Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a Florentine dynast ...

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Two-time Oscar-nominated Samantha Morton is set to star as the nefarious Catherine de Medici in the new Starz Original series The Serpent Queen. Morton (Minority Report, The Walking Dead) will play ...

A new period drama, The Serpent Queen, has been given a green light by STARZ and will be based on the life of Catherine de' Medici. Medici's life has been discussed in a novel, Catherine De Medici: ...

Catherine de' Medici has been depicted as The Black Queen in a number of different period dramas, with each take tending to be more extreme in portraying her life and choices. Starz's The Serpent ...

Starz is adding another series about female royalty to its lineup, ordering the Catherine de Medici drama “The Serpent Queen,” the pay TV channel said Thursday. The eight-episode series, which is ...

In the last week, I’ve been contacted by several friends and colleagues telling me if you type #catherinedemedici in Twitter, a snake emoji automatically appears. Designed to sync with “The Serpent ...

Justin Haythe will pen the script for 'The Serpent Queen,' based on the book by author Leonie Frieda as the premium cable network continues to explore famous women in history. By Lesley Goldberg ...

EXCLUSIVE: After a worldwide talent search, Sennia Nanua has been cast as a lead opposite Samantha Morton in Starz‘s The Serpent Queen, an eight-part period drama about Catherine de Medici, from ...

HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Samantha, who admitted that what intrigued her the most about Catherine’s story “was the fact that we don’t really know about her. This is a historical figure that ...