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.

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 ...

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.

(L-R) Francesca Annis, Kyle MacLachlan and Frank Herbert ... I had worked with his father on Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor 20 years before. We had a house in Mexico and the owners told us ...

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?

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 ...