12 Actors Who Have Played the Queen on Screen

Featuring the queen in rom-coms seems an unusual choice, but it was known to happen on occasion. In 2003's American teen rom-com "What A Girl Wants," starring Amanda Bynes as an American high school student who comes to London to reconnect with her father (Colin Firth), she gets entangled with members of the royal family along the way . . . naturally.

Admittedly, the queen doesn't have a huge part at all, but the film provided a cameo of Elizabeth Richards, an impersonator of the queen. This would be one of a number of occasions in which Richards stood in to play the monarch.