Sophie-Anne Leclerq

Sophie-Anne Leclerq is a fictional character from The Southern Vampire Mysteries / Sookie Stackhouse Series by author Charlaine Harris. She is the vampire Queen of Louisiana and she is first introduced in the sixth novel, Definitely Dead, but also appears in Harris' short story "One Word Answer."

Human life
In the book series, Sophie-Anne is portrayed as a 500 years old vampire who has died in her early teens. She is originally from northern France (Lotharingia) and was made vampire by a vampire named Alain who found Sophie-Anne being exchanged for food by a neighbor. Sophie-Anne traveled with Alain for a couple of years, but he would also sell her for money. Alain was later killed by a group of humans, but she managed to escape. She later found an orphan, Andre Paul, roaming in the woods who was also being forced to have sex. She rescued him and made him a vampire and companion. Andre becomes Sophie-Anne's personal bodyguard. She has also made Sigebert and Wybert (Saxon warriors) vampire and they are also Sophie-Anne's bodyguards. She has a special ability, a gift, in which she can talk to her "children" telepathically. She says she can keep her children with her, talking to each other and loving each other physically. Her human name was Judith.

Physical description
In the sixt novel, Definitely Dead, Sookie describes Sophie-Anne as beautiful and pale as milk, with reddish brown hair, large and tilted brown eyes. She is an elegant woman, around five foot two, always groomed down to the last eyelash. "Makeup, dress, hair, stockings, jewelry-the whole nine yards".

Work and position within the vampire hierarchy
In the book series, Sophie-Anne is portrayed as the vampire Queen of Louisiana. She is New Orleans's most famous and visible vampire and she has been brave, strategic, and busy in her career as a vampire leader. Sophie Anne sends Bill Compton back to his hometown of Bon Temps to find and seduce, if necessary, Sookie Stackhouse because Sookie's telepathic ability might be valuable.

Sophie-Anne turned Sookie's cousin, Hadley, into a vampire and had a romantic relationship with her taking Hadley under Sophie-Anne's wing. The queen had to end their relationship due to the queen's business commitment to Peter Threadgill, vampire King of Arkansas. They had previously agreed to marry each other. Definitely Dead, her political marriage to Peter Threadgill ends (he is killed), thus making her queen of Arkansas. In the seventh book, All Together Dead, hurricane Katrina damaged her New Orlean's headquarters as well as her entertainment estate. Also in this novel, the queen is tried in the vampire summit for her husband's death. Jennifer Cater, Peter's second in command, brings a lawsuit against Sophie-Anne for murdering him, but the queen is found innocent. Unfortunately, a bomb explosion in the hotel where the summit was held left her severely injured and she eventually looses her legs. Sophie-Anne is killed in the take over by the Nevada king, Felipe de Castro in Book 8 From Dead to Worse.

Television portrayal
In Season 2 of True Blood, an HBO series based on the books, this character will be played by Evan Rachel Wood.