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2. After backlash to Netflix's Black 'Queen Cleopatra,' Egypt ...

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   "Queen Cleopatra" director Tina Gharavi defended the series' casting decision last month in an essay for Variety, arguing that the queen looked more like James than Elizabeth Taylor, the actor who ...

3. Cleopatra (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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   Cleopatra is a 1999 miniseries adaptation of Margaret George's 1997 historical fiction novel The Memoirs of Cleopatra.Produced by Hallmark Entertainment, it stars Leonor Varela as the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, Timothy Dalton as Julius Caesar, Billy Zane as Mark Antony, Rupert Graves as Octavius, Sean Pertwee as Brutus and Bruce Payne as Cassius.

4. Ancient Egyptian race controversy - Wikipedia

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   In more recent times, some writers continued to challenge the mainstream view, some focusing on questioning the race of specific notable individuals, such as the king represented in the Great Sphinx of Giza, the native Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, the Egyptian queen Tiye, and the Greek Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII. [citation needed]

5. The Cleopatras - Wikipedia

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   Ptolemy and Cleopatra III re-invade Egypt, banishing Cleopatra II to Syria, where her daughter Cleopatra Thea is queen consort, but is constantly displeased with the reign of her incompetent husband, King Demetrius. Cleopatra seeks the aid of Demetrius in regaining her throne, but when he fails, his wife orders his slaughter in a temple where ...

6. Director of Netflix series starring a Black Cleopatra fires ...

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   Cleopatra, the last queen of a Greek-speaking dynasty founded by Alexander the Great's Macedonian general Ptolemy, was born in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria in 69 BC.

7. 'Queen Cleopatra': The controversy over Jada Pinkett Smith's ...

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   In Stacy Schiff's acclaimed biography Cleopatra: A Life, the author wrote that Cleopatra was Greek and "approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor." Ancestry of the queen's mother is unknown ...

8. List of animated series with LGBT characters: 2000–2004

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   Spalding is Reilly's Australian physical therapist. He is a drama queen and openly gay. [35] [36] The last two episodes of season 1, "Fatal Distraction" and "Spalding in the Family Way" centered on Spalding as he tries to get back together with his former boyfriend Bruce and coming out to his family. Canada Australia The Oblongs: April 2, 2001

9. Netflix’s 'Black Cleopatra' prompts Egyptian broadcaster to ...

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   A government-owned Egyptian broadcaster has responded the casting of a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens,” which streams from May 10, by ...