Cleopatra (usually referred to as Cleo) is one of the main characters from the series Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats. She is the only female member of the Catillac Cats and she is also Riff-Raff's girlfriend.
Character Overview[]
Personality[]
Cleo has a calm, collected, and steady attitude. This is occasionally shown when the Catillac Cats come to her rescue, especially in the episode titled Kitty Kat Kennels. She also tends to show a brave and independent side, regardless of whether or not Riff-Raff or the others help her out. Cleo rarely gets jealous with the only time being in Kitten Around when Riff-Raff was in a relationship with a female cat named Roxie. Cleo has a helpful personality and is often seen when her friends are in danger, often coming to their rescue. She is very caring, and loyal, too.
Appearance[]
Cleo has white fur and brownish orange, long hair, the majority of which is placed in the front of her torso. She also has black eyes with a light purple eye-shadow and pink in the crevices of her cat ears. Lastly, Cleo wears pink legwarmers.
Relations[]
Family[]
Throughout the series, none of Cleo's family members have appeared or got mentioned (with the exception of her cousins Lulubelle and Lindsay). However, in her debut episode, Kitty Kat Kennels, Cleo briefly mentions her owner.
Lulubelle[]
Lindsay[]
Relationships[]
Riff-Raff[]
Cleo and Riff-Raff have a very close relationship, although Riff-Raff once fell in love with another female cat for a short period of time. This was shown in Kitten Around when he was dating Roxie. However, he shows the most affection towards Cleo and her smart and intellectual abilities. Although Riff-Raff tries to help Cleo and prove that he is a worthy boyfriend, Cleo often has to fix his mistakes. It is always stated that Cleo understands that he is trying and that she adores his polite and courageous attitude. She cares about him deeply.
Goon[]
Before Cleo met Riff-Raff, Goon was Cleo's very jealous boyfriend. Their relationship ended after he got into a fight with Riff-Raff, and ended up getting himself knocked out while messing with him.
Renfield[]
In the episode Scaredy Cats, Cleo falls in love with Renfield, an artistic cat who paints pictures. Riff-Raff becomes hotly jealous of their relationship, and attempts to win her back, but Renfield then dares Riff-Raff that, in order for him to win Cleo back, he has to stay a night at Farthing Hall, a haunted house outside of town. Later in the episode, Hector tells Cleo that he was the only one that escaped from the haunted house, but everybody else met an untimely end. Even though they're actually not dead, Cleo is devastated about what happened to Riff-Raff. Renfield starts flirting with Cleo as she cries over Riff-Raff's "demise", telling her to forget about Riff-Raff. Cleo is inconsolable at this point, and refuses to forget about him. Then, Riff-Raff, along with Wordsworth and Mungo, (with the help of some theater actors who stay at the haunted house) appear disguised as vampiric ghosts, and start scaring Renfield, with the help of Hector and the actors manning the crane. Renfield tells that he's had enough, and breaks up with Cleo on the spot before running away. At this point, Riff-Raff confesses, telling Cleo the truth about NOT being dead before washing off the makeup, and winning her back.
Pierre[]
In the episode Riff-Raff the Gourmet, Cleo starts dating a cat named Pierre, who is a French gourmet chef, who challenges Riff-Raff to cook a gourmet meal that's better that he can produce in order to win Cleo back. Throughout the episode, Pierre manages to sabotage Riff-Raff's food-gathering plan to make a better gourmet meal than him. Riff-Raff ends up losing to Pierre in the end, so he confesses to Cleo that he failed to make a good gourmet meal. Cleo then says that she's not going really out with Riff-Raff just for a gourmet meal, and says that she likes going out with Riff-Raff.
Friends[]
Bush[]
Hector[]
Hector can caught making eyes at Cleo on occasions, the credits were he shown to about kiss Cleo in the paws until it was interupted. She and Hector are usaully friends with one another, when Cleo helped Hector up after he fall through a door in Kitty Kat Kennels. She is shown affections back to him on occasions suc as Junkyard Flood where she kisses him after Hector gave her a pearl.
