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===Film and television=== * ''[[Lucrezia Borgia (1922 film)|Lucrezia Borgia]]'' (1922) is based on the life of Lucrezia, who is played by [[Liane Haid]]. [[Cesare Borgia]] is portrayed by [[Conrad Veidt]]. * Lucrezia ([[Estelle Taylor]]) and Cesare ([[Warner Oland]]) Borgia are the major antagonists in [[Alan Crosland]]'s 1926 silent film ''[[Don Juan (1926 film)|Don Juan]]'', starring [[John Barrymore]].<ref>{{AFI film|3803|Don Juan}}</ref> * Lucrezia is the subject of [[Abel Gance]]'s film ''[[Lucrezia Borgia (1935 film)|Lucrezia Borgia]]'' (1935)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://brightlightsfilm.com/behind-brocade-abel-gances-lucrezia-borgia/ |title=Behind the Brocade: Abel Gance's Lucrezia Borgia |last=Keser |first=Robert |date=2 July 2001 |website=Bright Lights Film Journal|access-date=2019-04-05}}</ref> and of [[Lucrèce Borgia|a 1953 French film]], played by [[Martine Carol]].<ref>{{tcmdb title|id=82169|title=Lucrèce Borgia}}</ref> * Lucrezia is the ''[[Bride of Vengeance]]'' (1949), played by [[Paulette Goddard]], with [[Macdonald Carey]] in the role of Cesare Borgia, and [[John Lund (actor)|John Lund]] playing Alfonso d'Este (Duke of Ferrara).<ref>{{cite news |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |author-link=Bosley Crowther |title=THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; Paulette Goddard, Macdonald Carey Play Borgias in 'Bride of Vengeance,' at Paramount |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F07E3DE123CE53ABC4F53DFB2668382659EDE |date=7 April 1949 |access-date=20 January 2018 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Denton |first=C. S. |title=Ruthless Rulers: The Real Lives of Europe's Most Infamous Tyrants |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQseDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT473 |publisher=Arcturus Publishing |date=29 July 2016 |page=473 |isbn=9781784285241}}</ref> * In [[Walerian Borowczyk]]'s 1973 feature film ''[[Immoral Tales (film)|Immoral Tales]]'', Lucrezia is played by Florence Bellamy.{{cn|date=December 2024}} * In the Italian movie ''[[Lucrezia giovane]]'' ("Young Lucrezia") that was written and directed in 1974 by [[Luciano Ercoli]] (as André Colbert), Lucrezia was played by [[Simonetta Stefanelli]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071783/|title=Lucrezia giovane|date=23 August 1974|publisher=IMDb}}</ref> * In the 1981 BBC series, ''[[The Borgias (1981 TV series)|The Borgias]]'', Lucrezia was played by [[Anne-Louise Lambert]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/10/07/The-Borgias-new-BBC-TV-series-a-study-in-harsh-reality/7184371275200/ |title='The Borgias' – new BBC TV series a study in harsh reality |last=Musel |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Musel |date=7 October 1981 |work=United Press International |access-date=2019-04-05}}</ref> * In the 1982 feature film ''[[The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia]]'' of director [[Roberto Bianchi Montero]], Lucrezia is played by [[Sirpa Lane]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Stephen |last=Thrower |author-link=Stephen Thrower |title=Beyond terror: the films of Lucio Fulci |publisher=FAB Press |year=1999 |page=291 |isbn=9780952926054}}</ref> * She is featured as a major plot point in the 1994 TV movie ''[[The Shaggy Dog (1994 film)|The Shaggy Dog]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UuMCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA123 |title=John Leonard's TV notes |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=14 November 1994}}</ref> A portrait of her, along with a display case of her rings are featured in a local museum along with a legend that she had written spells to turn her lovers into dogs. The legend is revealed to be true as the main character accidentally casts one on himself while holding one of her rings and reading its inscription. * In the pilot episode of the [[SyFy]] series ''[[Warehouse 13 (TV series)|Warehouse 13]]'', a jeweled comb, purported to have been created for her by an alchemist, is used by an Iowa lawyer to hypnotize several individuals into causing acts of violence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1417762/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=Pilot|publisher=[[IMDb]]|date=7 July 2009}}</ref> * In the video game ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'', Lucrezia is in an incestuous relationship with her brother Cesare. She is taken hostage by the main character, Ezio Auditore, and reappears later, a changed woman.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/996093-assassins-creed-brotherhood/57295056?page=5 |title=Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia ewwww (minor spoilers) |website=[[GameSpot]]|access-date=2019-04-05}}</ref> * She is played by [[Holliday Grainger]] in the 2011–2013 [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]/[[CTV Drama Channel|Bravo]] TV series ''[[The Borgias (2011 TV series)|The Borgias]]'', which explores a theme of incest with Cesare, despite lack of historical evidence for such events.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/ct-redeye-xpm-2013-04-28-38882993-story.html |title=Francois Arnaud talks sibling love in 'The Borgias' |last=Wagner |first=Curt |date=28 April 2013 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=2019-04-05}}</ref> Her character is portrayed not as a ruthless murderer, but initially as a compassionate and sweet young girl who suffers from her family's ambitions, both struggling against and eventually aiding them. * In the [[Canal+ (French TV channel)|Canal+]] television series ''[[Borgia (TV series)|Borgia]]'', Lucrezia is portrayed by German actress [[Isolda Dychauk]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://theborgiabull.com/2013/05/03/an-interview-with-isolda-dychauk/ |title=An Interview With Isolda Dychauk |date=3 May 2013 |website=The Borgia Bull|access-date=2019-04-05}}</ref> * In Season 1, Episode 7 of the television series '' [[The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends]]'', Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman travel back in time to rescue Lucrezia's then-husband from being poisoned by her cooking. * She is mentioned in Season 1, episode 1 of ''[[My Three Sons]]''. * In the 1989 BBC television series ''[[Blackadder Goes Forth]]'', the title character makes an offhand comment about Lucrezia throwing a "wine and anthrax party", presumably referring to the rumours that persist around the Borgia families' extravagant parties.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Edmund_Blackadder |date=2016-03-28 |title=Blackadder Series 4 Episode 1 - Captain Cook Full Script |url=https://blackadderquotes.com/blackadder-series-4-episode-1-captain-cook-full-script |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=Blackadder Quotes |language=en-US}}</ref> * [[Martha Howe-Douglas]] played Lucrezia Borgia in an episode of ''[[Horrible Histories (2009 TV series)|Horrible Histories]]'' which features a parody of ''[[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|The Addams Family]]'' [[The Addams Family Theme|theme]].
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