Hayley Atwell as Mary Crawford and Billie Piper as Fanny Price in Mansfield Park (2007).

Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (2007).

Movie still from Young Victoria (2009).

Tara Fitzgerald as Helen Graham in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996).

Claudette Colbert in the title role of Cleopatra (1934).

Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette in Farewell, My Queen (2012).

Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette (2006).

Clémence Poésy as Isabelle Azaire in Birdsong (2012).

Joely Richardson stars as a young Queen Elizabeth I and Jamie Campbell Bower stars as a young Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford in Anonymous (2011).

Catherine Deneuve as Maria Vetsera and Omar Sharif as Archduke Rudolf in Mayerling (1968).

Polly Walker as Celia Clemence in Restoration (1995).

Catherine McCormack as Veronica Franco in Dangerous Beauty (1998).

Winona Ryder as May Welland in The Age of Innocence (1993).

Susannah Harker as Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (1995).

Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia in Hamlet (1990).