The Woman With Hair But No Beard is a villainess that first appears in The Slippery Slope. She has an "aura of menace" that even frightens Count Olaf, and Lemony refuses to write down her name. She is described as having a low, deep voice.
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Slippery Slope
She and the Man With a Beard But No Hair started the fire that destroyed the V.F.D. Headquarters in the Valley of Four Drafts in the Mortmain Mountains as mentioned in "The Slippery Slope." They appear before Count Olaf and his troupe where they give him the Snicket File and congratulate him for setting fire to the Caligari Carnival.
The Penultimate Peril
She and The Man with a Beard But No Hair return in The Penultimate Peril as High Court Judges in the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf's trial. When the Hotel Denouement Fire is started, the Woman With Hair But No Beard is last seen on the first floor directing Frank Denouement and Ernest Denouement towards the elevator. It is unknown if she survived the Hotel Denouement Fire.
TV series
In the TV series, The Man with a Beard but No Hair and the Woman with Hair but No Beard are first seen in The Slippery Slope: Part One, chasing Kit Snicket around the top of Mount Fraught. After Kit jumps off, the pair runs into the carnival freaks. It is later implied that they killed them.
When they visit Olaf, we found out that they raised him as mentors. They don't congratulate him on his destroying of Caligari Carnival and reveal that it was them who burnt down the VFD headquarters
Olaf is desperate to please her and The Man with a Beard but No Hair, but they continually look down upon him.
They later appear as Justice Strauss's fellow judges of the high court. Towards the end of The Penultimate Peril episodes, they belittle Olaf for not starting a fire, as he tells them that the smoke they can smell is coming from a BBQ.
Behind the scenes
She is portrayed by Beth Grant in the TV series.
Appearances
Trivia
- Her identity has been speculated to be the female chaperone that attempted to kidnap Lemony in ATWQ (Ghede). Another popular fan theory is that she is an older Ellington Feint.
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