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"Austin Powers in Goldmember" (2002): Jeannette Charles' resemblance to Elizabeth II has allowed her to carve out an unexpected niche career as an actress: She's played the monarch repeatedly over the past four decades. Besides the first "Naked Gun" movie, Charles also played the queen in the third and final "Austin Powers" movie, the one in which Austin travels back to 1975 and meets up with old flame Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles). But before that, to reward Austin for finally nabbing Dr. Evil and Mini-Me, the queen makes him a knight. "Your father must be very proud," she says. But Austin is disappointed to discover that the famous Nigel Powers isn't there for his son's big day. "National Lampoon's European Vacation" (1985): Here's Charles again in this slapsticky, inferior sequel to the 1983 hit "National Lampoon's Vacation." The Griswolds are, naturally, the ugly Americans wherever they go. But Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) imagines greater things for the family during a dream sequence in which a bored, yawning Queen Elizabeth II suddenly brightens up when she sees her and Clark (Chevy Chase) in a reception line. It's hugs and air kisses all around
-- then she wakes up.
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