Cultural depictions of Mary I of England

Mary I of England has been depicted in popular culture a number of times.

[edit] Literature

Mark Twain's novel The Prince and the Pauper includes a depiction of Mary before her accession: "When his royal 'sister,' the grimly holy Lady Mary, set herself to reason with him against the wisdom of his course in pardoning so many people who would otherwise be jailed, or hanged, or burned (...) the boy [pauper pretending to be King Edward VI] was filled with generous indignation, and commanded her to go to her closet, and beseech God to take away the stone that was in her breast, and give her a human heart."
The 2004 historical fiction novel The Queen's Fool, by Philippa Gregory, depicts Mary's rise to power and reign in a very sympathetic light.
In the novel Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, part of the juvenile historical-fiction series The Royal Diaries, Mary is a prominent character and is portrayed as a bitter rival to her half-sister Elizabeth.

Mary has been played on screen by:

Gwen Ffrangcon Davies in Tudor Rose (1936), about Lady Jane Grey
Ann Tyrrell (uncredited) in Young Bess (1953)
Nicola Pagett in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), in which she made a brief appearance in a scene showing Catherine of Aragon's death; in reality, Mary was not present at this event
Verina Greenlaw as a girl in the first episode ("Catherine of Aragon") of the BBC TV series The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971)
Alison Frazer as an older woman in the third episode ("Jane Seymour") and sixth episode ("Catherine Parr") of The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971)
Daphne Slater in the BBC TV series Elizabeth R (1971)
Jane Lapotaire in Lady Jane (1986)
Kathy Burke in Elizabeth (1998)
Lara Belmont in the Granada Television serial Henry VIII (2003)
Joanne Whalley in the TV miniseries The Virgin Queen (2005)
Bláthnaid McKeown as a young girl in the TV series The Tudors (2007); Sarah Bolger is to portray her as a teenager (2008).