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Lisette Berwald

Site Canon Character
Star Soprano
24 · Female
FC: Kate Winslet
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The famed “Swedish nightingale” Lisette Berwald is a star soprano opera singer. She resides in London, and will do so for at least the next two seasons. Her performances at the Royal Italian Opera have been met with rave reviews and much acclaim by critics and laypeople alike. Born in Sweden, she was discovered for her extraordinary voice and has been a court singer in Sweden and Norway, followed by engagements in Berlin and Vienna, where she was mobbed by admirers and received by royals. Now in London, she has secured the most lucrative deal of her career – but fate is capricious and past struggles with vocal damage may (or may not) come back to haunt her.

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Cat Kirkham

Site Canon Character
Prostitute
Mid-30s · Female
FC: Natasha Lyonne
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Orphaned at age ten when her mother died from consumption, Catherine “Cat” Kirkham has spent most of her life scrabbling to keep herself and her younger sister off the streets. From early on, that meant selling her body, but she was lucky enough to land at The Gun brothel not long after it fell into the hands of Rosie Wilkes. There she could at least guarantee a roof over her and her sister Queenie’s heads and protection from the worst of her Johns’ abuse. But Cat knows better than most that nothing comes for free, and if she had fantastical notions of keeping Queenie from “the world’s oldest profession,” those withered long ago.

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Madeline Wheeler

Site Canon Character
Thief
20 – 25 · Female
FC: Tanya Roberts
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One of the newest Lambs, Madeline is the daughter of Irish immigrants who came to London seeking a better life. Instead, they found rampant discrimination, crime, and disappointment. Madeline had little intention of following her mother into the career of a washerwoman, and so turned to petty theft. One of the people she tried to steal from ended up being Lila Scriven, who took a liking to the firebrand of a young woman. Under Lila’s tutelage, Madeline has begun to blossom into a very promising thief indeed. She is wholly devoted to the gang and its leaders. Recently her parents have begun to question the source of her suddenly much greater income, and she can only lie for so long. Right now she claims to have a wealthy beau who grants her all sorts of gifts and allowance, but how long that particular lie will last is anyone’s guess.

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Lila Scriven

Site Canon Character
Co-Leader of the 40 Lambs
30 – 35 · Female
FC: Sujaya Dasgupta
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One of the “Twins” that lead the 40 Lambs, Lila is the mastermind behind the entire enterprise. Though many consider her the ‘softer’ of the Twins, Lila is as ruthless as Beatrix, her ‘wife’. The daughter of an English soldier and his Indian wife, Lila has seen how society rejects those deemed lesser or different, and has resorted to carving out a place for herself and her family. Now that the gang has met with such wild success, her ambitions have grown accordingly. She will allow nothing to threaten the success and peace that she has worked so hard to create. All that matters is herself, her wife, and the family they have found.

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“Mama” Beatrix Scriven

Site Canon Character
Co-Leader of the 40 Lambs
30 – 40 · Female
FC: Charlize Theron
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One of the “Twins” that lead the 40 Lambs, Beatrix is often known as “Mama” or “Mama Bea” by her “lambs,” the women that make up her gang. Beatrix is the leader who wields the iron fist. When the Twins get their hands dirty, it’s Beatrix’s hands that end up bloodiest. Though the concept of the gang and its success is largely due to the strategic mind of her other half, it’s Beatrix’s force of will and willingness to be brutal that has allowed the gang to flourish. She is not a woman of halves. She is devoted entirely to her ‘wife’ Lila, to the gang, and to seeing their power continue to grow.

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Amira St. Clair

Antiquities dealer & smuggler/Governess
Early-mid 30s · Ciswoman
Played by Chelsey
FC: Tuppence Middleton
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Mrs. Alice Johnson-Riley is an unassuming governess recently arrived from Boston. Looking to start over with a new life, she seeks employment with a respectable family, with impeccable references from New York. And it all looks perfectly ordinary on paper, does it not? A flawless referral delivered by a thirty-six-year-old woman with freckled skin and eyes a bewitching shade of hazel-green. A woman whose father named her Amira Hanım Andrews Al-Rashid, after his wife died shortly after bringing the tiny little girl into the world ahead of her time. A woman who certainly spent her time as a governess in her twenties — but whose current interests lie in providences that wax poetical. By law or by hand, ancient mysteries mixed up in recent tragedies, and the combination creates a woman with a singular agenda: find out who killed her family.

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Zelda Rhodes

Curator at the British Museum
Mid-40s · Female
Played by Keaton
FC: Jessica Chastain
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There are two Zeldas: The public-facing academic, known for her depth of knowledge, fierce independence, and dedication to feminism; and the meticulously-private sexual “deviant” who would rather spend her free time at a masked bacchanal than pursue the more traditional forms of romance. Sharp, confident and more than a little stubborn, she’s never felt the need to reconcile these two parts of her identity, nor to prove the worth of either. To know her is to love her, but good luck in getting to know her, or in getting her to acknowledge more than friendship.

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Tansy Robarts

Gentlewoman
Late 20s · Female
Played by Keaton
FC: Imogen Poots
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The daughter of a wealthy gentry banker and bright in every sense of the word, Tansy skewered her own reputation to save her younger sister’s and embarked upon a chapter she never could have fathomed. After traveling the world as a companion and being encouraged toward independent thinking, she finds herself now back in the mire of polite society. Well over the bridge into spinsterhood, her family refuses to allow her to live alone. Is the answer to find a man desperate enough to marry her, remain with her parents, or some other, less-obvious option?

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