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Lady Jessica is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. A main character in the 1963–65 novel Dune , Jessica also plays an important role in the later installment Children of Dune (1976).
The daughter of Duke Leto Atreides of Caladan and his Bene Gesserit concubine, Lady Jessica, Alia is the younger sister to Paul Atreides. [4] During the events of Dune, Alia is born on the planet Arrakis in the year 10,191 A.G., eight months after her father's death. [5]
In Dune, Lady Jessica is the concubine of Duke Leto and the mother of his son Paul and daughter Alia. Jessica is one of the Bene Gesserit, a secretive, matriarchal order who achieve superhuman abilities through physical and mental conditioning and the use of the drug melange.
Lady Jessica [1] Gaius Helen Mohiam is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert . She is a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother, and initially appears in the 1963–65 novel Dune and its 1969 sequel, Dune Messiah .
Frank Herbert's Dune is a 2000 science fiction television miniseries, based on the 1965 novel of the same title by Frank Herbert.It is written for the screen and directed by John Harrison, and stars Alec Newman as Paul Atreides, William Hurt as Duke Leto Atreides, and Saskia Reeves as Lady Jessica, along with Ian McNeice, Julie Cox, and Giancarlo Giannini.
A year before the events of Dune, Lady Jessica is recalled from Caladan by the Bene Gesserit after the dying Sister Lethea demands to see Jessica. Sister Cordana believes Lethea wants Jessica dead, but Sister Ruthine trusts Lethea's warning that Jessica's 14-year-old son Paul Atreides is a danger to the Sisterhood. Jessica befriends Sister Xora ...
In 1976's Children of Dune, Lady Jessica tells Duncan that he was drawn to her daughter Alia because "you wanted a girl you saw as a younger version of me." [7] In God Emperor of Dune (1981), the latest Duncan ghola discovers that one of his predecessors had fathered a child with a woman named Irti who closely resembles Jessica. [8]
Annis played the "Widow of the Web" in the 1983 science fantasy film Krull, [6] and starred as Lady Jessica in the 1984 David Lynch science fiction film Dune. [7] [8] She appeared as Tuppence with James Warwick as Tommy Beresford in the pilot film The Secret Adversary (1983) [9] and the subsequent TV series, Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime ...