![]() ![]() Mina reveals herself, and initially seems happy to see them. The group finds a horde of vampires at a theater, and fight through them. When she wakes up, she claims to know where Mina is. The exorcism is successful, and Vanessa collapses. Jude to her forehead, and chants in Latin, begging for divine intervention. In a moment of clarity, she begs Ethan to kill her. Eventually, a priest comes to give a dying Vanessa her last rites, but she attacks him. Malcolm implores Vanessa to reach out to Mina, but she is unsuccessful. For a month, she battles the Devil inside of her, and he appears to her under many different visages. She becomes feral and violent, and needs to be restrained. She begins by taunting Malcolm and Victor with their former sins, before the demon completely takes over her soul. During a sexual encounter with Dorian, Vanessa becomes possessed by Lucifer once more. Īs they continue their search for Mina, Vanessa pursues a romantic relationship with the enigmatic Dorian Gray ( Reeve Carney). Vanessa and Malcolm attend a party and participate in a seance, where Vanessa becomes possessed by a variety of spirits before. They are unable to find Mina, but enlist Dr. ![]() She offers Ethan a job as a hired gun, which he accepts. Vanessa attends a Wild West show, headlined by Ethan Chandler ( Josh Hartnett). Soon after, she seeks out Sir Malcolm, and the two agree to work together to find Mina, despite the animosity between their families. She leaves the Moor soon after, traumatized by what she has seen. Her plan is successful, and Vanessa watches her mentor burn, before being branded herself. To these ends, Evelyn seduces a lord and convinces him to arrange a mob to execute the Cut-Wife. Nightcomers in service to Lucifer, led by Evelyn Poole ( Helen McCrory), scheme to separate Vanessa from the Cut-Wife, and deliver the former to their master. Under her tutelage, Vanessa learns about her own powers and others who would desire them. ĭetermined to find Mina, and understand her own powers, Vanessa seeks out the Cut-Wife of Ballantree Moor ( Patti Lupone), an infamous witch living in the moors of England. Not long after, Vanessa has a vision of Mina, who begs her former friend to find and save her. The surgery was unsuccessful, however, and her mother dies of a heart attack after seeing Vanessa having sex with Lucifer. After a trepanning, she was released back into her mother's care. At one point, Vanessa was visited by visions of Lucifer and his brother Dracula, but she used her own powers to scare them away. ![]() She checks herself into a mental asylum, where she befriended an orderly ( Rory Kinnear) - who, unbeknownst to her, would go on to die and be reanimated by Victor Frankenstein ( Harry Treadaway) as an undead creature calling himself John Clare. Unbeknownst to them, she had been possessed by the Devil. Her sickness was enigmatic, and her family was unable to help her. Years later, a resentful Vanessa seduced Mina's fiancé, ruining their friendship. One evening, Vanessa spotted Mina's father Sir Malcolm ( Timothy Dalton) having sex with her own mother. The two were inseparable, and despite religious differences (the Ives were devout Roman Catholic), so were their families. Growing up in England, Vanessa was best friends with Mina Murray ( Olivia Llewellyn). Throughout the series, Vanessa is given an elaborate backstory that follows her from her childhood to the beginning of the series. The character has been widely praised by critics, as has Green's performance, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination in 2016. Fallen Angels sought her out to unleash her destiny as the Mother of Evil, the harbinger of the End of Days. She is later revealed to be an incarnation of the goddess Amunet. Ives is the main protagonist of the story and is introduced as a mysterious and powerful medium. Vanessa Ives is a fictional character on Showtime's Penny Dreadful, created by John Logan and portrayed by Eva Green.
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