Madame Delphine LaLaurie (Angela Bassett)
A 19th-century New Orleans socialite kept alive into the present day by Marie Laveau's elixir.
Madame Delphine LaLaurie is a character in American Horror Story: Coven, played by Kathy Bates. She is a 19th-century New Orleans socialite who tortures her slaves, and flashbacks show her using their blood as a beauty treatment. After LaLaurie has a bull's head put over the head of Bastien, a slave and the lover of voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, Laveau gives her an immortality elixir, kills her family and buries her alive.
Quick Facts
- Character name
- Madame Delphine LaLaurie
- First appearance
- American Horror Story: Coven
Lore & Background
In the present day the Supreme Fiona Goode has the still-living LaLaurie dug up and brought to Miss Robichaux's Academy. LaLaurie tells her that Marie Laveau made her immortal 180 years earlier. As punishment for her crimes Fiona forces her to work as a maid to the students, which causes tension between her and Queenie. Queenie later kills LaLaurie, and she ends in a hell in which Marie Laveau tortures her in her own torture chamber.
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