Kelly Curtis Malcolm (S/F)

Kelly Curtis, age 12 (1997)

Kelly Curtis Malcolm is an American gymnast and the daughter of mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm and his ex-wife, Ms. Curtis. She is known for her involvement with the 1997 Isla Sorna incident.

Name

The given name Kelly originated as a surname, one of Irish origin. It appears in a variety of Irish languages such as Celtic, and in part, it is an anglicized version of names such as Ó Ceallaigh. Originating as a male name, it began to appear as a female name in the United States in the 1940s. In 1957, the popularity of the actress Grace Kelly led to many people naming their daughters Kelly, and its use as a female name surpassed its use as a male name, a trend which continued through the 1960s. It remains a predominantly female name, with most of the modern male examples being Irish.

Variously referred to as “Kelly Curtis” and “Kelly Malcolm,” we at Jurassic-Pedia include both surnames that Kelly has used throughout her life as it is unclear if she legally goes by one, the other, or a combination of both. Since her mother had primary custody during her most recent on-screen appearance, her mother’s surname is listed first.

Curtis, the name inherited from Kelly’s mother’s side of the family, is an English surname with Anglo-Norman roots. It originates from a combination of Old French and Middle English. Historians believe it was derived from the Old French word curteis, which itself evolved from the Latin word cohors. It means “polite” or “courteous,” and was sometimes used as a nickname. It became common in the British Isles during the Norman Conquest in the eleventh century, moving to the Americas during the British colonial era.

The name Malcolm, which Kelly inherits from her father, is of Scottish Gaelic origin and is derived from the tenth-century name Máel Coluim meaning “disciple of Saint Columba.” Although both of Kelly’s parents have surnames that originated in the British Isles, only her father’s heritage is predominantly European.

Biography
Early life

Kelly was born in the United States, most likely in or near New York City where her father is known to have lived around that time. She was twelve years old between May 26 and May 30, 1997, meaning that her birthday falls between May 31, 1984 and May 25, 1985. The year 1984 seems to hold some significance to her father, so some fans believe this to be the year she was born (though other fans believe he is simply a fan of the George Orwell novel 1984). The actress who was chosen to portray Kelly, Vanessa Lee Chester, was indeed born in June 1984.

Her father is the famed mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm, who was already well-known for his research in chaos theory at the time she was born. Less is known about her mother. Vanessa Lee Chester has Guyanese ancestry, but it is unknown if this is the case for Kelly’s mother Ms. Curtis.

Dr. Malcolm also had two other children, who were most likely Kelly’s half-siblings as she does not appear to have any full siblings. It is unknown if she was ever particularly close with them. She often felt neglected by her parents as a child, with her father frequently away on teaching assignments and enjoying the attention of his public. His rock-star personality made him popular even among non-scientists, but left him ill-suited to fatherhood. Kelly’s mother was better, but she too was frequently away on spontaneous trips without her daughter in tow. At three years old, Kelly met her long-time babysitter, a woman named Karen. If Dr. Malcolm or some other relative could not take care of her during her mother’s trips, Karen was called in. Her parents divorced when she was fairly young. Since her father was so often away on teaching assignments or at publicity events, Ms. Curtis was given primary custody of Kelly.

During her childhood Kelly longed for the attention of her parents. Her babysitter was a poor substitute, and without any close family around, she was often lonely. It is unknown whether she had any close relationship with her half-siblings, but she did at least understand that they, too, were neglected by their father. Kelly often acted out to try and get attention, which was only sometimes successful.

Without any authority figure to give her direction in life, Kelly became one for herself. She taught herself how to cook, among other things. School was a mixed bag of ups and downs for her. On the one hand, having a superstar mathematician for a father gave her an edge in class, and she did well academically. She also performed well in athletics. On the other hand, though, being her own authority figure could lead to conflict with anyone who saw themselves as her rightful authority. She was viewed as a problem student by school staff.

In June 1993, when Kelly was nine years old, Dr. Malcolm went on one of his faraway trips, this one bringing him to a small Pacific island for what he called a “paid vacation.” He traveled to Costa Rica and departed the mainland on June 11. Kelly heard nothing from him during the weekend, but then learned that he was in a hospital and injured badly. When he returned home she saw how bad his injuries had really been. Malcolm was battered and bruised, his leg having broken, and all the signs of serious psychological trauma. One day, Malcolm disclosed to Kelly what had happened to him.

He claimed that he had gone to the island, called Isla Nublar, at the invitation of a wealthy entrepreneur named John Hammond. On Isla Nublar, Hammond’s company International Genetic Technologies had built a zoo and theme park which he called Jurassic Park, having used advanced genetics techniques to find ancient DNA and use it to rebuild long-extinct animals and plants. These cloned animals included carnivorous dinosaurs, which had escaped captivity during a storm and killed Park employees. Malcolm had nearly been one of the casualties, attacked by a Tyrannosaurus rex during the incident; this was how his leg had been broken. At first, Kelly found this difficult to believe, but her father’s demeanor was not the one he used when he was joking. Outlandish as the story sounded, Kelly realized that it was all true.

After the incident, things began to get better for a time. Malcolm, having nearly died, began making efforts to mend his broken relationships. Kelly’s mother still disliked him, but Kelly herself was more forgiving. At long last, her father was paying attention to her. While he had been recovering in the Costa Rican hospital, he had also met a woman named Dr. Sarah Harding, who became his girlfriend; Kelly liked Sarah, who began to help in babysitting Kelly when her parents were not around. Harding was a scientist, spending her career researching wild animals, and much like Kelly she was headstrong and confident. She became Kelly’s first real adult role model. With someone else to watch her while Dr. Malcolm was at work, Kelly was able to visit her father for longer periods of time even while he was on teaching assignments. She spent a lot of time with him in Austin, Texas where he was a lecturer, acting as his research assistant.

In 1995, Dr. Malcolm had become fed up with keeping his secret about what had happened on Isla Nublar. Though he had been legally sworn to secrecy by InGen, he went to the press, and told his story in a shocking television interview. This went about as badly as one could predict: Malcolm was laughed out of academia, losing tenure at the university where he lectured. InGen’s Chairman of the Board, Peter Ludlow, began a smear campaign against Malcolm by getting articles criticizing him published in major newspapers. This was a difficult time for him, and Kelly was among those who still believed he was telling the truth. She became a source of comfort for her father as he suffered relentless mockery from the public and fellow scientists. Malcolm began to spend time at paleontological dig sites, which Kelly came to realize was a way for him to cope with his traumatic experience.

