Lorraine Warren

In 1971, Lorraine is still shaken by a recent exorcism. She takes the Perron case anyway. In the house, she senses the witch Bathsheba and sees what happened there.

When Carolyn Perron is possessed, Lorraine is the one who reaches her, reminding her of a happy day at the beach with her girls. Carolyn comes back and the girls are saved. Lorraine heads home relieved to find their daughter, Judy, safe.

Lorraine and Ed lock the Annabelle doll in a blessed case and leave for a case. When they get back, they learn their daughter, Judy, spent the night fighting the spirits of the artifact room.

Lorraine realizes Judy inherited her gift, and that it will weigh on the girl's life.

At Amityville, Lorraine sees a demonic nun and Ed dead. She asks to stop. Even so, the couple goes to Enfield, in London, to help the Hodgson family.

Lorraine is the one who sees the trick: a demon is using old Bill's spirit. During a vision, she had written its name in her Bible without realizing. At the house, she speaks the name, Valak, and casts it out. Ed survives, and the vision that made her want to quit doesn't come true.

With Ed recovering from a heart attack, Lorraine uses her gift to trace a curse. In a trance, she connects with the victims and with whoever cast it.

At the end, the Occultist makes Ed attack her. Lorraine brings him back by reminding him of the day they met. Once the altar is smashed, the curse ends, and Arne's case goes to trial.

In 1964, pregnant, Lorraine nearly loses Judy in a birth tied to a cursed mirror. By 1986, she and Ed want out. Their grown daughter has visions just like hers.

When the same mirror strikes again, now at the Smurl family, Lorraine fights alongside Ed and Judy. The case ends the couple's field work, and Lorraine watches her daughter marry Tony. Faces from old cases turn up at the wedding, like a farewell to everything the couple went through.

Lorraine Warren (1927–2019) was a real person. She and Ed founded the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952 and ran an occult museum in Monroe, Connecticut. Vera Farmiga plays her in every film, and Lorraine herself has a cameo in The Conjuring.