Film, Stage, and Television Portrayals
- Anne Boleyn was portrayed by Clara Kimball Young in a 1912 short film about Cardinal Wolsey.
- She was portrayed by Henny Porten in the 1920 film Anna Boleyn, directed by the young Ernst Lubitsch.
- She was portrayed by Oscar-nominated Merle Oberon in the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII which won an Oscar for Charles Laughton's portrayal of Henry.
- Joyce Redman played Anne on Broadway in 1949 opposite Rex Harrison's Tony Award-winning portrayal of Henry in Maxwell Anderson's play Anne of the Thousand Days
- Elaine Stewart played Anne Boleyn in the 1953 film Young Bess, starring Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr and Charles Laughton.
- Geneviève Bujold won a Golden Globe Award, and was nominated for an Oscar, for her portrayal of Anne in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days.
- Dorothy Tutin was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for her role as Anne in the 1970 mini-series The Six Wives of Henry VIII. When that mini-series was compressed into a film, Charlotte Rampling played Anne in the film version entitled Henry VIII and his Six Wives (1972).
- Julia Marsen portrayed Anne in historian David Starkey's 2001 documentary TV series, The Six Wives of Henry VIII.
- Jodhi May portrayed Anne in the 2003 British TV movie version of the novel The Other Boleyn Girl.
- Helena Bonham Carter portrayed Anne in the 2003 TV movie Henry VIII, later released as a DVD (Ray Winstone portrayed Henry).
- Natalie Dormer portrayed Anne in the Showtime series The Tudors in seasons 1 and 2 (2007 and 2008); and season 4 (brief cameo, 2010).
- Natalie Portman portrayed Anne in the film The Other Boleyn Girl in 2008.
- Howard Brenton's 2010 play Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare's Globe) was centered on Anne's life.
- Maria Callas, Leyla Gencer, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Edita Gruberova, and Anna Netrebko all portrayed Anne Boleyn onstage and/or in recordings of the Donizetti opera Anna Bolena.
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