Work was harder to come by, so Malcolm had to travel often. Kelly still visited him whenever she could, but it was no longer feasible to stay with him for very long. Dr. Harding babysat her whenever her mother was traveling too, but Harding had more reliable work than Malcolm, and she spent time overseas studying animals. Despite this, Kelly and Dr. Harding stayed close; they sometimes found that their grievances with Malcolm were similar, and would support each other during arguments. Kelly’s main complaints were that Malcolm was going easy on her now after years of being a mostly-absent father. He seldom scolded her, never doled out much punishment, and avoided topics that might make her feel concerned or uneasy. Though she appreciated the affection he was finally showing, she wished that he would fully embrace fatherhood, not just the positive parts of it.

She continued to struggle at school. While she had been on the gymnastics team, and spent the late winter and spring months training for a competition at the end of the academic year, she fought with her coach repeatedly. By May, she was kicked off the team. She was devastated, having put months of work into preparing.

In early May 1997, Ms. Curtis planned a spontaneous trip to Paris with the understanding that she could be watched by her father. At the time, Dr. Malcolm was on a temporary teaching assignment at the University of California in Berkeley, but was at home in New York City at the time Ms. Curtis announced her trip. Kelly was dropped off at Dr. Malcolm’s apartment, hoping to spend some quality time with her father. They both traveled back to Berkeley.

Before long, though, Malcolm was called away on business. He flew back to New York, returning to California on May 27. Kelly went to meet him at Mobile Field Systems, a garage owned by a man called Eddie Carr; she tried to take a cab, but could not get one, so she walked. She was happy to greet her father, but soon learned that he was going to be away for a few more days and that she would have to be babysat by Karen back in New York. Malcolm provided her with plane tickets. Kelly was upset, wishing that she could stay with Harding instead, who was unfortunately away on a research trip. When she requested to travel with Malcolm and aid with his research, he turned her down. Eventually she managed to get under his skin enough for him to snap, but he apologized quickly, offering some self-deprecating parental advice: “Don’t listen to me.”

Kelly Curtis, 5/27/1997

Kelly took this to heart in the way that benefited her best. If her father had told her not to come on the trip, but then told her not to listen to him, he had arguably given her permission to come. As he was summoned away to talk with Carr and their other team member, a video documentarian called Nick Van Owen, Kelly wandered around the garage mostly unattended. The mechanics let her be as she inspected things. A large Fleetwood trailer drew her attention, and she discovered that it housed an entire mobile research laboratory. On one wall hung a large map of the Gulf of Fernandez, a region of the Pacific Ocean west of Costa Rica. On the map was a small island chain, the Muertes Archipelago. She presumed this was where her father and his team were going. Kelly made the decision to stow away in the trailer, refusing to be left behind again.

1997 incident

Three hours after she met with her father, the expedition departed. The vehicles were loaded into a cargo plane with a pressurized bay, intended to keep the fragile equipment safe from air-pressure changes but also making the trailer a safe place for Kelly to keep out of sight. They flew to Costa Rica, where the vehicles were loaded on board a barge headed west. As the vehicles were moved around and prepared for field operations, Kelly remained hidden away within the trailer’s lab, speculating on what her father was involved with this time.

The day after they departed from California, the team reached their destination: Isla Sorna, the center island of the archipelago. They made landfall in an estuary on the island’s eastern coast. From here the convoy traveled northwest, farther inland, with Carr most likely at the wheel of the mobile lab’s front trailer. The group made camp before heading out into the field. From what she overheard, they were headed out to meet up with Sarah Harding, who was apparently already here. Isla Sorna had apparently been used by InGen in the past, a kind of factory floor for Jurassic Park that they called Site B.

While she waited for them to return, Kelly decided to make dinner, hoping to prove her usefulness and win favor with the team. She got out food from the cabinets, intending to clean later, and started a small cooking fire outside. While inside the trailer gathering supplies and ingredients, Kelly overheard the group coming back, evidently startled by the fire and hurriedly extinguishing it. She emerged, admitting that she had been trying to cook dinner for the adults. Malcolm was angry that she had stowed away, although Harding—who had now joined them—was impressed that Kelly not only had the guts to come along but also managed to do it without being discovered. Malcolm, having now witnessed surviving dinosaurs on Isla Sorna, wanted to send Kelly home on the barge as soon as possible, but before he could successfully contact the captain, they were interrupted by unwelcome company. Kelly was the first to hear the sound of engines approaching.

This whole operation had been arranged by John Hammond, the mind behind Jurassic Park, but Hammond was no longer in charge of InGen. Just a few days ago, he had been formally replaced by Chairman Ludlow, the same man who had deliberately ruined Dr. Malcolm’s reputation. As a flight of InGen-branded helicopters delivered ground equipment to a location in the northeast of the island, the group came to realize that Ludlow had plans of his own. The whole group went to a ridge over a nearby game trail to determine what InGen was doing. Kelly went along with them, Malcolm not wanting to let her out of his sight. It did not take long for their intentions to become clear. Ludlow was accompanied by a group of security staff and hunters, and they coordinated to round up and ensnare animals from the game trail.

InGen continued hunting throughout the day, and as night fell, the hunters assembled in their camp. Kelly and her companions spied on the InGen camp, witnessing an operation much larger, better organized, and better funded than their own. At first, Kelly assumed that InGen intended to build a new park on Isla Sorna with the captured animals, despite the disaster on Isla Nublar. Her father, however, observed that the InGen hunters were not lugging construction equipment, only capture gear: they were bringing the animals somewhere else. Nick Van Owen spoke up, admitting that he among all of them knew that Ludlow was coming, and that he had been tasked with putting a stop to it.

He and Harding quietly entered camp to free the dinosaurs while Ludlow gave a presentation via satellite to InGen’s Board of Directors. Carr brought Kelly and Dr. Malcolm back to the trailers, then left to set up his “High Hide” observation post in the forest nearby. In the trailer, Malcolm tried to reach the barge by radio, but struggled to operate it; Kelly attempted to help him, but they were unable to find the right frequency before the situation worsened. Van Owen and Dr. Harding returned to the trailers with an injured baby Tyrannosaurus in tow, taken from Ludlow’s camp. The little dinosaur’s leg was broken, and they intended to set it before returning it to the wild. Kelly, though, recognized a critical risk in this plan: the dinosaur was wailing in pain and fear, and the sound would be audible all around. It would only be a matter of time before a larger, more dangerous animal heard the noise and came to investigate. Now truly afraid for the first time, she insisted on getting somewhere high enough to be out of reach. Her father was still trying and failing to contact the barge, but when she mentioned wanting to be someplace high up, he quickly brought her to the High Hide.