Wordsworth[]
Mungo[]
Enemies[]
Leroy[]
Leroy is the junkyard dog that harasses Riff Raff and his pals, Cleo included.
Lucky[]
Lucky, a cousin of Riff Raff, tried to "bird-dog" Cleo, thanks to a lucky charm (a gear shift knob) to ward off his bad luck.
Orville[]
Orville was the Middle-Eastern sheik's cat, who tried to take Cleo to his homeland as his twenty-first wife.
Tiger[]
Tiger is a muscular surfer cat who would cut out any competitors in any surfing contest by destroying their boards.
Cartoon[]
Voice Actress[]
Cleo's voice actor, Donna Christie, is also known for voicing Iggy Nutmeg in the Heathcliff cartoons. In the French version of the show, also known as Les Entrechats, she is voiced by Maïk Darah.
Episode Appearances[]
- Kitty Kat Kennels
- Carnival Capers
- The Farming Life Ain't For Me
- Cat Can Do
- Much Ado about Bedding
- House of the Future
- Spike's Cousin (cameo)
- Monstro vs. the Wolf Hound
- Cat's Angels
- Iron Cats
- Who's Got the Chocolate?
- Cruisin' for a Bruisin'
- Cat Balloon
- Jungle Vacation
- Hector's Takeover
- Kitten Around
- Lucky's Unlucky Day
- Harem Cat
- The Meowsic Goes Round & Round
- Condo Fever
- Space Cats
- The Merry Pranksters
- Scaredy Cats
- A Camping We Will Go
- Yes Sewer That's my Baby
- Mungo Gets No Respect
- Going South
- Junkyard Flood
- The Other Woman
- The Babysitters
- Leroy's in Love
- Search for a Star
- Hector Spector
- Junk Food
- Beach Blanket Mungo
- Riff-Raff the Gourmet
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Prehysteric Riff Raff
- Debutante Ball
- The Big Break In
- The Big Swipe
- Cleo Moves In
- The Big Game Hunter (cameo)
- Riff-Raff's Mom
- Trash Dance
- Mungo Lays an Egg
- In Search of Catlantis
- Soccer Anyone?
- Life Saver
- Mungo's Big Romance
- Christmas Memories
- Hockey Pucks
- Off-Road Racer
- Repo Cat (cameo)
- Leroy Gets Canned
- A Letter to Granny
- High Goon
- He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
Memorable Quotes[]
Cleo (angrily): "A man's job, huh? No place for a woman, huh? Oooh, I'll show that conceited blockhead!" Quote from "Cat Can Do" |
Cleo (tired): "I've had enough of showbiz and purr-fect cat food. (Becoming persuasive.) But it's a perfect night for a stroll in the moonlight, Riff-Raff. (Teasing playfully.) Unless you'd rather sit here and watch TV with your cronies..." Quote from "Search for a Star" |
Cleo (furious): "Ooh, that Muffy Dupar... Her owners are out of town, and she's having a big society party. I really wanted to go, but I'm not invited! Because I'm not a pedigree!! I was good enough to protect her from dogs when we were both kittens, but now, I'm not even good enough to go to her party! (Raging mad.) It makes me so mad.. I... I WANNA THROW SOMETHING!" Quote from "Debutante Ball" |
Trivia[]
- Cleo has made two cameo appearances in the Heathcliff comic strip along with the rest of the Catillac Cats on July 20th, 2016 and February 20th, 2018.
- The only time where Cleo makes an appearance in a Heathcliff segment is in the episode Spike's Cousin, where she can be seen with a crowd of cheering cats. However her hair is pink instead of blonde. This could be because the artists were trying to sneak her and Riff-Raff in to not look like they usually do in the Catillac Cat segments.
- According to Donna Christie in an interview with Saturday Morning Rewind in 2015[1], Cleo's voice was inspired by stage/film actress and sex symbol Mae West.