Esther Coleman

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## Evil-doer

### Occupation

Adoptive daughter of John and Kate Coleman
Patient at Saarne Mental Institute (formerly)
Prostitute (formerly)

### Powers/Skills

Manipulation
Deception
Physical strength

### Hobby

Seducing her adoptive fathers.
Drawing and painting.

### Goals

Seduce her adoptive fathers and kill her entire adoptive family if she fails (mostly succeeded).

### Crimes

Serial murder (including multiple acts of familicide)
Patricide
Incrimination
Assault
Arson

### Type of Villain

Manipulative Serial Killer

**Leena Klammer**, mostly known as **Esther Coleman**, is the main antagonist of the 2009 horror film *Orphan*. Although she is completely insane and irredeemable in the final product as well the film's alternate ending, the original script painted her in a more sympathetic light.

She was portrayed by Isabelle Fuhrman in the final project.

## Biography

### Original script

On April 20, 1976, Leena Klammer was born in Estonia. Unfortunately, she suffered from a form of dwarfism called hypopituitarism that caused her to stay in the appearance of a young child for her entire life. When she was little, her mother died of AIDS. Understandably, her mother's death caused her to be extremely depressed. She spent most of her childhood being raped and sexually abused by her father, rendering her infertile. Because of her then-current age, it is possible that her joy for violent ecstasy was heightened by some of the hormones that were displayed in her system. Her father raped her so much to the point, where she found an unhealthy addiction to sex (which could suggest why she seduces her adopted fathers, rather than other men). Her dangerous mental illness was also taken by the stakes. Esther saw nothing wrong with it and so, disgustingly, she welcomed her father's incest acts as affection.

Esther's life worsened over time, when her father found a lover. The said lover taunted Esther about her condition, which caused the girl to despise her and her father, for leaving her in the dark. He threw her aside, as he took more interest in his lover. Eventually, Esther's sanity shattered when he snapped at her, telling her that she'd never be a real woman. Out of heartbreak, jealousy and hatred, she murdered her father and the lover, brutally.

Consequently, Esther was sent to a mental institution called Saarne, where she used to be put into a straitjacket, which left her with scars from being too violent. She was known for her strongly hateful behavior towards everyone in the institution and eventually, slaughtered seven people that the facility had the knowledge of. She then escaped from the institution and became a prostitute who would have sex with wealthy pedophilic whoremongers.

The authorities found out about this and arrested her, but fortunately for her, she managed to evade imprisonment by pretending to be a child. The police, falling for the act, delivered her to an orphanage. It is implied that Esther/Leena did not get along with the other children and even in the original script, murdered a girl named Yolanda (who Kate and John were originally meant to adopt) in order to take Yolanda's place. Esther murdered her and stashed her corpse in a closet and successfully won the Coleman family over.

Because of all the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her father along with her dwarfism, she became desperate to find love and ended up trying to seduce her adoptive fathers, and this was where the plot of the film unfolds.

### Alternate ending

In the alternate ending, after surviving her injuries from being crushed by Kate, Esther puts on makeup, dons the dress she wore on her first day of school, and walks downstairs casually saying to the cops, “Hello, my name is Esther!”. It can be assumed that Esther was arrested afterwards now that her crimes have been exposed by Kate and will be sentenced to life imprisonment for her serial killing or she is doing this to make them fall for her trick again.

## Trivia

* In the original script, due to all the abuse inflicted on her by her father, Esther Coleman is more sympathetic and tragic but could be considered worse in some ways as she was successful in killing Daniel and killed another Orphan who was going to be adopted by the Colemans. In the alternate ending, however, she is just as vile as the film version.
* A prequel, titled *Orphan: First Kill*, was released on August 19, 2022, where her 'Esther' personas origin is revealed when it turns out she posed as the missing (and secretly murdered) daughter of a rich family, the Albrights.
* Unfortunately, the original director of the first film did not return to create *Orphan: First Kill*.
* Despite how vile, irredeemable and heartless Esther is, *Orphan* has displayed some points that show Esther's trauma in some scenes. Like for example, when Kate and John Coleman first adopt her, Kate offers her hand and holds Esther's tightly. The false child's reaction seems to be surprised. It is possible that Esther was experiencing some form of nostalgia, possibly remembering her real mother, before she died. The story she tells to John about her painting could possibly refer to her and her years of loneliness. The mother is her, metaphorically speaking and her condition is her dream. When she wakes up, she dreams that someday, she'll have a lover and children, and in a body of a full-grown woman.
* Because of her years of failed love, she has ransacked her sanity, conscience and remorse multiple times, making her a truly wicked and selfish woman.

## See Also

* Esther Coleman on the Villains Wiki.
* Esther Coleman on the Pure Evil Wiki.