Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha

Does she like playing little sisters?
Gugu Mbatha-Raw first came to the attention of American genre audiences as Martha Jones' (fellow Femme Fantastique Freema Agyeman) younger sibling Tish on Doctor Who.
And, when JJ Abrams cast his series UnderCovers, Gugu auditioned for the role of Samantha Bloom's kid sister Lizzy!
Apparently, Abrams thought "Kid sister? The hell with that! She's the LEAD!"
Wise man, that JJ!
She was the best thing about the show!  ;-)
Besides doing a lot of genre tv and movies (see below), this graduate of the acclaimed Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts performed to rave reviews both on the London stage and Broadway including Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Ophelia in Hamlet (which went from the West End to Broadway)!
A Fantastic Femme to watch!

Genre credits include...
Cloverfield Paradox
A Wrinkle in Time (Dr Kate Murry)
Beauty and the Beast  [2017] (Plumette)
Black Mirror "San Junipero" (Kelly Booth)
Jupiter Ascending (Famulus)
Touch (Clea Hopkins)
Odd Thomas (Viola)

UnderCovers (Samantha Bloom)

BoneKickers (Viv Davis)

Bad Girls (Fidelity Saunders)

Trial Retribution (Jenny Miller)

Disarming Britain: FallOut (Shanice Roberts)

Doctor Who (Letitia "Tish" Jones)

Spooks aka MI-5 (Jenny)

Check out...
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (FanSite)
Adoring Gugu (FanSite)
Profile at RADA (via Wayback Machine)
Profile on the Undercovers page at NBC

Leonor Varela Palma

Leonor Varela and her family fled her native Chile when she was a child due to political oppression.
The family moved constantly, from Costa Rica to Germany to the USA and, finally, to France, where she studied acting and began her performing career doing minor roles in film and tv.
Her big break came as the title character in the mini-series Cleopatra.
Since then, Leonor's primarily played femme fatale / exotic beauty types with the occasional character role.
Trivia:
She was briefly engaged to Cleopatra co-star (and genre actor) Billy Zane.
Leonor is a committed environmental activist who has donated both her name value / celebrity status and time to WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), Global Green USA, Oceana (Osean Conservation Group) and Centro Ballena Azúl (Chile).
She's multi-lingual, fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian.

Genre appearances include...
MonsterWolf (Maria)
Human Target(Maria Gellego)
Sleep Dealer(Luz Martínez)
Hell Ride(Nada)
Curse of King Tut's Tomb(Dr Azelia Barakat)
E-Ring "Pilot"
Jeremiah (Judith)
StarGate Atlantis(Chaya Sar)
Blade II(Nyssa Damaskinos)

Check out...
Leonor's Official WebSite

Leonor Varela Web (FanPage)

Other actresses to play Cleopatra include...
There are 87 different listings here for various movie / tv Cleopatras based on the historical figure.
(And that doesn't count similarly-named characters like the title character of Cleopatra 2525 or Cleopatra Jones!)