Louis de Pointe du Lac

Louis is a Creole brothel owner in Storyville, New Orleans, when he meets Lestat. After his brother Paul jumps from a roof, Louis drowns in guilt and agrees to be turned.

He can't kill the way Lestat does. He suggests hunting only bad people and switches to animal blood. When an alderman goes after Black-owned businesses, Louis kills him and hangs the body in public. The city burns, and he pulls young Claudia out of a burning boarding house.

Louis talks Lestat into turning Claudia, and the three live together for years. When Claudia returns from her travels to take him away, Lestat beats Louis badly. She nurses him, and the two decide to kill their maker.

At a Mardi Gras ball, Lestat drinks from a poisoned man, and Louis cuts his throat. In Dubai in 2022, Louis tells Daniel Molloy that Rashid, the servant sitting in on the interview, is Armand, his old love.

After World War II, Louis and Claudia reach the Théâtre des Vampires in Paris, and Louis gets involved with its leader, Armand. When Armand refuses, he turns Madeleine himself. The coven drags the three into a mock trial, Claudia and Madeleine die in the sun, and Louis is sealed in a coffin.

Armand frees him, and Louis burns the theater with the coven inside. He chooses Armand over Lestat. In the present he learns Armand tampered with his memories, reconciles with Lestat in New Orleans and dares the vampires who want him dead to come for him.

In 2025, Louis goes to Lestat's show in Toledo and gets a copy of the book full of Lestat's notes. Daniel apologizes to him, and Talamasca agents ask Louis to deal with Bruce, the vampire who abused Claudia.

At the end of the season, Armand's followers behead Louis and Lestat.

In the 1994 film, Louis is a Louisiana planter who loses his wife and child in 1791 and is turned by Lestat. He drinks animal blood, raises Claudia with Lestat, helps her get rid of him and flees with her to Europe.

In Paris he loses Claudia, burns Armand's theater and wanders alone for decades. In 1991, in San Francisco, he tells it all to reporter Daniel Molloy.

Brad Pitt played Louis in the 1994 film; in the AMC series the role belongs to Jacob Anderson, who won a MOBO Award for it. The show swaps the book's white 18th-century planter for a Creole businessman in 1910.