Ankhesenamun - in Contemporary Media

In Contemporary Media

Ankhesenpaaten/Ankhesenamum appears as a fictionalized character in these works:

• as the narrator in The Last Heiress: A Novel of Tutankhamun's Queen by Stephanie Liaci.
• in the Belgian series, Het Huis Anubis, as The Vengeful Wife of Tutankhamun.
• as the main character in Christian Jacq's novel La reine soleil, and in the animated film adaptation of the same name.
• as the main character in The Lost Queen of Egypt by Lucile Morrison.
• in the manga series Red River by Chie Shinohara. This appearance is in relation to the Hittite Letters event.
• a character in Nefertiti by Michelle Moran, as the third of her six daughters.
• the main character in the novel Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra by Moyra Caldecott.
• Her name is used as the love of Imhotep, the titular mummy in the original 1932 film The Mummy, which was made after the publicity surrounding the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. She is portrayed by Zita Johann. In the 1999 remake The Mummy and its sequel The Mummy Returns she is played by Patricia Velasquez. In the 1932 film, her name is spelled Ankh-es-en-amon. In the 1999 film, it is spelled Anck-su-namun.
• The novel Pillar of Fire by Judith Tarr deals in large part with the life of Ankhesenamun.
• in P.C. Doherty's Akhenaten trilogy where she is implicated in Tutankhamun's death and is to marry a Hittite Prince.
• as a major character in The Murder of King Tut, a murder mystery based on speculation about her husband's death by James Patterson and Martin Dugard.
• as a major character in Tutankhamun: the Book of Shadows, by Nick Drake.