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In Mortal Engines, the film adaptation of the first book, Hester is portrayed by Icelandic actress Hera Hilmar as an adult, while the young Hester is played by New Zealand child actress Poppy Macleod. [1] Her scar is heavily toned down, and she is aged to her twenties. [7]
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Hester resembles Katherine, with pale skin, long, copper-colored hair and grey eyes the color of a winter sea. She is tall, graceless, and her skinny frame is thin like a scarecrow with bony shoulders, a long, lean, warm, bony body, long limbs, and skinny arms. She has been extremely disfigured by Valentine's sword attack - a deep scar cuts across ...
To the onlooker, Hester presents an intimidating persona: angry, hateful, and violent, with a fierce temper. Those who take the trouble to get to know her, such as her friend, lover, and later husband Tom Natsworthy and their mutual friend Anna Fang, realize that this is a façade to disguise the more gentle and shy girl she would have been had life...
Early life
Hester was born on Oak Island, in the area formerly the English West Country. There are no Traction Cities there, so Hester grew up as an Anti-Tractionist. When she was around seven years old, Thaddeus Valentine attacked her parents, specifically her mother Pandora Shaw, in order to obtain MEDUSA. Both her mother and David Shaw, the man Hester thought to be her father, were killed. Hester disturbed Valentine while he was killing her mother. Flustered, Valentineswung around and struck Hester's...
Anna Fang became Tom and Hester's ally during the events of Mortal Engines. After her death near the end of the book, she and Tom "inherited" the Jenny Haniverfrom her. When Hester was taken captive at Rogue's Roost and found that Anna was resurrected as a Stalker, she was horrified that she was not allowed to rest in peace.
David Shaw was Hester's presumed father until the main events of the series.
Hester hated Fishcake and was wary of his, as he stole her daughter from her. Even as Tom begged her to take him back with the family to Vineland (to give him a second chance at life), she disregarded him as a mere Lost Boy. At the end of her life, before she committed suicide to join Tom, she finally felt sympathetic to the boy's plight.
"Hester" is the Latinization of the name "Esther", which means "star" in Persian. "Shaw" is an English surname originally given to someone who lived near a thicket, and is a Scottish surname meanin...In the original version of Mortal Engines, Hester was known as "Hester Shaugh" and took up lodging in London before attempting to assassinate Valentine.Philip Reeve mentioned that he intentionally made Hester ugly with her disfiguring scar because he asked himself "Who cares if people who live by their wits are pretty?". He also said that having t...Philip Reeve has mentioned that Hester's character was the primary reason for the Mortal Enginesquartet's existence - it revolves around her character development and arc.Hester Shaw - Peter Jackson's Mortal EngineswikiWith Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae. In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy.
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Hester Shaw : So, what happens now? Tom Natsworthy : We go where the wind takes us. See the world. What do you say?
Hera Hilmar as Hester Shaw, a disfigured, mask-wearing fugitive assassin with a personal vendetta against Thaddeus Valentine. She was raised by cyborg Shrike. Poppy MacLeod as Young Hester Shaw
Jul 13, 2023 · Hera Hilmar as Hester Shaw (Image credit: Universal Pictures) Hester Shaw begins the movie as a mysterious masked stranger stowing aboard the small mining town of Salzhaken, however, she's plotting to get aboard London as part of a revenge plot.
Dec 13, 2018 · When the mysterious and fierce Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar) joins forces with outcast Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan) to stop the giant predator city of London from destroying everything in its...