Rejoining Carr, they were lifted high into the canopy, the Hide suspended from the tallest tree around. Carr had designed the outpost to be well-hidden from predator animals using noxious plants to hide them from scent and sight, but Kelly was still wracked by fear, regretting her choice to stow away in the first place. Malcolm was no longer angry, but instead tried to comfort Kelly, reassuring her that their situation was nothing like his time at Jurassic Park. As he did, though, they all heard a loud bellow from the jungle below, one that Malcolm seemed to immediately recognize and fear.

He tried to contact the trailer from the High Hide, but no one picked up. Kelly urged him to stay where it was safe, but he was unwilling to leave Harding and Van Owen in danger. Promising her he would come back alive—though as Kelly reminded him, keeping promises was not his best quality—Malcolm descended into the forest and ran for the campsite. Not a minute later, Kelly bore witness to something enormous pushing its way through the woods below.

From her vantage point in the trees, Kelly could only watch as two tyrannosaurs emerged from the forest and approached the trailer, ramming one of the cars over a cliff. The animals did not attack, instead inspecting the trailer. One made intimidating roars, while the other made quieter cooing sounds. These were not predators coming to pick off a weak and injured infant, but something far worse: they were the young tyrannosaur’s mother and father. The door to the trailers opened, and Kelly watched in terror as Drs. Malcolm and Harding returned the baby, leg now in a cast, to its parents. As the dinosaurs headed back toward the trees, Carr called the trailers to allow Kelly and her father to speak. She put on a brave face for her father, who promised he would be right on his way back.

The tyrannosaurs, however, were not done yet. With their infant safely away from the trailers, they returned to ram them from the side, overturning the rear car and pushing it over the cliff. It was suspended by the weight of the lead trailer, all three human passengers trapped inside. Satisfied that the threat was gone, the tyrannosaurs turned to leave. Carr was already descending from the High Hide, unhitching its lift mechanism from his car and speeding to the campsite. Kelly was safe, but alone. From here she watched as Carr brought a rope from his vehicle into the trailers, confirming that someone was still alive inside the dangling mobile lab. A thunderstorm was passing, and rainfall made the ground muddy, causing the trailer to slip. Kelly could still see enough to know that Carr was using his own vehicle to counter the mass of the dangling trailer, having hitched a cable to the front. All this noise, however, drew the tyrannosaurs back. They resumed their attack, pulling Carr out of his vehicle and tearing him apart. Without his foot on the gas pedal, there was nothing stopping the trailers from going over the cliff.

Though her father and his companions appeared dead, Kelly was not totally alone yet. She was discovered by the InGen hunter group led by Ludlow, who had been investigating the island after Harding and Van Owen sabotaged their operation. Kelly was rescued, and the de facto leader of the InGen group—a hunter named Roland Tembo—led them all to the site of the attack. The rope that Carr had tied off for Malcolm and the others had held strong, and to Kelly’s relief, all three remaining members of the team had managed to hold on as the camp vehicles fell. Kelly was reunited with her father, and they all regrouped at what was left of the InGen camp.

There was nothing left to communicate with the barge or InGen’s cargo ship, so the only way to get help would be to find another radio. Ludlow advised them that there was an old village where InGen staff had lived when the facility was operational, and that it ran on geothermal power and should still be active. The village, however, had become a nesting ground in the years since the island was abandoned: it was in the middle of Velociraptor territory. Between the raptors ahead and the tyrannosaurs behind, they would be in mortal peril the whole way. But with no other options for rescue, they began the dangerous trek inland.

They walked all night, pausing for a five-minute break midday on May 29. This meager pause was not enough to restore Kelly’s energy; she asked her father to carry her, and he obliged. They continued, making another brief pause for reasons that were not given to Kelly. During the next leg of the journey, Tembo went off on his own, and Van Owen took charge of the group. It was another ten-minute walk to a ridge ahead, where they set up a temporary encampment. Ludlow provided his team’s only remaining tent for Dr. Harding and Kelly to have some privacy while they slept, intending to make for the village with their energy a little more replenished.

An hour before they were supposed to wake, Kelly was roused by strange sensations in the tent. At first trying to ask Harding what was going on, she was terrified to realize that the male tyrannosaur’s head was in the tent, his scaly lower jaw less than a foot away from her. Harding put a hand over her mouth when she started to reflexively scream, but she was able to barely keep herself quiet once she processed what was happening. As the animal investigated, someone outside woke up and panicked, agitating the tyrannosaur. He stood upright, carrying the tent canvas away. The female emerged to join her mate as he freed his head. Van Owen rushed to help Kelly and Dr. Harding escape, herding them into a crowd of fleeing hunters where hopefully they would find safety in numbers. The male had made a kill, but the female was free to give chase, targeting the crowd as they fled toward the ridge.

As they ran, Kelly stumbled and fell. Van Owen and Dr. Harding stopped to help her to her feet, but the rest of the crowd continued to flee, herded along a narrow game trail by the tyrannosaur. Having fallen behind, they were now prime targets. Van Owen quickly led them to a small cave in a rock face, large enough to accommodate them but small enough that the tyrannosaur could not quite reach the rear wall. They were joined by a paleontologist from InGen’s team, Dr. Robert Burke, who had also lagged behind. For a moment they were safe, but Dr. Burke did not remain for long. He discovered a milk snake in his shirt collar, and despite the others’ desperate pleas for him to remain calm, his phobia got the better of him and he stumbled away from the cave wall. The tyrannosaur grabbed him, pulled him out, and crushed him to death in her jaws just above the cave opening. Van Owen held and shielded Kelly as she witnessed her second death in as many days.

As the tyrannosaur made her kill, something else appeared outside the rain-fed waterfall over the cave mouth. It was not a new threat, though: it was Dr. Malcolm, having survived the attack and followed the trail of prints left by the InGen hunters. Outside, the tyrannosaur moved on, tracking the rest of the fleeing men. This gave Kelly and her companions a window of opportunity to escape, which they immediately took.

