Selene (Underworld)

Selene is a character and the main protagonist of the Underworld film franchise, in which she is portrayed by Kate Beckinsale. The character is introduced in the first film, Underworld, as an elite vampire assassin known as a "Death Dealer" who hunts Lycans for allegedly murdering her family. She becomes attracted to a human named Michael Corvin, and upon discovering that her adoptive father and father Viktor was in fact responsible for her family's death, leaves the vampire clan. Selene was born in the late 14th century and grew up as a normal, happy, and vibrant child. She and her sister Cecilia loved painting pictures and playing games like 'Silly Goose'. However, at the age of nineteen, the untimely and horrific deaths of her entire family completely traumatized her and left her an orphan. The deaths of her six-year-old nieces were the hardest for her to accept. Her family's real killer, Viktor, tricked her into believing that a pack of Lycans were responsible for the murder. And so, Selene dedicated herself to avenging their deaths. As a Death Dealer (the fighting elite of the Vampires), Selene is committed to the duty of exterminating the Lycans as a species, a duty she sees as "sacred", burying herself in her work. She also isolates herself, never socializing with anyone outside of the Death Dealers, as most of the Vampire Coven are more concerned with wasting their immortal lives in hedonistic pursuits than worrying about the serious business of the war against the Lycans. She also serves as one of Viktor's most loyal and powerful Death Dealers, having been vampirically sired by him personally. While she looks to Viktor as a surrogate father figure (and he sees her as a surrogate daughter), she never stops feeling grief over the loss of her real family. Selene had been a soldier of the Vampire Clan for so long.