Beatrix Kiddo

Beatrix Kiddo
Kill Bill character
The Bride fighting the Crazy 88
First appearance	Kill Bill: Volume 1
Last appearance	Kill Bill: Volume 2
Created by	Quentin Tarantino Uma Thurman
Portrayed by	Uma Thurman
Information
Aliases	The Bride Black Mamba Arlene Machiavelli
Gender	Female
Occupation	Assassin
Children	B.B. (Daughter)
Nationality	American

Beatrix Kiddo (primarily known as The Bride), codename Black Mamba, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the two-part movie Kill Bill directed by Quentin Tarantino. She is portrayed by Uma Thurman and was selected by Empire Magazine as one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.Entertainment Weekly also named her as one of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years.

According to Uma Thurman, the character was created collaboratively during the filming of Pulp Fiction, with Thurman providing the character's first name and Tarantino her last name. After the release of Kill Bill: Volume 2, Tarantino commented that he “love[s] the Bride” and that he “killed [him]self to put her in a good place” at the end of the two-part film.

Tarantino has said he saved most of The Bride's nuanced character development for the second half: “As far as the first half is concerned, I didn't want to make her sympathetic. I wanted to make her scary.” Thurman cited Clint Eastwood's performance in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as a central inspiration for her performance because, in her words, Eastwood "says almost nothing but somehow manages to portray a whole character.”

Kiddo is a former member of the "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad", an elite, shadowy group of assassins. A formidable, ruthless warrior trained under martial arts master Pai Mei (Gordon Liu), she served at the right hand of Bill (David Carradine), her boss and lover, a position that provoked the furious envy of fellow Viper Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah).