Jeannette Charles as Queen Elizabeth II in Front of the Union Jack
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Jeannette Charles has played British royal Queen Elizabeth II more than a dozen times over her three-and-a-half-decade onscreen career. Charles, who died at the age of 96 on June 2, 2024, has 40 credits to her name after making her small screen debut in 1974.
In addition to being her first time playing Queen Elizabeth II onscreen, Loriots Telecabinet was Charles' screen debut. While it wasn't a widely known project, it marked the first time that she was publicly recognized for her similarity to the queen and it became part of the groundswell of early projects that led to her iconic and unusual career.
It might seem unusual that SNL would bring Charles on, considering the fact that they usually have members of their ensemble cast perform impressions of any celebrities in a given sketch. However, the host of the episode was Rutland Weekend Television's Eric Idle and the musical guest was Neil Innes, who provided the music for the British show.
5 Not The Nine O'Clock News Premiere Date: December 8, 1980 Not the Nine O'Clock News was a sketch comedy series that ran on BBC2 opposite BBC1's legitimate news show Nine O'Clock News. The main cast of the show included Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith, and future Mr. Bean and Blackadder icon Rowan Atkinson.
Related 10 "Awful" Movies With Amazing Soundtracks We Can Listen To Over & Over Again Featuring tracks by some of the most iconic bands and singers of all time, these"awful" films have still gifted audiences with incredible earworms. Also featured, very early on in the show's run, was Charles' performance as Queen Elizabeth II in an episode featuring a star-studded cast that also included Bruce Willis, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Daniel Rosen. This cameo from Charles hearkened back to a real-life moment where Parton met the queen in 1977 after performing at her Silver Jubilee.
Charles brought her performance as Queen Elizabeth II to the much looser comedy stylings of the Jackass-esque movie. That same year, she appeared in Barkan's Nipagesh Bachof, also known as The Big Bag, a similarly styled feature in which she was not credited as specifically playing Queen Elizabeth. In addition to being her biggest movie yet, it provided Charles with her most extensive role to date. The arrival of Queen Elizabeth II forms the core of the third act setpiece in the movie, in which there is an attempted assassination of the monarch. This offered the actor the opportunity to nail some major comedy beats.
Charles appeared on the show in its second season, just three episodes before it went off the air. However, reruns on Lifetime and TV Land allowed her performance to continue gracing the American airwaves for several years to come.
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