Mina Harker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mina Harker Dracula character Created by Bram Stoker Portrayed by Greta Schröder (Nosferatu) Helen Chandler (Dracula) Melissa Stribling (Horror of Dracula) Judi Bowker (Count Dracula) Isabelle Adjani (Nosferatu the Vampyre) Penelope Horner (Bram Stokers Dracula) Winona Ryder (Bram Stokers Dracula) Peta Wilson (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) Amy Yasbeck (Dracula: Dead and Loving It) Stephanie Leonidas (Dracula) Zoe Tapper (Demons) CindyMarie Small (Dracula: Pages from a Virgins Diary) Alexandra Kamp (Dracula 3000) Victoria Summer (Dracula Reborn) Marta Gastini (Dracula 3D) Jessica De Gouw (Dracula) Nathalie Fauquette (Dracula, lamour plus fort que la mort) Olivia Llewellyn (Penny Dreadful) Information Gender Female Spouse(s) Jonathan Harker Children Quincey Harker Nationality British Wilhelmina Mina Harker (née Murray) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Bram Stokers 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Contents 1 In the novel 2 In other media 2.1 Books 2.2 Film 2.3 TV 2.4 Music 2.5 Japanese media 3 References In the novel She begins the story as Miss Mina Murray, a young school mistress who is engaged to Jonathan Harker, and best friends with Lucy Westenra. She visits Lucy in Whitby on July 24 of that year, when schools would have closed for the summer. After her fiancé Jonathan escapes from Count Draculas castle, Mina travels to Budapest and joins him there. Mina cares for him during his recovery from his traumatic encounter with the vampire and his brides, and the two return to England as husband and wife. Back home, they learn that Lucy has died from a mysterious illness stemming from severe blood loss as the result of repeated attacks by an unknown, blood-drinking animal; — the animal, they learn, was none other than Dracula taking a different shape. Mina and Jonathan join the coalition around Abraham Van Helsing, and turn their attentions to destroying the Count. After Dracula learns of this plot against him, he takes revenge by visiting — and biting — Mina at least three times. Dracula also feeds Mina his blood, destining her to become a vampire at her death. The rest of the novel deals with the groups efforts to spare her this fate by killing Dracula. Mina slowly succumbs to the blood of the vampire that flows through her veins, switching back and forth from a state of consciousness to a state of semi-trance during which she is telepathically connected with Dracula. Mina then uses her inherent telepathic abilities to track Draculas movements. Dracula flees back to his castle in Transylvania, followed by Van Helsings gang, who kill him just before sunset. As a result, Draculas spell is lifted and Mina freed from the curse. The book closes with a note about Minas and Jonathans married life and the birth of their first-born son, whom they name Quincey in remembrance of their American friend Quincey Morris, who was killed by Draculas Szgany minions during the final confrontation. The birth of Jonathan and Minas son signifies hope and life of the new as the novel heads into the 20th century.[1] In other media Mina (or a similar character) has appeared in most film adaptations of Stokers novel. In Stokers original novel, Mina Harker recovers from the vampires curse upon Draculas death. However, in many films, books, plays and songs, she does not lose her vampiric abilities. Books In Dracula the Un-dead, co-written by Dacre Stoker, a great-nephew of the original author, Minas son, Quincey, is declared to be a product of rape and Draculas biologically human son, conceived at some point when Dracula was attacking Mina.[2] In From the Pages of Bram Stokers Dracula: Harker, written by Tony Lee and endorsed by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt, Mina becomes bound to Draculas spirit as his remaining allies attempt to use her unborn child as his new body. Mina Murray (returning to her maiden name after having divorced her husband) is one of the lead characters of Alan Moores comic book series League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Film In F. W. Murnaus Nosferatu, the character is renamed Ellen, due to the copyright issues surrounding this film. In a significant deviation from the original novel, she sacrifices herself to Count Orlok (the films version of Dracula) so he will be destroyed by the rising sun. Helen Chandler played her in Universal Pictures Dracula, directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as the count. In this adaptation, Mina was Dr. Sewards daughter and so it is implied that her name was Mina Seward. This connection was incorporated into Mel Brooks parody Dracula: Dead and Loving It, in which she is portrayed by Amy Yasbeck. In Hammer Horrors Dracula, Mina was portrayed by Melissa Stribling and was married to Arthur Holmwood instead of Jonathan. The BBC produced a version entitled Count Dracula in 1977. Mina was played by Judi Bowker. The film was fairly faithful to Stokers original novel, except that it portrayed Mina and Lucy as sisters. Mina was played by Jan Francis in the 1979 film Dracula directed by John Badham, in which she is Van Helsings daughter. This adaptation also switches Minas role and makes Lucy - who here is the daughter of Dr. Seward - Jonathan Harkers fiancee and Draculas primary victim. Mina was portrayed by American actress Winona Ryder in Bram Stokers Dracula, the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola film adaptation of the book, in which she is portrayed as the reincarnation of Draculas centuries-dead wife, Elisabeta. In the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mina was portrayed by Peta Wilson. Unlike the comic, the film adaptations version remained a vampire after Draculas death. In 2006 a British television film entitled Dracula aired. In this production Mina is portrayed by Stephanie Leonidas. She is depicted as being a Roman Catholic. TV Mina was again seen in the television series Demons as a half-vampire, where her full powers came out when she ingested some of Draculas blood that still flows in her veins, although her default state leaves her blind with psychic abilities that she can use to sense the nature of the demons they are presently facing. Jessica De Gouw portrays Mina Murray in the TV series, Dracula. In this role, she is a medical student who is engaged to Jonathan Harker, and is said to seemingly be a reincarnation of Draculas deceased wife.[3] Actress Olivia Llewellyn portrays Mina Murray in the TV series, Penny Dreadful as the daughter of Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton) a world renowned explorer. Her father searches for her after she is kidnapped and turned by vampires. [4] Music She is the subject for Cradle of Filths song Lovesick for Mina on their Thornography album. Japanese media In the light novels (also later adapted into two anime films and a manga series) Vampire Hunter D, the ancient vampire Count Magnus Lee refers to a Mina the Fair who was pursued by the Sacred Ancestor (revealed in the English dub of the first film to be our sire Count Dracula). It is implied that she may be the mother of D (the son of the Sacred Ancestor). In the 1997 manga series Hellsing, a character referred to only as She is eventually revealed to be Mina Harkers corpse. She died before Dracula (later Alucard) could be defeated, but because he did not die, the curse was still active in her, which the Doctor exploited to create Millenniums vampires. In the 2005 manga series Dance in the Vampire Bund, the central female vampire protagonist is named Mina Tepes, a reference Vlad Tepes, one of the inspirations for Dracula.
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