- Lena Headey, 300, 2006. The Milan-born beauty (and Sienna Miller) lost the heroic Spartan queen Gorgo(“only Spartan women give birth to real men”)to the Bermuda-born Brit.
- Leonor Varela, The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb, TV, 2006. La Colloca, the Italian actress wife of Australian star Richard Roxburgh, could not go archeological as Dr Azelia Barakat due to her work as Sister Lisabetta in David Leland’s Virgin Territory (ex-Decameron: Angels & Virgins). How lucky she was. Web critic Brian Orndorf likened it to a randy, ridiculous Monty Python film… only with the troupe away on holiday.
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