The tyrannosaur did not move much farther, and instead appeared to have doubled back and gone somewhere else. She had given up following the hunters’ trail as they entered a field of elephant grass. There were trails of trampled grass crisscrossing the field, and not all of them came from the direction the hunters had entered. Along the main trail they discovered a backpack which Van Owen identified as having belonged to one of the hunters, Ajay Sidhu, with signs of a violent struggle all around. In the distance, there were screams and the sound of a battle being waged. It was immediately clear why the tyrannosaur had stopped her chase. They had entered the Velociraptor nesting ground.

With the animals occupied attacking the trespassing hunters, Kelly and the others had only a short time to cross the field before the raptors noticed them. They managed to reach the other side and tumbled down the embankment into a feeding ground, having planned a careful climb down these very cliffs mere hours ago. Malcolm’s bad leg was wounded in the fall, so Van Owen went ahead to find the village’s Operations Center and call for help. Kelly remained behind with her father and Dr. Harding, helping him find the strength to move again.

After a few minutes he was well enough to walk, but Van Owen had not returned. They cautiously entered the village, eyes peeled for danger. It was only a few moments before danger showed its face: a Velociraptor appeared, swiftly joined by two of its fellows. Malcolm drew the first male away while the others, a male and female pair, charged Kelly and Harding. They took shelter inside the village’s kiln house, the pair of raptors beginning to dig under the door. Thinking quickly, Harding led Kelly in an effort to dig underneath the opposite wall, hoping to have their hole finished before the raptors. Upon completing it, though, they found themselves outmaneuvered; the male raptor had already come around to the other side and attempting to enter through their would-be escape hole. To escape, they were forced to climb into the kiln house’s rafters. Malcolm came in through the front door once the female raptor had moved around to the back as well, nearly running into the male that was coming through the hole. He clambered into the rafters too, avoiding the raptor by seconds.

Kelly Curtis during the Isla Sorna incident, 5/29/1997

His position was vulnerable, with the raptor clearly making to jump and confront him. But to do so, it would have to put itself next to the kiln house’s second-floor window, and Kelly saw an opportunity. While the raptor was occupied, she climbed onto the horizontal beams of the scaffolding and starting her bar routine with a series of kips. When the raptor was positioned on the second-floor catwalk to attack her father, she extended her body as far as it would go and swung directly into the animal, knocking it off balance and sending it tumbling through the rotten wood barring the window. With the raptor injured, they gained a moment to flee before the other two got inside.

Harding was briefly separated from Kelly and her father as they fled toward the Operations Center, an InGen helicopter having arrived from the cargo ship to rescue them. Having evaded the remaining two raptors on the village rooftops, Harding fell out a window to join them again, and they ran for the helicopter. Van Owen was waiting in the Operations Center where he had apparently been sheltering when the raptors emerged, and all four of them boarded to escape Isla Sorna for good.

As they were flown off the island, they all caught sight of the male tyrannosaur, having been tranquilized and loaded into a large transport cage. Helicopters were already in place to airlift him to the cargo ship for transportation. Van Owen had evidently saved the dinosaur from being shot by stealing Roland Tembo’s bullets, but the sedated animal was now going to be removed from its home and brought to the mainland, where InGen was preparing to announce Jurassic Park to the public.

They found passage with InGen to San Diego ahead of the tyrannosaur. While the adults’ troubles were far from over, Kelly was at least out of danger. She was brought to safety, where she remained during the ensuing events. Having been awake almost continuously for two days, Kelly most likely got some well-deserved rest. The same could not be said yet for her adult companions, who spent the early morning of May 30 attending Peter Ludlow’s press conference at the InGen waterfront, witnessing the male tyrannosaur escape captivity due to a series of onboard mishaps, using the juvenile tyrannosaur (which Ludlow had also taken to the city) to lure the father back on board the ship, and evading the authorities who Ludlow had dispatched to kill the adult after it was accidentally freed. By the time Malcolm and Harding rejoined Kelly and got her to Malcolm’s Berkeley apartment (presumably by jet, considering how quickly they got there from San Diego), they were both thoroughly exhausted, and quickly fell asleep.

Kelly, having already rested, watched a CNN report on what had happened while her guardians slept the day away. The tyrannosaurs were being shipped back to Isla Sorna, their ship accompanied by United States military vessels, and before noon that day they would be reunited with the female. Peter Ludlow had disappeared during the incident, and was likely dead. John Hammond, having not long to live himself, appeared on television to urge the government to protect Isla Sorna and for the public to support those efforts. She found herself taking Hammond’s side; despite the terrors she had witnessed over the past few days, she also understood that the dinosaurs were wild animals acting on their instincts. The tyrannosaurs had only been defending their offspring, just like the adult humans had done for her on the island. Kelly imagined the animals being allowed to live in peace, free from interference, and hoped that the world could imagine this too.

Aftermath of the incident

Kelly’s life after the events of 1997 are not canonically known, but some suggestions have been made. In the Ludia games’ canon, she was inspired by her experiences to try photojournalism, since the original mission on Isla Sorna was to convince the public to protect the island and its dinosaurs by showing them photos and footage of the animals in the wild. In the games, Kelly also excels in science thanks to the tutelage of her father and his colleagues. While answering fan questions on Twitter in 2018, Vanessa Lee Chester jokingly responded to a Jurassic-Pedia writer saying, “She would definitely have a gold medal in gymnastics.”

As for Kelly Curtis’s family, she and her father have remained close in the years since the Isla Sorna incident. With the tyrannosaur having been seen by hundreds of civilians and the footage aired all over the world, Dr. Malcolm’s stories about Jurassic Park and de-extinction were now known to have been true all along. He rocketed back to fame and popularity, but he did not forget how Kelly had been among the few people who stuck by him during the dark years. For the rest of his life, Malcolm has put effort into being there for his children; as of 2022 he has two more, although their mothers are unknown at this time. In any case, Kelly gained two half-siblings at some point after 1997.

Isla Sorna did not have quite the same fate. It would have been easy for all to end up well for the dinosaurs, the world acquiescing to Hammond’s wish that the animals could live in peace. But the world could not get enough of Jurassic Park. Following Hammond’s death at the turn of the new year, public interest in InGen and its operations—and especially its living creations—continued to rise. People were always trying to spy animals on Isla Sorna, and witnesses like her father were constantly being peppered with questions about what they had seen and experienced. Kelly, as someone close not just to a major incident in de-extinction but also the child of a Jurassic Park survivor, surely received her own fair share of attention. As time went on, the island was more and more affected by human activity.

