Rita Blue

Rita Blue is a major protagonist in the Hulu series , the television adaptation of the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood.
She is a Martha in Gilead assigned to the Waterford household, forced to be their maid due to her inability to bear children. While she has mostly become apathetic due to her situation by the beginning of the series, she eventually does begin fighting against Gilead and participates in Angel's Flight, and event in which several Marthas and children are successfully smuggled out of Gilead and into Canada.
She is portrayed by .
==Personality==
Rita is shown to be more complacent about her position as a Martha, being initially cold and reserved against everyone in the Waterford household, including June. This changes overtime after it becomes clear that June is trying to fight back against the Waterfords and even escape, with Rita finding small ways to help her despite how little she is capable of. Her apathetic nature seems to be a result of the loss of her son and the way that she is mistreated by the Waterfords, as seen when Serena is angry with June but cannot hit her due to June being pregnant, so she instead slaps Rita in order to relieve her frustration. 
Rita's complete inability to do anything and seeing the death of a previous Handmaid in the Waterford household leads to her having essentially given up by the time June meets her. After escaping with other Marthas and several children on Angel's Flight, Rita does seem to regain hope about her life again, although she is less adamant about fighting against Gilead in comparison to the other survivors. She tries to move on with her life, still going to public speaking events but not becoming an outright political activist in the same way as Luke Bankole or Moira Strand. Despite her wanting to move on, she tells June that she should still fight for her children, as Rita would do anything if it meant getting her son back.
==Trivia==
*Rita's character in the television series appears to be a composite character of Rita and Cora, the two Marthas who serve the Waterford household in the novel. They go through similar experiences to Rita in the television series, such as Cora discovering the body of the previous handmaid assigned to the Waterfords following her suicide, which happens to Rita in the television series. Unlike Rita in the series, neither of the novel characters form a genuine friendship with Offred, generally treating her with contempt, and neither of them escape Gilead.
*Despite Marthas usually being infertile women, Rita is stated to have had a son prior to Gilead. Considering he was nineteen when he died, it's likely that Rita was simply too old to still have children by the time of the Gilead takeover.
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