Tory Reding

Tory Redding (1)

**Tory Redding** is the protagonist in Leprechaun and a posthumous character in Leprechaun Returns. She is a spoiled teenage girl who lives in L.A. and is considered a millennial who is obsessed with technology and shopping malls. She existed in two different timelines.

## Biography

### Appearance

In Leprechaun, Tory is seen as a beautiful, young woman with long brunette hair, blue eyes, and a long nose. In her introduction, she wears a spotty blue sundress and black heels. Later, she wears patchwork jean shorts, a black tank top, and white LA Gear sneakers with dark pink socks, and during her fight with the Leprechaun, she wears a dark gangster coat.

### Leprechaun

J. D. Redding buys the O'Grady farmhouse and takes his teenage daughter Tory to it for the summer. Contract workers Nathan Murphy, his 10-year-old brother Alex, and their dimwitted friend Ozzie Jones help re-paint the farmhouse.

At the farm, the leprechaun lures J. D. into a trap by imitating a cat, biting and injuring his hand. Tory and the others rush him to the hospital, and the Leprechaun follows on a tricycle. After leaving J. D. at the hospital, the group drives back to the farmhouse. Finding it ransacked, Nathan checks outside, where he is injured by a bear trap set by the Leprechaun.

After finding a shotgun in the farmhouse, they shoot the Leprechaun several times. When this has no effect, they attempt to flee the farm, but their truck's engine has been sabotaged by the Leprechaun. After ramming the truck with a go-kart, the leprechaun terrorizes the group until Ozzie reveals that he and Alex found the pot of gold. Tory recovers the bag from the well and gives it to the Leprechaun. Believing the worst to be over, they leave for the hospital. While counting his gold, the Leprechaun discovers that he is missing the piece that Ozzie swallowed. Thinking that they have tricked him, he menaces them until Ozzie tells them about Daniel O'Grady, who was taken to a nursing home after his stroke. Tory visits the home to learn how to kill the Leprechaun.

At the nursing home, the Leprechaun pretends to be O'Grady. After he chases Tory to an elevator, the Leprechaun throws O'Grady's bloodied body down the shaft as Tory flees. Before dying, O'Grady tells her that the only way to kill the Leprechaun is with a four-leaf clover. Tory returns to the farmhouse, where she searches for a clover until she is attacked by the Leprechaun. Alex sets a trap near the well, but the Leprechaun almost kills him. Ozzie reveals that he swallowed the last gold coin, and the leprechaun critically wounds him trying to get it. Before the leprechaun can kill Ozzie, Alex takes a four-leaf clover Tory has found, sticks it to a wad of gum, and shoots it into the leprechaun's mouth, taking away his power. The leprechaun falls into the well, but his skeleton climbs out. Nathan pushes the leprechaun back into the well and blows up both the well and the leprechaun with gasoline. The police arrive, and Tory is reunited with her father.

### Leprechaun Returns

After the 1993 Leprechaun incident, Tory was traumatized ever since but was able to meet someone and had a kid, named Lila. She later gets cancer and dies a year prior to the Leprechaun’s return in 2018.

## Appearances

* Leprechaun
* Leprechaun Returns

## Trivia

* She is the first final girl of the series.
* Leprechaun is Jennifer Aniston’s first film role.