Cleopatra's life is portrayed in movies as being a glamorous and simple life of a wealthy queen. Although her life was very glamorous, and she enjoyed living richly, her life in actuality involved a great deal of fighting, and was far more complex then many people think. She had many different husbands, and lovers. Majority of her life involved her relationship with Mark Antony. After his death, she became depressed, and when she found a way out of her depressed, imprisoned life, she took it. Cleopatra was the last pharaoh in Egypt. Cleopatra was a strong woman because of the great deal of battling, and sadness she dealt with, and the drama surrounding her love life.

Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. Her father was the pharaoh Ptolemy XII. Her mother was most likely Cleopatra V Tryphaena, Ptolemy's sister, because it was common to...