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5. Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra

Elizabeth Taylor was cast as the Queen of the Nile in the grand film Cleopatra costarring with her real life love (and future twice-husband) Richard Burton. Cleopatra was also played by white actress Claudette Colbert in 1934, and Angelina Jolie is supposedly in talks to play her, too. In reality, Cleopatra was part Egyptian, part Macedonian Greek and some sources suggest she may have had a little black African blood in her, too. Given this mix and uncertainty, it seems that acting talent, not ethnicity, should be the driving force when casting this role.

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