Wings (1939) and The Sea Hawk (1940)
- Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) and The Virgin Queen (1955)
- Jean Simmons in Young Bess (1953)
- Agnes Moorehead in The Story of Mankind (1957)
Contemporary films
- Quentin Crisp portrayed Elizabeth I in the 1993 film Orlando. Although he found the role taxing, he won acclaim for his performance.
- Cate Blanchett received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in Shekhar Kapur's 1998 film Elizabeth. Its sequel, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, began filming in April 2006.
- Judi Dench won an Academy Award in 1998 for her supporting performance as the Virgin Queen in the popular Shakespeare in Love, a performance of only eleven minutes (among the shortest ever to win an Oscar). 1998 became the first year in which two actors were nominated for playing the same role -Elizabeth I- in different films.
Television
- Glenda Jackson won an Emmy Award portraying Elizabeth I in the BBC drama series Elizabeth R in 1971. It followed Elizabeth from vulnerable princess to aging queen in six 90 minute episodes. Jackson reprised the role for the 1972 historical film Mary Queen of Scots.
- Miranda Richardson gave a comic interpretation of Elizabeth (known as Queenie) in the second season (Blackadder II) of the 1980s BBC situation comedy Blackadder as well as in the feature-length millennium special Blackadder: Back and Forth.
- Anne-Marie Duff portrayed the Queen in the BBC's lavish and expensive production The Virgin Queen (2005), featuring state-of-the-art makeup to show the Queen's journey through life.
- Helen Mirren also won an Emmy portraying Elizabeth I in the two-part HBO/Channel 4 drama Elizabeth I in 2005/06. The drama focused on her relationships with the Earl of Leicester, portrayed by Jeremy Irons, and the Earl of Essex, played by Hugh Dancy. The show gained rave reviews and claimed several Emmys and a couple of BAFTA awards.
Quotes:
"I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom."
"Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can."
"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married."
"Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word."
"Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better."
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