During all that time she continued to grow older. She probably graduated high school in 2001 or 2002, and may have gone on to college after this. Whether her career has followed in the footsteps of the adults who influenced her during childhood, or if she has struck out on a totally new path, remains undisclosed for now.

Jurassic World

InGen faced bankruptcy thanks to the incident in San Diego in 1997, and it ended up being bought out by the India-based multinational conglomerate Masrani Global Corporation about a year later. That company’s CEO, Simon Masrani, had known Hammond for many years and swore to uphold the man’s dream, but Masrani’s own vision also had a role to play. In 2005, Jurassic Park formally opened at its original Isla Nublar locale, now rebranded as Jurassic World. While Kelly would certainly have been welcome at the park, as someone so closely linked to InGen’s past, her relationship with the company was troubled at best. It is unknown whether she ever visited. Isla Sorna was kept under lock and key during this time, its animals allegedly all relocated to Isla Nublar or dead from starvation after its food web collapsed, though later evidence has strongly suggested that the truth about what was happening on Isla Sorna after Jurassic World opened was being covered up. Isla Nublar held the spotlight while its larger, more remote neighbor was forgotten by the wider public.

The park operated smoothly, at least as far as the public knew, for ten years. In December 2015, it was unexpectedly shut down in the middle of the holiday rush due to a serious breach of security. With InGen and its holding company now facing lawsuits and all manner of negative publicity, and with Masrani Global’s charismatic CEO dead in a helicopter crash, the park stood no chance of ever reopening. It was all but abandoned overnight.

A new era begins

For three years, debate raged over what to do about Isla Nublar. While governments were reluctant to take action as usual, extinct animal rights activists followed in the footsteps left by Dr. Harding, Van Owen, and the rest of the team from 1997. The debate became more intense when volcanic activity was detected in the area. Without park staff to deal with the situation, the dinosaurs were defenseless against the forces of nature. Activists proposed solutions ranging from just sending veterinary teams to moving all the animals wholesale to government-funded sanctuaries. Ian Malcolm’s position was complicated; he sympathized with the animals, believing in their intrinsic value, but opposed any sort of rescue mission. Though it saddened him, he concluded that the best option was to allow nature to pull the dinosaurs back into extinction once more. It is unknown whether Kelly’s own opinion was in line with her father’s or if, much like when she was younger, she took a stance closer to the kind Dr. Harding would hold.

In June 2018, a volcanic eruption devastated Isla Nublar, killing most of the large land animals of the island. Though it seemed that the dinosaurs were gone for good, this quickly proved not to be the case. Poachers had landed on the island and brought dinosaurs to the mainland, this time not for a new park but to sell them on the black market. In a dramatic repeat of what had happened in 1997, the captured dinosaurs were freed by activists, but ultimately got loose on the mainland. This time, there would be no recapturing all of them and sending them away. They had escaped in the Pacific Northwest, in a remote forested region where they could quickly disappear and evade authorities. No longer confined to remote islands, dinosaurs and their kin now roamed the wild and were hunted by the government and poachers alike.

While Kelly’s life during this time is mostly unknown, her father’s is certainly public. He remained a respected figure, often summoned by the government to advise on bioethics and accepting prestigious lecturing positions. By the early 2020s, he was a lecturer at Biosyn Genetics, which had risen to the forefront of biotechnology after InGen folded in late 2015. While he spent most of his time at their headquarters in Italy, he did not grow distant from his children this time. He freely admitted that he loved all five of his children “more than life itself,” and the work he did was motivated by his desire to continue providing for them.

Malcolm’s tenure at Biosyn ended in December 2022 when he participated in a conspiracy to expose corruption in the company’s executive ranks. The company’s CEO, Lewis Dodgson, had nearly caused an apocalyptic famine with his irresponsible business practices, and Dr. Malcolm played a key role in bringing these crimes to light. He put himself at great risk in order to enact justice, a far cry from the hands-off approach he had taken to life when he was younger. Kelly has always been at the core of Dr. Malcolm’s gradual turnaround, being a dear reason for Malcolm to actively work at bettering the world. In turn, he has grown into the father figure that Kelly sorely wanted as a child, acting as one of her role models. This has not only affected his personal relationships, but also his influence on the wider world, as he has long been a trusted figure in ethical quandaries.

Kelly and her father have grown together over the years, and fortunately have both continued to grow closer. The breaks in their relationship have gradually mended, with Dr. Malcolm learning to be a proper father. With the change in generational power in the 2020s, Kelly is now posed to make her mark on the world in her own way, relying on the skills and confidence she taught herself and everything she has learned from those who care about her.

Skills
Gymnastics

Since her grade school years, Kelly has practiced artistic gymnastics. She is skilled on the uneven bars, showing great agility and strength. When she was twelve years old, she was cut from her school’s team, but this was not due to lack of skill; rather, she was eliminated for challenging her coach’s authority. Her actual prowess was quite impressive for someone so young.

During the 1997 incident, she employed her gymnastics skill for tactical purposes. Identifying that an animal was about to corner her father, she positioned herself to swing into it, moving preemptively into position in order to give herself enough time to build momentum. When the moment came, as she had predicted, she performed a series of kips and struck the animal, sending it through a rotted window. To unbalance a predator animal larger than herself would require precise knowledge of not just the physical movements of her routine, but also the amount of power she was capable of building in a very exact window of time.

Though she has not been seen on-screen since 1997, Kelly has been suggested to still be an artistic gymnast by Vanessa Lee Chester, who portrays her. In 2018, she jokingly referred to Kelly as a gold medalist.

Cooking

With her parents seldom around to take care of her during her youth, Kelly learned how to take care of herself in a number of ways, one of which was cooking her own meals. Although the extent of her cooking skill is mostly unknown, during the 1997 incident she decided to cook dinner for herself and four other people all on her own, showing the same kind of confidence in the kitchen that she shows elsewhere in life. It is unknown exactly what she was cooking, since she was not permitted to finish, but it looked as though she had retrieved just about everything that the Gatherer team had brought with them for food.

She also started a small campfire to cook over, rather than using a stove. While this is unnecessary in a normal kitchen, it is nevertheless a useful and respectable skill.

