Aaliyah portrayed a vampire in the 2002 film Queen of the Damned. Director Michael Rymer said that while she had relatively limited experience as an actor, she did an excellent job in the role.

In 2002, Aaliyah played Akasha, the first vampire, in the film Queen of the Damned. Critics generally disliked the film, but ...

For those who are going to this sequel of Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire solely to see Aaliyah might be let ... half-naked cannibalistic pyromaniac queen of the undead.