NATALIE DORMER as LADY MARGAERY TYRELL
GAME OF THRONES (2011 - 2019)
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NATALIE DORMER as ANNE BOLEYN
THE TUDORS (2007 - 2010)
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“She is not of ordinary clay,” Henry had once said to Wolsey, explaining his infatuation for Anne, a comment that most historians take to refer to Anne’s unwillingness to engage in sex before marriage. But perhaps Henry, tired of docile mistresses and a wife whose undeniable intelligence was cramped by obedience to role and religion, found Anne’s independence and ingenuity of mind among those qualities that made her extraordinary. Certainly, he was more than willing—without any “wheedling” or “crying”—to accept the help she offered in strategizing for the divorce. Even David Starkey notes this. “In the divorce, Anne and Henry were one. They debated it and discussed it; they exchanged ideas and agents; they devised strategies and stratagems. And they did all this together.” For Starkey, this made them “Macbeth and Lady Macbeth”—and Anne, “like Lady Macbeth, frequently took the initiative.” But this venomous, anti- Anne gloss on the partnership of Henry and Anne skips over the most unusual thing about it: that it was a partnership. And an unusually “modern” one that did not fit into any of the available cultural patterns. It took a woman “not of ordinary clay” to shatter the mold—and a king who was glad to see it in pieces. For the moment.
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NATALIE DORMER as VICTORIA DONATO
CASANOVA (2005)
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