Language skills

Kelly speaks some amount of Spanish and is notably more fluent than her father. There are two potential ways she may have learned this second language: either she attended classes in school, or learned it from a family member. In real life, Vanessa Lee Chester’s parents are from Guyana, where Spanish is one of the major languages spoken. If her character’s ancestry is Guyanese on her mother’s side, Kelly’s maternal family might be habitually bilingual. At the moment the truth is not known canonically.

Her vocabulary has always been above average, as noted by her parents. She picked up on what adults were saying quickly and kept ahead of her peers because of this. Some of her way with words came from listening to the creative ways that her mother would insult her father.

Horseback riding

In 1997, Kelly’s babysitter Karen planned to take her horseback riding. It is unknown whether this would have been Kelly’s first time or if she had done this before, though.

Gaming

Kelly has enjoyed video games since her childhood. In 1997, she seems to have owned a Sega console (either the Sega Genesis or Sega Saturn, both of which had been released before that point) at one of her parents’ or caretakers’ homes and was frustrated that her babysitter Karen did not own one. Her skill level is unknown at the moment.

Views
On de-extinction

Kelly was one of the first civilians to learn that de-extinction had been accomplished by InGen, being told stories about Jurassic Park by her father Dr. Ian Malcolm. His tales told of disaster, terror, blood and death, but at the end of the day, he also always understood that this was not the fault of the animals but rather their neglectful creators. While this was a complicated idea for a young child to understand, eight-year-old Kelly seems to have taken the lesson to heart. When she encountered de-extinct creatures for the first time four years later, she did not view them with fear, but simply as animals behaving as their instincts told them. She witnessed InGen capturing dinosaurs, often causing the creatures distress in the process, and was clearly upset at what she saw.

Danger, of course, was never too far away during the 1997 incident, and she witnessed firsthand what the resurrected apex predators of Isla Sorna were capable of on several occasions. Personally witnessing two graphic deaths and narrowly evading her own end, she had every right to be forever terrified of the animals, but once the harrowing incident was behind she was able to understand that their actions were not evil. At the end of the day, this all leaves Kelly with a complicated stance on de-extinction—one only made more complex by her father and his personal history with this science. Cloning, genetic modification, and other aspects of this field of research are not inherently bad, but the people who misuse science for profit and power certainly can be.

On parenting

Dr. Malcolm and Ms. Curtis did little to really raise Kelly during her early childhood, frequently leaving her in the care of a babysitter or relative. With no consistent adult figure in her life, she was left with little choice but to raise herself, though her childhood experiences certainly gave her a clear idea of what a parent should be like. She wanted attention, but not just positive attention; she actually valued the idea of being reprimanded, something which her father was reluctant to do after he began getting involved with her life again. He adored her, but seldom disciplined her. Unlike many children Kelly longed to have her father actually be stern with her. Another of Kelly’s major criticisms was her father’s reliability, or lack thereof. This was a criticism many people had about Ian Malcolm. In Kelly’s own words (though her father suspected she heard this from Ms. Curtis), Dr. Malcolm only acted like a father when it was convenient. Over time, he took Kelly’s complaints to heart, and eventually devoted himself to supporting his children better.

Kelly viewed Dr. Sarah Harding as a strong maternal figure when she and Dr. Malcolm were dating. They had much in common, and Kelly appreciated these kindred traits in Dr. Harding, such as her confidence, stubbornness, and passion. Harding is also not one to back down from conflict, even from authority figures. While it is unknown whether Kelly has any children of her own as an adult, Dr. Harding has positively shaped her idea of what a mother should be.

On authority

Having lacked a strong authority figure growing up, Kelly has frequently been at odds with anyone who presumes to hold power over her. She readily questions authority, is unafraid of arguing with people in positions of power, and does not concede defeat without a struggle. This has naturally gotten her into trouble before; in grade school when she was twelve years old, she was kicked off the gymnastics team for butting heads with her coach, despite being a strong performer and practicing for months before this.

Though she lamented the fact that her father did not discipline her more growing up, this seems to have been less desire for an authority figure to listen to and far more about her wanting her father’s attention. In fact, holding a negative view of established authority is something that Dr. Ian Malcolm is famous for, and Kelly seems to have inherited this trait.

Relationships
Family

Kelly was born to Dr. Ian Malcolm and his then-wife Ms. Curtis, about whom less is known. Malcolm was a highly absent father during Kelly’s younger years, and he neglected his other two children as well; Kelly probably knew her half-siblings, but considering how poorly Malcolm got along with his ex-wives, it is unlikely Kelly was close with them. Her father was typically away on teaching jobs or at publicity events for his books, so she only saw him at his convenience. Her mother was more present, but frequently left Kelly with a relative or her longtime babysitter Karen in order to travel. Karen began babysitting Kelly when the latter was two years old, but despite all that time, Kelly claimed to not even know Karen at age twelve. She considered Karen’s low-tech life to be boring, referring to her babysitter as a “troglodyte.” None of Kelly’s other family members seem to have been consistent features in her life.

After the 1993 incident on Isla Nublar, Ian Malcolm began to turn his life around, beginning by spending more time with Kelly. She was among the first people to hear about what had happened to him at Jurassic Park, and she believed him. After he tried to go public and suffered widespread humiliation for it, Kelly was one of his firmest supporters, and their relationship continued to improve. She visited him more often, helping him by organizing his research materials. Their bond was still imperfect; Malcolm had not fixed all of his flaws, and the years of neglect before 1993 had left Kelly hurt. She longed for him to be a proper father, even expressing frustration that he never disciplined her for acting out. On the other hand, Malcolm did his best to praise her; he would often refer to Kelly as his “queen, goddess, and inspiration.”

Kelly willfully interpreted her father’s words to be permission to stow away on the 1997 Gatherer expedition to Isla Sorna, much to Malcolm’s angry disbelief when he found out. He was less upset about Kelly’s disobedience and more frightened that she might get injured or killed, and he seldom let her out of his sight during their time on the island. When she did eventually break down and regret coming, Malcolm tried to comfort her, knowing that she was already suffering more than what parental discipline would inflict. At the end of the incident, they seem to have grown closer, and as of 2022 Malcolm has expressed that he loves Kelly and his other children “more than life itself.” At this point, Kelly has four half-siblings through Ian Malcolm.

