Short-haired woman

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The Short-Haired Woman was an associate of the villainous Count Olaf and a member of the Count's original theater troupe. During Olaf and his troupe's performance of The Marvellous Marriage, which was actually a scheme of Olaf's in which he would actually marry Violet Baudelaire and gain the Baudelaire fortune, the short-haired woman helped oversee the event backstage. She was in control of the curtain for the duration of the performance. After Olaf's plan was thwarted and exposed to the audience by the Baudelaires, another member of the troupe turned off the lights, allowing all of the villains, including the short-haired woman, to escape. Her fate afterwards is unknown.

Behind the scenes
The Short-Haired Woman made her first and only appearance in The Bad Beginning, the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events. She didn't appear in the 2004 Brad Silberling movie adaptation of The Bad Beginning, as she was replaced by the Bald Man, nor did she appear in the Netflix TV series adaptation.

Strangely, she, along with the wart-faced man and the man holding a clipboard, was one of the only troupe members never to appear after The Bad Beginning.

Appearances

 * The Bad Beginning