Violet Baudelaire

Violet is 14 when a fire destroys the Baudelaire mansion and kills her parents. She, Klaus and Sunny are placed with Count Olaf, who only wants the family fortune, held by the bank until Violet turns 18.

Olaf stages The Marvelous Marriage so he can marry Violet for real, with a judge in the cast, and locks up Sunny to force her to go along. Violet signs the certificate with her left hand, though she's right-handed, so the marriage doesn't count. Olaf escapes.

With every new guardian, Violet spots Olaf under a new disguise, and hardly any adult believes her. At Uncle Monty's house, he's the assistant Stephano. At Lake Lachrymose, Captain Sham. At the lumber mill, the receptionist Shirley.

When she needs to invent something, Violet ties her hair back with a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. That's how she gets her siblings out of one jam after another, using whatever is at hand.

At Prufrock Prep, the Baudelaires befriend Duncan and Isadora Quagmire. Olaf returns as Coach Genghis and takes the twins. From then on, the orphans try to rescue their friends, from Esmé Squalor's penthouse to a village overrun by crows.

At Heimlich Hospital, Olaf captures Violet and, disguised as a doctor, announces an operation on her head. Klaus and Sunny dress up as doctors to save her. At the end of the season, Olaf keeps Sunny, and the caravan carrying Violet and Klaus rolls down the mountain with no brakes.

Violet and Klaus escape the caravan and climb the Mortmain Mountains, where they find Quigley Quagmire and rescue Sunny. Then they board the submarine Queequeg, and Violet turns 15 on board.

At the Hotel Denouement, Olaf forces all three to hold a harpoon gun, and it fires. To get away from a trial rigged by villains, they set the hotel on fire and escape by boat, with Olaf along.

The boat is wrecked near an island. There, Violet and her siblings uncover secrets from their parents' past, watch Olaf die and help Kit Snicket give birth to a girl, who is named after their mother, Beatrice. A year later, the three leave the island with the baby.

In the movie, Violet is played by Emily Browning. The story combines the first three books, and Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine come before the wedding. This time, Klaus is the one who stops the marriage to Olaf, burning the certificate with the tower's lenses. At the end, a letter from their parents holds a spyglass marked V.F.D.

Malina Weissman plays Violet in the Netflix series (2017–2019). In the 2004 movie, the role goes to Emily Browning.