Sharon Tate was a critically-acclaimed actress, earning a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Jennifer North in the 1967 cult classic, Valley of the Dolls.

She was also a model, a sister, a daughter, a wife and a human being – although you probably wouldn’t realise that, considering how many films are being made about her horrific death.

Tate was murdered by members of Charles Manson’s “family” on 9 August 1969, when she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with her first child. Which means that, yes, the 50th anniversary of her death falls next year (2019) – and, as a result, there are a whopping three films about Tate and the Manson Family murders in production.

This includes Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which has cast Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as Tate’s next-door neighbours (yes, really), and Margot Robbie as Tate. Elsewhere, The Crown’s Matt Smith will play Charles Manson in independent movie Charlie Says, which will follow the lives of the three young women who were sentenced to death following the 1969 murders.

And then there is Hilary Duff’s portrayal of Tate in psychological horror film The Haunting of Sharon Tate, which vows to focus on her “dreams about ghosts haunting her house and foreseeing her own death at the hands of a satanic cult.”

Sharon Tate’s sister has spoken out against Hilary Duff’s “exploitative” new movie