Last week, I listed the ten Screen Kings that get my heart racing a little faster. This week I pay homage to the women in power!

This is SO much harder of a list to narrow down to just a top ten—oddly, it’s easier to find queens represented in TV/movies than kings. Or, at least, it is in the movies I tend to watch.

Favorite Queens (real or fictional) Portrayed on Screen
10. Alison Pill as Queen/Empress Maud/Matilda (The Pillars of the Earth)

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9. Helena Bonham Carter as Jane Grey (Lady Jane)

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8. Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette)

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7. Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine (Lion in Winter)

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6. Claire Foy as Elizabeth II (The Crown)

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5. Emily Blunt as Victoria (The Young Victoria)

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4. Joss Stone as Anne of Cleves (The Tudors)

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3. Rene Russo as Frigga (Thor and Thor: The Dark World); a.k.a., my MCU boyfriend’s mother 😉

2. Judi Dench as Victoria (Mrs. Brown and Victoria and Abdul)

1. Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I (Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age)

Honorable Mentions
As mentioned, this was a hard list to narrow to just ten, so here are some honorable mentions:

• Emma Thompson as Catherine de Valois in Henry V
• Rebecca Ferguson as Elizabeth Woodville in The White Queen
• Megan Follows as Catherine de’ Medici in Reign
• Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II in The Queen
• Judi Dench as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love
• Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn in Anne of the Thousand Days
• Julie Andrews as Clarisse in The Princess Diaries
• Charlize Theron as Ravenna in Snow White and Huntsman and The Huntsman

Did I miss your favorite(s)? If so, please share yours in the comments!