Anna Valerious

Anna Valerious was a fictional vampire hunter in the film Van Helsing portrayed by Kate Beckinsale. She was the princess of a Gypsy clan in Romania.

Her father was abducted by Dracula in 1887, and killed by him shortly after. Prince Velkan, her brother, was bitten by a werewolf while he tried to protect his sister from the werewolf's attack. Anna, who had believed that Velkan was dead, later discovered that he had actually been transformed into the Wolf Man and unwillingly became a spy for Dracula.

A few weeks later, Van Helsing and Friar Carl came to Transylvania where Anna was living. Van Helsing was sent from Rome to protect her and to help in her family's quest in slaying Dracula. Anna, who is very bullheaded, didn't want to accept his help. However, before she had the chance to formally object, the village was viciously attacked by the three brides of Dracula: Aleera, Verona, and Marishka.

Anna fled, knowing that the brides had come for her to finish killing off her family. This left Van Helsing fighting Marishka, whom he shot with arrows with holy water on them and killed. This is when Van Helsing gains Anna's trust and she decides to work with him and Carl. As Van Helsing and Anna continue on working together they both realize the love they have for each other.

At the end of the movie Anna is killed by Van Helsing while he is the Wolf Man, but since Dracula was killed prior to her death, Anna and the entire Valerious family is freed from Purgatory and is accepted into Heaven, since her family's quest to kill Dracula has been completed. She smiles at Van Helsing, while her body is being burned on the pyre behind him, as he looks into the clouds feeling her presence with him.