Soyona Santos

Soyona Santos in Jurassic World: Dominion

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

TJ McGibbon (Jurassic World: House of Santos)Dichen Lachman (Jurassic World: Dominion, Jurassic World: House of Santos Seasons 2-3)

### Appears in

* Jurassic World: Dominion
* Jurassic World: House of Santos

### Debut

* Jurassic World: Dominion
* Jurassic World: House of Santos (Chronological)

Thanks to Jurassic Park Wiki for much of the information in the page below!

*"So... What Else Are You Not Telling Me?"*
—Soyona Santos
**Soyona Santos** is the leader of the illegal dinosaur smuggling group based in Malta and a dinosaur breeder. She is a powerful elite criminal that takes on jobs for bigger groups such as Biosyn and hiring lower ranked criminals such as Rainn Delacourt. In 2022, Santos came into conflict with Claire Dearing and Owen Grady when she orchestrated the transport and capture of Maisie Lockwood and Beta.

Soyona Santos is portrayed by Australian actress Dichen Lachman in the 2022 film *Jurassic World: Dominion* and TJ McGibbon in the 2023 series *Jurassic World: House of Santos*

## Biography

### Early Life

Soyona Santos was born on January 3, 1990 to Rafael and Malina Santos, of Hispanic and Nepalese heritage. Santos lived in San Diego throughout the 1990's, but was adopted by a British family after her father's arrest, and mother's murder.

### *Jurassic World: House of Santos*

Much of Soyona Santos' early life is unknown, but throughout the late 1990's she lived in San Diego with her father Rafael Santos and her mother Malina Santos. By the time of the San Diego outbreak, Malina was severely injured, and Soyona conducted an "investigation" into what really happened, quickly learning that some of her sources were lying. By the time of returning home, she uncovered her father's other investigation plans, believing he's gone insane. Soyona then returned to see her mother, and some of her other sources, and on returning home, found a pack of dinosaur eggs sent to her father. Soyona then enlisted the help of her friend to figure out exactly what the eggs were. Soyona was then left alone as her father left for Isla Nublar on a Biosyn ship. After cross-referencing her and her father's investigations, she falsely determined that *InGen* was intentionally behind the escape only days earlier, and after returning upstairs, realised that that one of the eggs was shattered, with a trail of amniotic fluid throughout the house...

For quite some time, Santos worked with Lewis Dodgson of Biosyn, organizing the capture and transport of dinosaurs via various smugglers and hunters. One such hunter who worked with Santos was Rainn Delacourt who captured dinosaurs out in the field illegally. A cargo smuggler who frequently worked with Santos was the down on her luck pilot Kayla Watts. She had built up enough of a reputation to earn the ire of other smugglers.

### *Jurassic World: Dominion*

By 2022, Santos was hired to handle Biosyn's illegal dinosaur smuggling operations in Malta's Amber Clave Night Market. As Biosyn was interested in the clone girl Maisie Lockwood and the asexually produced *Velociraptor* Beta, she had alerted Rainn Delacourt's team of poachers to help acquire the two. Delacourt was eventually successful, and brought in both Maisie and Beta. Under the precaution of the entire load being caught if an investigation was held on a plane, she had Delacourt's crew fly Maisie and Kayla Watts fly Beta to the Night Market simultaneously. As she got both safely on their way to Biosyn Research Facility, Santos organized a meeting with Delacourt's in order for them to ship a trained pack of *Atrociraptors* into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Before the transaction could finish, a team of French Intelligence agents lead by Barry Sembène conducted a breach with Maisie's adoptive parents, Owen Grady and Claire Dearing. While the truck carrying the *Atrociraptors* had initially attempted to escape, more agents ambushed it and laid a spike strip on the road, causing it to veer out of control and into a nearby building, sending the raptor cages flying off the truck. As the French Intelligence surrounded the truck and its cargo, Santos ordered the driver to release the *Atrociraptors*, before tagging the agents for the raptors to kill them. As Santos attempted to escape, she informed her boss, Biosyn CEO Lewis Dodgson, that Maisie's parents had followed her and promised to deal with them for a higher fee. Claire then caught up with Santos and engaged in a brief fight until Claire managed to tase Santos with a shock gun. Claire then ordered Santos to tell her where she took Maisie, where she revealed that they handed her over to Biosyn. Then an *Atrociraptor* named Tiger arrived in the room and defended from Claire, which gave Santos the opportunity to target with her laser and attempt to escape again. This escape path led her back into the room where the *Atrociraptors* were released, where she ran back into Barry, the only surviving agent, and Owen, where the former promptly arrested her at gunpoint. As she was being held, she secretly sent two of the *Atrociraptors* to attack Owen as he was leaving but regardless the dinosaurs failed to kill him and Claire. Later that day, Santos managed to contact Biosyn and warn them that Kayla may have brought Owen and Claire with her.

## Appearance

Soyona Santos is a woman of East Asian heritage (likely maternally) with long blonde hair and standing at 5'7". She appears to be of wealth as she wears a fine white button up shirt (similar to Claire's outfit in *Jurassic World*) highlighted by a white gold belt, dark slacks, and black high heeled boots.

## Personality

Santos was shown to be a calculating and intelligent woman. Though not entirely cold, she did not hesitate to be brutal or to commit questionable acts, such as the capture and transport of Maisie and Beta to BioSyn. She also did not balk at openly murdering human beings, but wanted to be paid if requested to. At best, she could be described as amoral.

Santos is very cruel and unhesitatingly sends a pack of Atrociraptor onto people, such as Owen Grady, Claire Dearing and Barry Sembène. However, while she mostly relies on her *Atrociraptor* pack, Soyona is also shown as a fierce fighter, as demonstrated when she was chased and cornered by Claire Dearing, viciously attempting to stab the latter.

## Trivia

* Interestingly, Soyona Santos is the second character portrayed by Dichen Lachman in a dinosaur film after the 2008 SciFi channel movie Aztec Rex.
* Soyona is the first Hispanic villain in the canon *Jurassic Park* franchise.
	+ She is also the first cinematic female human villain, and the fourth female human villain overall (predated by Dr. Irene Corts, Dr. Laura Sorkin and Tiff).
* She is also the first blonde cinematic villain and the third overall (preceded by Dr. Laura Sorkin & Tiff).
* Soyona Santos is the first character in the JurassicVerse to have a spinoff series, later followed by Kash, Lowrey Cruthers, and Vivian Krill.