She has learned a number of his personality traits, perhaps more than he was willing to admit at first. Like him, she is skeptical of authority figures and relies on her own judgment before anyone else’s. She also shares his stubbornness, as well as the confidence that he projects. However, she also values empathy and emotional support, traits which she wished he would demonstrate more of. As Malcolm has striven to better himself, he has taken note of Kelly’s criticisms and taken them seriously. A major part of Malcolm’s journey toward becoming the father his children deserve is driven by Kelly, since she was the first of his children that he reached out to. She has been a consistent motive behind his self-improvement, and this influence remains noticeable in Malcolm to this day. Since 1997, he has reestablished bonds with all of his children, learning what kind of role model Kelly really needed and shaping himself into that role model as best as he can. He also has become a more active part of bettering the world around him; after all, Kelly and his other children will inherit that world one day soon, and he wants it to be the kind of world they deserve.

Dr. Sarah Harding

When Kelly’s father returned from Isla Nublar in 1993, he spent time in a Costa Rican hospital before coming home, and there he met a scientist named Dr. Sarah Harding. She was young and passionate, driven to learn the truth behind the rumors about de-extinction, and Malcolm quickly fell for her. They began a relationship before he was even out of the hospital, and Kelly was introduced to her after Malcolm came back to New York. Kelly liked Dr. Harding immediately, and the reverse was also true. Harding had no children, and while her role in Kelly’s life was not precisely motherly, she did take on the part of a nurturing big sister, supporting Kelly’s passions and encouraging her independence. For Kelly, though, this was the closest thing to a caring mother that she really had, since her actual mother was always too eager to drop her off with a relative or babysitter and go traveling. Harding became a frequent babysitter, a much preferable option to the ones Kelly was usually stuck with.

As their relationship continued, many of the complaints that Kelly had voiced about her father also resonated with Harding. She too criticized his lack of reliability and the way he neglected his personal relationships. The two would often side with one another during arguments, much to Malcolm’s consternation. Although he had difficulty with both of them, he did appreciate having someone around who could really give Kelly the support she needed, even if it fed into her stubborn nature. Some of Kelly’s misbehavior was actually rewarded by Dr. Harding; for example, when Kelly stowed away on the 1997 expedition to Isla Sorna, Harding voiced how impressed she was that Kelly had managed this without detection.

At this point, it is unknown whether Dr. Harding is still close with Malcolm’s family. Their relationship was unhealthy as of 1997, with neither of them fully enjoying it, although both of them did want to give Kelly their best. While it may be that Harding and Malcolm are no longer romantically together, it is easy to imagine that Harding stayed in touch with Kelly and has continued to be a role model for her as she has grown up.

Classmates and teachers

Though she was always skilled both academically and athletically, Kelly struggled in grade school. A good part of this was due to her problem with authority. She mostly raised herself during her childhood thanks to her absent parents, and she also learned quickly that people who believe they should be in charge often should not be. Always questioning those in power and unafraid to stand up for herself, Kelly sometimes got in trouble at school. She was on a gymnastics team at age twelve, and despite her prowess and months of effort spent preparing for a major competition, she was cut from the team by that May because the coach took issue with her attitude. Having a father like Dr. Ian Malcolm, who at the time was widely considered a crackpot conspiracy theorist, probably did not help. Whether her reputation-by-association improved when Malcolm’s name was exonerated in the public eye is so far unknown.

Gatherer team

In May of 1997, Kelly was visiting her father when he was called away on an important trip. Unwilling to be left behind again, Kelly stowed away with the team, which has come to be known as the Gatherers. Along with Drs. Malcolm and Harding, there were two other team members. The first was Eddie Carr, a mechanical engineer who designed most of the field equipment. He was most likely the one who drove the Fleetwood RV to the campsite while Kelly was hiding within its mobile lab. Kelly did not know him well, but he helped Malcolm keep Kelly away from danger when tyrannosaurs were attacking the Gatherer campsite. When Malcolm went back to help the others, Carr comforted Kelly as she helplessly watched the scene unfold. Carr also returned to the campsite when the attack worsened, ensuring that Kelly was safe in the High Hide before leaving. He sacrificed his life to save Malcolm and the others, Kelly powerless to do anything as he was horrifically torn apart. Kelly was understandably shaken, but her father and Dr. Harding survived thanks to Carr’s actions, for which Kelly was grateful.

The other member of the Gatherers was Nick Van Owen, an environmental activist and video documentarian with experience in violent conflict such as wars and ecoterrorism. It was his job to film the dinosaurs in the wild, hoping that this would convince the public to preserve them instead of putting them in zoos. He was more politically radical than Sarah Harding, but otherwise shared many of her traits. Like Carr, he mostly let Drs. Malcolm and Harding deal with Kelly, although he found it amusing how much consternation she caused Malcolm; he even pointed out their shared stubbornness as their most defining family resemblance. During the trek across Isla Sorna, Malcolm became separated from the rest of the Gatherers during an attack, and Van Owen sprung into action to protect Kelly in his absence. Alongside Dr. Harding, he put himself at risk to keep her safe from harm. Van Owen was the one who called in a helicopter to pick them up, saving all of their lives. It is unknown whether he has kept in contact with the other Gatherers after the mission was over.

Kelly probably never met the Gatherers’ organizer, Dr. John Hammond, but she would absolutely have known all about the man from her father’s stories about Jurassic Park. In the end, after the incident was behind her, she watched a television interview with the ailing Hammond about the fate of Isla Sorna. She paid rapt attention to his plea for the government to protect the island, and for the public to support policies to that effect. Despite the mortal peril she had just gone through, Kelly certainly seems to have agreed with Hammond’s proposal. The man died mere months later.

While it is non-canon, the first installment of the Ludia mobile games depicts Hammond surviving slightly later into the 1990s and meeting Kelly. The game suggests that, had they met in the films, Hammond would have appreciated Kelly’s tenacious spirit and envisioned a bright future for her.

InGen Harvesters

Kelly’s first knowledge of International Genetic Technologies, Inc. came from her father, who told stories of how the company had mismanaged its science and technology to frightful effect. When Dr. Malcolm tried to go public about his experiences, InGen’s Chairman of the Board, Peter Ludlow, conducted a smear campaign against him. Malcolm’s reputation was tarnished, and during that time, Kelly was his best source of support. In May of 1997, Ludlow formally replaced John Hammond as CEO of InGen after being elected by the Board the previous winter, and he enacted a plan to rebuild Jurassic Park at its original location in San Diego, California.

