Iona Cotton (Her Last Will)

Iona Cotton (Fiona Dourif) was a secondary villainess of the 2016 Lifetime film Her Last Will (alternately titled Beneficiary). She was the daughter of wealthy Dina Cotton and also the sister of Gill Cotton and Harold Cotton. After her father's death, Iona became an alcoholic party girl—a trait that her mother greatly disapproved of. As a result, Iona resented Dina, prompting her to become a part of Gill's plot to have her killed so that they could be free of her rule and also be free to collect their inheritances (which Dina used to gain their reluctant obedience).
Hiring former con woman Maggie, Iona and her brothers made her believe that they only intended to have Dina declared legally insane in order to gain control of her will. However, after a few days passed which consisted of Maggie successfully gaslighting Dina, Gill perpetrated matricide by giving his mother an overdose of a medicine that Maggie instructed him to use in order to further destabilize her. Maggie rushed to Dina's side as she died, and it was after her demise that Iona approached her, revealing that their sinister scheme included framing Maggie for the murderous deed. Maggie briefly attacked Iona before the police pulled up outside the Cotton home, forcing the former to flee. It is later on that Maggie discovered that Dina was actually her biological mother, making her Iona's sister (and, by extension, the other sister of Gill and Harold). Seeking to avenge her mother's passing, Maggie turned heel and became a manipulative anti-villainess determined to kill the two Cotton siblings who voluntarily participated in the murder of Dina as retribution for what they did. Iona became her first victim, with Maggie poisoning a bottle of alcohol in Gill's office which she accurately determined Iona would drink from.
== Trivia ==
* Fiona Dourif also appeared in Lifetime's The Protector as callous and greedy murderer Tamara O'Neil.
Category:2010s
Category:A Taste Of Her Own Medicine
Category:Brunette
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Greedy
Category:Killed By Relative
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Indirect
Category:Sibling
Category:Woman Kills Villainess
Category:Demise: Poison
Category:Fate: Deceased