Queen Victoria has been portrayed or referenced many times.

Literature In 1937 Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Cromer ruled that no British sovereign may be portrayed on the British stage until 100 years after his or her accession. For this reason, Laurence Housman's play Victoria Regina (1935), which had earlier appeared at the Gate Theatre Studio in London with Pamela Stanley in the title role, could not have its British premiere until the centenary of Queen Victoria's accession, 20 June 1937. This was a Sunday, so the new premiere took place the next day, at the Lyric Theatre. Pamela Stanley reprised the title role at Housman's request, and Carl Esmond played Prince Albert.All the Best People ...: The Pick of Peterborough 1929–1945, George Allen & Unwin, 1981; p. 139 The play later appeared on Broadway, where Helen Hayes portrayed the Queen, with Vincent Price in the role of Prince Albert.

Vaughan Wilkins' novel And So-Victoria (1937) focuses on Victoria's life.Stanley Kunitz and H. W. Wilson Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature. Supplement, Volume 1. New York, 1955. (p. 1083)

Queen Victoria appears in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's graphic novel From Hell, where she is depicted as instigating the Whitechapel murders.

A Royal Diaries book was written, documenting her childhood between 1829 and 1830: Victoria, May Blossom of Britannia by Anna Kirwan.

The Victorian age is experienced through the eyes of the fictional Morland family in The Abyss, The Hidden Shore, The Winter Journey, The Outcast, The Mirage, The Cause, The Homecoming and The Question, Volumes 18–25 respectively of The Morland Dynasty, a series of historical novels by author Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. One of the characters becomes Victoria's devoted lady-in-waiting.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles also wrote I Victoria, a fictional autobiography of Queen Victoria.

There is a Sanskrit poem named Cakravarttini gunamanimala, written by T. Ganapati Sastri on Queen Victoria.The contribution of Kerala to Sanskrit Literature; K.Kunjunni Raja; University of Madras 1980; page 257

Another Sanskrit poem, titled Victoria Carita Sangraha, was written by scholar Keralavarman on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the coronation of Queen Victoria.The contribution of Kerala to Sanskrit Literature; K.Kunjunni Raja; University of Madras 1980; p. 255

Although she did not live to see the Victorian age, Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) wrote a number of poetic tributes to the young princess and queen. These are:

Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832. 'The Princess Victoria', to accompany a plate drawn by Anthony Stewart and engraved by T. Woolnoth. (This plate is in some editions, entitled 'The Princess Alexandrina-Victoria') Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837. 'The Princess Victoria', to accompany a plate engraved by J. Cochran after Sir Geo. Hayter's painting.

1837. Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838. 'To the Queen'. Frontispiece.

Flowers of Loveliness, 1838. . Schloss's Bijou Almanack, 1838. .

Queen Victoria is portrayed in Kim Newman's 1992 fantasy novel Anno Dracula as having married Vlad Tepes (Dracula), thereby making him Prince Consort and exerting control over the entire British Empire.

Film On screen, Victoria has been portrayed by: Rose Tapley in the silent short The Victoria Cross (1912) Louie Henri in the silent film Sixty Years a Queen (1913) Mrs. Henry Lytton in the silent film Disraeli (1916) Blanche Graham in the silent film Livingstone (1925), the story of David Livingstone Julia Faye in the silent film The Yankee Clipper (1927) Marion Drada in the silent film Balaclava (1928) Margaret Mann in Disraeli (1929) Madeleine Ozeray in the German French-language musical Court Waltzes (1933) Hanna Waag in the German film Waltz War (1933) Pamela Stanley in David Livingstone (1936) and Marigold (1938), based on the play by Charles Garvice, Allen Harker and F. Prior Fay Holden in The White Angel (1936), the story of Florence Nightingale Jenny Jugo in the German romantic comedy Victoria in Dover (1936) Yvette Pienne in the French comedy The Pearls of the Crown (1937) Viva Tattersall in Souls at Sea (1937) Anna Neagle in the biopics Victoria the Great (1937) and Sixty Glorious Years (1938) Beryl Mercer in The Little Princess (1939), based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) Fay Compton in The Prime Minister (1941), about Benjamin Disraeli, and Journey to Midnight (1968) Evelyn Beresford in Buffalo Bill (1944) and the musical Annie Get Your Gun (1950) Pamela Brown in Alice in Wonderland (1949), in which she also played the Queen of Hearts Irene Dunne in The Mudlark (1950), based on the novel by Theodore Bonnet Helena Pickard in The Lady with a Lamp (1951), based on the play by Reginald Berkeley about Florence Nightingale Muriel Aked in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) Sybil Thorndike in Melba (1953), the story of soprano Nellie Melba Romy Schneider in the Austrian/West German biopic Victoria in Dover (1954), remake of the 1936 film, which features a highly fictionalised story about Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne and marriage to Prince Albert Avis Bunnage in the comedy The Wrong Box (1966) Barbara Carroll in the Italian film Zorro alla corte d'Inghilterra (1969), in which Zorro visits the British Court Mollie Maureen in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Peter Sellers in The Great McGonagall (1974), a comic biopic of William McGonagall Susan Field in the spoof The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) John Dalby in the animated musical fantasy Stories from a Flying Trunk (1979), adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Flying Trunk Eve Brenner voices a mouse version of Victoria in The Great Mouse Detective (1986), adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. Judi Dench in Mrs. Brown (1997), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Dench reprised the role in Victoria & Abdul (2017) Debra Beaumont in the Chinese film The Opium War (1997) Liz Moscrop in From Hell (2001), based on the graphic novel Gemma Jones in Shanghai Knights (2003) Tress MacNeille (voice) in the animated short Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004) Kathy Bates in Around the World in 80 Days (2004), based on the novel by Jules Verne Zoe Street Howe in "Florence Nightingale" (2008) Emily Blunt in The Young Victoria (2009), with Michaela Brooks playing Victoria as a girl Imelda Staunton voices Victoria as the primary antagonist in The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2012) Judi Dench in Victoria & Abdul (2017). Gayle Rankin in The Greatest Showman (2017) Amanda Root in The Black Prince (2017). Pam Ferris in Holmes & Watson (2018). Jodhi May in The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019). Jessie Buckley in Dolittle (2020). Alexa Povah in The King's Man (2021).

