The Borgias/Trivia


 * Fan Nickname: Ursula is commonly known as "Squidward" within the fandom. Rodrigo is often referred to- with great affection- as "Papa Pope".
 * Fake Nationality: Hoo boy. We have Brits playing Italians (Derek Jacobi, Sean Harris, Julian Bleach), Brits playing Spaniards (Jeremy Irons, Holliday Grainger, David Oakes, and Joanne Whalley), a Brit playing a German (Simon McBurney), a Dutch woman playing an Italian (Lotte Verbeek), a Canadian-American playing an Italian (Colm Feore), a Lithuanian playing an Italian (Ruta Gedmintas), a French-Canadian playing an Italian (Emmanuelle Chriqui), and a French-Canadian playing a Spaniard (Francois Arnaud).
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: The entire damn cast.
 * Humbert Humbert / Aramis is Rodrigo.
 * The Fifth Master is Orsini.
 * And Davros is Niccolo Machiavelli.
 * President Adar is della Rovere.
 * Ruby is Lucrezia.
 * Arthur Leyton is Micheletto.
 * With Shaz Granger as Maria.
 * Princess Sophia Grimaldi is Vannozza.
 * Sloan is Sancia.
 * Bessie Blount is Ursula Bonadeo.
 * Frederick "Freddie" McClair is Paolo.
 * Cicero is Theo.
 * And Lepidus is Giovanni Sforza.
 * Juan is played by William Hamleigh.
 * Judy Molloy is Caterina Sforza.
 * Both Jeremy Irons (Rodrigo Borgia) and Colm Feore (Cardinal della Rovere) have played Tom Hiddleston's father at one point or another- Irons as Henry IV to Hiddleston's Prince Hal in the BBC's 2012 adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henriad, and Feore as Laufey to Hiddleston's Loki in 2011's Thor.