Diana Burnwood

James Burnwood (Brother)

Benjamin Travis (Formerly)

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* Knight
* Stone
* Kolzak

The Franchise (Formerly)

Alexander Leland Cayne (Formerly Undercover Nurse)

Victoria

Providence (Constant)

Arthur Edwards (Temporarily ally; Formerly)

Lucas Grey (Ally)

Olivia Hall (Ally/Girlfriend)

Savi (Formerly)

Vincent DePaul Mental Healthcare Associates (Formerly)

International Contract Agency (Employer; Formerly)

Athena Savalas (friend)

Jorge Franco (Business Partner)

Ezra Berg (friend)

*"That is Ezra Berg"*

*-from Diana Burnwood-*

**Diana Penelope Burnwood** is one of the "handlers" at the International Contract Agency (also known as the Agency), providing Agent 47 with clients, targets, and information. She has, since Hitman's inception, been a prominent part of every story and proved a valuable asset to Agent 47 for the most part.

## Background

### Early Education

Diana was born to Sir Peter Lloyd Burnwood, 5th Baronet, and his wife Lady Nancy Burnwood (nee Summers). She grew up wealthy and had her primary education at High March School, Beaconsfield, Bucks, 1975–1984. As a student, Diana was mostly conscientious and attentive. She showed great potential in oral and written communication, and was above average in math and science.

### Later Education

She began her secondary education at the Institute Le Rosey in Rolle, Switzerland. She attended this prestigious school between the years 1984–1985, but for unknown reasons, she left to begin her education back home in England. While at Le Rosey, Diana was noted as achieving consistently high grades.

Diana later attended the Wycombe Abbey School in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, starting in 1985. Around the same time, a facility in Surrey owned by Blue Seed Pharmaceuticals leaked dangerous chemicals into the water throughout the Surrey/Buckinghamshire region. The resulting damage lead to 80 people dying of illness, including Diana's younger brother, James Oliver Burnwood (1980-1989). During or shortly after James' funeral, Diana's parents died in a car bombing on the orders of Blue Seed executives and their connections at the secret society Providence, it is hinted at the end of HITMAN 2 that 47 was the operative hired by Providence to kill Diana’s parents and that 47 personally triggered the car bomb. This is confirmed by Arthur Edwards in Hitman 3.

As a teenager, she fell in with a female arms dealer and gang boss named Savi, who helped her exact revenge on Blue Seed executives (as seen in the comic book series *Birth of a Hitman*). The first time Diana confronted one of the executives alone in his office, she hesitated to pull the trigger, and the executive was killed by one of Savi's snipers. Police soon showed up to investigate the gunshots, and Diana had to flee the police. Offended that Savi would put her in such a dangerous position, she hired away Savi's best men and overthrew her.

Diana's family losses and secret life with Savi did little to trouble her at school, where she was relatively popular and kept good grades.

### Early Career

While attending the University of Oxford, majoring in psychology and/or computer science, Diana uses some of Savi's old underworld connections to maintain a small murder-for-hire business of her own, most of her clients being abused women and other everyday people under difficult circumstances. During the mid-1990s she also instructed them to kill two more Blue Seed executives, Richard Torres (staged as a car crash) and Andrew Rhoades (staged as a home burglary gone bad). She graduated with a Bachelors from Oxford, followed by a 1-year Master's degree abroad, possibly at Yale. In 1996, she arranged for a fourth Blue Seed executive to be killed (Phil Lee, who had moved six times between five different countries before Diana's mercenaries killed him in Tokyo).

By 1998, Diana found a day job as a counselor at Vincent DePaul Mental Healthcare Associates in Dublin, Ireland. That year, Diana's men had apprehended Blue Seed executive Cheryl Franklin, the final name on Diana's hit list. Diana instructed them to keep Cheryl hostage until she could confront her herself, but mere minutes later, rival mercenaries rescued Cheryl by force and rammed a car into Diana's office. She fled to the United States and was nearly killed trying to assassinate Cheryl at her home, when Erich Soders (a good friend of Diana's parents) rescued her. Soders offered her a job at the ICA, on the condition that she give up her vendetta against Cheryl Franklin and the rest of Blue Seed Pharmaceuticals.

