Do u believe that Cleopatra was a Black woman ? 👑 In case you haven't heard there was a movie...

Penny · 46-50, F Best Comment

i thought cleopatra was egyptian. in any case, the lady playing cleopatra really nailed the profile i associate with cleopatra. who cares what shade her skin is its just a movie anyway. (acting)

Ceinwyn · 26-30, F

No, she was greek, like the rest of the Ptolemy.

Josh1454 · M

I agree that she was mixed race. People will say she was Greek and leave it at that. Her father was Greek but we know nothing about her mother. On other sites when I’ve said she was mostly likely mixed race and given my argument as to why, they have argued that she was white because you could see it in the statues and paintings of her. Despite the fact that most of the statues made of her that we have now were made almost 100 years after her death at the earliest. One even said you could tell from the coins. This is the example of the coin. [image] I can tell you this. You cannot tell the race of this person by that coin as there are 2 people and they look almost identical. As for the statues. [image][image][image] They look like they could be any race. Most likely her father, Ptolemy XII (Auletes), probably did the normal thing of the time and had a child with a local family of power in order to ingratiate himself to the people as his child would be part of the people. I’ve even seen people argue about the fact that North African people are not black. Despite the fact that Egypt borders Sudan. The actress playing Cleopatra is mixed race and most likely looked more like Cleopatra than Elizabeth Taylor did.

LeopoldBloom · M

These people must have really been upset when Cleopatra was played by Elizabeth Taylor. Not to mention Breakfast at Tiffany’s when Mickey Rooney played a Japanese character.

Ozymandiaz

She was 100% Greek.

graphite · 61-69, M

Does it really matter? She was Egyptian, wasn't she? Was Anwar Sadat Black? Hosni Mubarak? Cleopatra almost certainly wasn't caucasian like Elizabeth Taylor.