Anastasia Steele

Ana studies at Washington State University Vancouver and works at a hardware store. Her roommate Kate catches a cold, and Ana interviews Christian Grey in her place. She stumbles through the meeting, but he is interested. After a night of drinking, she wakes in his hotel room with nothing having happened. She reveals she is a virgin and starts negotiating the contract, line by line. She asks for more than he wants to give: affection, time, an ordinary relationship. Once she sees she won't get it, she leaves, and tells him to stop following her to the elevator.

Ana starts at SIP, the publishing house, as an assistant to editor Jack Hyde. She runs into Christian at an exhibition by her friend José and sets her terms: no rules, no punishments and no secrets. She escapes Hyde, stands up to Elena and to a former submissive of Christian's who threatens her with a gun. Christian's helicopter going missing makes her realize what she feels for him. She accepts his proposal. At the party she tells Elena to stop interfering.

Married, Ana clashes with Christian over his control. She goes out with Kate against his wishes and demands more freedom. She learns she is pregnant, and her husband's reaction infuriates her. When Jack Hyde kidnaps Mia, Ana goes alone to the bank, takes cash and a revolver. She tricks Hyde by hiding her phone in the bag of money and shoots him in the leg. She wakes three days later in the hospital. The film ends years later, with Ana pregnant with their second child.

Ana narrates the three books of the trilogy in first person. The series began as Twilight fan fiction where the lead was Bella Swan. The last book and the last film both end with Ana pregnant with their second child, in different scenes. Adult novels with explicit sex scenes.