Jonathan Carnahan

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name =Jonathan Carnahan


caption =John Hannah as Jonathan Carnahan in The Mummy (1999).
first ="The Mummy"
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gender =Male
age =50
born =1896
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family =Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell (sister), Alexander O'Connell (nephew)
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relatives =Rick O'Connell (brother-in-law)
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portrayer =John Hannah

Jonathan Carnahan is a fictional character from the 1999 film "The Mummy" and its two sequels.

Fictional biography

Jonathan is the bumbling older brother of Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell. Like his sister, he is of Egyptian (maternal) and British (paternal) descent. A drunk and a thief, Jonathan steals a map to Hamunaptra, the city of the dead, from Rick O'Connell and presents it to his sister. This leads to he and Evy freeing Rick from prison and beginning their first adventure in Egypt, as chronicled in The Mummy. The character of Jonathan also returns for "The Mummy Returns", ', and ', where he owns a night club in Shanghai named after Imhotep, the main antagonist in the previous two films. (This makes John Hannah the only actor besides Brendan Fraser to have appeared in all three films.) In the animated series, Jonathan is voiced by Tom Kenny.

Jonathan is not the standard hero, like Rick; he is strongly motivated by greed and the desire for treasure. Nevertheless, he does care for his sister Evy, and is very close with her son, his nephew, Alex. He can also hold his own in a gunfight; as he tells Ardeth Bay in "The Mummy Returns", he was the Fox and Hounds Grand Champion three times, though the novelization hints that he probably lied as he dropped the rifle after making the claim saying "Of course, that was in my prime." Jonathan often provides the comic relief in tense situations, and director Stephen Sommers has stated that Jonathan learned nothing from his adventure in the first film. At the end of the third film, Jonathan moves to Peru, where he doesn't think there will be any mummies (though he is quickly proven wrong). It is interesting to note that, as a running gag, Jonathan tends to survive from otherwise life-threatening experiences and often comes off with a bit of treasure at the near end of the film