Claudia Acte
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Claudia Acte was a freedwoman of ancient Rome who was the mistress of the emperor Nero.
She was supposed to have come from Asia Minor, and may have belonged to Claudius. In 55 AD, encouraged by Seneca the Younger and against Agrippina the Younger's wishes, Nero took her as his mistress, but after 58 Poppaea replaced her in his affections. Records of her household, and estates in Italy and Sardinia, attest to considerable wealth. After the death of Nero, she gave him a proper Roman burial (burning his body on a pyre with a coin covering each eye) and deposited his remains in the tomb of the Domitii.
She appears as a character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Quo Vadis. and also in the movie Nero.
