"Shakespeare in Love" contains several references to "Twelfth Night". Near the end of the movie, Elizabeth I (Judi Dench) asks Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) to write a comedy for the Twelfth Night holiday. Shakespeare's love interest in the film, "Viola" (Gwyneth Paltrow), is the daughter of a wealthy merchant who disguises herself as a boy to become an actor; while Shakespeare, a financially struggling playwright suffering from writer's block, is trying to write "Romeo and Juliet". She is presented in the final scene of the film as William Shakespeare's "true" inspiration for the heroine of "Twelfth Night". In a nod to the shipwrecked opening of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", the movie includes a scene where the character Viola, separated from her love by an arranged marriage and bound for the American colonies, survives a shipwreck and comes ashore to Virginia.