Discussion: Actresses as anne

"I honestly couldn`t chose between Dormer and Bujold, both were so good."

"I haven't seen Anne of a thousand days how does Bujold potray Anne?."

"I`ve just seen clips of Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn, in a movie made back in 1930s, she too was excellent. I may have to trawl the net for a download of the whole film "Private Life of Henry VIII". Has anyone here seen it?"

"HBC was great! She played AB with Ray Winstone. No one mentioned the actress who played AB in the BBC series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII with Keith Michell. I believe her name was Dorothy Tutin? "

"Ive taped it. I think she was good but did not have enough screen time to really impress me. My #1 would still be Genevieve and #2 Natalie Dormer. I also think Natalie Portman was good as well and I noticed that out of all the actresses to play Anne Boleyn she is the one who fits her description best.
1. Thin 2. Skinny/Slight 3. Dark hair 4. Dark eyes 5. Dark skin 6. Moles
I think Natalie is one of the most beautiful women alive today, but I think in the 16th century she would be a very acquired taste.
Genevieve just had some amazing monologues/rants in that movie; especially the last one in the tower that just continue to blow me away.
What did everyone think of Helena Botham Carter?"

"I am looking forward to getting "Henry VIII" from Netflix so I can see Carter. It's interesting what you say about Natalie Dormer being beautiful, because I've always thought what made her casting in terms of looks so perfect is that, in my opinion, she is not beautiful at all, but attractive, with a massive dose of charisma and sex appeal to compensate for lack of classic beauty. I adore Natalie so that's not a put down, just my honest opinion of her looks... pretty but not beautiful. As opposed to, say, the second actress who played Jane who is a textbook beauty, although I preferred the first Jane actress.

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Another thing I don't like about most portrayals of Ann is that the actresses are invariably quite young - usually in their mid 20s. I remember someone complaining about how 'old' Bonham-Carter was, but in fact when she played Ann she was in her mid 30s, almost exactly the age Ann was at her death. The actresses who played Ann don't seem to have been 'aged' at all, even though her story spans a decade."