Poll: Real Life 'Queens' on Celluloid

A poll by Dibyayan_Chakravorty

Results of 631 votes:

  1. 185

    Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

  2. 80

    Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

  3. 75

    Helen Mirren in The Queen (2006)

  4. 74

    Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963)

  5. 30

    5735-23 Katharine Hepburn in "The Lion In Winter" 1968 Avco/Embassy

  6. 18

    Isabelle Adjani in Queen Margot (1994)

  7. 18

    Helena Bonham Carter in The King's Speech (2010)

  8. 17

    Judi Dench in Victoria & Abdul (2017)

  9. 14

    Natalie Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

  10. 14

    Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love (1998)

  11. 12

    Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette (2006)

  12. 12

    Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933)

  13. 9

    Glenda Jackson in Elizabeth R (1971)

  14. 9

    Emily Blunt in The Young Victoria (2009)

  15. 9

    Romy Schneider in Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957)

  16. 9

    Geneviève Bujold in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

  17. 8

    Alicia Vikander in A Royal Affair (2012)

  18. 7

    Flora Robson in Fire Over England (1937)

  19. 5

    Helen Mirren in The Madness of King George (1994)

  20. 5

    Catherine Zeta-Jones in Catherine the Great (1995)

  21. 5

    Marlene Dietrich in The Scarlet Empress (1934)

  22. 4

    Young Bess (1953)

  23. 4

    Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Jodhaa Akbar (2008)

  24. 2

    Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934)

  25. 2

    Elisabeth Bergner in The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)

  26. 2

    722-2257 KATHARINE HEPBURN IN CHARETER AS "MARY OF SCOTLAND" DOOLITTLE

  27. 1

    Vanessa Redgrave in Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

  28. 1

    "Crusades, The" Loretta Young (Viera Coll.)

  29. 0

    Jonathan Firth and Victoria Hamilton in Victoria & Albert (2001)

  30. 0

    Vanessa Redgrave in Anonymous (2011)

  31. 0

    Xavier Beauvois and Diane Kruger in Farewell, My Queen (2012)

  32. 0

    Eileen Atkins in Last Chance Harvey (2008)

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