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stunt double: Selene Todd Schneider ... stunt player László Szili ... stunt player Erzsébet Szloboda ... stunt player Ildikó Szücs ... stunt performer Mark Trotter ... utility stunts Béla Unger ... stunt coordinator: Hungary Marcus Young ... stunt player Milan Alavanja
Underworld: Directed by Len Wiseman. With Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly. Selene, a vampire warrior, is entrenched in a conflict between vampires and werewolves, while falling in love with Michael, a human who is sought by werewolves for unknown reasons.
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- Action, Fantasy, Thriller
- Len Wiseman
- 2003-09-19
- History
- Underworld
- Underworld: Evolution
- Underworld: Rise of The Lycans
- Underworld: Awakening
- Underworld: Blood Wars
- Underworld: Endless War
- Blood Enemy
- Personality
- Physical Description
Early life
Selene was born to a Hungarian family sometime in the year 1383. Her father was a well-known architect who helped design a fortress for a Vampire general, Viktor. The fortress was a dungeon intended for the imprisonment of the Werewolf William Corvinus, who was condemned for his bloody and destructive behaviour. As a child, Selene had roamed the halls of the dungeon alongside her sister Ceciliaand drew on its walls. To keep the location of William's prison secret, Viktor killed Selene's entir...
At the start of Underworld, Selene is seen sitting atop a building, lamenting the extinction of the Lycan species. She thinks to herself that her life will have no meaning once the species is completely wiped out, as she has dedicated herself to the extermination of Lycans since she first became a Vampire. Selene follows fellow Death Dealers Nathan...
After Viktor’s death, Selene and Michael go on the run from both Lycans and Vampires. Selene initially attempts to return to Ördögház, planning on awakening Marcus Corvinus, the remaining Vampire Elder, hoping to inform him of the conspiracy and to plead for Michael's life. However, her plan is foiled when she realizes Marcus has somehow become a H...
Selene narrates the beginning of Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. At the end of the film, she can be seen in a flashback of the opening scene of the first film, during which Kraven is heard telling her the truth about Viktor, her family, and Sonja, followed by Selene's response of "Lies".
Underworld: Awakening begins six months after the events of Underworld: Evolution. Humanity has become aware of the Vampire and Lycan populations and has taken drastic measures to exterminate them. Selene and Michael plan to escape the city via boat before they themselves become victims of the Purge, but Selene is apprehended before they can reach ...
Following the events of the previous film, Selene has now become a pariah, hunted by Lycans and Vampires alike. Selene and her daughter Eve seemed to have had an argument for unknown reasons, causing Eve to go into hiding and demanding Selene to not look for her. With the loss of both her daughter and Michael, and marked for death by the Vampire Co...
Selene is the protagonist of the 15-minute anime, Underworld: Endless War, which chronicles events during three different periods of time. In the first section, Selene is hunting a trio of Lycan brothers who are in control of a mansion that Kraven desires. Selene attacks the brothers in a sewer system beneath the mansion, killing the eldest brother...
In the non-canon novel Blood Enemy, Selene is responsible for the death of renegade Lycan Leyba, tracking her down after Leyba's forces attack a Lycan weapons deal and are responsible for the deaths of both the Lycans and another member of Selene's team. During the confrontation with Leyba, Leyba briefly reflects that Selene's eyes are like 'hers' ...
Selene is most often shown to be stoic, serious, cold and detached, as she seldom smiles and is not known for possessing a sense of humour. She never seems to laugh and she has admitted that she is not "good with feelings" and has been described as "cold as one already dead". She is usually all-business and does not suffer fools gladly, given her o...
General
Selene was a relatively tall woman with pale skin and dark brown shoulder-length hair. As a child, her hair was light brown. After travelling to the Sacred World, she gained dark brown hair with white highlights. As a human, she had hazel eyes before gaining electric blue after becoming a Vampire. After she drank Alexander Corvinus's blood, her eyes briefly became white platinum.
Wardrobe
Typical for all-female Death Dealers, Selene wears a black leather outfit: a bodysuit with a corset, a long duster coat, and heavy, high-heeled, under-knee length combat boots. In Underworld: Endless War part 1, she wore a Victorian-style coat, matching the time period. In Underworld: Evolution, Selene also wears leather gloves at beginning of the film.Following her resurrection in Underworld: Blood Wars, Selene kept the black suit but started to wear a long white fur coat, resembling the fur...
Sep 19, 2023 · Kate Beckinsale initially had reservations about taking on the action-heavy role in Underworld due to people not perceiving her as an action star. Beckinsale reveals that it took a lot of mentoring in order to be ready to play Selene, recalling that she could barely run or throw a punch at first. Beckinsale's convincing portrayal of Selene as a ...
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Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
Sep 15, 2023 · In 2017, the Underworld Facebook page revealed that Halle Berry had been “considered” to play Selene. Kate Beckinsale ultimately nabbed the role, and Berry would go on to don a skintight black ...
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Played By: Jazmin Dammak in Underworld and Rhona Mitra in Rise of the Lycans. The daughter of Viktor, and Lucian's lover. The two were the original Star-Crossed Lovers, Sonja becoming impregnated with the first hybrid. Viktor was furious when he found out and had her executed via sunlight, kicking off the war.