She also makes appearances in Around the World in 80 Days (in which a newspaper detailing Phileas Fogg's progress is taken to the Queen, and what is presumably the royal hand is seen eagerly taking it up), in the 2004 anime movie Steamboy, inaugurating The Great Exhibition, and in the 2013 Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie. The 1941 Nazi film Ohm Krüger notoriously portrays her as a whisky-soaked drunk. Her daughter-in-law, the Princess of Wales, reads a letter from Victoria to London Hospital governors, showing her concern for John Merrick, in the 1980 film The Elephant Man.

Television On television, Victoria has been portrayed by: Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina (1951), an episode of the American series Robert Montgomery Presents based on the play by Housman Renée Asherson in the BBC drama series Happy and Glorious (1952) Judi Meredith in The Consort (1957), an episode of the American series Telephone Time Julie Harris in the American drama Victoria Regina (1961), based on Housman's play, for which Harris won an Emmy award Kate Reid in the American drama The Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963) Patricia Routledge in the Granada Television series Victoria Regina (1964), also based on Housman's play Gladys Spencer in the BBC Play of the Month, Gordon of Khartoum (1966) Jane Connell in an episode of the American sitcom Bewitched titled "Aunt Clara's Victoria Victory" (1967) Christine Ozanne in an episode of the Yorkshire Television drama series The Flaxton Boys titled "1854: The Dog" (1969) Mollie Maureen in the BBC drama series The Edwardians (1972) Perlita Neilson and (as an old woman) Mavis Edwards in the BBC drama series Fall of Eagles (1974) Terry Jones in an episode of the BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus titled "Sex and Violence" (1969) Michael Palin in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus titled "Michael Ellis" (1974) Annette Crosbie in the ATV drama series Edward the Seventh (1975) Shirley Steedman in the British series East Lynne (1976), based on the novel by Mrs Henry Wood Rosemary Leach in the ATV drama series Disraeli (1978) Sheila Reid in the LWT drama series Lillie (1978), telling the story of Lillie Langtry in the American comedy drama The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979) Jessica Spencer in an episode of the Granada Television drama series Cribb titled "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1981) Marina McConnell in the Granada drama series Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982) Lurene Tuttle in an episode of the American time travel series Voyagers! titled "Buffalo Bill & Annie Oakley Play the Palace" (1983) Zena Walker in the episode of the Yorkshire Television drama series Number 10 titled "Dizzy" (1983) Siobhan Redmond in ITV series Alfresco episode #1.2 (1983) Bronwen Mantel in the drama Barnum (1986) Erica Rogers in the miniseries Shaka Zulu (1986), based on the novel by Joshua Sinclair Miriam Margolyes in the BBC comedy Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) and later reprised in The Windsors on Channel 4 Anna Massey in the miniseries Around the World in 80 Days (1989) Honora Burke in the British drama Hands of a Murderer (1990) Margaret Heale in the BBC drama series Rhodes (1996) Rhoda Lewis and (as an old woman) Avril Angers in the Granada miniseries Victoria & Albert (1997) Wendy Worthington in an episode of the Paramount sitcom The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer titled "Saving Mr. Lincoln" (1998) Patti Allen in the series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000) Victoria Hamilton in the miniseries Victoria and Albert (2001), in which Joyce Redman played her as an old woman Prunella Scales in the BBC drama Station Jim (2001) and in the BBC drama documentary Looking for Victoria (2003), in which Charlie Hayes played the young Victoria Janine Duvitski in the BBC drama The Young Visiters (2003) Doreen Mantle in the BBC drama series Shadow Play (2004) Tessa Pointing in the British drama documentary The First Black Britons (2005) Pauline Collins in the episode of the BBC series Doctor Who titled "Tooth and Claw" (2006) Robert Webb in a comedy sketch on the show That Mitchell and Webb Look (2006) Sarah Hadland (2009, 2015), Martha Howe-Douglas (2010–2013), Ellie White (2017–2018) and Jessica Ransom (2019–) in the British children's sketch show Horrible Histories (2009–) Elizabeth Leslie in "Her Majesty's Last Hope" (August 19, 2011), episode 11 of a web series extension of season 4 of the Canadian television period detective series Murdoch Mysteries: Murdoch Mysteries: The Curse of the Lost Pharaohs in which mummies attempt to kill Queen Victoria. Jenna Coleman in the ITV series Victoria (2016–2019)

Monty Python's Flying Circus portrays Queen Victoria as a slapstick prankster and includes a sketch in which she says "We are not amused" in German accented English. Another Monty Python sketch contains a footrace in which all the contestants are dressed as Queen Victoria.