Livia is a character, played by Siân Phillips, in the BBC mini-series I Claudius based on Robert Grave's novels I Claudius and Claudius the God. She is the fictionalized or at least exaggerated version of real life historical figure Livia Drusilla wife of Augustus Caesar. She kills numerous people in order to get her son, Tiberius, the throne when her husband dies. She is the grandmother of the story's first person narrator, Claudius.