Nero — Nero Character Profile

About Nero

The central protagonist who transitions from a traumatized exile to a reformist emperor, initially cutting taxes and expanding the empire, before succumbing to madness and setting fire to Rome.

Nero — Character Profile

Quick Facts about Nero

Occupation

military personnel, poet, politician

Manner of Death

Consensual homicide

Nero's Known Relations

• Claudia Augusta — Child
• Claudius — Father
• Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus — Father
• Agrippina the Younger — Mother
• Poppaea Sabina — Spouse
• Claudia Octavia — Spouse
• Statilia Messalina — Spouse
• Sporus — Spouse
• Pythagoras — Spouse
• Terpnus — Student of
• Claudia Acte — Unmarried partner
• Rufrius Crispinus — Relative

Character Facts

Played by

Hans Matheson

Appears in

Nero (2004)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (3)

• Nero — Romantic Second Wife — Poppaea Sabina (Elisa Tovati)

  Poppaea replaces Acte as Nero's consort, reflecting his changing personal and political landscape.

• Nero — Romantic Former Spouse — Claudia Octavia (Vittoria Puccini)

  A political marriage that Nero abandons in favor of personal desire.

• Nero — Romantic Spouse — Acte (Rike Schmid)

  Nero and Acte transition from childhood acquaintances to married partners, sharing a brief period of genuine affection.

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More characters from Nero

• Acte (Rike Schmid)
• Aggrippina (Laura Morante)
• Seneca (Matthias Habich)
• Etius (Jochen Horst)
• Domitia (Ángela Molina)
• Claudia Octavia (Vittoria Puccini)
• Britannicus (Francesco Venditti)
• Poppaea Sabina (Elisa Tovati)
• Septimus (Ian Richardson)
• Young Nero (James Bentley)
• Paul of Tarsus (Pierre Vaneck)
• Caligula (John Simm)