Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns and Maria Bello in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) is a clever but clumsy Egyptologist in the Cairo Museum of Antiquities. She, along with Rick and her brother Jonathan, travels to the lost city of Hamunaptra, where she hopes to find a rare, ancient book, the book of Amun-Ra. When some Americans find the Book of the Dead, which was purported to give eternal life, Evie steals the book from the sleeping American Egyptologist and reads a page of it. This unintentionally resurrects the titular mummy, Imhotep. Imhotep wants to use her body as a vessel to resurrect his long-dead lover, Anck-su-namun, and he takes Evie captive. Upon being rescued, she reads a page from the book of Amun-Ra, rendering Imhotep mortal. Rick then stabs Imhotep in the stomach. While he dies, he returns to his original undead form as a rotting corpse with his final parting words, which Evie translates as “Death is only the beginning”. Evie shows little fighting skill but much bravery, such as when she attempts to shoot a Medjai with Rick’s gun, and fights Anck-su-namun. In the first part of the film she thinks Rick is “filthy, rude, a complete scoundrel. I don’t like him one bit”. However, as the first film progresses, he slowly gains her trust and they eventually fall in love. She mentions that she and her brother’s mother was Egyptian, making her half-Egyptian, half-English. (Wikipedia)
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