An aspiring artist and Ursula's sister. Initially drawn to Gerald Crich, she develops a manipulative and destructive relationship with him. In the Alps, she becomes fascinated by the sculptor Loerke's brutal philosophy of art, indirectly precipitating Gerald's death.
Charlotte Corday is the central assassin in the play staged by the inmates of Charenton, portrayed as the figure who murders Jean-Paul Marat. Her role provides the dramatic structure around which the patients debate revolutionary politics, while the Marquis de Sade uses the performance to provoke conflict and disorder.
Anna Brangwen is Ursula Brangwen's mother and the wife of wealthy Derbyshire farmer Will Brangwen. She belongs to the Brangwen household in which Ursula grows up as the eldest of several children, although the plot summary gives Anna no separate actions or decisive involvement.
Bored wife of a successful pulp writer who abandons her family to pursue an affair with a conman named Thomas. After a brief separation, she returns home but resumes the affair, leading to a fugitive escape to southern France before ultimately being reclaimed by her husband.
A divorced hospital patient whose fractured jaw is being treated with a primitive device, Ann is freed by Charley and becomes attracted to him. She sells cheesecake, accepts his help finding hospital work, negotiates a trial relationship, and challenges his womanizing and support of Willoughby.
Kendig's former lover, whom he visits in Salzburg after leaving the CIA. Although alarmed that his memoir may get him killed, she helps distribute its first chapter to intelligence chiefs and later slips away from her CIA minders to reunite with him. She and Kendig leave together for the south of France.
A volatile woman who appears during the final confrontation with a gun loaded only with a starter’s shot. She intends to frighten rather than kill, and insists that she has no ulcer because she does not repress her feelings.
Alisa Brimley is George Smiley’s old wartime colleague and the person who initiates his involvement in the case. She receives a letter from the murdered woman describing an alleged plan by Stanley Rode to kill his wife, then asks Smiley to investigate. Her request sets the central inquiry in motion.
The elderly, accomplished author years after her career peak. She dismisses press congratulations for her literary awards and returns to her typewriter, reflecting on her lifelong writing journey.
Runs a countryside farm during WWII. She harbors deserter Barton, helps him disguise as a woman named Cathy to avoid military police, and ultimately shoots him dead with her husband's shotgun to prevent him from being captured.
An actress in the brothel production who portrays Herodias. In the play, she expresses irritation at Salome's refusal to dance. In reality, she discusses the performance with Wilde and Alfred, and later serves as a police witness, falsely claiming the Salome actress died from a fall.
A favorite of the dying Abbess, Alexandra seeks to succeed her but loses the chance for a public endorsement when she dies. She conspires with Sisters Gertrude and Walburga, arranges surveillance and a break-in to obtain compromising letters, then wins the election and expels and excommunicates her rival, Sister Felicity.
Glenda Jackson has 68 screen credits in a career dating back to 1944. Signature works include The Great Escaper, Mothers of the Revolution, The Patricia Neal Story. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
