Editing Empress Elisabeth of Austria (section)

===Television===
Elisabeth was portrayed in episode 1 of the 1974 British television series ''[[Fall of Eagles]]''. [[Diane Keen]] played the young Elisabeth and [[Rachel Gurney]] portrayed the Empress at the time of Rudolf's death.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

The 1992 BBC adaptation of [[Agatha Christie]]'s [[Miss Marple (TV series)|Miss Marple]] mystery ''[[The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side]]'' centers around the shooting of a fictitious film about Elisabeth. The role of the actress portraying the Empress was played by [[Claire Bloom]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} The season five finale of the Austrian detective television series ''[[Inspector Rex|Kommissar Rex]]'' (1994) revolves around a deluded woman affected by the myth of the Empress. The episode, appropriately, is entitled, "Sisi."{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} A heavily fictionalized version of Elisabeth's younger years is portrayed in a 1997 animated children's series, ''[[Princess Sissi]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}''

[[Arielle Dombasle]] portrayed Elisabeth in the 2004 French television film ''Sissi, l'impératrice rebelle'', detailing the last five days of her life.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} [[Sandra Ceccarelli]] portrayed an older Elisabeth in the 2006 television dramatization of the [[Mayerling incident]], ''The Crown Prince''. Her son and his lover were played by [[Max von Thun]] and [[Vittoria Puccini]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} In 2009, ''[[Sisi (miniseries)|Sisi]]'', a two-part mini-series, premiered on [[Europe]]an television, produced by a German, [[Austria]]n and [[Italy|Italian]] [[partnership]], starring [[Cristiana Capotondi]] as Elisabeth and [[David Rott]] as [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph]]. Like the 1997 animated series and the films starring Romy Schneider, this film portrays the romantic mythology surrounding the unhappy marriage of Elisabeth and Franz Joseph, but focuses more on the political problems of the empire and the personal troubles of the main characters.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

In 2015 an Italian cartoon series {{Interlanguage link|Sissi, the young empress (italian series)|lt=Sissi, La Giovane Imperatrice|it|Sissi, la giovane imperatrice (serie animata)|italic=yes}} began broadcasting on [[Mondo TV]]. In 2018 after airing two seasons totalling 56 episodes (26 minutes each, with 52 shorter 11–minute episodes slated for its 3D third season) it sold its second season to [[Jeem TV]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/mondo-tvs-sissi-makes-royal-appointment-with-jeemtv/ |work=[[Animation Magazine]] |title=Mondo TV's 'Sissi' Makes Royal Appointment with JeemTV |date=19 June 2018 |first=Mercedes |last=Milligan}}</ref> after already having ported it to [[TV Azteca]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kidscreen.com/2017/04/10/mondo-tv-shows-gain-exposure-in-latam/ |website=kidscreen.com |title=Mondo TV shows gain exposure in LatAm |first=Elizabeth |last=Foster |date=10 April 2017}}</ref> In 2021 a German miniseries {{Interlanguage link|Sisi (2021 miniseries)|lt=Sisi|de|Sisi (Fernsehserie)|italic=yes}}'','' aired on [[RTL+]]; Elisabeth was portrayed by [[Dominique Devenport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rtl-beta-to-re-boot-royal-classic-sisi-exclusive-4155249/|title=RTL, Beta to Reboot Royal Classic 'Sisi' |date=24 March 2021 |publisher=Hollywood Reporter }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/features/dominique-devenport-sisi-canneseries-1235088413/|title=Dominique Devenport on Her Role in "Sisi" |date=13 October 2021 |publisher=Variety}}</ref> As of 2023, it is available in the United States on the streaming platform [[PBS]] Passport as ''Sisi: Austrian Empress''.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} In the 2022 Netflix miniseries ''[[The Empress (TV series)|The Empress]]'', centering on Sisi's life, she is played by Turkish-German actress [[Devrim Lingnau]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/411916/|title=Katrin Gebbe and Florian Cossen preparing The Empress for Netflix|date=15 October 2021 |publisher=cineuropa}}</ref>