Lestat de Lioncourt

Lestat grows up in the 18th century as the son of a landowner in the Auvergne, France, in a violent household. His only ally is his mother, Gabriella.

After the ancient Magnus turns him, he goes back for her and makes her his first fledgling. Together they kill the rest of the family.

In 1910 New Orleans, Lestat seduces businessman Louis de Pointe du Lac. After Louis's brother dies, he slaughters the priests in a church and turns Louis. He teaches Louis to hunt and fumes when his partner won't kill the way he does. At Louis's request, he also turns young Claudia.

The family of three sours. When Claudia comes back to take Louis away, Lestat beats him badly. Later, at a Mardi Gras ball, he drinks from a man Claudia poisoned and collapses. Louis cuts his throat.

Lestat survived. In postwar Paris he shows up at the Théâtre des Vampires' mock trial as the victim accusing Louis, Claudia and Madeleine, and admits it was Louis who asked for Claudia to be turned.

After the theater burns, Louis finds him in Magnus's old lair and chooses Armand. Daniel Molloy's script reveals that Lestat saved Louis from execution. Years later the two reconcile in New Orleans.

In 2025, after Daniel's book, Lestat releases his first album and goes on tour. Daniel films a documentary that sells it all as an act. A local coven ambushes him at a hotel party, and the band learns he's a real vampire. He reunites with Gabriella, now going by Sofia, and at a show in Toledo hands Louis a copy of the book full of his notes.

The big final concert never happens. At the end of the season, Armand's followers behead Lestat and Louis for breaking the vampire laws.

In the 1994 film, Lestat turns the planter Louis in 1791 and, during a New Orleans plague, the orphan Claudia. She poisons him and cuts his throat, and Louis burns him when he comes back.

In 1988, Louis finds him weak and remorseful in New Orleans. In 1991, Lestat turns up in reporter Daniel Molloy's car on the Golden Gate Bridge, revives him with his blood and keeps driving.

In Queen of the Damned, Lestat wakes from a long sleep, fronts a band and tells the world vampires are real. The music wakes Akasha, the first vampire, who takes him to her island.

Ordered to kill researcher Jesse Reeves, Lestat drinks from her, breaks free of Akasha and helps the ancient vampires drain her. Then he gives Jesse his blood, and the two leave together.

Three actors have played Lestat: Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire (1994), Stuart Townsend in Queen of the Damned (2002), with Korn's Jonathan Davis as his singing voice, and Sam Reid in the AMC shows, where he does his own singing.