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African Queens is a 2023 docudrama series focusing on female monarchs, airing on the streaming service Netflix.The series is produced and narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith and features dramatized fictional re-enactments as well as interviews with experts.
[1] [3] In 2023, she was given the starring role as Cleopatra in the second installment of Netflix's African Queens docuseries, Queen Cleopatra. [4] Her casting faced controversy surrounding the Cleopatra race controversy. [5]
Cleopatra VII was born in early 69 BC to the ruling Ptolemaic pharaoh Ptolemy XII and an uncertain mother, [32] [33] [note 13] presumably Ptolemy XII's wife Cleopatra V Tryphaena (who may have been the same person as Cleopatra VI Tryphaena), [34] [35] [36] [note 14] [note 2] the mother of Cleopatra's older sister, Berenice IV Epiphaneia.
The 2023 Netflix documentary series Queen Cleopatra, which cast a black actor of mixed English and Jamaican heritage as the queen, [39] ignited controversy with accusations of historical inaccuracy, including from the former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass.
Queen Cleopatra's life is explored in a Netflix docuseries by the same name. The Egyptian queen had at least 2 husbands and famous lovers. Here's what to know:
The upcoming series from Jada Pinkett Smith drops on the streaming service this May. Netflix’s upcoming docudrama series is already The post Netflix Black woman-led ‘Queen Cleopatra ...
Mezzo-soprano Rosalind Elias portrayed Charmian in the initial run of Samuel Barber's 1966 opera Antony and Cleopatra, based on Shakespeare's play. In 2005 and 2007, Charmian was portrayed by Kathryn Hunter in the HBO/BBC television series Rome. Charmion is the main character in the novels Hand of Isis by Jo Graham and Queen Cleopatra by Talbot ...
Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing "African Queens" docu-series "Queen Cleopatra," which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming ...