Character from The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman (comics), Frank Darabont (TV), Telltale Games
Rick's wife who slept with Shane believing Rick was dead — a woman trapped between two men and a world she wasn't built for, who died giving birth to the hope she could never quite feel.
Lori is the show's most unfairly maligned character. She made human decisions in inhuman circumstances and the audience never forgave her for it. She slept with Shane because she believed Rick was dead, and when Rick returned, she couldn't navigate the impossible triangle without hurting both men. She told Rick about Shane's growing instability, which Rick interpreted as a request to kill him. She may not have meant it that way. The ambiguity is the point. She spent her last months trying to hold her family together while knowing the baby might be Shane's and the world might not have room for any of them. Her death during Judith's emergency C-section — asking Carl to be strong, telling him she loves him, knowing her thirteen-year-old will have to prevent her from turning — is the show's most brutal maternal sacrifice. She dies looking at Carl, and Carl has to shoot his mother. This act defines both of them forever.
Slender with long dark hair, angular features, and dark eyes that carry a permanent weight of worry. She looks like someone who was comfortable in the suburbs and never fully adapted to the road. She's visibly pregnant from Season 2 onward, which adds a layer of vulnerability to her already precarious position.
Also known as: Lori, Lori Grimes