Diana apprenticed under ICA handler Robyn Gore, who had an office disguised as an accounting firm and the fake surname Smythe. In late 1999, they jointly oversaw a contract out on Bricolage Technology founder Franklin Marchand - publicly known as a producer of satellite technology, he had a side business producing chemical weapons in Afghanistan, and a leak at one of his secret plants killed at least 500 people in the immediate area. He was set to make a rare public appearance at Place de la Concorde in Paris to announce a relief fund for impoverished people in Afghanistan. The ICA sent a four-member team to shoot Marchand, but a separate client ordered a hit on Marchand and insisted it look like an accident - 47 subdued the ICA team in rapid succession, then held a cab driver at gun point to make him run down Marchand with his car. Afterwards, Diana met with 47 in a bar and delivered ICA's offer to audition him, and strongly recommended to the ICA that they hire him.

## Personality

From an early age, Diana was observed as being socially fluid. This meant that she exhibited an understanding that the world around her is not a representative sample of the world as it is. However, she maintained the tact and poise to keep this awareness largely sublimated. This meant that she was more aware of what was happening around her than others, and definitely more than she let on. During her initial recruitment phase, Diana showed to be of superior intelligence, scoring well above the 90% rate of the ICA's specialized BHL/A tests. In fact, her score was 97%, which greatly impressed her superiors. It was noted though that, like many people who fall under this "above average" category, she suffered from sporadic bouts of self-doubt.

According to her handler and mentor, Benjamin Travis, she was brought up as a typical patrician and Baronetess of the Beaconsfield Estate in Buckinghamshire, England. This upbringing led to the development of personality traits such as the habits, tastes, and prejudices of someone of her class. Her mentor described this as a "first-class mind in an upper-class skull."

Diana is an enigmatic manipulator, as she is able to manipulate anyone into believing her and yet able to hide her true motives to anyone. Most of her notable examples were that she tricked both Cayne and Edwards into believing her to be 47's enemy and lure 47 into assassinating the targets.

## Appearance

Diana's appearance had remained largely unknown throughout the series. She had been noted as being of a slim build and having black hair. However, because of her training with the ICA, she had mastered the art of disguises, and this is most notable in the changes in her hair color throughout the various games. More recent intel showed her as 175 cm tall, with red hair, brown eyes, and a slim, athletic build. Her face was described as having a high forehead and somewhat small eyes, but still having a straight nose, high cheekbones, and sensual lips. A hazy reflection of her face was visible at the end of *Hitman: Blood Money*, and viewers were finally given a clear image of her face in the trailers leading up to *Hitman: Absolution*. Players also got another clear shot of Diana multiple times in *HITMAN™*, showing that she has blue eyes, instead of brown, also sporting now a shorter hairstyle and a more refined demeanor.

## Relationships

### Olivia Hall

Diana and Olivia keep their relationship a secret.

## Trivia

* In the "ICA File: Diana Burnwood" trailer for *Hitman: Absolution*, Diana's backstory was slightly different - her father Peter died on July 15, 1987, while her mother Nancy (nee Summers) remarried to become Mrs. Nancy Berman and was still alive as of 2013. Her brother James Oliver Burnwood was older (born 1973) and his whereabouts were unknown to the ICA. Diana also had a younger sister, Emma Lucille Burnwood, who was born 1975 and died in 2002. She also had a slightly different career path - while the ICA was still observing her since before her father's death, they instead recruited her 8-9 years earlier (in 1990) and helped her graduate from Oxford and Yale.
* Though a British national, she holds multiple citizenship, such as Swiss, British, and American passports.
* She speaks 6 languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Russian and Mandarin Chinese.
* When 47 is looking over her personnel file. her rank is shown to be "Lieutenant".
* Early reports gave her date of birth as the 12th of December 1972, though this has been confirmed to be incorrect.
* Her Agent Number is: ICA-PF-54718/BURNWOOD
* Some of the guards at her Chicago mansion have a crush on her, as one guard can be heard telling to another guard that if they could sneak into her bathroom under the cover of "suspicious noises coming from the bathroom."
* A special review board made up of high-ranking members of the ICA convened in June 2009 to decide on her promotion. This committee consisted of D. Bacons, G. Andrews, C. Levin, S. King, and H. Jackson. Ironically, this same committee convened months later to decide on her termination from the ICA.
* Although her file says her eyes are brown, they are shown to be green when a close up of her face is shown.
* She is the one of two of Agent 47’s targets to survive his hit (with Mark Faba being the other).
* Diana is Bisexual

## Gallery

Diana with Agent 47 in an airport.Diana speaking to Erich Soders at the end of The Final Test.Diana speaking to Agent 47 at the end of The Final Test.Diana's mugshot from her ICA file.47 coming to kill Diana.The ICA elimination order for Diana.Diana discussing Agent 47 in Hitman: Blood Money.Diana meeting 47 in person.Diana's first contact with 47.Agent 47 X Diana Burnwood