In popular culture

Christie has been portrayed on a number of occasions in film and television.

* The first occasion was the 1979 Agatha when Vanessa Redgrave played the part.
* Hilda Gobbi played the part in a 1980 Hungarian film, Kojak Budapesten.
* Peggy Ashcroft played the part in a 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book in which Ian Holm appeared as Poirot.
* Esme Lambert played the part in the Unreasonable Doubt episode of The Dead Zone, transmitted on July 14, 2002.
* Olivia Williams played the part in a BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures which, like Agatha, revolved around the 1926 disappearance. It was transmitted on September 22, 2004.
* Aya Sugimoto played the part in an episode of a Japanese television series called Hyakunin no Ijin in 2006.
* On 10 August 2007, it was announced that Christie, played by actress Fenella Woolgar, would appear as a character in the 2008 season of the science fiction TV series Doctor Who.
* Michelle Trout will play the part in a US film, Lives and Deaths of the Poets, which is due for release in 2009.