Chauvelin — The Scarlet Pimpernel Character Profile

About Chauvelin

A ruthless agent of Robespierre tasked with unmasking the Scarlet Pimpernel. He blackmails Marguerite, sets elaborate traps, and orders Percy's execution, but is repeatedly outmaneuvered by Percy's league. He loses a duel to Percy and is left to face Robespierre's justice.

Character Facts

Played by

Ian McKellen

Appears in

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Chauvelin — related — Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel (Anthony Andrews)
• Chauvelin — Conflict Arch Enemy — Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel (Anthony Andrews)

  The vigilante and the French agent are locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse game over identity and survival.

• Chauvelin — Romantic Former Lover — Marguerite St. Just (Jane Seymour)

  Marguerite and Chauvelin share a past romantic connection that complicates their current adversarial dynamic.

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• Marguerite St. Just (Jane Seymour)
• Baron de Batz (James Villiers)
• Count de Beaulieu (Timothy Carlton)
• Louise (Eleanor David)
• Mme. Duval (Carol MacReady)
• Aunt Lulu (Joanna Dickens)
• Sir Andrew Ffoulkes (Dominic Jephcott)
• Fouquet (David Gant)
• Marquis de St. Cyr (Geoffrey Toone)
• Lord Anthony Dewhurst (Christopher Villiers)
• Dispatcher (Sean Mathias)