Valeria Messalina (I, Claudius)

Messalina (Sheila White) is the wife of Claudius (Derek Jacobi). He was forced to marry her by the then ruling Roman Emperor Caligula (William Hurt) after Caligula announced that he had become a god. Caligula, who sometimes dressed as the different Roman gods, including the female ones, loved to torture is uncle Claudius, who suffered from a stammer and a limp and was by now getting old. So Caligula decided that his old uncle should marry the young Messalina.