Lucilla
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Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150–182) was the second daughter of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger.
In 164, she was betrothed by her father to his co-emperor and adoptive brother, Lucius Verus, gaining the title of Augusta. Following his death in 169, she married Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus. Lucilla was implicated in several plots to overthrow Commodus (her younger brother and then emperor) and was banished to the island of Capreae in 182. Shortly afterwards she was put to death by Commodus.
In the movie Gladiator she was played by Connie Nielsen, and in the earlier The Fall of the Roman Empire by Sophia Loren.
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