List of The Da Vinci Code characters
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This is a list of fictional characters from Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on it.
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[edit] Robert Langdon
Robert Langdon is the main protagonist and a highly respected professor at Harvard university. Together with Sophie, he unravels the mysteries of the Jesus bloodline.
[edit] Sophie Neveu
Sophie Neveu is the granddaughter of Jacques Sauniere, grandmaster of the Priory of Sion. She is revealed to be a part of the Jesus royal bloodline
[edit] Sir Leigh Teabing
Sir Leigh Teabing is a grail researcher, portrayed in the film by Ian McKellen.
[edit] Silas
Silas is an albino monk, a devotee of the Catholic organization Opus Dei, who practices severe corporal mortification. In the film, he is portrayed by Paul Bettany and works for the so called teacher even though he has never seen who the teacher really is.
[edit] Bishop Aringarosa
Bishop Manuel Aringarosa is a fictional bishop, portrayed in the film by Alfred Molina.
[edit] Bezu Fache
Bezu Fache is a French criminal investiagtor. In the film, he was portrayed by Jean Reno.
[edit] Rémy Legaludec
Rémy Legaludec is the butler of Sir Leigh. In the film he is called Remy Jean and is portrayed by Jean-Yves Berteloot.
[edit] Jérôme Collet
Lieutenant Jérôme Collet is a French police officer and Captain Bezu Fache's second-in-command.
[edit] Jacques Saunière
Jacques Saunière is the curator of the Louvre, head of the secret Priory of Sion and grandfather of Sophie Neveu. Before being murdered by Silas (an albino monk)tasked by Sir Leigh Teabing in the museum, he reveals false information to Silas about the Priory's keystone, which contains information about the true location of the Holy Grail. After being shot in the stomach, he uses the last minutes of his life to arrange a series of clues for his estranged granddaughter, Sophie, to unravel the mystery of his death and preserve the secret kept by the Priory of Sion. Sophie had apparently seen Saunière perform a sex ritual named Hieros Gamos with her grandmother Marie Chauvel, so Sophie is furious at him. Although his granddaughter's rage makes her never talk to him again, she understands the truth afterwards. Although his part is small in the novel, he is the one that sets the events that follow in motion. Saunière's name may be based on Bérenger Saunière, a real person who was extensively mentioned in Holy Blood, Holy Grail. In the film, he was portrayed by Jean-Pierre Marielle.
[edit] Marie Chauvel
Marie Chauvel is the Guardian of the Rosslyn Trust, as well as the wife of Jacques Saunière and Sophie Neveu's grandmother. The docent is Sophie's brother. Believing that they had been targeted for assassination by the Church for knowing the powerful secret of the Priory of Sion, she and Saunière agreed that she and Sophie's brother should live secretly in Scotland. During the car accident that killed Sophie's parents, only Sophie's parents were in the car at the time even though the whole family was supposed to be there. Saunière told the authorities that Sophie's grandmother and her brother were in the car while Marie and Sophie's brother disappeared to live in Scotland.
She tells Neveu and Robert Langdon that although the Holy Grail and the secret documents were once buried in the vault of Rosslyn Chapel, they were removed to France by the Priory of Sion only several years ago. Reading the parchment inside the second keystone, she realizes where the Grail is now hidden, but refuses to tell Langdon, saying he will figure it out eventually on his own. According to her, the Priory of Sion never intended to reveal the secret of the Grail according to any set timetable. She believes that such a revelation is unnecessary anyway, since the true nature and spiritual power of the Grail is emerging into the world without the location of the actual artifact being revealed. She also informs Sophie Neveu of her true identity through her bloodline.
[edit] Sister Sandrine
Sister Sandrine is a nun, who lives at Saint Sulpice Catherdral. She is killed by Silas. Even though she works and lives in a church, she is a member of the Priory of Sion, assigned to warn them should the false keystone be found beneath the Roseline, as it meant that one of the four guardians had been interrogated and the Priory was under attack.
This came to pass when Silas killed the last guardian, Jacques Saunière, and immediately visited the church in search of the keystone. Sandrine, realizing that Silas was attempting to obtain the secrets of the Priory, secretly attempts to contact the four guardians of Priory to warn them. However, she is horrified to discover she is unable to contact any of four and realizes that they must be dead. Silas overhears her trying to contact the Priory and, considering her act a betrayal to the Church and enraged already at being mislead by all four guardians, cracks her skull with the false keystone, killing her instantly.
[edit] André Vernet
André Vernet, played in the film by Jürgen Prochnow, is president of the Paris branch of the Depository Bank of Zurich. He is informed of Sophie Neveu and Robert Langdon being wanted by the Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire by a security guard who recognized them from a television news report he had been watching before they had entered the bank. When Neveu and Langdon arrive Vernet met with them, his only plan in mind to get rid of them before the police arrive. They inform him that Jacques Saunière, a longtime account holder at the bank, has died and that Neveu now possesses the depository key, a Gold Key, to the account but did not know the account number. He is incapable of helping with the account information and leaves Neveu and Langdon alone to buy time from the police. Neveu and Langdon access the bank account with the key and figure out the account number after examining one of Saunière's clues he left behind, and retrieved a rosewood box from Saunière's safety deposit. When Vernet returns he is shocked to learn Neveu and Langdon figured out the account number. In the movie, he is motivated to help them escape undetected for a primary reason: he does not want the bank to get bad publicity since Saunière was a close friend of his. However, in the book, It is revealed that the account had an "escape clause", which meant that he had to protect the account holders. Acting as a bank driver, he bluffs his way past the police in one of the bank's trucks with Langdon and Neveu concealed in the cargo-hold. He later attempts to retrieve the rosewood box he believes they had stolen from Saunière after he hears on the radio Langdon is wanted for the murder of three others, the three other high ranking members of the Priory of Sion, the sénéchaux, and turn them in but he is thwarted by Langdon, who steals the truck and escapes with Neveu to the nearby château of his friend, Sir Leigh Teabing.
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