Kelly, at first, did not know that Ludlow had any such plans. In fact, no one on the Gatherer team knew that he was a threat other than Nick Van Owen. Similarly, Ludlow did not know the Gatherers were on Isla Sorna already, attempting to gather documentary footage to sway public opinion toward conservationism. Kelly was able to watch covertly as the InGen Harvesters, a detachment of InGen Security, private contractors, and other hired men, began rounding up dinosaurs. Like her fellow Gatherers, Kelly showed great distaste for the way the Harvesters treated their quarry, as the dinosaurs were in clear distress at being captured.

However, her first in-person interaction with the Harvesters was a positive one. Their camp had been destroyed when Dr. Harding and Van Owen sabotaged the Harvester camp and brought an injured baby tyrannosaur to their own camp, angering its parents. Kelly had just watched in horror as Eddie Carr was killed, and with the other three including her father out of sight over a cliff, she had every reason to believe they were all dead and she was alone. But she was soon discovered by the InGen Harvesters, who were being led by the big game hunter Roland Tembo. He had no love for the Gatherers, but he would not allow a child to come to harm, so he had his men bring her down from the High Hide and protect her as they investigated their enemies’ camp. There they found the remaining Gatherers alive, and Kelly was able to reunite with her father. Along the journey, Tembo ensured that Kelly’s safety was paramount, including her emotional safety. When one of their hunters, Dieter Stark, went missing in the forest, Tembo ordered the others not to tell Kelly that one of their number might have been killed. He also provided the only tent that had survived the chaos that destroyed his campsite for Kelly and Dr. Harding to use, allowing the only two women in the group some privacy.

Kelly’s interactions with the other hunters were fairly limited. She knew Tembo’s partner Ajay Sidhu in passing, and briefly traveled alongside the paleontologist Dr. Robert Burke. Neither of these men survived. Dr. Burke was killed by a tyrannosaur right in front of Kelly, making him the second death she witnessed during the incident. To make matters worse, his death was completely preventable; he only died thanks to a moment of irrational panic at seeing a harmless snake. Sidhu was dead by the time Kelly and the others arrived to the site; he had been killed by raptors. The rest of the hunters had scattered in the chaos that night, and Kelly never saw any of them again. She was airlifted off of Isla Sorna by an InGen helicopter sent by their Harvest Base personnel a short while later, removing her from the incident at last.

It is unknown if she has had any relationship with other parts of InGen in the years since. Jurassic World opened on May 2005, on the eighth anniversary of the San Diego incident, and stayed in operation until December 2015; Kelly could have visited it during this time, as she would have been in her twenties during that decade, but it is possible that there was simply too much bad blood between her and InGen to make a visit to the park enjoyable.

De-extinct animals

Like other aspects of InGen, Kelly’s first knowledge of de-extinct animals came from her father and his experience at Jurassic Park. While there, he witnessed a few different species, most notably Tyrannosaurus rex; the park’s apex predator was the reason he broke his leg on Isla Nublar, leaving him with a minor but permanent disability. Kelly’s first actual sight of a dinosaur was an impressive one. On Isla Sorna, she witnessed a large herd of animals on a game trail which the InGen Harvesters had set up as a hunting ground. The herd consisted of Parasaurolophus, Gallimimus, and Pachycephalosaurus, with a pair of gargantuan Mamenchisaurus joining them from the nearby pine forests. She personally witnessed the capture of some of these dinosaurs, with one of the pachys and a male parasaur being among the first. At the Harvester encampment later, she also spotted several Stegosaurus, some little Compsognathus, and a bull and calf Triceratops.

An infant male Tyrannosaurus was brought back to the Gatherer camp by Dr. Harding and Nick Van Owen, who found the animal with a broken leg near the hunters’ camp. Kelly, quickly surmising that the infant’s whines might attract other predators, retreated to the High Hide, where she bore witness to the infant’s mother and father attacking and destroying the campsite to rescue their child. This killed Eddie Carr and almost killed everyone except Kelly, who alone was safely away from danger. It did strand her and the others on the island when their communication equipment was destroyed. Throughout the next day, the tyrannosaurs remained a threat as they trekked inland.

The journey brought them into Velociraptor territory, a species which Dr. Malcolm had only briefly encountered in captivity four years prior. He had, however, heard all kinds of stories about their capabilities from the other Jurassic Park survivors who had encountered the raptors after they escaped. In the wild, with no restraining technologies to keep them away from people, they could pose a much greater danger. After being chased into the raptors’ hunting grounds by the female tyrannosaur, Kelly encountered these smaller predators firsthand, running into a pack of ten adults. Seven of them were preoccupied in a clash with the InGen hunters, but one female and two males imperiled Kelly in the village itself, leading to a conflict which culminated in Kelly knocking one of the males out a window and onto some debris where it was badly wounded. The animal may have died from blood loss, internal injury, or infection. Despite all of these harrowing experiences, Kelly did understand that the animals were not evil, and that the tyrannosaurs in particular had been defending their child just like her own father was doing on the island. She ultimately hoped that, as John Hammond proposed, the animals would be protected from further interference.

This was, for the time being, Kelly’s last encounter with de-extinct life. She may have had a safer experience if she ever attended Jurassic World between 2005 and 2015. In 2018, numerous de-extinct animal species were traded onto the black market, while others were released into the wild in the Pacific Northwest. As they breed in the wild and in illegal captivity, their populations continue to naturalize in various parts of the world. While Kelly was not present for the 1997 incident in San Diego, she will find it harder to avoid these animals on the mainland in the upcoming future. As an adult, she is likely better equipped this time.

Portrayal

Kelly Curtis Malcolm is portrayed by Vanessa Lee Chester. She was nominated for a Saturn Award and Image Award for her performance in 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Her character is loosely based on Kelly Curtis from Michael Crichton‘s novel The Lost World, but in the novel, she is not related to Ian Malcolm. Some traits from the character R.B. “Arby” Benton, also not related to Malcolm in the novel, were incorporated into the films’ version of Kelly.

In the 1997 film, she is credited as Kelly Curtis, but most sources refer to her as Kelly Malcolm instead.

When The Lost World: Jurassic Park first came out, Kelly Curtis was strongly disliked by fans due to a scene in which she knocks a Velociraptor out a window while performing a gymnastics routine. During the films’ revival era, however, Kelly has been viewed in a more positive light, with a number of fans concluding that while the individual scene is undoubtedly silly, Kelly as a character is developed well and portrayed enjoyably by Vanessa Chester.

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