Isabelle Cooley as one of Cleopatra’s attendants. Also Andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Francesca Annis, Gregoire Aslan, Martin Benson, John Hoyt, Herbert Berghof and John Doucette. When all credits ...

You may know her now as the loving family matriarch Vivien in Flesh and Blood, but leading lady Francesca Annis has been an ... in the hit film Cleopatra, starring big-screen legends Elizabeth ...

Francesca Annis: 'I don't know where I got it into ... landing a role aged 16 alongside Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. She says that Taylor took her under her wing.

I was 16 when I went to Rome to film alongside her in Cleopatra. I played Eiras ... And she said: “There is absolutely no question of Francesca staying down with the unit.

Francesca Annis, 58, has appeared in 56 films including ... Aged 17, you were cast by Joseph Mankiewicz in Cleopatra (1963) and you never went to drama school. Whom did you learn from?

After training as a dancer, success on a television play, followed by a part as Elizabeth Taylor’s maid in the 1963 feature film Cleopatra, led Francesca Annis into acting. I never did train as an ...

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade,' says Francesca Annis. 'The older you ... in Joseph Mankiewicz's film Anthony And Cleopatra - she has always been at pains ...

Francesca Annis plays mum Vivien who has recently found ... The 74-year-old had her first role in a film as Cleopatra's handmaiden alongside Elizabeth Taylor in 1963. Vivien’s boyfriend Mark ...