Poppaea Sabina TV series "I, Claudius", Poppaea was played by Sally Bazely. In "Quo vadis", an international TV mini-series from 1985 based upon a novel by 19th-century Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poppaea was portrayed by Cristina Raines. Kara Tointon played Poppaea in 2003's "Boudica", also known as "Warrior Queen" in the United States. Poppaea is portrayed by Catherine McCormack in the 2006 BBC docu-drama "". In this interpretation, she is kicked to death by Nero after offhandedly and uncritically mentioning a minor glitch during his performance at the Quinquennial Neronia. Her corpse is later shown mounted on display. Rachel Yakar plays the
Poppaea Sabina the Elder Sabina and Asiaticus had been lovers, she directed her creature Suilius to accuse Asiaticus of treason and the pair of adultery. Asiaticus was tried in the emperor's private chambers, but instead of a guilty plea was allowed to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Messalina had agents harass Poppaea Sabina with threats of prison which led to her own suicide. Poppaea Sabina the Elder Poppaea Sabina the Elder was an aristocratic woman who lived during the Principate. During her lifetime she was famed for her beauty, but as Ronald Syme writes, her "fame and follies have been all but extinguished by her homonymous