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Leena Klammer | |
Known aliases: | Esther Coleman |
Location: | Dead drowned, in a lake. |
Known relatives: | Rachel Klammer (mother),
John Coleman (Adoptive father), Kate Coleman (Adoptive mother), Daniel Coleman (Adoptive brother), Max Coleman (Adoptive sister) Hermione McDonnell (half sister) |
Year of birth: | April 20, 1976 |
Year of death: | N/A |
Signature weapon: | knife, hammer, matches, scissors |
First appearance: | Orphan |
Portrayed by: | Isabelle Fuhrman |
Esther Coleman/Leena Klammer is the main character and antagonist in the movie, Orphan.
Biography
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Esther (b. Leena Klammer) é uma mulher que tenha sido informada como um psicopata violento e enganado. Ela é altamente inteligente, altamente manipuladora, superficialmente encantadora quando necessário e falta de remorso. Ela pode facilmente induzir medo, empatia e até mesmo admiração (como vemos durante sua primeira interação com os Colemans) quando se adequa às suas ambições. Ela tem um talento extremo na música e, aparentemente, é capaz de aprender línguas muito rapidamente. A escolha do nome "Esther" (aludindo à figura bíblica que já era uma órfã e tornou-se Rainha da Pérsia), múltiplas menções do céu e envio como imagens de suas vítimas em torno de uma antiga Bíblia sugere que ela está um pouco influenciada por Judeo -Cristianos conceitos - embora não seja claramente diferente.
Leena suffers from a pituitary disorder that causes her to be a proportional dwarf. Because she is physically not quite a grown woman and not quite a child, it is hard for her to have an adult relationship with a "normal" man, which is one of the things she yearns for. She was sexually abused by her father from infancy. When her father took on a new sexual partner, he informed Leena that it was because she would "never be a real woman". She was pushed into insanity and killed both her father and his girlfriend. She was subsequently caught and eventually placed in a mental institution (the Saarne Institute). Eventually she managed to escape, then unknowingly continued to allow herself to be abused by becoming a prostitute for wealthy pedophiles for years. When the police caught her, she pretended to be a child to avoid jail time and was sent to the orphanage, where she found her first family of victims and later moved on to the Colemans.
Leena was one of Saarne's most violent patients, forcing the staff to keep her in a straitjacket that she was constantly fighting to get out of. Continued struggling against her restraints caused scarring on her wrists and neck. So, to cover these, she wears ribbons. She escaped the hospital and tricked an American family, the Sullivans, into adopting her. Eventually, she tried to seduce the father, and when that failed, she killed him and his family and set fire to the house. After this she was taken in by an American orphanage where she eventually met the Colemans. Leena is continuing her efforts to find romantic/physical love in the only form she understands - a father figure.
Becoming part of the Coleman family
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Kate and John Coleman visit their local orphanage in an effort to help their family recover from losing a baby. It is here where they met "Esther". She easily charms them both and after some consideration they decided to adopt her. 
Esther leaving the orphanage with John and Kate
One night, Esther walks in on Kate and John having sex.The next day Kate tries to explain what happened, beginning to say it's what happens when parents love each other very much, and Esther simply says "I know, they fuck". This of course shocks Kate as Esther is displaying far more knowledge of sex and its slang than would be expected for a child her age. Kate wants to bring her to a therapist, Dr. Browning, but John doesn't want to make all that fuss about "one little dirty word."
Esther's first day as school is not made easy for her as a classmate named Brenda teases Esther about her odd clothes. A few days later, Brenda once again teases Esther for carrying a Bible to school and throws it and has some pages fall out of it. As Esther tries to quickly pick up the pages, Brenda notices the ribbon on her neck and tries to grab it. Esther freaks out and screams. Later Esther sees Brenda at the playground and pushes her off a slide, breaking Brenda's ankle. Max saw Esther shove the girl, but covers for Esther by saying that the girl slipped.
Sister Abigail, the head of the orphanage, warns Kate and John about Esther's tendency to be around when things go wrong. Esther overhears this and later kills Sister Abigail by bludgeoning her with a hammer. She forces Max to help her hide the body and the hammer. Daniel sees Esther and Max descending from his treehouse from behind a rock, not knowing they hid the hammer there. Later that night, Esther threatens to cut Daniel's genitals off if he tells anyone what he saw.
Kate is later told that the Russian orphanage Esther came from has no record of her ever being there. Searching her room, Kate finds Esther's Bible and sees an inscription, declaring the book property of the Saarne Institute. Confusing her even more, Kate finds out that Saarne is in Estonia, not Russia, as all of Esther's paperwork stated. Realizing that Kate is closer to figuring out her secret, Esther decides to torment Kate even more by picking flowers from Jessica's (Kate's stillborn daughter) grave. Kate grabs Esther's arm to get the flowers back and Esther runs away with a scream. Later that night Esther sneaks in John's work area, breaks her own arm in a vise, and convinces John that Kate broke it. In the meantime, Kate discovers that Saarne is not an orphanage, but a mental institution.

Esther watches as Daniel tries to escape the tree house she set on fire

An action shot- Kate slaps Esther in the hospital and swears at her.

Leena without her "Esther" makeup
As the now-widowed Kate is coming out of sedation, she gets a call from the Saarne Institute's director, Dr. Värava, who reveals to her that Esther isn't a nine-year-old girl at all, but a thirty-three-year-old woman named Leena Klammer. She has hypopituitarism, a disorder that stunted her physical growth, and has spent most of her life as a serial killer posing as a little girl.
When Kate gets home, she is finally pushed over the edge after discovering her husband dead. Kate goes looking for Max and in the process gets shot by Esther/Leena with the revolver she found in the house. Kate finally finds Max in their greenhouse while she peers down from the roof. She breaks the glass and falls on top of Esther just before she can shoot Max. When Esther appears unconscious Kate takes Max and runs away from the house. Leena runs after Kate, trying to kill her and Max with a knife. Their chase takes them to a frozen pond, where Kate and Leena struggle on the ice. Max grabs Leena's snubnosed revolver and tries to shoot her, but misses, causing the ice to shatter. Leena and Kate fall into the freezing water. Kate crawls out of the hole, followed by Leena. Leena begs for her life and addressing Kate as her mother—while hiding a knife behind her back. Kate responds: "I'm not your fucking mommy!" and kicks Esther in the face, breaking her neck.

Kills
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- Birth Father
- Birth Father's girlfriend
- At least five other people
- The Sullivans
- Yolanda (A girl John and Kate were going to adopt before Esther in the early draft of the script)
- Sister Abigail
- John Coleman
- Daniel (In the early draft of the script she succeeds in killing him)
The bully (who throws Esther's Bible pages everywhere)
Trivia
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- A huge amount of Esther's backstory was omitted from the film. The background is still however in the script version of the movie which also has Esther killing a girl named Yolanda and successfully killing Daniel and John and attempting to kill Max and Kate, but is ultimately shot by Kate.